AAPOD2 Image Archives
A Nova in Andromeda Galaxy
Image Description and Details : On August 4, the team members of the Monte Baldo Observatory (Italy) identified a Nova star of magnitude +16.6 in one of the arms of M31, which was catalogued as M31N2022-08a. Furthermore, the same team immediately noticed the coincidence of the position of the Nova they discovered with the Nova M31N2005-10a discovered on 11 October 2005 and, after meticulous checks, the coincidence of the position was confirmed. It is therefore a recurring Nova, which are the most followed and studied because they are considered potential candidates to become very bright Supernovae.
Fortunately, my shots coincided with the period following the appearance of the Nova, so I was able to highlight its presence in my image by comparing it with a photo taken last year.
Sky-Watcher Evostar 80ED @480mm, F6.0
Qhy168c @-5 °C
Sky-Watcher Eq6r Pro
Optolong L_Pro 123x300"
Optolong L_eXtreme 62x600"
Kstars/ekos, APP, PixInsight, PS
Copyright: Massimo Di Fusco
Burning Heart & Flaming Soul
Image Description and Details : This panorama mosaic was skulking around in my head for about a year now.
Aside from a few hours "wasted" on trial and error'ing an intensity match issue with my RGB frames, the stitching went well using PI's PhotometricMosaic script.
Details:
Capture date: August 16th – 24th, 2022
Location: Augsburg, Germany
Bortle class: 5-6
Lights (Gain 100, -5°C, Bin 1×1):
H𝛼: 66 x 300s (5h 30m)
Oiii: 45 x 300s (3h 45m)
Sii: 44 x 300s (3h 40m)
R: 40 x 10s (6m 40s)
G: 39 x 10s (6m 30s)
B: 40 x 10s (6m 40s)
Total Integration: 13h 14m 50s
Darks: 60
Flats: 30 @ 5s, 30 @ 10s
Flat Darks: 60
Scope: Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED
Reducer: APM Riccardi 0.75x
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
Guide scope: Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED
Guide camera: ZWO ASI290MM Mini with ZWO OAG-L
Filterwheel: ZWO EFW 7x36mm
Filter(s): Astronomik H𝛼 6nm, Astronomik Oiii 6nm, Astronomik Sii 6nm, Astronomik DeepSky RGB
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Tripod: Sky-Watcher EQ6 Tripod
Control: ZWO ASIAIR Plus
Copyright: Dominik Weinbrenner
STAR-TRAILS - REFLECTIONS IN THE LAKE
Image Description and Details :Astrophotography made during the 13th Brazilian Astrophotography Meeting.
Formosa/GO - Brazil
07/28/2022-07/29/2022, 23h at 04h
Canon EOS T3 - unmodified
Rokinon 12mm F2.8 @ F2.8
150x120s, ISO 800
Fixed tripod
Copyright: Samuel Moitinho
LDN43 The Cosmic Bat
Image Description and Details : Telescope : Planewave CDK17, Camera : SBIG STXL 11002, Tracking : Paramount
Location : Chile
Image processing software : Pixinsight, Photoshop
Total 14 hours 45 minutes LRGB data
Copyright: Image captured : Martin Pugh
Image processing : Rocco Sung
Huge solar prominence
Image Description and Details : A huge was visible on the Sun! These consist of cooler Plasma that follows magnetic field lines. This image was taken yesterday (28.08.22, 4:10 pm UTC). I put the Earth into the image (to scale) for a size comparison.
Lichtenknecker 90/1350mm Refraktor
Coronado Solarmax 90 I
ZWO ASI290MM
10000 frames (4ms, Gain 0)
Stacked with Autostakkert!3 (best 550 Images)
Processed with Registax, Photoshop
Copyright: Robert Schumann
Dark nebula
Image Description and Details : IC5068 , LBN 308 , 311 ,327 , 328 , 319 , 332 , et LDN 916 et 914
Dark nebula
elle ce trouve sous NGC7000
Coordonnés : RA 20h 51m 26s - DEC 41d 23m 6s
Materiels :
Takahashi Epsilon 130D
Caméra ZWO ASI2600MC
Monture ioptron CEM60-EC
Acquisitions avec NINA
133 x 180s soit 6H39
Traitement Pixisinght et Photoshop
Copyright: Lamagat Frédéric
Sh2-132 - Lion Nebula
Image details:
Halpha: 61x600".Gain 200. Bin1
[OIII]: 58x600". Gain 200. Bin1
RGB for stars color: 50x60" per filter. Gain 139. Bin1
Total integration time: 22h50'.
Data captured along several nights of August 2022 from Belmonte, Cuenca (Spain).
Equipment:
Telescope: SW Esprit100ED. Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Mount: EQ6R-PRO
Guiding: EZG60 + QHY5-L-II
Capture SW: NINA + PHD2
Processed with Pixinsight 1.8.9
Copyright: Alejandro López
Supermassive
Image Description and Details : Lying adjacent to the Milky Way centre, the Pipe Nebula casts an imposing shadow across the vast star field of the area.
Barnard 78 - The pipe nebula, also widely known as part of the dark horse, imaged from my backyard in Perth Western Australia, which is in a bortle 8 zone.
Total integration time is 2.65 Hours - 53x3" exposures.
