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September 2021, 2021 Jason Matter September 2021, 2021 Jason Matter

Sun in h-alpha

Image Description and Details : Mosaic of 6 images to the surface, and 4 images do the prominances.

For each imagem from the mosaic were taken +/- 500 images at 30 fps , stacking the best 80%.

Gear used:
Lunt LS60THa solar telescope
Celestron CG5-GT Mount
ASI120mm camera

Copyright: Samuel Dias Müller

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NGC7822

Image Description and Details : NGC 7822 is a Nebula located approximately 3000 light years away in the constellation Cepheus, its size is approximately 10 light years The region includes an object from the Sharpless catalog Sh2-171 and the young star cluster Berkley59.

captured in my backyard
Newton 250/1000
Ioptron cem70
zwo294mm-pro
Antlia Filters
Integration 27h16
Ha 191x240"
OIII 106x240"
SII 112x240"

Copyright: Anthony Husson

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HFG1/ Abell 6

Image Description and Details :Heckathorn-Fesen-Gull 1 (HFG1) and Abell 6 are a duo of planetary nebulae from the constellation Cassiopea.
The central star of HFG1 is a 14.5 mag binary star. It leaves behind a gas tail of at least 20 '. She is said to be around 10,000 years old.
The structure of HFG1 presents an arc of a circle opposite the tail, in the direction of movement of the nebula, which suggests that it is a shock wave front of matter interacting with the interstellar medium.

Abell 6 is an example of a bubble-shaped planetary nebula. However, it remains quite faint (Mag = 15). It emits more in OIII than in Ha.

TSA120 and asi294MM
220x 300s Ha
220x 200s OIII
90x 120s RGB ( for stars)
Total around 40h

Copyright: Julien Fabre

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Cats Eye Nebula

Image Description and Details : 240 / 5min exposures in Ha and Oiii, RC8 from my backyard in Bortle 5. The picture was taken along 5 nights, some with a full moon.

Copyright: Crisan Sorin

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NEW DISCOVERY - PaStDr 8 / The Bärenstein Nebula and the Supernova remnant G354-33

Image Description and Details : We are very proud to present Patchick-Strottner-Drechser 8 (PaStDr for short) the latest discovery of our team consisting of Dana Patchick from the US, Xavier Strottner from France and Marcel Drechsler from Germany.

6 MONTHS OF WORK, 68 NIGHTS AT THE CHILESCOPE AND 133 HOURS OF EXPOSURE TIME WERE NECESSARY TO IMAGE THIS EXTREMELY FAINT NEBULA.

Our discovery is a previously unknown potential planetary nebula in the constellation Sagittarius.
The structure has a diameter of almost one degree in the night sky and a distance of about 840 light years to Earth.

The special feature of this photo are the extremely filigree and blood red filaments of the supernova remnant G354-33, which can be seen in the left part of the image. This is the first photo ever taken of this almost unknown supernova remnant. In 2004 G354-33 was mentioned as a possible SNR in a scientific paper. However, with our work we were able to confirm G354-33 as a true SNR.

The scientific paper on this SNR, on which we worked with Professor Robert Fesen of Dartmoor College, can be found here:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.12599.pdf

It is noteworthy that PaStDr 8 does not appear approximately spherical as usual, but appears much brighter and denser in the west (note, in the night sky the west is shown on the right and the east on the left).
We suspect that the structure of this candidate interacts with supernova remnant G354-33 or is distorted by its shock.
Measurement of the distance between the two structures suggests spatial proximity.

Our thanks to Sergey from Chilescope, who strongly supported us with this project.
We would also like to give special thanks to the many donors without whom this costly photograph would never have been possible. Especially the residents of my home community Bärenstein in Germany should be mentioned here, who also supported our project financially. We thank you so much!

