Image Description and Details : The October 25th 2022 partial solar eclipse in H-Alpha taken at 12:01 CEST (10:01 UTC) from Casalgrande, in northern Italy.
SkyWatcher 70/500mm refractor with Coronado Solarmax 40. ZWO ASI 174MM

Copyright: Copyright: Alessandro Carrozzi

Image Description and Details : The bartender asks, "Why the weird face?"

This bizarre collection of objects in the Auriga constellation looks like the face of the alien Xenu to me. But when I first discovered that this framing was possible, I really liked it.

In the upper left, the big orange thing is IC 405, the Flaming Star nebula. Just to its right, the blue-purple thing is IC 410, the Tadpoles (you can see the two small cometary globules that give it its name). Directly below the tadpoles, the small orange spot is IC 417, the Spider Nebula. Below and to the right of the Spider is NGC 1931, the Fly. And I've personally dubbed the red object to their left "The Gripping Hand" after the sequel to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's incomparable SF novel The Mote in God's Eye (the sequel was far less engaging). The open cluster of stars near bottom center is Messier 38, the Starfish Cluster.

Deceptively, the Flaming Star is only 1,500 light years away, but the Tadpoles are 12,000 light years away. M38 is about 3,500 light years away and the Spider is about 10,000 light years distant. These disparate distances account for the varied chemical compositions and hence the colors they produce.

Details: William Optics ZenithStar 61 refractor; iOptron CEM25-EC mount; ZWO ASI6200MM camera; Antlia 3nm narrowband filters for the nebula and Antlia RGB filters for the stars; Bortle 8; 29.5 hours integration time.

Copyright: Copyright © 2022 by the Accidental Astronomers

Image Description and Details : Today the aurora parameters had some life to them, but the skies here were mostly cloudy. I felt a bit sick due to my last nights adventures in the wilderness during a snowstorm, but I still decided to try my luck if the weather would get better even for a moment. I walked to the nearby waterfall which was now surrounded with fresh snow. After waiting a hour or two the skies got clear and you could see some red auroras dancing over the waterfall near the lake Tsahkaljärvi in Finland.

Sony A7S
Sony FE 14mm F/1.8 GM
ISO 2000
15 seconds
Minor adjustments in adobe photoshop

Copyright: Dennis Lehtonen

Image Description and Details : The Ghost Nebula is a reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. In this portrait you can see all the galactic space dust in our milky way Galaxy. In the bottom middle is the ghost nebula the name easily understood and is 2 light-years across.

Taken Northwest Missouri September 30 through October 18 at the Backyard country observatory, using a Orion 8 inch f3.9 newtonian astrograph, with a coma correcter. Canon 60d unmodified, autoguider orion starshoot 60mm guide scope, all on a celestron AVX mount.

3 night session total of 8 hours integration with 4 minutes subs of RAW exposures, ISO-1250

stacked using deep sky stacker. Pixlinsight dynamic crop, dynamic background ext, non linear stretch in histrogram tran, NoiseXTerminator, star mask using the morphology trans for star reduction, added a luminous mask used curves, for saturation’s,
Photoshop: saturations adjustments, color balance, highlights, selective color adjustments, smart sharpening.

Copyright: Jared Bowens

Image Description and Details : We are pleased to present you today the first ever image of a candidate planetary nebula unknown to this day.
Team members Xavier Strottner and Marcel Drechsler discovered this object in June 2020.
This item has been analysed and added to the StDr catalogue by Pascal Le Dû.
StDr 99 is also registered in the PN Global Base managed by Professor Quentin Parker of the University of Hong Kong.
StDr 99 is located in the constellation Cepheus and has an apparent size of 17 arc minutes.
This nebula is so weak, especially [OIII], that nearly 200 hours of exposure were required.
Many thanks to Sven Eklund for working with me in imaging this challenging object, and to Marcel for processing the image.
Data captured between 20 July - 7 August 2022.
Scopes: APM TMB LZOS 152 Refractors and Celestron C14 Edge HD
Cameras: QSI6120wsg8 and ZWO ASI6200MM Pro
Mounts: 10Micron GM2000 HPS and iOptron CEM120
A total of 196 hours 15 minutes (HaOIIIRGB)

Copyright: Copyright: Peter Goodhew, Sven Eklund, Xavier Strottner, Marcel Drechsler

Image Description and Details : Barnard 92 (B92) or more commonly known as the Black Hole Nebula and its neighbour Barnard 93 (B93) or the Black Spot Nebula are dark nebulae or interstellar dust clouds contrasting nicely against the bright Hydrogen-alpha rich background of the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud M24, of which it obscures parts. Stardust — clouds of carbon soot blown out by ageing stars — weaves all through this scene, creating the dark canyons winding through the stars. These dark nebulae lie at an approximate distance of 10,000 light-years from Earth.
10x600s Ha, 19x180s Lum and 49x300s RGB subs were shot @-10C taken over 6 nights for an integration time of almost 7 hours.

