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To obtain this picture, I assembled the results of two movies, one exposed for Saturn, and the other one exposed for Jupiter.

Technical details :- Orion 80ED refractor- Meade LXD55 mount- ZWO ASI 224 MC- Barlow Televue Powermate 2.5x- IRCut Baader filter- for each planets, 1000 pictures stacked with AutoStakkert v3, processing with Registax 6, photo assembly with Photoshop

Copyright Information: Christophe Gervier

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Gum 15 is a nebula from the Gum catalog, located in the constellation of Vela, about 3,000 light-years from Earth. It is shaped by aggressive winds flowing from the stars within and around it. The bright star in the center of the nebula is HD 74804, a double starRA: 08h 43m 52.5sDEC: -41° 14' 39"Location: VelaDistance: 3 klyAcquisition December 2019Total acquisition time: 18.6 hours.Based on data from Telescope.live CHI-1Technical DetailsData acquisition: Telescope LiveProcessing: Nicolas ROLLANDLocation: El Sauce Observatory, Rio Hurtado, ChileR 36 x 600 secG 40 x 600 secB 40 x 600 secOptics: Planewave 24“ CDK @ F5.6CCD: FLI PL 9000Pre Processing: CCDstack & PixinsightPost Processing: Photoshop CC



Copyright Information: Data acquisition: Telescope.live, Processing: Nicolas ROLLAND

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StDr 56 / Goblet of Fire nebula (c) Robert Pölzl & Marcel Drechsler & Xavier Srottner. This probable new planetary nebula was discovered by my colleague Xavier Strottner and me in January 2020. If the candidate is confirmed as a true planetary nebula, it will be the first planetary nebula ever discovered in the constellation Triangulum (Triangle).

Photo: StDr56 was photographed by the Austrian Robert Pölzl with a total exposure of 59 hours.

Image processing: Marcel DrechslerAt the center of the PN candidate is a potential white dwarf with a surface temperature of 35542 Kelvin and a distance of about 1130 light years to Earth. With an extension of 44 x 36 arc minutes, StDr56 is not only the largest probable PN in the region, but in the night sky it covers more than half of the area of the famous Triangulum Galaxy M33, which is located only a few degrees from Strottner-Drechsler 56.

Robert Pölzl collected 90 hours of exposure time in 21 nights from July to November 2020.Out of these 90 hours, 30 hours had to be sorted out because of minimal cirrus and dew - leaving 59 hours at the end.Coordinates: 02:07:17.41 +30:05:11.90 (J2000)Name: Strottner-Drechsler 56, StDr56, PN-G: 141.8-29.9Data:58 x 30 min. H-alpha41 x 30 min [OIII].28 x 10 min. RGB eachDate: 31.7.2020 - 18.11.2020Location: Observatory Hirschegg-ÖsterreichOptics: Lacerta Newton 10" f/4Camera: Moravian G2 8300 at -30° - Baader filter



Copyright Information: Robert Pölzl & Marcel Drechsler & Xavier Srottner

NGC 1097 is a Seyfert galaxy, harboring a supermassive black hole in its center. There are four mysterious jets in an X shape centered on the nucleus. These are thought to be the tidal remnants of a galaxy disrupted by NGC 1097 in the distant past. Two of these pointing to the upper right corner of the image are easily seen here. The upper one has a right angle bend and is often referred to as the "Dogleg". There is a faint suggestion of a third jet to the left of the image opposite the fainter one on the right.Telescope: 12.5" Plane wave CDKExposure: 8.5 hours with LRGB filters.Processing in PixInsight



Copyright Information: Geoff Smith

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Composite picture with 40 images.Each shooting stars have been replaced by matching the stars,to get the radiant position.We can see +/- 35 meteors on the composite picture,sometimes i caught 2 meteors on the same exposure.I shot this picture from France,near my village Hindlingen,Alsace country.Canon 6D astro with 20mm Lens at F1,4 wide open.Single tripod.10s 3200 isos at F1,4.



