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July 2021, 2021 Jason Matter July 2021, 2021 Jason Matter

Pelican Nebula (IC5070)

Image Description and Details :

Tak FSQ-106ED F/5
SBIG STF-8300M
Astrodon S-ll, H-a, O-lll each 5nm 36mm 600sec x 21, 1bin
Orion CT80 + ZWO ASI 120mm mini
FLI Atlas Focuser
Skywatcher EQ8 mount (with EQ Drive standard4 TCS)

Copyright: Kim Young-Dae

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NGC6888 Crescent nebula

Image Description and Details : NGC 6888 captured during multiple nights between 2 and 13 July 2021, with two RC 8" on EQ6 mount and CEM70, two QHYCCD 183M camera and a CFW3 filter wheel equipped with Baader LRGB filters and Optolong LRGB-HA-Oiii fillter.

Multiple exposure time has been used to obtain the best of details, for a total exposure time of about 45 hours.

HAlpha 135x600" -20C bin 1x1aa
Oiii 120x600" -20C bin 1x1
RGB: 30x300" -20C bin 1x1 10s for each filter

Copyright: Acquisition by Giuseppe Amante & Alessandro Pensato.
Pixinsight processing by Giuseppe Amante

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SH2-132 (Lion Nebula)

Image Description and Details :

SH2-132 SHO 2 Panel Mosaik (Lionnebula)
One night with each Filter and Panel.
Zwo Asi 1600mm Pro
UNC8" F4 (800mm)
600mm Guidescope and the Zwo Asi120mm for guiding.
Mount SW EQ6 Pro.
All together 18h integration time
Subframes 600sec Gain 139 -15C .
Flats Darks Darkflats
Dithering
Software: N.I.N.A PHD Pixinsight Photoshop
Imaged in west germany under bortle 4 Sky.

Copyright: Frank Föhles

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Montes Apeninos

Image Description and Details The Apennines stretch a total length of about 600 km and the mountain peaks reach heights of 5000 m. The slopes towards Mare Imbrium are relatively steep with slopes of approximately 30 °, while on the opposite side, towards Mare Vaporum and Sinus Aestuum they are significantly less.


Equipo:
Telescopio CPC1100
Cámara Zwo Asi 385mc

Observatorio CASA
Granada / España

Copyright: Benjamin Hernandez

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Dark Nebula in Scorpius

Image Description and Details :

An ominous dark nebula rises against the a bright star field and glowing gasses, alongside the tail of the Scorpius constellation. The structure spans almost 40 light years and dust and gas collapse to form stars within this dark nebula. Also known as a cometary globule, the cloud is shaped by ultraviolet radiation from the very hot stars in NGC 6231. The ultraviolet light also illuminates the reddish glow of hydrogen gas. Hot stars embedded in the dust can be seen as bluish reflection nebulae. This dark nebula, NGC 6231, and associated nebulae are about 5,000 light-years away.

Telescope : Planewave CDK 17 F6.8
Camera : SBIG STXL 11002
Mount: Software Bisque Paramount ME
Pixel scale : 0.63 arcsec/pixel
FOV : 42 x 29 arcmins
Filters :LRGB & Ha
Integration: 28hrs
Observatory : El Sauce
Software: PixInsight & Photoshop

Copyright: vikas chander

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IC4765

Image Description and Details : Object : IC4765
Data : LRGB 500:330:420:240, total 24 hours 50 minutes
Description : Galaxy Cluster in Pavo

Telescope : Planewave CDK 17, Camera : SBIG STXL 11002 with AOX, Tracking : Paramount ME
Location : Observatorio El Sauce, Chile
Image processing software : Pixinsight, Photoshop
Date last acquired the data : 14-Jul-2021

Copyright: Image captured : Martin Pugh
Image processing : Rocco Sung

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NGC 6357 War & Peace Nebula

Image Description and Details :Astrophotography taken in 2020 with my own equipment and reprocessing in 2021.

Imaging telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 120 ED Super APO Triplet
Imaging camera: QHYCCD 16200A
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6R-PRO
Guiding camera: QHY5L-II
Software: Sequence Generator Pro · Photoshop CC PS · PHD2 · Pixinsight
Filters: Chroma OIII 3nm · Baader Planetarium SII 8.5nm · Baader Planetarium H-Alpha 7nm

Frames:
Ha: 34x900" (8h 30')
SII: 35x900" (8h 45')
OIII: 35x900" (8h 45')
Integration: 26 hours

Avg. Moon age: 15.01 days
Avg. Moon phase: 39.41%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 8.00

Posadas, Argentina

Copyright: Christian Hilbert

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July 2021, 2021 Jason Matter July 2021, 2021 Jason Matter

PaRasMoMi-1


Image Description and Details :

