Image Description and Details : DeHt 2 is a faint (mag 14.9) planetary nebula in Ophiuchus. It is estimated to be 6000 to 10,000 light years from Earth. It was discovered in 1979 by J. Dengel, H. Hartl and R. Weinberger. The mag 13.5 spiral galaxy at upper left is UGC10943, located about 115 million light years away. Image captured on my remote dual rig at Fregenal de la Sierra in Spain between 13 May - 8 June 2022. Scopes: APM TMB LZOS 152 Refractors Cameras: QSI6120wsg8 Mounts: 10Micron GM2000 HPS A total of 68 hours 30 minutes (HaOIIILRGB)

Copyright: Peter Goodhew

Image Description and Details : Here you can see the beautiful Butterfly Nebula and crescent Nebula in their colourful outfit
Copyright: Mohamed Usama Ismail / Ursamo Astrophotography
Equipment:
Imaging Lens ,Canon 135mm f2.0 L
Imaging Camera ,Canon 80D (Stock)
Mount ,Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Date: June 21, 2020 · April 10, 2021
Frames: 25x120" Oiii/95x180" Ha
Location: Egypt

Copyright: Copyright: Mohamed Usama Ismail / Ursamo Astrophotography

A new set of images taken under good seeing conditions. Interesting cloud features in the Infrared and Ultraviolet band can be seen.

The dark nebulae LDN 673 (left) and LDN 684, located at 600 light-years in the constellation of Aquila.

Canon 6d /40 mm lens, two panels, about two minute 1600 iso.

Copyright: Alessandro Bares

Image Description and Details : Saturn on 18th August 2021. This is a substantially south up view. The seeing was excellent throughout the night of capture. The conditions allowed resolution of finest details on the planet's cloud tops. The Encke Division could be seen in the Blue images, which is unusual. The Maxwell Gap in the C Ring is also well resolved, especially in the colour image. OTA: C14 Edge HD Camera: ZWO ASI 174MM Filters: Chroma RGB Barlow: Tele Vue 3X Frames: 42,000 Frame rate: 47 fps Exposure time: 20ms Focal length: 13.5m

Copyright: Niall MacNeill

Image Description and Details : VDB 123 is a reflection nebula in Serpens embedded in the Serpens Dark Cloud. It is illuminated by HD 170634 a magnitude 9.75 blue star.
Standing out in contrast to VDB 123 is a bright region of orange nebulosity, the Serpens reflection nebula.
Imaged in LRGB on our PlaneWave CDK 1000 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.
Image Processing: Mike Selby and Mark Hanson

Integration Time: L 16 hours RGB 5.5 hours each.

Copyright: Mike Selby/Mark Hanson

Image Description and Details : Rare are the spiral galaxies that we see exactly from the front. The spiral galaxy NGC6946 located in the constellation Cepheus is about 10 million light-years away.
She hides behind the curtain of stars formed by the Milky Way which crosses the constellation of Cepheus. Its orange central bulb is made up of old stars while the blue
young star clusters dominate in the spiral arms. Red reveals the presence of areas where stars are born.
The activity is so inetnse that one calls this galaxy, the galaxy of the fireworks.

When the light from this galaxy began its journey to strike my photographic in May 2022, the human line appeared (Sahelanthropus tchadensis) on Earth.

The galaxy is accompanied by an open cluster NGC6939 located in the lower right. Much closer to us than the galaxy (4000 light years), its age has been revealed between 1.0 and 1.3 billion years!

🔭: ASA Newton 254/950 F3.6
⚙️: Paramount MyT
📷: ZWO ASI2400MC à -10°C + rotateur Artesky
🕶: IDAS LPS-P3
🎯: Skywatcher Evostar72ED + ASI290MM mini
💻: TheSkyX pro, NINA, PHD2, AstroPixel Processor, PixInsight, Photoshop
⏱: 19h50' (119 x 600”)
🌍: Lorraine, France
📆: Over 4 nights : 3 may 2022 · 6 may 2022 · 9 may 2022 · 21 may 2022

Copyright: Thomas LELU

Image Description and Details : Sharpless 101 (Sh2-101) is a H II region emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is sometimes also called the Tulip Nebula because it appears to resemble the outline of a tulip when imaged photographically. It was catalogued by astronomer Stewart Sharpless in his 1959 catalogue of nebulae. It lies at a distance of about 6,000 light-years (5.7×1016 km; 3.5×1016 mi) from Earth.

Sh2-101, at least in the field seen from Earth, is in close proximity to microquasar Cygnus X-1, site of one of the first suspected black holes. Cygnus X-1. The companion star of Cygnus X-1 is a spectral class O9.7 Iab supergiant with a mass of 21 solar masses and 20 times the radius of the Sun. The period of the binary system is 5.8 days and the pair is separated by 0.2 astronomical units. The black hole has a mass of 15 solar masses and a Schwarzschild radius of 45 km. A bowshock is created by a jet of energetic particles from the black hole as they interact with the interstellar medium can be seen as an arc (bluish) to the right of the "Tulip".

