AAPOD2 Image Archives
Kronberger 131 - A mysterious planetary nebula in Auriga
Image Description and Details : Here is a planetary nebula you probably never heard of. Kronberger 131 (Kn131), also known as PN G162.9-01.6 is a mysterious and unusually shaped planetary nebula in the constellation Auriga. Kn 131 is a small and very faint bipolar planetary nebula about 4x3 arc min in size. It has faint wing like appendages on each end and contains HII and OIII emission. Exposed in RGB one would not know something is even here. To the east and west of the nebula is a really faint area of HII emission. Kn131 is also cataloged as PN G162.9-01.6. Looking around the web one can not find any images of this object. This may be the first amateur image. The image is a full resolution crop of the area around the nebula. The image is a HOO image with RGB stars. The image resolution is .62 arcsec/pixel.
Copyright: Jonathan Talbot
The Heart of Hydra
Image Description and Details : For the first time, amateurs and scientists have succeeded in detecting a fully developed envelope of a so-called "common envelope" system, by which is meant the phase of the common envelope of a binary star system.
Object: The Heart of Hydra (The star YY Hya / Strottner-Drechsler Object 20)
Coordinates: 09 26 20.596 -22 23 38.38
Diameter: 1.7 degrees
Constellation: Hydra
Data
360 hours total exposure
H-Alpha: 890x1200" (296h 40')
OIII: 15x1800" (7h 30')
RGB: 672x300" (56h)
Equipment
Telescope: T1 ASA RC 1000, Chilescope
Telescope: T2 ASA 500mm Newton, Chilescope
Telescope: T3 ASA 500mm Newton, Chilescope
Camera: FLI Proline 16803
Copyright: Marcel Drechsler and Xavier Strottner
M78
This image is the deepest I have ever taken and by far, it is the farewell to my precious Canon as the main camera, the end of a chapter in the hobby, the culmination of an era that has lasted 6 years.
It's 46 hours of integration
125x600s + 300x300s
With modified Canon Eos 600D and newton Ts Photon 154/600 f3.9
Baader Mpcc coma corrector and Baader Bcf filter.
On Skywatcher neq6 pro2 mount guided off-axis with Zwo Asi 290mc.
Made remotely from the Dark Energy Observatory, Àger, Lleida, during January and February 2022
Copyright: Gerard Tartalo Montardit, Dark Energy Observatory, Ager. Societat Astronomica de Lleida
NGC 2032, 2035 & 2029
In the Great Magellan Cloud there are many impressive fogs, here there is a collection of smaller samples. On the right we see NGC 2032, next to NGC 2035 and NGC2029. The explorer was John Herschel on 02 again. November 1834 during his stay in South Africa.
Setup: Planewave CDK, 60 cm, f 6,5
Kamera FLI PL 9000
Time: 8hrs
Processed in Hubblepalette with Fitswork, PixInsight and PS
Copyright: Hans Bernd
Carina nebula
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Takahashi FSQ -106N FSQ -106N
Imaging Cameras
Apogee U8300 U8300
Mounts
EQ5 Mount EQ5
Filters
Astrodon Ha 5nm · Astronomik Red ·Astronomik Green · Astronomik Blue
Software
PHD · Starkeeper Voyager Voyager · Adobe Photoshop CC, Photoshop CC · Software Bisque TheSkyX Imaging · PI · APP
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Takahashi FSQ -106N FSQ -106N
Guiding Cameras
Lodestar Autoguider
Copyright: Jose Mtanous
NGC 3199 The Banana Nebula
Image Description and Details : NGC 3199 or more commonly known as the Banana Nebula is a crescent-shaped cocoon of dust and gas approximately 12,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina. The banana/crescent shaped nebula is a 'bow shock' associated with a Wolf-Rayet star (HD 89358)
79 x 600s subs shot @-10C taken over 3 nights using 3nm narrowband filters for an integration time of 13.2 hours.
