Image Description and Details : NGC 6744 is the big brother and similar to our own Milky Way, with a disk stretching 175,000 light-years across. A small, distorted companion galaxy is located nearby, which is similar to our galaxy's Large Magellanic Cloud. This companion, called NGC 6744A, can be seen as a blob in the main galaxy's outer arm, at upper left. The galaxy is situated in the constellation of Pavo at a distance of about 30 million light-years. It is one of 50 galaxies observed as part of the Hubble Space Telescope’s Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS), the sharpest, most comprehensive ultraviolet-light survey of star-forming galaxies in the nearby Universe, offering an extensive resource for understanding the complexities of star formation and galaxy evolution.

Telescope : Planewave CDK17 f6.8
Camera : SBIG STXL 11002
Mount : Software Bisque Paramount ME
Focal length : 2939mm
Fov : 42 x 29 arcmins
Image Scale : 0.63 arcsec/pixel
Observatory : El Sauce Chile
Filters: HaLRGB
L 22x20m R 15x20m G 15x20m B 16x20m
H 15x30m
Integration: 30h10m
RA: 19h 09m 38s
Dec : -63° 51′ 03″

Copyright: vikas chander

Image Description and Details : I started capturing this January 9th of this year and just finished capturing last week. It's been a rough winter as usual for capturing and given my light pollution, I had a heck of a time pulling out the detail in the OIII. My friend Peter captured some Ha, but there is not a lot there so I decided given my limited nights of clear skies, I would just hammer the OIII.

In 1963 while examining the POSS plates, Kohoutek came across a number of new nebulae, most of which he was able to identify as planetary nebulae. These were published in the bulletin of the Czech Astronomical Institute Circular in 1963 as BAICz14. However, in the case of some of the objects he discovered he was not able to confirm their type. Over the years this object has been variously catalogued as an irregular galaxy (UGCA 100), a bright nebula (LBN 809) or even a reflection nebula (DG 50). SIMBAD classifies this object as a diffuse nebula with notes saying it is not a galaxy or a planetary nebula. This is somewhat odd as the current professional planetary nebula (HASH) database classifies it as a true planetary nebula. In the discovery paper Kohoutek remarks on a blue star near the centre of the nebula at about 18th mag which could be the central star.

Kohoutek 2-1 is 3700 light years away in the constellation Auriga. It has a size of 115x126 arc sec and is predominantly OIII. It has a mean surface brightness of 24.1 mag/arc sec.

Copyright: © Douglas J Struble

Coronado Solarmax 3 Double Stack

Barlow Cemax 2x

Asi Zwo 178 MM

Copyright: Claudio Ciceri

Image Description and Details : IC1848 Soul Nebula.

Soul nebula IC1848, narrowband processed. The stars are forming in the soul of the Queen of Ethiopia. More specifically, in a star-forming region called Soul Nebula can be found in the constellation Cassiopeia, a constellation Greek mythology identified as the arrogant wife of a king who has long ruled the lands around the top river Nile. the Soul nebula contains several open clusters of stars, an intense radio source known as W5 and huge bubbles formed by winds from massive young stars. Located about 6,500 light-years away, the Soul Nebula spans about 100 light years.
Technical data:

Remote Observatory "FarLightTeam"
Team: Jesús M. Vargas, Bittor Zabalegui,José Esteban, Marc Valero.
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106 ED 530mm f/5
CCDs: QSI683 wsg8
Filters: Baader Planetarium - Halpha-SII-OIII
Mount: 10Micron GM1000 HPS
Imaging Software: Voyager
Processing Software: PixInsight-AstroPixelProcessor

Imaging Data:

Captured through 12 December 2021 to 21 February 2022, ( Fregenal de la Sierra ) Badajoz, Spain.

