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2022, October 2022 Jason Matter 2022, October 2022 Jason Matter

The Propeller Nebula

Image Description and Details : This cosmic landscape features a often overlooken object in the amateur astronomy community, Simeis 57. It’s nicknamed as the Propeller Nebula. I imaged this nebulosity on multiple nights during September and October between brief gaps in the clouds, acquiring a total exposure time of 14 hours with narrowband filters + RGB for the stars.

Most amateur astronomers use designation DWB 111 for the "Propeller" but it is incorrect as it is only a designation for the southern arm of the object. Designation DWB 119 is used for the northern arm. In 1950s Crimean Astrophysical Observatory at Simeiz, Ukraine designated this object as Simeis 57 in their catalogue of 306 objects of HII regions.
Ten years later the DWB catalog was created by H. R. Dickel, H. Wendker, and J. H. Bieritz. This catalog was intended for HII regions in the Cygnus X complex that they were studying in 1960s. Distance of this nebulosity is unknown but in general the objects in the Cygnus X complex are about 4600 light-years away.

Copyright: © Ville Puoskari

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M 34

Image Description and Details :

Messier 34 (also known as M34 or NGC 1039) is a large open cluster located in the constellation of Perseus. It was probably discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654 and included by Charles Messier in his catalog of comet-like objects in 1764. Messier described it as "A cluster of small stars a little below the parallel of γ (Andromedae). In an ordinary telescope of 3 feet one can distinguish the stars. "
M34 is 1500 light years away from us and includes stars of mass between 0.12 and 1 solar mass. It extends for about 35 'into the firmament, which translates into a real radius of 7.5 light years at the distance at which it is located. The cluster is barely visible to the naked eye in very dark conditions, well away from city lights and can be seen through binoculars when light pollution is low.
The age of this cluster is between that of the Pleiades (100 million years) and that of the Hyades (800 million years). In particular, the comparison between known stellar spectra and predicted values ​​from stellar evolutionary models suggest 200-250 million years.

Konus 200/1000 @960mm, F4.8
Qhy168c @-5 °C
Sky-Watcher Eq6r Pro Mount
SvBony UV/IR-cut filter 30x60" (gain 1, offset 35)
Kstars/ekos, APP, PixInsight, PS

Copyright: Massimo Di Fusco

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A calm night

Image Description and Details : Reflections here in Kilpisjärvi are quite rare due to strong winds, but that night in october I was lucky with calm weather. The auroras weren't that big, but had some nice colors. The saana mountain (1029m) in the background is one of the tallest and well-known in Finland.

Sony A7S
Sony FE 14mm f/1.8 GM
20 seconds, ISO 2500
Minor adjustments in adobe photoshop

Copyright: Dennis Lehtonen

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LBN438 - The Lizard Pillar

Image Description and Details :

Little known and poorly imaged LBN438 is a dark galactic nebula located in the constellation Lizard.
The nebula is illuminated by interstellar radiation known as Extended Red Emission or ERE. This is commonly observed from UV-excited interstellar grains.
A lot of small galaxies in the background of the sky to discover.

Shooting data:
🔭: ASA Newton 254/950 F3.6
⚙️: Paramount MyT
📷: ZWO ASI2400MC at -10°C
🕶: IDAS LPS-P3 & IDAS NBZ
🎯: Skywatcher Evostar72ED + ASI290MM mini
💻: TheSkyX pro, NINA, PHD2, AstroPixel Processor (100% of treatment), PixInsight (5% of treatment), Photoshop CC (95% of treatment)
⏱: IDAS LPS-P3 = 21h (126x600”)
⏱: IDAS NBZ = 17h55 (71x900"+ 1x600")
⏱: TOTAL = 38h55
🌍: Lorraine, France
📆: Over 8 nights: August 27, 2022 August 28, 2022 August 29, 2022 September 1, 2022 September 03, 2022 September 21, 2022 September 29, 2022

Copyright: Thomas LELU

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Sun

Here a shots taken last October 1, from Texas, as always a great spectacle of filaments and some protuberances, the Sun very active in its solar cycle number 25 that promises much more.

ZWO 174mm camera and Payer one Apollo M-Max

Zwo EAF focuser

Skywatcher AZEQ6 mount

Lunt 100mm double stack

HINODE SOLAR AUTIGUIDER

Fire Capture, Autostacker, Registax, Photoshop.

Dallas TX.