Data on the central white dwarf:
- GAIA WD candidate WDJ194511.31-445954.57
- Pwd: 94.2645
- magnitude: 14.42
- Parallax: 3.8190
- Distance: 258 parsecs (+/- 2 parsecs)
- pm (mas/yr): RA -16,368 / -1,400
- Temperature: 8868,67 K
- Ultraviolet: FUV 12.602 / NUV 13.192

Acquisition data
H-alpha : 193 x 1200s (64.3 hours)
OIII : 153 x 1200s (52 hours)
RGB : 16.5 hours (5.5 hours per channel)
total exposure time : 132.8 hours

used telescopes
2 ASA 0.5 Newton (T2 and T3 on Chilescope, parallel operation)
mirror : 500 mm
focal length : 1900 mm
focal ratio : f/3.8

Copyright: Marcel Drechsler

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Pillars of Creation

Image Description and Details : Pillars of Creation, zooming into M16 Nebula.
Astrophotography taken with this equipment:
Imaging telescope: Sky-Watcher Espirit 150 ED
Imaging cameras: QHYCCD QHY 16200A
Mounts: Sky-Watcher EQ8-Rh PRO
Software: PHD2 PHD 2 · Photoshop CC PS · Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro · Pixinsight
Filters: Antlia 3.0nm SII PRO · Antlia 3.0nm OIII PRO · Antlia 3.0nm Ha PRO

Frames:
Antlia 3.0nm Ha PRO: 26x900" (6h 30') bin 1x1
Antlia 3.0nm OIII PRO: 24x900" (6h) bin 1x1
Antlia 3.0nm SII PRO: 20x900" (5h) bin 1x1

Total Integration Time: 20 hours

Copyright: Christian Hilbertj

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IC 63 - The Ghost of Cassiopeia

Image Description and Details : Scope: Konus 200/1000 reduced @960mm, f4,8
Camera: QHY8L @-10°C, gain 10, offset 113, with coma corrector Tecnosky 0,95x and Optolong L_enhance filter
Guide: Skywatcher 70/500 with Asi120MM and UV/IR-cut filter Svbony
Mount: Skywatcher Eq6r Pro
Management system: Raspberry PI4 with Stellarmate OS remotely controlled with Windows 10
Acquisition software: Kstars/Ekos
Frames: 84x600" calibrated with flat, dark and bias
Post production softwares: AstroPixelProcessor, Pixinsight and Photoshop
Site: Ferrara (Italy), Bortle 6, SQM 19,22

Copyright: Massimo Di Fusco

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The northern lights

Image Description and Details : I moved to a small town "Salla" located above the arctic circle in Finland mostly for the auroras and witnessed several big aurora displays on my first month, including this one.

14mm F2.8, 0,4 seconds, ISO 16000

Copyright: Dennis Lehtonen

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planetary tour

Grand tour of the outer planets from my backyard. Shot over the last 12 months with the fabulous Astro Physics 10" f/14.5 Mak-cass telescope and the QHY5III-462C color cmos camera. 37 degrees N. 100 ft el. Seeing can be very good at times.

Copyright: John Gleason

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Barnard 150 - The Seahorse nebula

Image Description and Details : This dark nebula lies at a distance of 1200 light-years from Earth in the Constellation of Cepheus. Because the nebula is in the Milky Way's plane it stand outs from the background filled with colourful stars of our galaxy, a keen eye can also distinguish three separate dense dust cores that actually are star formation regions.

Taken from my self-made remote observatory in eastern Finland with SkyWatcher Esprit 100mm f/5.5, ZWO ASI1600MM-C, Losmandy G11 guided with ASI224MC as finder-guider, TS Optics LRGB filters.
L: 262x120s, R: 92x120s, G: 100x120s, B: 80x120s.
Total integration time is ~18 hours.

Copyright: © Ville Miettinen

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NGC 7582 NGC 7590 NGC 7599

Image Description and Details :

NGC 7582, 7590 and 7599 are an interacting group of galaxies situated 70 million light years away in the constellation of Grus.
Studies in indicate the existence of faint H I bridges between the galaxies.
NGC 7582 at the top right is the brightest galaxy of this trio. It is of interest as it exhibits the characteristics of both a starburst and a Seyfert II spiral galaxy. The starburst activity is quite intense but is localized to several regions.
In 1996 a study indicated that NGC 7582 appears to have two rather than a single nuclei indicating a merger with another galaxy sometime in the distant past.