Imaging telescope: Takahashi FSQ130ED

Imaging camera: ASI 2600MM

Mount: Takahashi EM 400 Temma 2M

Guiding telescope: Takahashi FS60CB

Guiding camera: QHY CCD QHY 5 II

Focal Extender / Reducer: None

Capture Software: Sequence Generator Pro, PHD 2

Processing Software: Astro Pixel Processor, PixInsight, Topaz DeNoise, Photoshop

Filters (50mm): Astrodon Ha (3nm), Astrodon SII (3nm) & Astrodon OIII (3nm)

Accessories: SeleTEK2 controlling Robofocus Focuser, ATIK EFW3

Dates: 29th May 2022

Frames:

Astrodon Ha 9 x 10'

Astrodon SII 9 x 10'

Astrodon OIII 9 x 10'

Total integration = 4 Hours 30 Mins

Copyright: Brendan Kinch

Image Description and Details : From ATRIA observatory with DeepSkyChile in Chile: ATRIA Team composed of 6 members : Olivier, Fabien , Frédéric . David , Julien , and myself ;-) Total exposure : 38h09' Red 48 subs@420s -15°C gain high Green 22 subs@300s -15°C gain high Blue 23 subs@300s -15°C gain high Light 576 subs@180s -15°C, gain high

Copyright: Arnaud PEEL

Image Description and Details : “Torches blazed and sacred chants were praised. As they start to cry, hands held to the sky. In the night, the fires are burning bright.” - Number of the Beast, Iron Maiden 06 May 2022: The Fighting Dragons of Ara, NGC 6188 COOLEST NEBULA NAME EVER!! I didn’t even know this existed until too late in the season last year so when it came around recently I HAD to get this one. Can you see the Dragons? Yeah, you can! Wicked! Taken from my backyard in Perth, Western Australia over two night in May 2022. Skywatcher Evostar 80ED HEQ5, belt mod ZWO ASI2600MM (gain 100, -10C) SVbony 30mm guide scope ZWO ASI120MM-mini guide scope FILTERS: ZWO Ha 7nm (51x 300s) Antlia Oiii 3nm (45x 300s) Baader RGB (50x 30s)

Copyright: Christopher Boyd

Image Description and Details:

Here is the last image made with the new Askar 600 scope and the 6d gun! Staying 1 week in Aveyron with the astronomical association I was able to test my new askar 600 telescope, with reducer, I go to 420mm focal length and an aperture of f3.9! Formerly I had a Newton 150 750, f4 it changes bcp! Here is a small image made on Cepheus, if it's done it's over! Here is ldn 1235 the shark and vdb 152 the magic bean from dragon ball z!! Askar 600 with reducer f3.9 Heq5 pro goto Canon 6d iso 1600 defiltered by Photomax Lacerta mgen 3 svbony 60/240 Brutes 100 x 300'' 30 dof Siril, pixinsight, photoshop

Copyright: Olivier Bernard

Image Description and Details : I have taken this picture on Réunion Island, I used my C11 with asi224mc. the phenomenon was very low, 10 degrees above the horizon only. I had to prepare my shooting location well, between roofs, relay antenna and palm trees.

Copyright: Quentin Gineys

Image Description and Details : LBN 552 and LDN 1228 are molecule clouds in the constellation Cepheus. LBN 552 contains a unique orange reflection nebula, which is catalogued as RNO 129. This molecule clouds are considered the weakest in the Lynds Bright Nebula catalog. Telescope: 4,5" Newton Camera: SBIG ST8300M with Baader filters Exposure times: L: 36x10min RGB: 8x5min each Exposure time total:8h Mount: 10Micron GM1000 HPS Location. Erdweg/Germany Date: 2021-05-04+05

Copyright: Copyright: Michael Deger

Image Description: Today I want to share with you the image of a trio of galaxies that are located in the Berenices Hair.

NGC 4725 is a mid-sized galaxy located in the constellation Coma Berenices. This galaxy isn't as well known as others but with a class 10 magnitude it's worth visiting, curious to see that it only has a spiral arm, which also gives the feeling of squeezing the core of NGC 4725.

