Image Description and Details : Skywatcher Esprit 120ED Super APO Triplet
ZWO ASI294MM Pro ZWO
Skywatcher AZ EQ6 GT
Chroma OIII 3nm 36mm · Chroma SII 3nm 36mm · Chroma HA 5nm 36mm
N.I.N.A. · Pleiades Astrophoto Pisinsight 1.8


Chroma HA 5nm 36mm: 25x600" (4h 10') (gain: 200.00) -10C bin 1x1
Chroma OIII 3nm 36mm: 20x600" (3h 20') (gain: 200.00) -10C bin 1x1
Chroma SII 3nm 36mm: 20x600" (3h 20') (gain: 200.00) -10C bin 1x1

Integration:
10h 50'
Darks:
50

Copyright: Jose Luis Bedmar

Image Description and Details :

The Whirlpool Galaxy is a classic spiral galaxy. Known as M51 and NGC 5194, this galaxy may have been the first galaxy for that identified spiral structure. It is located at a distance of 30 million light years from the Sun. Measuring 60,000 light-years across, it is one of the brightest and most beautiful galaxies in the sky. The Whirlpool Galaxy can be seen with good binoculars in the constellation Canes Venatici. The M51 galaxy belongs to the Sc type spiral galaxies and is the main member of a whole group of galaxies. Astronomers suggest that the appearance of the spiral structure of the galaxy M51 is mainly due to the gravitational influence of a small satellite galaxy NGC 5195.

Also in the picture, next to M51, you can see the galaxies IC4277, IC4278 plus many small galaxies in the background.

This image was originally intended to capture an extragalactic hydrogen cloud near M51. However even 22 hours of exposure through the Ha filter gave no hint of it.

Own remote observatory, 50 km from Kiev, Bortle 4 zone. Imaged during February - June 2021. AZ-EQ6 mount, ONTC8 newton, QHY22. Guide - OAG with Lodestar camera.
Astrodon 5nm Ha: 88 x 900s;
Astrodon L: 228 x 300s;
Astrodon R: 40 x 300s;
Astrodon G: 40 x 300s;
Astrodon B: 70 x 300s;
Total exposure - 53 hr.
Captured in SGP, processed in Pixinsight.

Copyright: Sergiy Vakulenko

Another sunrise, this time over Plato and the lunar Alps. Mewlon 250CRS, 1.8x barlow, ASI290MM camera.

Another sunrise, this time above Crater Plato and the moon Alps . Mewlon 250CRS, 1.8xbarlow, ASI290MM camera .

Copyright: Dominique Dierick

Image description:

In the constellation of Rabe we see an interesting process, the merger of the galaxies NGC 4038 and 4039. This interaction will cause a rapid star eclipse. The same fate will happen in the distant future when Andromeda Galaxy and Milky Way collide. Here it is in 66 million Lj distance for us just a play in the cosmos.

Setup: Planewave CDK, 60 cm, f 6,5

Kamera FLI PL 9000 mit Filterrad, 3056×3056 px

Processed in LRGB with Fitswork, PixInsight and PS

Copyright: Hans Dorfeldt

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NGC 2170 nebular complex in Monoceros. L Ha RGB exposure for about 21 hours. Scope GSO RC 30 cms, camera Sbig STF8300-AO/8, from my backyard obs at La Colonia, Illapel, Chile. Suburban skies. All exposures at -35°C, all subframes 12 minutes except Ha (16 minutes each). MaxIm, CCDStack2, Photoshop softwares.

Name: Pedro Goles

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This shows the huge Seagull Nebula, and the very small (in comparison) but bright Thor’s Helmet Nebula, in narrowband.

This is an image 2 years in the making. I spent 10 full nights on imaging the Seagull Nebula wide field, as I also wanted to include Thor’s Helmet in the frame. I then added an extra 2 nights worth of data using a larger telescope on Thor’s Helmet only. This allowed me to get a nicer view on that target. All the data acquired was by myself with my own gear.

The Seagull Nebula is known as IC 2177. It is a large nebula that can be found 3,650 light-years away in Monoceros. It is a great target for both broadband and narrowband imaging, and is very close to the much smaller Thor's Helmet Nebula.

If you look closely near the Oxygen gases of the Seagull Nebula, you should be able to spot a bright star with a strange arc-shaped line of gas just above it. This is commonly known as the "Bow shockwave" in IC 2177. It is believed to come from the interaction between the interstellar dust within the nebula, high radiation winds, and gas expelling from the double star system "FN CMa”. The exact origin is still not very clear, but we might learn more about it in the years to come!

Thor’s Helmet is known as NGC 2359. It is a cloud of interstellar gas, although very faint, the colors in the gases really pop when taking long exposure shots with any camera.
This beautiful deep-sky object gets its glow from WR7, a massive Wolf-Rayet star that will soon turn into a supernova.