Imaged in LRGB on our CDK 1000 at El Sauce, Obstech, Chile
Image Processing: Mike Selby
System Control Software : Voyager by Leo Orazi
Integration Time: L 16 hours 900s exp RGB 4 hours each 900s

Copyright: Mike Selby

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Ic 1396

Image Description and Details :

Imaging telescopes or lenses: William Optics Star 71mm APO f/4.9

Mounts: CEM60

Guiding telescopes or lenses: William Optics Star 71mm APO f/4.9

Guiding cameras: Starlight Xpress Loadestar X2

Software: PinInsight 1.8 · Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator · PHD2

Filters: Astrodon 36mm Tru-Balance E-Series Green · Astrodon 36mm Tru-Balance E-Series Red · Astrodon H-Alpha 3nm · Astrodon SII 3 nm · Astrodon OIII 3 nm · Astrodon 36mm Tru-Balance E-Series Blue

Accessory: Atik OAG · Moonlite High res stepper motor and Mini-V2 controller · Atik EFW2 Filter Wheel

Dates:Sept. 1, 2021 , Sept. 2, 2021 , Sept. 3, 2021 , Sept. 4, 2021 , Sept. 5, 2021 , Sept. 9, 2021

Frames:
Astrodon 36mm Tru-Balance E-Series Blue: 50x30" (25') -10C bin 1x1
Astrodon 36mm Tru-Balance E-Series Green: 50x30" (25') -10C bin 1x1
Astrodon 36mm Tru-Balance E-Series Red: 44x30" (22') -10C bin 1x1
Astrodon H-Alpha 3nm: 49x900" (12h 15') -10C bin 1x1
Astrodon OIII 3 nm: 6x900" (1h 30') -10C bin 1x1
Astrodon SII 3 nm: 23x900" (5h 45') -10C bin 1x1

Integration: 20h 42'

Avg. Moon age: 22.11 days

Avg. Moon phase: 13.72%

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00

Astrometry.net job: 4987700

RA center: 21h 39' 16"

DEC center: +57° 32' 25"

Pixel scale: 3.170 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 88.298 degrees

Field radius: 1.809 degrees

Resolution: 2460x3290

Locations: Backyard, Charlotte, NC, United States

Data source: Backyard

Copyright: Bradley Craig

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NGC281 Pacman Nebula

Image Description and Details : NGC281 Pacman Nebula
Taken in Montréal (Bortle 9)
Around 18h of exposure from 3 nights (the only 3 cleared nights in July/August and early September )

Chroma 3nm SHO
TSA102
QHY294MM
CEM70

Copyright: Jonathan Durand

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IC 1340 - THE BAT NEBULA

Image Description and Details : IC 1340, otherwise known as The Bat Nebula and Caldwell 33, is a beautiful portion of the Cygnus loop supernova remnant that reveals delicate wisps and filaments of nebulosity. Sadly, it is often overlooked because of the notoriety of three other portions of the Cygnus loop, namely the Veil Nebula, The Witch's Broom Nebula, and Pickering's Triangle. IC 1340 is the continuation of the Veil Nebula. The nebula lies approximately 1,500 light-years from Earth.

Imaging telescopes or lenses: GSO RC 8'' F/8 Carbon Fiber @ 1120mm
Imaging cameras: QHYCCD QHY 183M
Mounts: iOptron Cem70 and Sky-Watcher EQ6 Rowan belt mod
Guiding telescopes: GSO RC 8'' F/8 Carbon Fiber @ 1120mm
Guiding cameras: Imaging source dmk21au618
Focal reducers: astrophisics 0.67x
Software: Pleadies astro Pixinsight 1.8.8, KStars INDI/Ekos
Filters: Optolong Ha 7nm, IDAS LP2 v2, Optolong OIII 6.5nm 31mm, Baader LRGB 31mm
Accessory: QHY-CCD CFW2-7 31mm

Multiple exposure time has been used to obtain the best of details, for a total exposure time of about 59 hours.