Equipment used:
Skywatcher 10" f4 Newtonian 250P
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro Hypertuned by Astronomy Academy Perth
Primaluce Sesto Senso2 Electronic Focuser
ZWO ASI183MM Pro Cooled Camera
ZWO Off Axis Guider
ZWO ASI290MM Mini Guide Camera
ZWO Electronic Filter Wheel
Antlia 3nm Narrowband 36mm unmounted filters
Rollon rolloff modified shed observatory
Bortle 5
Data acquisition software: NINA Astronomy Software
Processing software: PixInsight and Photoshop CC
Copyright: Carlos Taylor
THE SUN FROM TEXAS
Image Description and Details : Here we can appreciate the fantastic solar landscape, with the great solar activity that we are having in this solar cycle number 25, this activity that can be seen in the photograph and was captured with a Lunt 60mm double stack telescope and with a 174mm zwo camera. and was taken from Dallas, Tx.
Copyright: ARTURO BUENROSTRO
NGC2392
Image Description and Details : This is a LRGB composition with about 12.000 1 sec frames for the luminance to which I added the color obtained from about 8.000 images in H-alpha and as many in OIII (R/Ha - G/40%Ha-60%OIII - B/OIII). Then I added the H-alpha and the OIII channels to compose the L-RGB-Ha-OIII.
Dobson 600mm f3.8
StellarCAT - Nexus DSC
ASI2600MM
L 12.000 x 1 sec. bin 1 -10°
R (H-alpha) 8000 x 1 sec. bin 1 -10°
G (40% H-alpha/60% OIII)
B (OIII) 8000 x 1 sec. bin 1 -10°
Astronomik L2 filter 2" mounted
Astronomik H-alpha 12 nm filter 2" mounted
Astronomik OIII 12 nm filter 2" mounted
Dark x 200
Paracorr type 2
Falcon derotator
SharpCap - SiriL - PixInsight - PS - AstroSurface
Bortle 8
Copyright: Filippo Scopelliti
LBN 437 (SH2-126)
Image Description and Details : Data reprocessed under cloudy skies in March '22
LBN 437 is a molecular cloud in the constellation Lacerta. It is located at the edge of the much larger emission nebula Sh2-126 and the star forming region Lacerta OB1. The densest part of LBN 437 (centre) is associated with some bright young stars, among which the variable star V375 Lacertae, which is an Herbig object, with strong Hα-emission. This star is also responsible for the excitation of some bipolar Herbig-Haro-Objects situated in the nebula (HH 808, HH 809, HH 398).
Imaging telescope: Takahashi FSQ130ED
Imaging cameras: FLI ML16200
Mounts: Takahashi EM 400 Temma 2M
Guiding cameras: QHY CCD QHY 5 II
Focal Extender / Reducer: Tak QE 0.73x
Software: PHD 2, Astro Pixel Processer, PixInsight , Sequence Generator Pro SGP
Filters: Astrodon Ha + Astrodon RGB
Accessories: ATIK EFW3
Dates: Oct 4 - Oct 9, 2021
Frames:
Astrodon Ha: 18 x 600"
Astrodon R: 26 x 180"
Astrodon G: 26 x 180"
Astrodon B: 28 x 180"
Astrodon L: 57 x 180"
Integration: 8 Hours 51 Mins.
Copyright: Brendan Kinch
M38 & NGC1907
Image Description and Details : Image was taken over 6 Nights in Marchz with192 Singelframes a 300 Secounds with my QHY268c and my ASI1600pro for Ha
Lacerta 800mm Newton
Mgen3
Lacerta Mfoc
EQ6R
N.I.N.A, Pixinsight, Photoshop.
Copyright: Jan Schubert
An Owl with a Halo
Image Description and Details : Messier 97 - a planetary nebula in Ursa Major sporting its faint OIII Halo. It is approximately 2,030 light years from Earth.
I was pleased to be able to tease out some of the structure of the faint outer OIII halo - especially as most of the OIII data was captured from my Bortle 8 sky in London because Spain has been clouded out for the past month.
Image captured on my remote dual rig at Fregenal de la Sierra in Spain and my C11 telescope in London between 14 January - 24 March 2022.
