Image Description and Details : The Seagull Nebula (also known as Gum 2 sometimes mistakenly known as IC 2177) is a diffuse nebula visible on the border between the constellations Canis Major and Unicorn.

INSTRUMENTATION:
Tecnosky AG70/350 telescope on AZEQ6 GT mount, self-guide with Artesky 60/240 and ASI290mini telescope, ASI 2400 MC PRO full frame acquisition camera, all controlled by ASI AIR PRO.
ACQUISITION:
8 light of 8 minutes total 1 hour and 4 minutes, integrated with 31 FLAT 31 DARK FLAT and 15 DARK. Sensor temperature -10.
ELABORATION:
Pixinsight and Photoshop.

Location: Polino Terni Umbria Italy

Copyright: Luca Marinelli

Image Description and Details : This is a 4 panel mosaic done over multiple nights and requiring more than 120 hours. It was captured from Andalusia in Spain using a AP130GTX refractor on top of a 10Micron mount.
The colour scheme is HSO with added RGB stars. The following frames were captured :
- Ha : 244 X 600s
- OIII : 220 X 600s
- Sii : 220 X 600
- RGB : for each 60 X 180

Copyright: F Drevon

Image Description and Details :

NGC 2683 is a field spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Lynx. It was nicknamed the "UFO Galaxy" by the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory.It was discovered by the astronomer William Herschel on February 5, 1788.
Captured in my private observatory near Kyiv, Ukraine, during Nov-Dec 2020 by 350 mm Newton, SBIG-8300 STT, worked up by PixInsight. Total exposure time is about 30 hours.

Copyright: Edward Popovitch, Ukraine

Image Description and Details :

In the direction of the constellation of the Puppis there is this pair of open clusters cataloged by Charles Messier as M46 and M47. On closer inspection, in the direction of M46 there is a very small planetary nebula cataloged as NGC 2438, the remnant of a stellar explosion that left a white dwarf at its center. NGC 2438 is 2900 light years away from us and has an extension of "just" 4.5 light years.

Scope: Skywatcher ED80 reduced @480mm, f6.0
Camera: Qhy168c @-15°C, gain 10, offset 50, with reducer DELUXE Artesky 0.8x and Optolong L_Pro filter
Guide: finderscope Konus 50/180 and Asi224Mc
Mount: Skywatcher Eq6r Pro
Accessories: Zwo EAF
Management system: Raspberry PI4 with Stellarmate OS remotely controlled with Windows 10
Acquisition software: Kstars/Ekos
Frames: 18x300" calibrated with flat, dark and bias
Stacking and post-production softwares: AstroPixelProcessor, Pixinsight and Photoshop
Location: Ferrara (Italy), Bortle 6, SQM 19,22

Copyright: Massimo Di Fusco

Image Description and Details :

Bode's Galaxy, the Cigar Galaxy, and the Integrated Flux Nebula January 6 - January 28 2022 Rowe, NM 305mm Riccardi-Honders @ f/3.8 AP1100 GTO AE Mount, Unguided QHY600PH monochrome @-20*CChroma 50mm x 50mm filtersHaLRGB66.3 hours total integration time

Copyright: Jared Willson

Image Description and Details : The Rosette Nebula, photographed in bicolor. The HA was taken from the city (Las Vegas Bortle 9), the OIII was taken from the desert (Bortle 4). The total exposure time is 20 hours.

Copyright: Antoine & Dalia Grelin

Image Description and Details : 1) Telescope : Planewave CDK17, Camera : SBIG SXTL 11002 with AOX, Tracking : Paramount
2) Telescope : Riccardi-Honders 305, Camera : SBIG SXTL 16200, Tracking : Paramount
Location : Observatory EI Sauce, Chile / Australia

Total 44+ hours SHO data by CDK17 and RH305
Image processing : Pixinsight, Photoshop

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

Image Description and Details :

Data Acquired from: Telescope live.Location: IC Astronomy Observatory, SpainScope: Takahashi FSQ-106ED (106 mm) F3.6Focal Reducer: 0.73Mount: Paramount MX+Astrodon SHO FiltersTotal Integration Time: 24 hrs. 50 minsProcessing in Deep Sky Stacker, Pixinsight, Photoshop