Copyright: Arturo Buenrostro

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Fishhead Nebula

Image Description and Details :

Image taken in Chicago, IL
23 hours of total exposure using the SHO palette
Processed in Pixinsight
Telescope: Celestron 11 inch edge HD at F/10
Camera: 2600MM Pro
Chroma SHO 3nm filters

Copyright: Richard McInnis

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LDN1355

Image Description and Details :

Nebula LDN 1355
Located in the constellation of Cassiopeia,
These dark nebulae lurk in the stellar lairs of the Milky Way. They often connect with the sites of low-mass star formation, but can also float in the arms of the Milky Way as simple cold molecular clouds. They do not have their own light in the visible range and are more recognizable by obscuring more distant stars. And if the astrophoto is taken with long exposure, its brownish color can be seen in the light of nearby stars.
The Helping Hand Nebula is seen toward the constellation Cassiopeia. The shape of the dust cloud darkens in the light of nearby stars, either with a bluish light or sometimes with a yellowish light, but we mainly see its brownish hue.
Photo taken halfway with my outing partner Héctor Hernández
He was in charge of the luminance part with his team, TS imagine star 130, qhy 16200a camera on an eq6 pro and RB focus Merlin 34x600s focuser
For my part, I was in charge of taking the shots in RGB, 75x120s, for each RGB channel, equipment: TS photoline 80/480, TS 0.79x reducer, asi 1600mm camera, eq6pro mount, RB focus Merlin, controlled with RB focus gaiusS

Copyright: Carlos Luna and Héctor Hernández

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Barnard 150 the Seahorse Nebula

Image Description and Details : My latest astro project is Barnard 150. A dark nebula in the constellation of Cepheus. Also known as the Seahorse nebula. A dark nebula (absorption nebula), is a dense interstellar cloud that obscures the light from objects behind it, such as background stars and emission or reflection nebulae. Interstellar dust grains located in the coldest, densest parts of larger molecular clouds cause light extinction.

Imaged with:

Starfield Optics 8 (200mm) astrograph
Starizona Nexus reducer/flattener for F3
QHY268M camera and QHY filter wheel
Optolong LRGB filters

Shot from the backyard in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. 20hrs 45min total. Processed in PixInsight.

Copyright: Shawn Nielsen | VisibleDark

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The Grus Quartet of Galaxies

Image Description:
Here reveals only three of its four members in the constellation of The Crane.
Located about 60,000,000 light-years from Earth, this beautiful group of spiral galaxies is gravitationally bound.
​At top-right is NGC 7582, a Seyfert Type-2 galaxy, exhibiting lots of star birth. At left is NGC 7599, with NGC 7590 at center.
The missing member of the quartet is NGC 7552, which is another 'starburst' galaxy. The elliptical galaxy, PGC 71043 is at 6 o'clock.
Many thanks to my collaborator and friend,
Mike Selby, who acquired and calibrated this fine data from Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.

Copyright: Warren Keller

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NGC 7635: A bubble between clouds

Image Description and Details : My last image is a Bubble nebula (NGC 7635) with SHO narrowband channel and added RGB stars.
It is an emission nebula located in the constellation of Cassiopeia. The central bubble is one of three layers of hot gas surrounding the star SAO 20575, a very hot O6.5-class star. Curiously, this star (which is the one that heats the gas so that it emits light), due to its rapid movement, is not in the geometric center of the bubble. It is seen in the lower left area of the center of the bubble. It is a very young star (about 4 million years old...) and is expected to explode as a supernova in about 15 million years (more or less a million...). Interestingly, this nebula is located in a region where another supernova has already exploded.
It's great a lot of signal of SII, and aprecciate a large structures between bubble.

Tech data:
Halpha 25 of 900" astrodon 5nm
OIII 30 of 900" astrodon 5nm
SII 25 of 900" astrodon 5nm
RGB 25 each channel 120" astdodon
Telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 150
CCD: Atik 460ex
Mount: Paramount ME

Copyright: Carlos Uriarte Castilllo

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Pleiades (M45)

Image Description and Details : Pleiades (M45)
Open Star Cluster

Magnitude: 1.6
Distance: 444 ly
Constellation: Taurus the Bull

A beautiful and mesmerizing deep sky objects that is etched on several folklores and mythology. This open star cluster is dominated by hot luminous B-Type stars that formed a 100 million years ago and is not gravitationally bound that will eventually drift apart. Pleiades stars are passing through a dust cloud and is completely unrelated reflection nebula. Scientist has found over a 1000 stars in the region. Pleiades is easy to find visually and is also a reference object in finding other deepsky targets.


SCT 8”, Hyperstar v4, ZWO(294MC Pro, ASIAR Pro, EAF) | EQ6R P
X120”- 5.77 hrs. | IDAS LPS D3
Gain: 100, -10 °C
APP, PS(Camera Raw + Plug-ins)
9/24-25/2022
Bortle 5 Ca, USA

Copyright: Paul Diosomito



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WHTZ 1

Image Description and Details : WHTZ1 is an obscure, very faint but complex high-excitation planetary nebula in Aquila. It has a size of 193 arc seconds.
It was discovered by Ronald Weinberger, Herbert Hartl, Sonia Temporin and Caterina Zanin in 1999. It was also independently discovered by the French amateur astronomer Thierry Raffaelli in 2014 and is also known as Ra 7. It has also been discovered on two further separate occasions by the Deep Sky Hunters members Dana Patchick and Matthias Kronberger. The limb brightening visible towards its northern edge suggests interaction with the interstellar medium.
This is only the second time that it has been imaged - the previous image by the CHART32 team.
Data Capture: Sven Eklund and Peter Goodhew
Data calibration and integration: Sven Eklund
Image processing: Peter Goodhew
Data captured between 17 August - 22 September 2022.
Scopes: APM TMB LZOS 152 Refractors and Celestron C14 Edge HD
Cameras: QSI6120wsg8 and ZWO ASI6200MM Pro
Mounts: 10Micron GM2000 HPS and iOptron CEM120
A total of 68 hours 25 minutes (HaOIIIRGB)