NGC4747 is a rather peculiar galaxy, in this image we can see it in the upper right, the shape reminds me of a bird flying over the beautiful island NGC 4725. This galaxy shows symptoms of having had some kind of gravitational interaction, that look like the wings of a bird could be tidal currents, therefore it is considered that NGC 4747 is one of the galaxies companion to NGC 4725, the whole gravitational ction between both and has distorted the spiral structure NGC 4747

Copyright: Alberto Pisabarro

Image Description and Details : Ngc 7023 IRIS 12 "RC Truss telescope reduced to 1800 Celestron 80/600 guide tube with Asi Zwo 224 chamber Moravian G2 8300 camera with internal wheel Ioptron Cem120 mount Moonlite focuser and 3.5 "electronic rotator. Electronic temperature control and anti-condensation bands Cls ccd, R, G, B, Ha 6nm filters, all Astronomik Shooting data: 61 x 240 ccd cl 39 x 240 R 39 x 240 G 39 x 240 B Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop, star points, astronomy tools

Copyright: Luca Dinoi

Arguably the toughest galaxy I have imaged yet, the Cocoon Galaxy lies some 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici.

This galaxy forms an interacting pair with the smaller irregular galaxy NGC 4485. This system is similar that of the Magellanic Clouds and is surrounded by an enormous hydrogen cloud.

The extreme tidal forces of their interaction have determined the shapes and properties of the two galaxies.

Once a barred spiral galaxy, similar to the Milky Way, the Cocoon Galaxy’s outlying regions have been stretched out, resulting in its nickname of the Cocoon Galaxy. Virtually no trace of its past spiral structure can be seen from our perspective.

OTA: William Optics FLT 132 Triplet Refractor with Flat7A 0.8x Reducer/Flattener
Mount: Celestron CGX-L
Camera: ZWO ASI2400MC Pro
Gain: 158
Cooling Temperature: -10 degrees celsius

Filter: Optolong LPro Filter

Night 1 = 41 x 300s
Night 2 = 40 x 300s
Night 3 = 40 x 300s
Total = 140x x 300s = 11.6 hours

Auto-guiding: ZWO ASI174MM Mini and ZWO M48 OAG-L
Control: ZWO ASIAIR Pro

Calibrated in Astro Pixel Processor with darks and flats
Processed in Pixinsight and Lightroom.
Star refraction spikes added using 1mm clear string in front of objective lens.

Location: Bortle Class 4 skies near downtown Flagstaff, Arizona

Copyright: Drew Evans

Image Description and Details : Informally known as the 'Little Trifid Nebula', Sh2-82 is a relatively small emission nebula surrounded by a blue reflection nebula. It is embedded in the dark nebula LDN 727 and is the site of some star formation and young stellar objects. Located at a distance of approximately 3600 light years, Sh2-82 is ionized by the star HD 231616, which can be seen near the center.

Own remote observatory, 50 km from Kiev, Bortle 4 zone. Imaged during September 2020 - August 2021. AZ-EQ6 mount, ONTC8 newton, QHY22. Guide - OAG with Lodestar camera.
Astrodon 5nm Ha: 31 x 600s;
Astrodon L: 120 x 300s;
Astrodon R: 53 x 300s;
Astrodon G: 60 x 300s;
Astrodon B: 93 x 300s;
Total exposure - 32 hr.
Captured in SGP, processed in Pixinsight.

Copyright: Sergiy Vakulenko

NGC 7129 is a star forming region and reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It is about 3750 light years away. The stars in this nebula are very young and only 200.000 to 3 million years old. These more than 130 young stars are responsible for illuminating the nebula. The red blobs surrounding the nebula are Herbig Haro objects, which are the result of jets of gas streaming away from the young stars in the nebula.

My current telescope is an ASA 400 16" RC (Ritchey-Chrétien) with a focal length of 3200mm (0.24"/px) on an ASA DDM 100 direct drive german equatorial mount with absolute encoders (load capacity 100kg). For imaging the night sky i use a ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro camera with a FLI CFW2-7 filter wheel.

Copyright: Patrick Winkler

Image Description and Details : Details: Deneb is a first-magnitude star in the constellation of Cygnus, the swan. It is one of the vertices of the asterism known as the Summer Triangle and the "head" of the Northern Cross. It is the brightest star in Cygnus and the 19th brightest star in the night sky, with an average apparent magnitude of +1.25. This area lies in the plane of the Milky Way and is very rich in emission nebulae. Right down you can see NGC 7000/The North America Nebula, IC 5067/The Pelican Nebula, NGC 6989 an open cluster, 57 Cygni, IC 5068. Just a bit below left to Deneb is 55 Cygni and at the bottom left is IC 5076.

Exif : L = 50 x 180 seconds , R = 46 x 180 seconds , G = 46 x 180 seconds , B = 46 x 180 seconds , f/3.6 (with 0.73x focal reducer) , 382 mm

Equipment: FLI PL16083 camera, Takahashi FSQ-106ED telescope, Paramount MX+ mount

Filters: Astrodon LRGB 2GEN

Softwares used: Deep Sky Stacker, PixInsight, Photoshop

Copyright: Diptiman Nandy