Equipment used:
Skywatcher 10" f4 Newtonian 250P
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro Hypertuned by Astronomy Academy Perth
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro Cooled Camera
Primaluce Sesto Senso2 Electronic Focuser
William Optics Uniguide 50/200mm guidescope
ZWO ASI290MM Mini Guide Camera
ZWO Electronic Filter Wheel
Antlia Pro 36mm unmounted filters
Rollon rolloff modified shed observatory
Bortle 5
Data acquisition software: NINA Astronomy Software
Processing software: PixInsight and Photoshop CC

Copyright: Capturing Ancient PhotonS

Image Description and Details : SH2 124 is located between the swan and cepheus. Very little photographed and very little documented.... This emission nebula would be located at around 8500AL

Antlia 3.5nm Narrowband H-alpha: 112×300″(9h 20′)
Antlia 3.5nm Narrowband Oxygen III: 62×600″(10h 20′)
Antlia 3.5nm Narrowband Sulfur II: 75×300″(6h 15′)
25h 55′
ASI2600mm
Ts76edph

France

Copyright: Astromac

Image Description and Details : NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula.

Celestron 11” Edge HD with .7x reducer. Celestron OAG, Ioptron CEM 70, ZWO 2600MM Pro cooled to -10° and gain 100. ASIAIR pro+, ZWO 36mm EFW, ZWO EAF, 5 min subs shot with Chroma 3nm filters Sii, Ha, Oiii. 16 hours total. Processed in Pixinsight. Shot from my backyard, bortle 8.

Copyright: Richard McInnis

HDW-2 - The Bear Claw Nebula - Planetary Nebula in Cassiopeia

PlaneWave CDK-20 20" f/7.7 Astrograph

PlaneWave L-500 Mount

QHY600M CMOS Camera

Total exposure: HaOiiiLRGB 16.8 hours

Sierra Remote Observatories

August 2022

Data acquisition by Eric Coles

Image processing by Bob Fera

The Bear Claw is a large, faint planetary nebula that's officially, and poetically, known as Hartl-Dengl-Weinberger 2. (It's also known as Sh2-200, from the Sharpless catalog of emission nebulae.) Discovered in 1983, it wasn't determined to be a planetary nebula until 2017. This image is a composite taken through narrowband Hydrogen-Alpha (red) and Oxygen-III (teal) filters along with standard broadband RGB filters for the stars. The nebula is extremely faint, especially in H-alpha, and took lots of post-processing to bring out. As I normally do, I processed the narrowband data to approximate "true" color as best as I could.

Copyright: Bob Fera

Image Description and Details : Neptune and Triton October 08th, 2022

Under good seeing conditions.
Some bright features in the southern hemisphere can be seen.
The orientation is confirmed by the position of Triton.
The false color image is only for aesthetic reasons.

C14 Edge HD, Fornax52 mount,ASI 290 mono, Baader R+IR610nm

Agerola-Amalfitan Coast-Italy

Copyright: Luigi Morrone

Image Description and Details : A favourite deep-sky target of astrophotographers is NGC 1499, the California Nebula. The California Nebula is found in the Orion Arm of our Milky Way galaxy, and has been given its informal nickname because its shape resembles the outline of the US state of California. It is a large emission nebula stretching across almost 2.5 degrees of the night sky in the constellation Perseus, with an apparent magnitude of 6.0 and lies approximately 1,000 light-years away. It is very well imaged in broadband filters as well as the narrowband Hubble palette seen here.

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106-ED F/3.6
Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro CMOS
Mount: Paramount MX
Observatory : RoboScopes, Spain.

Sii = 51 x 240s
Ha = 38 x 240s
Oiii = 51 x 240s
Total integration = 9h20m
Software = PixInsight

Copyright: vikas chander

Image Description and Details : Nearly 12 hours of data using the RASA 8, ASIAIR PRO, EQ6-R PRO, ASI071 MC PRO. Filters included the Celestron LP filter for the RASA 8, and the Optolong L-Pro. Processed using Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop and Topaz Denoise.

Copyright: Copyright: John Quinn

Here is a galaxy you may not have seen before.

Located in Indus 180 million light years from here, NGC 7123 is a rarely imaged spiral seen edge on. The shape is some what reminiscent of the Sombrero Galaxy. The galaxy itself presents a very small target in the field of view.