Copyright: Basudeb Chakrabarti

Image Description and Details : Here is my latest photo taken night before last in the back yard. It is featuring the Jellyfish in HOO palette , the Monkey Head in SHO palette , and Star Cluster Messier 35 in RGB. The nebulosity was captured using narrowband filters that only let specified wavelengths of Sulfur, Hydrogen, and Oxygen. The stars were captured with color separate filters for Red Blue and Green. I used a Rokinon 135mm camera lens at f/2 and an ASI294MM dedicated monochrome camera.20 x 60 seconds of each L R G B 36 x300 seconds Oiii 24 x 300 seconds Sii 16 x 300 seconds HaShot Flats for all filters this morning and used my darks library. Stacked and Processed with Pixinsight and Photoshop. EZ soft stretch Starnet Automatic Background Extraction Background neutralization Save separates as Tif’s for Photoshop Copy S H and O in to RGB color channels and work levels and curves. Adjust selective colors to reduce green and pull the Hubble gold color forward. Contrast Brightness adjusted Saturation adjusted. Resize down to 2,048 pixels wide. Topaz denoise and upload.I am still learning Pixinsight. I used selective colors in Photoshop to attempt the Hubble palette colors evident in the Monkey Head. Finally I resampled to 2048 pixels wide for sharing as a Jpg and did a topaz denoise. Hope you enjoy it.

Copyright: Abe Jones

Image Description:

This image contains a small part of a very dusty region in the constellation Taurus.
Main target is Baby Eagle Nebula (Lbn 777) but there is many other small galaxies in the frame so a bit of a zoom will do the trick
The image was done with two cameras and has a total integration time of aprox. 16 hours.
rgb 137 x 180sec with Qhy 268c,high gain mode ( gain 102 offset 76 )
Ha 170 x 180sec with Qhy 268m,high gain mode (gain 56 offset 25 )
Apt for acquisition,alligned and stacked with ccd_stack 2 and processed in Pixinsight.
EQ8_PRO Mount,
Tak FSQ-85EDX f/5.3 telescope ,
SG-4 standalone autoguider and a Borg50 guidescope
from my backyard in Bedfordshire.

Copyright: Cosar Catalin Daniel

Image Details:

Location: Oria, Almeria, Spain

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX4

Camera: FLI PL16803

Mount: Paramount MX+

Ha: 10x10 minutes (binned 1x1)

OIII: 80x10 minutes (binned 1x1)

RGB: 8x10 minutes each (binned 1x1)

Copyright 2022 Bernard Miller

Image Description and Details :

3 images are combined (32% original size)image 1 : 3 panels mosaic (taken with e-180/ASI094MC)image 2 and 3 : high resolution images (taken with RC10/SX-H694)Date : 8Dec.2021 -16 Dec.2021Place : Gemini Remote Observatory, Lijiang, Yunnan, ChinaTelescope : Tak e-180 ,Mount : Skywatcher EQ8Camera : ZWO ASI094MC(-10ºC ) ,Filters : Baader Ha,LExposure : panel 1 (ic 405 /upper ) L: 180sx 44 , Ha:900sx 6panel 2 (ic 410/ middle) L: 180sx 42 , Ha:900sx4panel 3 (ic 417/ngc1931 lower) L: 180sx 50 , Ha:900sx6(total~ 10.8hr)Guiding : Borg 50 / asi174 ,Image Processing : PI ,PS-CC

Copyright: Alan Van

Image Description and Details :

One of the first images taken after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, was NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation Orion. While the Hubble image was much deeper than the image presented here, it nevertheless generated a lot of interest amongst astronomers. NGC 1999 is an example of a reflection nebula. Like fog around a street lamp, a reflection nebula shines only because the light from an embedded source illuminates its dust; the nebula does not emit any visible light of its own. NGC 1999 lies close to the famous Orion Nebula, about 1,500 light-years from Earth, in a region of our Milky Way galaxy where new stars are being formed actively. NGC 1999 was discovered some two centuries ago by Sir William Herschel and his sister Caroline, and was catalogued later in the 19th century as object 1999 in the New General Catalogue.Total Integration 24h40mLum 14x20m=4h40mRed 14x20m=4h40mGreen 14x20m=4h40mBlue 17x20m =5h40mHa = 10x30m=5h00m

Copyright: Vikas Chander

Image Description and Details :

Here is my post on this Orion photo and the Barnard loop, I spent the only clear night without a moon to try the samyang 135mm f2, because I wanted to have fun doing astrophotography. I absolutely wanted to shoot the constellation of Orion and the loop of Barnard. It was complicated to image it with a more than hazardous seeing but on 210 shots of 120 seconds I kept only 100 raw. After processing tests, I was happy with my final treatment.