Dear friends, we are pleased to present you our latest discovery!
PaRasMoMi-1 stands for: "Dana Patchick-Sakib Rasool-Sankalp Mohan-Utkarsh Mishra".
It was Discovered by all four of us in april 2021 and we tried to guess what this object could be using the data that was available online, no doubt this new discovery needs some good scientific study
PaRasMoMi-1 lies in the constellation Monoceros and is 5942 ly (light-years) away from earth.
It is near the Rosette nebula/NGC 2237 and is officially designated at Hong Kong/AAO/Strasbourg H-alpha planetary nebula database. Comprehensive database of all known planetary nebulae.
PaRasMoMi-1 is Potential Planetary Nebula candidate which officially designated at Planetary Nebula net and at HASH Portal. by Dr. Quentin Andrew Parker
and designated By Pascal Le Dû on Planetary Nebula dot net.
The size of this nebula is very big and that is around 26 arcmins
*(Almost same size of moon in terms of apparent size)*
We want to thank our friend Patrick Dufour who photographed this nebula for around 20hrs from his remote observatory in Chile. He used a 12" AG Optical RC Telescope and QHY 600 Mono CMOS camera with SHOLRGB filter to capture the region. Since the object was only visible in OIII we asked him to capture as much OIII as possible and Patrick did a great job by collecting the data quickly - as the object was close to the horizon.
Patrick supplied us with the data and I started examining it and created a few Continuum free images of OIII and H-alpha to really bring out the structure details.

Sakib and Dana i look forward to learn more from you
PaRasMoMi-1 object details:
PN-G: 206.2+00.6
Coordinates: 06:41:30.00 +06:16:30.00
Size: 26 arcmins (Almost apparent size of the moon)
Visible in : OIII

Image Credit copyright ; Patrick Dufour, Utkarsh Mishra
Technical Information
Imaging telescopes or lenses: AG Optical 12.5" iHW
Imaging cameras: QHYCCD QHY600
Mounts: iOptron CEM120 EC2
Guiding telescopes or lenses: AG Optical 12.5" iHW
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI290MC
Software: Pixinsight 1.8 · NINA - Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy
Filters: Astrodon Ha 50mm 5nm · Astronomik LRGB IIc lrgb · Astrodon S2 50mm 5nm · Astrodon O3 50mm 5nm
Dates: April 8, 2021 , April 10, 2021 , April 11, 2021 , April 14, 2021 , April 15, 2021 , April 17, 2021 , April 18, 2021
Frames:
Astrodon Ha 50mm 5nm: 27x600" (4h 30') (gain: 26.00) bin 1x1
Astrodon O3 50mm 5nm: 55x600" (9h 10') (gain: 26.00) bin 1x1
Astrodon S2 50mm 5nm: 12x600" (2h) (gain: 26.00) bin 1x1
Astronomik LRGB IIc lrgb: 124x120" (4h 8') (gain: 26.00) bin 1x1
Integration: 19h 48'
Avg. Moon age: 14.14 days
Avg. Moon phase: 12.42%

Copyright: Image acquisition :Patrick Dufour ,
Image Processing : Utkarsh Mishra

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M78 over 4 years

Image Description and Details :

I compiled shots of this target for as many nights as I could over the past 4 years. Each time stacking and feeling it's not enough... I'm in Michigan, Bortle 7.5. Home of "lake effect clouds" and I might get 5 clear nights over the period that this target appears in my sky.
I shot over 4 years with 3 different scopes and 3 different cameras and combined my efforts this last spring and this was the result.
I hope to collect more should I find another clear sky here in the winter.

Copyright: Ron Richard Kramer

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The wizard nebula

Image Description:

Location: Oria, Almeria, Spain

Telescope: Officina Stellare ProRC 700

Camera: FLI PL16803

Mount: Officina Stellare Equatorial Fork

Ha: 20x3 minutes (binned 1x1)

OIII: 21x3 minutes (binned 1x1)

SII: 37x3 minutes (binned 1x1)


Copyright 2021 Bernard Miller

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NGC 6752 - Globular Cluster in Pavo

Image Description and Details : It seems quite appropriate that this very bright globular cluster is located in the constellation of Pavo - the Peacock. The bright scattering of stars look like the fine display of a peacock's tail when it is trying to impress a prospective mate. This globular cluster does a very fine job of that as well.

According to Wikipedia, NGC6752 is the fourth brightest globular cluster after Omega Centauri, 47 Tucanae and Messier 22. I already have images of Omega Centauri and 47 Tucanae so now I'm going to have to grab some data on Messier 22.

Approximately 6 hours of data collected for this image with a TSA120 and QSI 683 CCD.