Copyright Information: Arnaud BESANÇON

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Comet C/2020 M3 Atlas in emerald green color passes by the main colorful nebula of the Constellation Auriga in this image captured and processed from Grand Mesa Observatory on 12/8/2020 by Terry Hancock and Tom Masterson. This image was captured using QHYCCD’s latest offering the QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame one shot color CMOS camera that we have the honor of testing. The main nebulae in this image are the Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405) the comma shaped red and white/purple nebula to the top and right along with the Tadpole Nebula (NGC 1893) located to the center left. Comet C/2020 M3 Atlas is seen almost ‘touching’ the Tadpole Nebula in this image. Distance-wise Comet C/2020 M3 Atlas was a mere 3.74 light-minutes from Earth when this image was captured while the Flaming Star Nebula is about 1,400 light-years distant and further still is the Tadpole Nebula which is roughly 12,400 light-years away. Technical Info:Total Integration time 3.3 hours Location: Grand Mesa Observatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

Date of capture: December 9th, 2020Color RGGB 200 min, 100 x 120 sec Camera: QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame Color CMOS Gain 0, Offset 76Read Mode: High Gain Mode Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6Pre-Processed in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop


Copyright Information: Terry Hancock and Tom Masterson

Image Description and Details : The images have been acquired during the period February-October.For Jupiter and Saturn was a challenge since the planets were located about 26° above to the horizon.Setup used:C14 Edge HD Fornax52 mount ASI 178/290 mono Barlow Zeiss Baader filters RGB & IR>807nm IR>610nm UV320-380nm with ADC ZWO.



Copyright Information: Luigi Morrone

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The new solar cycle 25 is becoming increasingly active. The big Catania 57 group, the central sunspot have about 5 earths of width.There are also some groups of faculaes around the disk that could turn into sunspots in near days.Tube: SkyWatcher ED 72/420 with a Baader Astrosolar OD 5.0 filter.Camera: Zwo ASI 224MCFilters: Zwo IR/UV cut and Baader Solar ContinuumMount: SkyWatcher Star Adventurer Mini over a Manfrotto 055 tripod.Barlow: Generic x3 on cropped sections.Acquisition: 3 videos of 30" stack on AutoStakkert and processed with Astro Surface OMEGA (deconvolution and wavelets) and Fitswork 4 (luminance extraction and false color).