Image composed of a Mosaic of 2 tiles:
Ha: 94x1200"
SII-OIII: 147x1200"
Darks, flats, bias

Copyright: Remote Observatory "FarLightTeam"
Team: Jesús M. Vargas, Bittor Zabalegui,José Esteban, Marc Valero 

Image Description and Details : Vallis Inghirami
Inghirami (91km) and Vallis Inghirami (145km), can only be well observed in favorable librations of west longitude. In this particular photo, the libration was 6.56º.
The crater and vallis appear to have suffered a landslide. Online reading reveals that this surface was formed by the molten material ejected from the Mare Orientale formation. The molten ejecta exploded in the Inghirami Valley and splashed onto the crater floor and then solidified.
Note that the terraces at Vallis, reminiscent of glacial crevasses, are aligned with gradient and sloping flow, implying that they were formed in a liquid state. Second, the crater ruptured in two places in the northwest, carrying the flow of ejecta that covered the crater floor.
Also Vallis Inguirami is on the famous Lunar 100 list created by my friend Chuck Woods with the number 97.

Almost all telescope users are familiar with French comet hunter Charles Messier's catalog of diffuse objects. Messier's 18th-century listing of 109 galaxies, clusters, and nebulae contains some of the largest, brightest, and most interesting deep-sky treasures visible from the Northern Hemisphere. It's no wonder that observing all M objects is considered a virtual rite of passage for amateur astronomers.
But the night sky offers an object bigger, brighter and more visually captivating than anything on Messier's list: the Moon. However, many backyard astronomers never go beyond the astro-tourism stage to acquire the knowledge and understanding necessary to truly appreciate what they are seeing, and how magnificent and amazing it really is. Perhaps that's because after identifying some of the moon's most visible features, many hobbyists don't know where to look next.
The Lunar 100 list is an attempt to provide Moon lovers with something similar to what deep sky observers enjoy with the Messier catalogue: a selection of telescopic sights to spark interest and improve understanding. It features a selection of the 100 most interesting regions, craters, basins, mountains, channels and domes on the Moon. It is a challenge for observers to find and observe them all and, more importantly, to consider what each feature tells us about lunar and Earth history.
Lunar Anatomy 100
Objects in Lunar 100 are arranged from easiest to view to most difficult. This is more systematic than the random approach that produced the Messier list. In fact, just knowing the Lunar 100 number of a feature gives you an idea of ​​how easy or challenging it will be to see. For example, the Moon itself is L1, while L2 is the cinereous light and L3 is the light/dark dichotomy between the lunar highlands and maria ("seas"). I'd be surprised if anyone reading this couldn't tick those off the list right now. Objects with higher numbers are smaller, less visible, or positioned closer to limbo, making them more difficult to locate and visualize.
I invite you to use Lunar 100 to guide your explorations of the Moon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_100).
Source: Refreshing Views Observatory, Marc Radice / Lunar 100, Chuck Woods, Sky & Telescope, GarySeronik / Wikipedia
Adaptation: Avani Soares

Copyright: Astroavani

Image Description and Details : M96 is a lovely distrurbed spiral about 31 million ly distant. The most interesting feature to me is the needle galaxy 2MFGC 8391 we see through the arm of M96. This needle is the spitting image of NGC 891 but more distant at about 150 ly away. M96 appeared to me initially as a one-arm galaxy but is described as a double barred spiral.

Astrodon Blue: 31x31" (16' 1") (gain: 25.00) -10°C bin 1x1
Astrodon Green: 24x600" (4h) (gain: 25.00) -10°C bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 61x600" (10h 10') (gain: 25.00) -10°C bin 1x1
Astrodon Red: 27x600" (4h 30') (gain: 25.00) -10°C bin 1x1
Integration total 18h 56' 1"

Planewave CDK14, Planewave L-350, QHY600M

Copyright: Kevin Morefield

One of the highlights of the Southern sky, M83 is often referred to as the Southern Pinwheel. It is a colorful barred spiral starburst galaxy located only 15 million light years away in Hydra.

M83 has an unusual double nucleus and houses a super massive black hole at its center apparently surrounded by an asymmetric disc of stars. It has also been the home of at least six observed supernovae and nearly 300 supernovae remnants have been identified.

Imaged in LRGB and H alpha on our PlaneWave CDK 1000 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.