Copyright: Rodney Watters

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NGC 7129

Image Description and Details :

NGC 7129 open cluster, at about 3000 light-years in Cepheus, associated with LBN 497 reflection nebula.Integration : 26 hours in Amiens City (France) RC8 Altair Astro scopeAvalon Linear MountQHY163mm + Astrodon filtersL : 110x300s + 155x120sRVB : 15x300s eachHalpha 5nm : 94x300sFocal length : 1600mmScale : 0.49"/pixelBortle 62.2<FWHM<2.8Acquisitions Prism V10Processing Pixinsight, Photoshop

Copyright Information: Mathieu Guinot

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The surroundings of the prawn nebula

IMAGE DESCRIPTION & DETAILS:

Takahashi FS60c

ASI1600MM Pro

7 Position FW, 36mm

Feather Touch Starlight

Pegasus Astro

EQ6

Astronomik Ha 6nm: 198 ∙ 420s (gain: 139.00) -10C bin 1x1

Astronomik S2 6nm: 137 ∙ 420s (gain: 139.00) -10C bin 1x1

Astronomik O3 6nm: 115 ∙ 420s (gain: 139.00) -10C bin 1x1

Total exposure: approx. 52.5 hours

Location:

Colombari's Terrace, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

FAST · PSCS5 · Pixinsight

April - May - June 2021

Copyright: Roberto Colombari

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Pelican Nebula and surroundings

Image Description and Details :

Scopes used:
AP175 (DSW, New Mexico) H,S,O;
RCOS 14.5 (DSW, New Mexico) HSO
DreamScope 16 (ATOE, New Mexico) LHRGB

Total exposure (used): 52.7 hours
Image width: almost 1 degree
Tools: PixInsight, Topaz, Skylum, ACDSee, SWT

Copyright: Alex Woronow

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M 81 and IFN

Image Description and Details :

Galaxy M 81, located in the Constellation Ursa Major at 12 million AL from the Milky Way. It is a spiral galaxy, relatively modest since its diameter is only 87000 light-years. It is in gravitational interaction with its neighbor M 82.
This picture was taken by Team ARO in South Portugal from 07/03/21 to 12/05/21 in Remote from France.
Equipment used: FSQ 106 on EQ6 Pro mount, ZWO Asi 1600MM camera.
Total exposure time: 25,74H
L=269x2
R=97x2
V=118x2'
B=100x2'
Ha=134x3'

Copyright: Team ARO

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Ngc 6772

NGC 6772 is a small (81 arc seconds) 14th magnitude ancient bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Aquila. It is approximately 4000 light years from Earth and was discovered by William Herschel on 21 July 1784. I was pleased to manage to capture the rarely-seen outer Ha shell.

Image captured on my remote dual rig at Fregenal de la Sierra in Spain between 21-30 June 2021.

Scopes: APM TMB LZOS 152 Refractors

Cameras: QSI6120wsg8

Mount: 10Micron GM2000 HPS

A total of 42 hours 15 minutes image capture (HaOIIILRGB)

Cooyright: Peter Goodhew

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Markarian's Chain

Image Description and Details : SkyWatcher EQ 8 PRO Mount+TS Optics Photoline 80/480 f / 6 Triplet Super Apo - FPL-53+TS-Optics 2 "PHOTOLINE 0.79x Reducer / correctorZWO Optical ASI 1600-MM COOLED+ZWO EFWTelescope Guide: SkyWatcher EvoGuide 50ED+ZWO Optical ASI 290 MMFilters: Astronomik LRGB 1.25 "Type IIc

(Accumulation: 39h.)Locations: "Auriga" Private Observatory, Makeikha, Moscow Region, Russia

Copyright: Sviatoslav Lips

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1 minute of Sun

Image Description and Details :

This is one of the most active days of the new solar cycle, weeks with clouds and I only had 5 minutes of sun, and of those minutes here it is in a single photo, one minute of its activity, impressive the details and the beauty that it gives us minute by minute the sun, each look through the telescope, is a new sun, we are going to continue enjoying this new solar cycle, and hopefully it will give us more landscapes like this, I hope you like it.

Mount Skywatcher azeq6.

Camera Zwo asi 178mm

Telescope Lunt 60MT/ B1200PT double stack

Capture Software Firecapture (60 second video recording, I chose 70% of the frames)

Dallas, Tx.

Copyright: Arturo Buenrostro

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M20 - NGC 6514 - The Trifid Nebula

Image Description and Details :

This is my image of the wonderful and iconic Trifid Nebula. It is about 4100 ly away and is 42 ly across.My 0.54 degree x 0.54 degree field of view, beautifully accommodates it.Capture details:Dates; 2021-04-22 to 2021-05-18Lights: 24.5 hours integrationLum: 32 x 600 secsRed: 23 x 600 secsGreen: 22 x 600 secsBlue: 22 x 600 secsBias: 35Darks: 35Flats: 20 per colour channel per camera changeThere are some very bright foreground stars, which I decided not to reduce too much through Morphological Transformation, as compositionally I feel they add a lot to the image. My image scale and advantageous latitude, which means the object was at a good altitude throughout the imaging runs, plus generally decent seeing meant that good resolution of detail was possible. I was particularly pleased to resolve the stellar jet as imaged by the HST. This is a Herbog-Haro object numbered HH 399.

Copyright: Niall MacNeill

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