Imaged in LRGB on our Planewave CDK 1000 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile

Image Processing: Mike Selby

Prominence evolution (07/10/2022) from 09h:16m UT to 10h:16m UT
iOptron CEM70G, Tecnosky APO SLD 130/910, Baader D-ERF 135mm, Daystar Filters Quark Chromosphere, ZWO ASI174MM

Copyright: Salvo Lauricella

Image Description and Details : This cosmic landscape features a often overlooken object in the amateur astronomy community, Simeis 57. It’s nicknamed as the Propeller Nebula. I imaged this nebulosity on multiple nights during September and October between brief gaps in the clouds, acquiring a total exposure time of 14 hours with narrowband filters + RGB for the stars.

Most amateur astronomers use designation DWB 111 for the "Propeller" but it is incorrect as it is only a designation for the southern arm of the object. Designation DWB 119 is used for the northern arm. In 1950s Crimean Astrophysical Observatory at Simeiz, Ukraine designated this object as Simeis 57 in their catalogue of 306 objects of HII regions.
Ten years later the DWB catalog was created by H. R. Dickel, H. Wendker, and J. H. Bieritz. This catalog was intended for HII regions in the Cygnus X complex that they were studying in 1960s. Distance of this nebulosity is unknown but in general the objects in the Cygnus X complex are about 4600 light-years away.

Copyright: © Ville Puoskari

Image Description and Details :

Messier 34 (also known as M34 or NGC 1039) is a large open cluster located in the constellation of Perseus. It was probably discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654 and included by Charles Messier in his catalog of comet-like objects in 1764. Messier described it as "A cluster of small stars a little below the parallel of γ (Andromedae). In an ordinary telescope of 3 feet one can distinguish the stars. "
M34 is 1500 light years away from us and includes stars of mass between 0.12 and 1 solar mass. It extends for about 35 'into the firmament, which translates into a real radius of 7.5 light years at the distance at which it is located. The cluster is barely visible to the naked eye in very dark conditions, well away from city lights and can be seen through binoculars when light pollution is low.
The age of this cluster is between that of the Pleiades (100 million years) and that of the Hyades (800 million years). In particular, the comparison between known stellar spectra and predicted values ​​from stellar evolutionary models suggest 200-250 million years.

Konus 200/1000 @960mm, F4.8
Qhy168c @-5 °C
Sky-Watcher Eq6r Pro Mount
SvBony UV/IR-cut filter 30x60" (gain 1, offset 35)
Kstars/ekos, APP, PixInsight, PS

Copyright: Massimo Di Fusco

Image Description and Details : Reflections here in Kilpisjärvi are quite rare due to strong winds, but that night in october I was lucky with calm weather. The auroras weren't that big, but had some nice colors. The saana mountain (1029m) in the background is one of the tallest and well-known in Finland.

Sony A7S
Sony FE 14mm f/1.8 GM
20 seconds, ISO 2500
Minor adjustments in adobe photoshop

Copyright: Dennis Lehtonen

Image Description and Details :

Little known and poorly imaged LBN438 is a dark galactic nebula located in the constellation Lizard.
The nebula is illuminated by interstellar radiation known as Extended Red Emission or ERE. This is commonly observed from UV-excited interstellar grains.
A lot of small galaxies in the background of the sky to discover.

Shooting data:
🔭: ASA Newton 254/950 F3.6
⚙️: Paramount MyT
📷: ZWO ASI2400MC at -10°C
🕶: IDAS LPS-P3 & IDAS NBZ
🎯: Skywatcher Evostar72ED + ASI290MM mini
💻: TheSkyX pro, NINA, PHD2, AstroPixel Processor (100% of treatment), PixInsight (5% of treatment), Photoshop CC (95% of treatment)
⏱: IDAS LPS-P3 = 21h (126x600”)
⏱: IDAS NBZ = 17h55 (71x900"+ 1x600")
⏱: TOTAL = 38h55
🌍: Lorraine, France
📆: Over 8 nights: August 27, 2022 August 28, 2022 August 29, 2022 September 1, 2022 September 03, 2022 September 21, 2022 September 29, 2022

Copyright: Thomas LELU

Here a shots taken last October 1, from Texas, as always a great spectacle of filaments and some protuberances, the Sun very active in its solar cycle number 25 that promises much more.

ZWO 174mm camera and Payer one Apollo M-Max

Zwo EAF focuser

Skywatcher AZEQ6 mount

Lunt 100mm double stack

HINODE SOLAR AUTIGUIDER

Fire Capture, Autostacker, Registax, Photoshop.

Dallas TX.

Copyright: Arturo Buenrostro

Image Description and Details :

Image taken in Chicago, IL
23 hours of total exposure using the SHO palette
Processed in Pixinsight
Telescope: Celestron 11 inch edge HD at F/10
Camera: 2600MM Pro
Chroma SHO 3nm filters

Copyright: Richard McInnis