HAlpha 222x600" -20C bin 1x1
Oiii 114x600" -20C bin 1x1
RGB: 36x300" -20C bin 1x1 / 12 subs for each filter

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

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NGC 6946

Image Description and Details : Imaging telescope: LACERTA 200/800 Carbon FotoNewton Edition 2021
Imaging camera: QHYCCD QHY183M
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding telescope: QHYOAG-LACERTA 200/800 Carbon FotoNewton Edition 2021
Guiding camera: ZWO 290MM Mini
Coma corrector: GPU Optics GPU Komakorrektor

Baader Planetarium B 1.25" CCD Filter: 50x210" (2h 55') (gain: 11.00) -15C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium G 1.25" CCD Filter: 50x210" (2h 55') (gain: 11.00) -15C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium Luminance 1.25": 400x90" (10h) (gain: 11.00) -15C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium R 1.25" CCD Filter: 50x210" (2h 55') (gain: 11.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 18h 45'

RA center: 20h 34' 41"
DEC center: +60° 8' 13"
Pixel scale: 0.620 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 358.766 degrees
Field radius: 0.552 degrees

Location: Kalliopi, Lemnos, Greece

Copyright: ©2021 Stamatis Paraschakis

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PM1-320

PM1-320 is a small planetary nebula in Cygnus, close to DWB 111, the Propeller Nebula.
It was discovered by Andrea Preite-Martinez in the 1980s.
I believe this to be the first deep high-resolution image of PM1-320.
The outer parts of the nebulosity are very faint, hence 56 hours of OIII integration.
HASH records it's size as 60 arc seconds.

TARGET
Nomenclature
: PM1-320
Right Ascension: 20:10:33.6
Declination: +44:11:48.48
Size: 60.0 arc sec
Discovery: Andrea Preite-Martinez
EQUIPMENT USED
Twin APM TMB LZOS 152 refractors
10Micron GM2000 HPS mount
Twin QSI6120 CCD cameras
Astrodon filters

IMAGE CAPTURE
Blue: 10x300"
Green: 10x300"
Lum: 15x300"
Red: 10x300"
Ha: 103x900" bin 1x1
OIII: 226x900 bn 1x1
Total Integration: 86 hours
Pixel scale: 0.265 arcsec/pixel
Field radius: 0.368 degrees
Capture dates: 20 August-3 September 2021
Capture location: Fregenal de la Sierra, Spain

IMAGE PROCESSING
Pre-processing: CCDStack2
Post-processing: Photoshop CS2

Copyright: Peter Goodhew

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Neptune and Triton

Observations 30.08.2021 .The farthest planet from Earth Planet NEPTUNE (mag. +7.8, diam. 2.4 ") with Triton satellite (mag. +13.45 diam. 0.13"), capture by Omegon 304/1200 Barlow 5X Televue telescope, Zwo Asi 224 camera. Stak from 2000 framesThe planet is visible through a telescope in the constellation Aquarius, on September 16, 2021 being in opposition, the distance from Earth 4.3 billion km.30.08.2021 at 23:50

Copyright: Balint-Forro Eugen

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Rupes Recta - Prominent linear fault on the Moon and volcanic rille

Image Description and Details :

Rupes Recta is a linear fault on the Moon, in the southeastern part of the Mare Nubium. The name is Latin for straight cliff, although it is more commonly called the Straight Wall. This is the most well-known escarpment on the Moon, and is a popular target for amateur astronomers.

When the sun illuminates the feature at an oblique angle at about day 8 of the Moon's orbit, the Rupes Recta casts a wide shadow that gives it the appearance of a steep cliff. The fault has a length of 110 km, a typical width of 2–3 km, and a height of 240–300 m. Thus although it appears to be a vertical cliff in the lunar surface, in actuality the grade of the slope is relatively shallow.

To the west of this escarpment is the crater Birt, which is about 17 km in diameter. The Birt Rille is a slightly curved ~50 km long channel that starts and ends in a pit.

Telescope: Clestron 9.25 f/10

Reducer/corrector: No reducer

Filter: Baader UV-IR cut

Mount: Orion Atlas EQG

Camera: DMK 23U618

Exposure: 2000 frames @ 60fps x 2 images mosaic

Procesing: Autostakkert + Registax + PixInsight

Copyright: Astronomica.es - Jaime Fernández

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Sharpless -155 “Cave Nebula”

The Cave Nebula (Sh2- 155 or Caldwell 9) is an emission nebula of the Cepheus constellation.
It is a weak light nebula and very diffuse in a greater complex of nebula containing dark emission, reflection and nebulosity. It is located in the constellation of Cepheus and is about 2400 light years from Earth.
Acquisitions with NINA
344 x 300 s i.e. 28 H40
ASKAR 400 bezel
ASI200MC
SIRIL stacking
Pixinsight and Photoshop treatment

Copyright Fred Lamagat

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