Scopes: APM TMB LZOS 152 Refractors, C11 reflector
Cameras: QSI6120wsg8, QSI683wsg8
Mounts: 10Micron GM2000 HPS, 10 Micron GM1000 HPS
A total of 48 hours 55 minutes image capture (HaOIIILRGB)
Copyright: Peter Goodhew
Auroras over Saana
Image Description and Details :
I booked a small holiday trip to Kilpisjärvi, Finland with a friend of mine. We walked around the nearby lake just in front of the saana fell (1029m) and waited around 4 hours to some auroras to appear. The parameters were quiet, but still had some minor activity and I was confident that it would spark a small show which is why we waited so long. Around midnight the wait was rewarded with a great half-sky display. Sony A7S, Sigma art 14mm f/1.8.ISO 4000, 0.5 seconds
Copyright: Dennis Lehtonen
Messier 106
Tierra del Sol, CA (San Diego Astronomy Association's dark site)
70 East of San Diego
Telescope: Celestron C11
Focal length: 1800mm @ f6.3
Starizona SCT Reducer/Corrector
Mount: CGX
Camera: ASI294MC-P
Filters: Optolong L-eNhance/UVIR cut
Autoguiding: Celestron OAG
Guide camera: ASI174mm mini
Integration time: 20 hours (10 each filter)
Exposure time: 120 seconds
Calibration: 50 Darks, 30 Flats/Dark Rlats
Bortle 5
Software:
NINA
PHD2
PixInsight
Copyright: Ralph MacDonald
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-built remote observatory in 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
Abell 31
Image Description and Details : Abell 31
An evolved planetary nebula in the constellation Cancer. It is estimated to be 2,000 light years from Earth.
TARGET
Nomenclature: Abell 31
Right Ascension: 08:54:13.20
Declination: +08.53.53.02
Size: 970 arc secs
EQUIPMENT USED
Twin APM TMB LZOS 152 refractors
10Micron GM2000 HPS mount
Twin QSI6120 CCD cameras
Astrodon filters
IMAGE CAPTURE
Blue: 10x300"
Green: 24x300"
Red: 27x300"
Ha: 76x900" bin 1x1
OIII: 76x900" bin 1x1
Total Integration: 43 hours 5 minutes
Pixel scale: 0.531 arcsec/pixel
Field radius: 0.357 degrees
Capture dates: 28 February - 9 March 2022
Capture location: Fregenal de la Sierra, Spain
IMAGE PROCESSING:
CCDStack2 and Photoshop CS2
Copyright: Peter Goodhew
Iris Nebula wide field
Image Description and Details : Image Description and Details : NGC7023 - SH2-136 - LBN475 - LBN468
Takahashi Espilon 130D
Canon 6Da
SkyWatcher EQ6-Pro
intégration: 230x180" (11h 30')
Copyright: Thierry BOUFFLET
Markarian's chain & IFN
Image Description and Details : Reworking of a previous photo highlighting the NFI that characterizes the cluster of the Virgin.
The IFN (Integrated Flux Nebulae) are huge systems of very faint and faint filaments nebulae predominantly not illuminated belonging to the high Galactic latitudes of the Milky Way.
The most extensive system of this type extends along all the northern constellations of the northern celestial hemisphere reaching even the Polar star.
These nebulae have in common the fact that they are not illuminated by a single star but by all the stars of the Milky Way in the vicinity.
Their visibility is conventionally divided between very Bright (those close to M81 and M82), Medium, Faint (weak, as in the case of the Markarian's chain) and dim (poor).
The IFN present in the Markarian cluster is however rather surprising both for its distance from the galactic plane and for its relative brightness although defined as very poor in the details.
Copyright: Giambattista Rizzo
NGC 2841 | A Galaxy Headed For Retirement
Image Description and Details : Having lost most of its star forming hydrogen clouds, NGC 2841 is domintated by mature yellow and red stars. Several encircling rings of dust can just be seen here about doubling the apparant diameter of the otherwise 8' disk. Extreme stretches also show a very faint arm trailing off to the right. This arm might suggest some galacitc interaction, but that seems at odds with such a lack of star formation. Maybe the interaction was a long time ago or very limited? The Ha data I shot confirms the lack of HII emissions.
41 total hours about half in Luminance. A super luminance was used with the RGB masters to try and tease out the outer rings. My Bortle 3 site may be at the limit to capture these. My FHWM cut off was over 3" to keep integration time high. To add sharpness to the galaxy detail I did a second Luminance with a 2.4" cutoff and blended that with a mask.
Planewave CDK14, Planewave L-350, QHY600M
Copyright: Kevin Morefield
47 Tucanae
Image Description:
Location: Rio Hurtado, Chile
Telescope: ASA 500N
Camera: FLI PL16803
Mount: ASA DDM85
Red: 7x10 minutes (binned 1x1)
Green: 6x10 minutes (binned 1x1)
Blue: 7x10 minutes (binned 1x1)
Copyright 2022 Bernard Miller