Copyright: Mike Selby and Mark Hanson

This is an image of NGC 4567 and NGC 4568, also known as the Siamese Twins or Butterfly Galaxies. They are a set of unbarred spiral galaxies about 60 million light years away in the constellation Virgo. They are in the process of colliding and merging with each other with high star formation where they overlap.

March 10 - April 4, 2022

Location: Dark Sky New Mexico

Telescope: Planewave CDK-17

Camera: FLI PL16803

Mount: Paramount ME

Luminance: 27x20 minutes (binned 1x1)

Red: 16x15 minutes (binned 1x1)

Green: 16x15 minutes (binned 1x1)

Blue: 16x15 minutes (binned 1x1)

Copyright 2022 Bernard Miller

Image Description and Details :

Telescope: Celestron C11
Focal length: 1800mm @ f6.3
Starizona SCT Reducer/Corrector
Mount: CGX
Camera: ASI294MC-P
Filters: Optolong L-eNhance/UVIR cut
Autoguiding: Celestron OAG
Guide camera: ASI174mm mini
Integration time: 8 hours
Exposure time: 120 seconds
Calibration: 50 Darks, 30 Flats/Dark Flats
Bortle 5

Software:
NINA
PHD2
PixInsight

Copyright: Ralph MacDonald

Image Description and Details : This is the first time processing an image in over a couple months. It has been a horrible winter, like I am sure for many out there. This is also the first broadband image I have captured in over a year, as I typically do mostly narrowband given my light pollution. I know it changes in a matter of weeks and probably could of gotten it a bit shaper if I had more clear nights. I also wanted to capture a lot more RGB, but focusing mostly on the detail of the luminance.

The star R Monocerotis has lit up a nearby cloud of gas and dust, but the shape and brightness slowly changes visibly even in small telescopes over weeks and months, and the nebula looks like a small comet.

One explanation proposed for the variability is that dense clouds of dust near R Mon periodically block the illumination from the star. This casts a temporary shadow on the nearby clouds.

Copyright: © Douglas J Struble

Image Description and Details : Celestron EDGE HD 8"
Ioptron CEM60
ZWO ASI 2600MM
Baader CMOS Filters
Pleiades Pixinsight

H-alpha: 14x600" (2h 20')
H-alpha: 15x1200" (5h)
Blue: 20x180" (1h)
Blue: 15x500" (2h 5') (gain: 100.00)
Green: 20x180" (1h)
Green: 16x500" (2h 13' 20")
Red: 21x180" (1h 3')
Red: 16x500" (2h 13' 20")
Luminance: 62x500" (8h 36' 40")
Integration time: 25h 31' 20"

Copyright: David Quiles Amato

Image Description and Details : Here is a planetary nebula you probably never heard of. Kronberger 131 (Kn131), also known as PN G162.9-01.6 is a mysterious and unusually shaped planetary nebula in the constellation Auriga. Kn 131 is a small and very faint bipolar planetary nebula about 4x3 arc min in size. It has faint wing like appendages on each end and contains HII and OIII emission. Exposed in RGB one would not know something is even here. To the east and west of the nebula is a really faint area of HII emission. Kn131 is also cataloged as PN G162.9-01.6. Looking around the web one can not find any images of this object. This may be the first amateur image. The image is a full resolution crop of the area around the nebula. The image is a HOO image with RGB stars. The image resolution is .62 arcsec/pixel.

Copyright: Jonathan Talbot

Image Description and Details : For the first time, amateurs and scientists have succeeded in detecting a fully developed envelope of a so-called "common envelope" system, by which is meant the phase of the common envelope of a binary star system.
Object: The Heart of Hydra (The star YY Hya / Strottner-Drechsler Object 20)
Coordinates: 09 26 20.596 -22 23 38.38
Diameter: 1.7 degrees
Constellation: Hydra

Data
360 hours total exposure
H-Alpha: 890x1200" (296h 40')
OIII: 15x1800" (7h 30')
RGB: 672x300" (56h)

Equipment
Telescope: T1 ASA RC 1000, Chilescope
Telescope: T2 ASA 500mm Newton, Chilescope
Telescope: T3 ASA 500mm Newton, Chilescope
Camera: FLI Proline 16803

Copyright: Marcel Drechsler and Xavier Strottner

This image is the deepest I have ever taken and by far, it is the farewell to my precious Canon as the main camera, the end of a chapter in the hobby, the culmination of an era that has lasted 6 years.