This is a total of 61 hours of exposure, a record for me as my longest acquisition so far was 48 hours. I captured 99% of the data from the city, Bortle 9. I captured a little bit of the data (half a night) from a Bortle 4 spot in the desert for the OIII in Thor’s Helmet.


Acquisition Info:
Target: The Seagull Nebula and Thor Nebula
Imaged from: Las Vegas Bortle 9 + Nevada Desert Bortle 4 | January/February 2022
Camera: QHY600M
Filters: S+H+O for Seagull wide field, H+O for Thor’s Helmet
Telescope: Meade 70mm APO for Seagull wide field, SVX130 for Thor’s Helmet close up
Time per frame: 600sec
Time total: 61 hours total. 50 hours for the overall image wide field + an additional 11 hours for Thor’s Helmet close up.

Copyright: Antoine & Dalia Grelin

Image Description and Details : Messier 82 is the very first galaxy I was able to observe with the naked eye with my old telescope: a C9.25 EDGE HD on a Losmandy G11 Gemini mount. This was in early January 2014, when the supernova SN 2014J was visible. It was also the first galaxy I photographed in May 2017. So it was a great pleasure to have been able to process the data of this galaxy from a much more ambitious setup.

Messier 82 (the Cigar Galaxy) is a starburst galaxy, meaning that it has an exceptional rate of star creation compared to most galaxies. It’s located approximately 12 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major. About five times brighter than the Milky Way, the intense star formation activity was triggered by an interaction with the neighboring galaxy M81.

OPTICS Planewave CDK17 @ F/6.8
CAMERA FLI Proline 16803
MOUNT Paramount ME
FILTERS Ha, L, R, G, B
LOCATION Dark Sky New Mexico, Animas, New Mexico, USA
DATE January 2022 & 2017
EXPOSURES 46 hours (L 58 x 1200 sec, R 28 x 900 sec, G 27 x 900 sec, B 28 x 900 sec, Ha 12 x 1800 sec)
PROCESSING SOFTWARE Pixinsight, CCDstack, Photoshop

Copyright: Data acquisition: Bernard MILLER
Processing: Nicolas ROLLAND

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M106 galaxy dominates on this image. Also known as NGC 4258, M106 is about 80,000 light-years across and 23.5 million light-years away, the largest member of the Canes II galaxy group. For a far far away galaxy, the distance to M106 is well-known in part because it can be directly measured by tracking this galaxy's remarkable maser, or microwave laser emission. Very rare but naturally occurring, the maser emission is produced by water molecules in molecular clouds orbiting its active galactic nucleus.

The following galaxies can also be seen in the image - NGC4248 (bright at the left-bottom of the center), UGC7356 (above M106) and a pair of galaxies NGC4231 & NGC4232 (in the lower left corner of the full-size image). Beneath NGC4248 is also a cluster of distant little fuzzy galaxies.

What interesting is that this image reveals one of the two faint hydrogen jets inside M106 (2 o'clock from galaxy center).

Own remote observatory, 50 km from Kiev, Bortle 4 zone. Imaged during March - May 2021. AZ-EQ6 mount, ONTC8 newton, QHY22. Guide - OAG with Lodestar camera.
Astrodon 5nm Ha: 68 x 900s;
Astrodon L: 125 x 300s;
Astrodon R: 40 x 300s;
Astrodon G: 40 x 300s;
Astrodon B: 70 x 300s;
Total exposure - 40 hr.
Captured in SGP, processed in Pixinsight.

Copyright: Sergiy Vakulenko

Image Description and Details :

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106EDX (f/5)
Munt: Takahashi EM400 Temma2
Camera: Atik 16200 mono
Filters: Astrodon Gen2 LRGB I-Series 50,8mm + IDAS LPS
Filter Wheel: SX USB Filter Wheel 5x50,8mm
Guider: Lunático EZG-60 + SXLodestar
Flat panel: RB Focus eXcalibur
Powerbox: RB Focus Balinor Pro
Focus: RoboFocus
Adquisition: N.I.N.A.
Processing: PixInsight Core + Photoshop

Exposure:
L: 90x600s bin1
RGB: 30x300s bin2 each channel
Total: 23h 30min

Captured during 4 nights from Yela, Las Inviernas and Navas de Estena (Spain)

Copyright: Alvaro Ibañez Perez

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Consisting of 300 billion stars, the Andromeda galaxy M31 is considered the twin sister of our Galaxy. It is accompanied by two much smaller satellite galaxies, M32 and M110. The Andromeda Galaxy is the most distant object that can be seen without an instrument under good skies, at 2.5 million light years.
Image taken in Normandy (France), by Team Newastro; (astronew.fr) , with Tube Newton Skyvision (250-900 f/d 3,6) on Eq8 mount,
ZWo Asi 6200MM camera.
Image in L,r,v,b and Ha. Total exposure time 7 hours.

Copyright: astronew.fr

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Discovered by the German astronomer Johann Elert Bode in 1774, M81 is one of the brightest galaxies in the night sky. It is located 11.6 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major and has an apparent magnitude of 6.9.
This Image was captured over two winters with 4 different telescopes spanning from 8" to 12" for a total of 17 hours of exposure using LRGBHa Filters and a monochrome camera.

