AAPOD2 Image Archives
M22
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M22 might be the most famous northern globular cluster, if only it rose higher for people at mid-northern latitudes. It is beautifully set in the Milky Way in Sagittarius. It’s in the same league as M13 in terms of splashiness, even though it is dimmed by being so much lower in my sky. It’s among the nearest globulars, at around 10,600 light years from Earth, and it covers an area about the size of the full Moon in our sky. It is around 100 light years across and is pegged at around 12 billion years old.SBIG STL-11000M camera, Baader R, G and B filters, 10″ f/6.8 ASA astrograph, Paramount MX. Guided with QHY5 guide camera and 80 mm f/6 Stellar-Vue refractor. Acquisition, guiding and mount control with TheSkyX. Focusing with FocusMax. Automation with CCDCommander. All preprocessing and post-processing in PixInsight. Shot from my SkyShed in Guelph, Ontario. Acquired August 1-3, 2016. No moonlight, good to excellent transparency, and good to very good seeing throughout acquisition.8 x 5m R10x5m G10x5m BTotal: 2hr20m Image scale 1.1 arcsec per pixel
Copyright Information: Copyright Ron Brecher, 2020
Crescent & Soap Bubble Nebula
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Part of the Cygnus constellation, the crescent nebula is located in the immediate vicinity of the star Sadr. Its atypical shape also gave it the name "Euro Sign Nebula" (currency).
On the left is visible the "Soap Bubble nebula", discovered only in 2007 by amateur astronomer Dave Jurasevich.
The image is a composition in the HOO palette, with an exposure time of 37 hours.
Setup DDM60 mount, Moravian G3-16200, Takahashi fsq85.
Copyright Information: Copyright: Emil Pera
ngc 1514 Crystal ball nebula
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It was discovered by William Herschel on November 13, 1790, describing it as "a most singular phenomenon" and forcing him to rethink his ideas on the construction of the heavensTelescope Astrosib RC 20" + camera FLI Kepler 4040Total HaLRGB=32h57mn each frame 3mn,no guidingThe skyX + Pixinsight In remote from fregenal de la sierra (Spain)
Copyright Information: Georges Chassaigne
NGC 1097
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NGC 1097, done in LRGB with a CDK20, total frame 16Hrs , a Moravian CCD G4- 16000, on Paramount ME2 in Obstech - Observatory El Sauce in Chile.
Copyright Information: Copyright: Team CielAustral with JC Cannone, Georges Chassaigne, Nicolas Outters , Didier Chaplain, Philippe Bernhard , Laurent Bourgon