It's 46 hours of integration
125x600s + 300x300s
With modified Canon Eos 600D and newton Ts Photon 154/600 f3.9
Baader Mpcc coma corrector and Baader Bcf filter.
On Skywatcher neq6 pro2 mount guided off-axis with Zwo Asi 290mc.

Made remotely from the Dark Energy Observatory, Àger, Lleida, during January and February 2022

Copyright: Gerard Tartalo Montardit, Dark Energy Observatory, Ager. Societat Astronomica de Lleida

In the Great Magellan Cloud there are many impressive fogs, here there is a collection of smaller samples. On the right we see NGC 2032, next to NGC 2035 and NGC2029. The explorer was John Herschel on 02 again. November 1834 during his stay in South Africa.

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

Kamera FLI PL 9000

Time: 8hrs

Processed in Hubblepalette with Fitswork, PixInsight and PS

Copyright: Hans Bernd

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses

Takahashi FSQ -106N FSQ -106N

Imaging Cameras

Apogee U8300 U8300

Mounts

EQ5 Mount EQ5

Filters

Astrodon Ha 5nm · Astronomik Red ·Astronomik Green · Astronomik Blue

Software

PHD · Starkeeper Voyager Voyager · Adobe Photoshop CC, Photoshop CC · Software Bisque TheSkyX Imaging · PI · APP

Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses

Takahashi FSQ -106N FSQ -106N

Guiding Cameras

Lodestar Autoguider

Copyright: Jose Mtanous

Image Description and Details : NGC 3199 or more commonly known as the Banana Nebula is a crescent-shaped cocoon of dust and gas approximately 12,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina. The banana/crescent shaped nebula is a 'bow shock' associated with a Wolf-Rayet star (HD 89358)
79 x 600s subs shot @-10C taken over 3 nights using 3nm narrowband filters for an integration time of 13.2 hours.

Equipment used:
Skywatcher 10" f4 Newtonian 250P
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro Hypertuned by Astronomy Academy Perth
Primaluce Sesto Senso2 Electronic Focuser
ZWO ASI183MM Pro Cooled Camera
ZWO Off Axis Guider
ZWO ASI290MM Mini Guide Camera
ZWO Electronic Filter Wheel
Antlia 3nm Narrowband 36mm unmounted filters
Rollon rolloff modified shed observatory
Bortle 5
Data acquisition software: NINA Astronomy Software
Processing software: PixInsight and Photoshop CC

Copyright: Carlos Taylor

Image Description and Details : Here we can appreciate the fantastic solar landscape, with the great solar activity that we are having in this solar cycle number 25, this activity that can be seen in the photograph and was captured with a Lunt 60mm double stack telescope and with a 174mm zwo camera. and was taken from Dallas, Tx.

Copyright: ARTURO BUENROSTRO

Image Description and Details : This is a LRGB composition with about 12.000 1 sec frames for the luminance to which I added the color obtained from about 8.000 images in H-alpha and as many in OIII (R/Ha - G/40%Ha-60%OIII - B/OIII). Then I added the H-alpha and the OIII channels to compose the L-RGB-Ha-OIII.

Dobson 600mm f3.8
StellarCAT - Nexus DSC
ASI2600MM
L 12.000 x 1 sec. bin 1 -10°
R (H-alpha) 8000 x 1 sec. bin 1 -10°
G (40% H-alpha/60% OIII)
B (OIII) 8000 x 1 sec. bin 1 -10°
Astronomik L2 filter 2" mounted
Astronomik H-alpha 12 nm filter 2" mounted
Astronomik OIII 12 nm filter 2" mounted
Dark x 200
Paracorr type 2
Falcon derotator
SharpCap - SiriL - PixInsight - PS - AstroSurface
Bortle 8

Copyright: Filippo Scopelliti