Copyright Information: Enol Matilla

Image Description and Details : Ic 1848. The soul nebula
I am completely IN LOVE with this area of the sky. The nebulosity is so incredible. wide field or close. It's so wonderful
I was able to capture this over 5 nights.
I went to a high gain for a while but ti is challenging to calibrate out so I returned to 200_50 after this image
~~~~Tekkie stuffs:
Telescope: Explorer scientific Ed 80 FCD-100
Camera: ASI1600pro
Filters: Astrodon E series
Mount: Atlas EQ-G
Guiding camera: 290 mini with OAG
SHO~. 84:86:85 300 sec images
Total integration time: 21.25 hours
Seeing/ environment: 2-3
Bortle Class: Class 5/6 Backyard~ Central Indiana
Dates of acquisition: 10/4-5 11/5-8, 2020
processing Pixinsight:
processing: considerations. MULTIPLE nights with good alignment (2 degree error allowed in SGP)
synth lum created for Decon
Aligned all to each other.
Crop
DBE individually
SHO combine with 15% of Ha added to R and 10% to Blue
SHO workflow~BGN; MLT for Noise reduction
Lum workflow~decon with autopsf 40 iterations 5 layers;
MLT for noise reduction
Arc sin for SHO and chose HT for Lum with Bg at 10% for both
TGVDN
LHE after for small and larger kernels masked for the nebula
Curves with range and color and Lum masking for lightness and sat boost
LOADS of masking to bring colors.
XPTR with Lum mask for lum boost;
MLT for sharpening.
Morph to reduce the stars just a bit and ICC to end

Copyright Information: Dawn Lowryl

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AMU 1 (PN G075.9+11.6) is a bipolar planetary nebula in Cygnus.AMU 1 is a faint but extremely strange and beautiful planetary nebula with a size of 5x2 arcminutes. It was discovered by the astronomers Alba Aller, Luis Miranda and Ana Ulla in 2013 and was found in the field covered by the Kepler telescope. It has a complex multishell morphology and a series of low ionisation structures and has a binary central star with orbital period of 2.93 days.As far as I know, this is the first amateur color photo of this nebula. In appearance, I would even give it a name - "Peaceful Atom".This image taken over several nights in September, October 2020.R-channel - 34 x 150 sec. bin 1x1;G-channel - 34 x 150 sec. bin 1x1;B-channel - 34 x 150 sec. bin 1x1;Ha- 60 x 900 sec. bin 2x2;OIII- 55 x 900 sec. bin 2x2.Total integration time about 33 hours.My setup: Telescope 8" Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain (SCT) CPC800 GPS (XLT) on the equatorial wedge, focal reducer Starizona Night Owl 0.4х, Feq=864mm, camera Starlight Xpress Trius SX694, SX mini filter wheel, filters Astrodon LRGB E-series gen.2, Astrodon Ha 5nm, Astrodon OIII 3nm.Capture and processing software: MaxIm DL6, PHD2, PixInsight, StarTools, Photoshop CC, Zoner photo studio 14.North at the top.


Copyright: Boris Vladimirovich

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I've been trying to do this photograph for a little over a year. Nearly 11km walk to one of these lakes with food, bivouacing and photo gear on the back. In my last 2 tests, the sky managed to cover for the whole night. Being at an altitude of about 2400m, the lake offers a negative temperature during the summer nights; needless to tell you it does... Cold! Especially since the humidity is high then increasing the feeling of the cold. The night of September 5-6 was cleared at the beginning before the arrival of a cloudy passage that did not last long. Phew! Unfortunately, the sky began to rediscover itself when the Moon rose. Its light was still strong enough to dazzle the starry sky. This lake is located at the border between France and Italy.This photo is panoramic view composed of 9 photos taken with a Canon 5D MKIII + lens Samyng f/1.4 (@f/2.8) on tripod.The the foreground was photographed a little before dark night. For the Milky Way, I waited for the dark night to start photography it. Place : Saint-Véran (Hautes-Alpes / France).



Copyright Information: Jeff Graphy

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M52 - NGC7635 - NGC7538 - NGC7510 - SH2-157 - SH2-161 - LBN544FSQ106EDXIV - Moravian 16200Ha-OIII: 18x1200"Bortle 6Sqm-L 18.5Umidity 75%Moon Phase 75%



Copyright Information: Cristian Carminati

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If there were a Book of Strange Places on the Moon, the Schiller Crater would rank high. Long, as if rolled out - it does not lend itself to simple explanations - one could discuss it, brush against genius or ridiculousness. Some see it as a product of an asteroid of a few kilometers tangential to the impact surface, others argue that it is a chain of medium-sized craters that have lost common parts of the crown after lava filling. I like the second translation, because in the outer contour of the Schiller you can find arcs that would indicate that it is a mix of 4-5 craters. You can even see what looks like a central mound at one end.The Schiller Crater marks the northern edge of a multi-ring basin - a structure that is high on my list of favorite structures. Firstly, the concentric circles enhance the aesthetics of the place, secondly, they generate beautiful shadows when the light falls diagonally and it gives the impression that they are more convex. Were it not for the outflow of magma that made this formation shallower, we would have seen one of the most beautiful craters here. Fortunately, I can imagine it.Achromatic refractor TS152/900, Barlow Celestron Ultima 2x (F-2270mm equivalent), ASI290MM, Baader Hα 35nm, EQ-ATM, FireCapture v2.6, Autostakkert!3, Registax6, Multistacking.



Copyright Information: Jerzy Łągiewka "Loxley"