Copyright: Matthew Proulx

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16" f3.75 Dream Astrograph, FLI Proline 16803, Paramount MEFrames: 55x120" (1h 50')Image aquisition remotly by Cláudio Tenreiro, at Insight Observatory, New Mexico.Image processing: Ruben Barbosa.Messier 35 (M35) is a large open star cluster located in the northern constellation Gemini. The cluster consists of several hundred stars, of which 120 are brighter than magnitude 13. The central region has a density of 6.21 stars per cubic parsec. M35 is The only Messier Object located in Gemini

Copyright: Claúdio Tenreiro / Ruben Barbosa

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In this image of the Cone and Fox fur Nebulas, I've tried to make it as deep as possible within the available time. The Ha stands out all around the FOV and the Oiii shows quite well permeating the image. It was assembled as HOO in a somewhat unusual rendition for this object, one of my favorites.Shot at Barcarena, Portugal (Bortle 7-8), from 18th to 24th January, and processed in PixInsight.Frames:Ha: 150 x 5 minO3: 110 x 5 minRGB: 3 x 20 x 1 minTotal integration: 23 hoursTechnical details:Telescope: TS Optics Triplet APO 800/115Flatenner: TS Optics 3'' 0.79xMount: SW EQ6-R ProCamera: QHYCCD 268MFilters: Baader Ha 8.5nm and Oiii 7.0 nm. Optolong RGB.

Copyright: André Vilhena

Image Description and Details : The Seagull Nebula (also known as Gum 2 sometimes mistakenly known as IC 2177) is a diffuse nebula visible on the border between the constellations Canis Major and Unicorn.

INSTRUMENTATION:
Tecnosky AG70/350 telescope on AZEQ6 GT mount, self-guide with Artesky 60/240 and ASI290mini telescope, ASI 2400 MC PRO full frame acquisition camera, all controlled by ASI AIR PRO.
ACQUISITION:
8 light of 8 minutes total 1 hour and 4 minutes, integrated with 31 FLAT 31 DARK FLAT and 15 DARK. Sensor temperature -10.
ELABORATION:
Pixinsight and Photoshop.

Location: Polino Terni Umbria Italy

Copyright: Luca Marinelli

Image Description and Details : This is a 4 panel mosaic done over multiple nights and requiring more than 120 hours. It was captured from Andalusia in Spain using a AP130GTX refractor on top of a 10Micron mount.
The colour scheme is HSO with added RGB stars. The following frames were captured :
- Ha : 244 X 600s
- OIII : 220 X 600s
- Sii : 220 X 600
- RGB : for each 60 X 180

Copyright: F Drevon

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NGC 2683 is a field spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Lynx. It was nicknamed the "UFO Galaxy" by the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory.It was discovered by the astronomer William Herschel on February 5, 1788.
Captured in my private observatory near Kyiv, Ukraine, during Nov-Dec 2020 by 350 mm Newton, SBIG-8300 STT, worked up by PixInsight. Total exposure time is about 30 hours.

Copyright: Edward Popovitch, Ukraine

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In the direction of the constellation of the Puppis there is this pair of open clusters cataloged by Charles Messier as M46 and M47. On closer inspection, in the direction of M46 there is a very small planetary nebula cataloged as NGC 2438, the remnant of a stellar explosion that left a white dwarf at its center. NGC 2438 is 2900 light years away from us and has an extension of "just" 4.5 light years.

Scope: Skywatcher ED80 reduced @480mm, f6.0
Camera: Qhy168c @-15°C, gain 10, offset 50, with reducer DELUXE Artesky 0.8x and Optolong L_Pro filter
Guide: finderscope Konus 50/180 and Asi224Mc
Mount: Skywatcher Eq6r Pro
Accessories: Zwo EAF
Management system: Raspberry PI4 with Stellarmate OS remotely controlled with Windows 10
Acquisition software: Kstars/Ekos
Frames: 18x300" calibrated with flat, dark and bias
Stacking and post-production softwares: AstroPixelProcessor, Pixinsight and Photoshop
Location: Ferrara (Italy), Bortle 6, SQM 19,22

Copyright: Massimo Di Fusco

Image Description and Details :

Bode's Galaxy, the Cigar Galaxy, and the Integrated Flux Nebula January 6 - January 28 2022 Rowe, NM 305mm Riccardi-Honders @ f/3.8 AP1100 GTO AE Mount, Unguided QHY600PH monochrome @-20*CChroma 50mm x 50mm filtersHaLRGB66.3 hours total integration time

Copyright: Jared Willson

Image Description and Details : The Rosette Nebula, photographed in bicolor. The HA was taken from the city (Las Vegas Bortle 9), the OIII was taken from the desert (Bortle 4). The total exposure time is 20 hours.

Copyright: Antoine & Dalia Grelin