Askar FMA135
ASI533MC
ZWO UV/IR Cut filter
ASIAIR
Skywatcher EQM35
Copyright: Simon Capone
Unravelling the Cocoon
Image Description and Details : This reflection nebula climbs high in the sky in the northern hemisphere on warm summer nights. I captured many hours of data and kept only the very best 29 hours of subs to reveal the faint nebulosity surrounding this beautiful star forming region.
Copyright: David Jenkins
The Majestic Elephant's Trunk
Image Description and Details : I captured this image over three consecutive clear nights from my backyard observatory using my Esprit 100ED and ASI2600mm Pro camera with 6nm Astronomik SHO filters. Just over 15 hours of integration time using 300 second subs provided the wonderful detail surrounding this famous target.
Copyright: David Jenkins
vdB 102
Image Description and Details : This is an image of vdB102, a reflection nebula, located in the northern part of the constellation of Scorpius, north of Antares. What is a reflection nebula one may ask?
Reflection nebulae are clouds of interstellar dust which might reflect the light of a nearby star or stars. The energy from the nearby stars is insufficient to ionize the gas of the nebula to create an emission nebula, but is enough to give sufficient scattering to make the dust visible. The frequency spectrum shown by reflection nebulae is thus similar to that of the illuminating stars. The stars responsible for the lighting of vdB 102 are known by the initials HD 147009 and HD 147010. The first is at a lower brightness at mag 8.06 and is a white main sequence star, while the second is a blue giant of spectral class B9III with magnitude of 7.40.
Telescope: Astro-Physics Starfire 175
Camera: FLI 16070
Mount: AstroPhysics 1600GTO-AE
Observatory : Deep Sky West, NM, USA.
L = 27x15m
R= 24x15m
G= 28x15m
B= 22x15m
Total integration = 25h15m
Copyright: vikas chander
Sh2-124
Image Description and Details : I am just going to say what everybody else seems to say: “SH2-124 is an emission nebula in northern Cygnus at about 8.500 light years away. It doesn’t seem to be imaged very often, and I was not able to find much additional information about it.”
Not imaged very often but I think with sufficient exposure – this area makes a lovely target for an image.
Imaging telescope: Takahashi FSQ106ED
Imaging camera: ASI 2600MM
Mount: Takahashi EM 400 Temma 2M
Guiding telescope: Takahashi FS60CB
Guiding camera: QHY CCD QHY 5 II
Focal Extender / Reducer: None
Capture Software: Sequence Generator Pro, PHD 2
Processing Software: Astro Pixel Processor, PixInsight, Topaz DeNoise, Photoshop
Filters (50mm): Astrodon Ha (3nm), Astrodon SII (3nm) & Astrodon OIII (3nm)
Accessories: ATIK EFW3, SeleTEK2 controlling Robofocus Focuser.
Dates: 15th - 19th Aug 2022
Frames:
Astrodon Ha 42 x 10'
Astrodon SII 42 x 10'
Astrodon OIII 42 x 10'
Total integration = 21 Hours
Copyright: Brendan Kinch
Soul nebula
The Soul Nebula (cataloged as IC 1848 or W5) is a diffuse nebula associated with an open cluster of young and hot stars of great mass, visible in the Cassiopeia constellation, towards the border with the Giraffe. This is one of the areas where star formation is most active.
This object is also known as the Embryo Nebula, a name suggested by the pareidolia which causes our brain to see the figure of a supine fetus in this random cluster of ionized gas.
Sky-Watcher 80ED @480mm, F6.0
Qhy168c @-5 °C
Sky-Watcher Eq6r Pro
Optolong L_eXtreme 54x600"
SvBony UV/IR-cut 116x60"
Kstars/ekos, APP, PixInsight, Ps
Copyright: Massimo Di Fusco
From Crescent to Tulip Nebula
Image details:
Two nights Under full Moon for testing my New setup.
Here is an Ha-Sho version made with 40x600s on Antlia Alpt & 38x600s on Antlia Edge Sii, with an 2600 mc pro cam & an Askar Acl200 F4 mounted on an Eq6-r.
Processed with App, Pix, Luminar & Affinity.
Copyright AstroThumb
Clamshell Nebula (Sh2-119)
Image Description and Details : Sharpless 119, also known as the Clamshell Nebula, is a large complex of emission nebulosity in Cygnus, about 2 degrees east of the much more famous North America Nebula (NGC 7000).
It is located just around 68 Cygni, a quite bright star of magnitude 5 and one of the stars responsible for ionizing the surrounding gas.
Interestingly, there are several dark lanes and dark globules overlaying the nebula.
The area is part of the Milky Way and is populated by numerous stars.
This image is acquired with the Takahashi FSQ-106ED refractor and FLI PL16803 camera from Telescope Live in IC Astronomy Observatory, Oria, Spain.
Total integration time 360 minutes
SHO: 12 sub-frames of 600s with each filter.
Dataset Telescope Live.
Processing with PixInsight (using Autointegrate.js script from Jarmo Ruuth), StarXTerminator, Photoshop CC with AstroPanel Pro, Astronomy Tools, Topaz Sharpen AI and NoiseXTerminator plug-ins.
Copyright: Jan Scheers