Samyang 135mm at f2.8Canon 6D Iso 1600 Photomax Heq5 pro100 brutes x 120''Copyright: Oliver Globetrotter & P. Bernhard

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Abell 30 is a small (127 arc seconds) extremely faint planetary nebula located approximately 5,500 light-years away in the constellation of Cancer. Abell 30 is one of just three known nebulae called born-again planetary nebulae. Very rarely, nuclear reactions within the vicinity of a white dwarf can heat the gases to such high temperatures that the tiny star briefly becomes a red giant once more. This is a very brief phase, lasting a mere 20 years or so. The original nebula is estimated to be around 12,500 years old (which in itself is very brief in astronomical terms). The tiny features in the centre of the bubble are evidence of this re-birth. They are most probably comprised of helium and carbon-rich materials and were ejected around 850 years ago.The Ha signal is a featureless disk. All of the structural detail comes from the OIII signal. Image captured on my remote dual rig at Fregenal de la Sierra in Spain between 14 December 2021 - 9 January 2022.Scopes: APM TMB LZOS 152 Refractors Cameras: QSI6120wsg8Mount: 10Micron GM2000 HPSA total of 102 hours image capture (HaOIIIRGB)

Copyright: Peter Goodhew

Image Description and Details :

Image captured during 7 nights from bortle 9 backyard. Total exposure time of 38h with individual subframe of 10min for each filter SHO.Also included data from Chandra telescope to enhance the xray area in the center of ic443 where there is a neutron star probably leftover from the supernova.

Copyright: Riccardo Pacini

Image Description and Details :

IC 342 or the Hidden Galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis gets its name due to its location in the dusty areas near the Milky Way galactic equator.This image was obtained thought a Meade LX850 12" telescope with QHY268m camera and Chroma filters.Integration time is 12.50 hours (Lum 53x300", Red 24x300", Green 24x300", Blue 24x300" & Ha 12x600")

Copyright: Fabian Rodriguez Frustaglia

Image Description and Details :

Our first picture with our remote imaging setup in south Portugal (Alelentejo Remote Observatory managed by the ARO TEAM).
Our team named AstroDarkTeam is a team of two passionate french amateur astronomers : Stephane Rolland and Pascal Gouraud
We have installed our setup in south Portugal (EQ8-R + TOA130) on mid-october 2021 and we have been imaging since end of October 2021.
Our first target is IC1805 an emission nebula and star cluster Melotte 15.
Clouds in this area are sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from massive hot stars in the nebula cluster, Melotte 15 (about 1.5 million years young).
This 15 light-years wide field view includes emission from ionized hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen atoms.
The Heart Nebula. IC 1805 is located about 7,500 light years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia.

Regarding imaging sessions, We have got some issues with thermal amplitude and humidity.
Some improvements still to be done regarding subframe exposure (moving to 15 or 20 minutes) and better subframe selection.
Regarding processing, we have been unable to integrate LRVB shots to improve star colors, so still to be improved for future pictures.
For a first run, we are quite happy with this result.


Copyright: Pascal Gouraud / AstroDarkTeam

Image Description and Details : There are a lot of variable stars in the Pleiades cluster. About 60 were identified in this view using the AAVSO star charts.
4 of those showed clear variability in my recordings of 9-1-2022


NSV 1300. which is of type BY Draconis variables. These are rotating variables, usually type K or M, so orange/red stars. What you see here are starspots (sunspots on a star) spinning in and out of view. It revolves in 4.5 hours and you see almost 2 laps.


V1188, is an eclipsing binary star with a period of 13.88 hours. It varies between 12.3 and 11.85.

YZ Tau also shows variability. This is an RR Lyrae type variable. with a period of 9 hours. These are pulsating stars that shrink and grow periodically.
Here you can already see a contraction (getting hotter) and expansion (getting colder) of the star.


OU Tau is also a BY type star, a rotating star with a stellar spot on it. It rotates in 9.5 hours. In this case you can already see 1 cautious dip when the starspot rotates in and out of our image

Copyright: Remco Kemperman