Copyright: Copyright: Peter Goodhew, Sven Eklund

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Pacman Revealed

Image Description and Details : NGC 281 - This awe inspiring emission nebula in Cassiopeia contains an open cluster accompanied with several Bok globules that appear to swim in a cosmic ocean rich in molecular hydrogen, sulfur and oxygen. Captured over several nights throughout late August and early September, more than 21 hours of the very best 12 minute subs were selected to reveal the exquisite detail in this mesmerizing region of the night sky.
Last year, I watched James Negri on the DSO Imager channel process this image. I was so impressed with James's image that I decided to add the Pacman Nebula to my list of objects to capture in 2022. The data was surprisingly clean and bright which was a pleasure to process.
Acquisition Details: Esprit 150ED, ASIAIR, ASI2600MM, EQ8-Rh Pro, Astronomik 6nm SHO filters, 720 second subs at Gain 100 under Bortle 5 skies.

Copyright: Copyright: David Jenkins

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IC1396 - THE ELEPHANT'S TRUNK NEBULA

Image Description and Details : 🔭 TS-Optics 76EDPH
📷 ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
⚙ SkyWatcher AZEQ6
🔵Antlia SHORVB pro 36mm

Images unitaires:
Antlia Ha 3.0nm pro 36mm: 5h
Antlia OIII 3nm Pro 36mm: 5h25
antlia SII 3.0 nm Pro 36mm: 5h35

💻: NINA · Adobe Inc Photoshop CC · Pleiades AstroPhoto PixInsight

Copyright: Astromac

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The green waterfall

Image Description and Details : The auroras were so big and bright that it actually lightened up the landscape so that you could see where to walk without the need of a flashlight. It helped me a bit to move on the wet, slippery rocks without dying.

Sony FE 14mm f/1.8 GM
Sony A7S
ISO 5000
0,5 seconds
Minor adjustments in adobe photoshop

Copyright: Dennis Lehtonen

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OU4

Image Details:

so here's my latest take, it's SH2-129 - OU4, known as:

- SH2-129 Bat Nebula in flight and

- OU4 giant squid nebula, discovered by French amateur astronomer Nicolas Outters.

- For this treatment, I wanted to keep some transparency from the squid, allowing the gases in the background to be distinguished, which gives a sense of depth.

- I also preferred a gentle treatment on the whole Squid to avoid a cupboard thing in the picture as well.

Copyright: Emmanuel Tesnieres

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LBN552

Image Description and Details : Molecular cloud complex LBN 552 LNB 550 LBN 555 and LDN 1228 in the constellation Cepheus

Molecular clouds LBN 552 and LDN 1228 consist mostly of a diffuse dark nebula, which were cataloged by Beverly T. Lynds in 1965 as LDN 1228 or LBN 552.

50 exposures on each RGB filter and 230 exposures in Luminance of 5 minutes.

Total 31H40

Askar FRA 600 bezel
Reducer 0.79
420mm focal length at F3.9
EQ6 Pro Mount
Orion Starguider Mini Scope Autoguider
Camera Starshoot Autoguider
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro Imager
ZWO 7*36MM Filter Wheel
Baader filter L, R, G, B, S2, Ha and O3

Sky Quality 19.95
Magnitude CLASS 5 Bortle

SGP SEQUENCE GENERATOR PRO, SIRIL and UWE ASTRO TOOLS

Copyright: (c)2022 Uwe KAMIN

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Sharpless 2-54

Image Description and Details :

Sharpless 2-54 or RCW 167 / Gum 84 is a large bright nebula complex close to familiar targets M16 (Eagle Nebula) and M17 (Swan Nebula) in the constellation of Serpens.

42 x 600s subs shot @-10C taken over 4 nights for an integration time of 7 hours.

Equipment used:
Skywatcher 10" f4 Newtonian 250P
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro Hypertuned by Astronomy Academy Perth
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro Cooled Camera
Primaluce Sesto Senso2 Electronic Focuser
William Optics Uniguide 50/200mm guidescope
ZWO ASI290MM Mini Guide Camera
ZWO Electronic Filter Wheel
Antlia Pro 36mm unmounted filters
Rollon rolloff modified shed observatory
Bortle 5
Data acquisition software: NINA Astronomy Software
Processing software: PixInsight and Photoshop CC

Copyright: Capturing Ancient Photons

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Ngc 1097

NGC 1097 is a barred spiral galaxy 50 million light years away in Fornax.

There are a number of interesting features

The galaxy contains a super massive black hole 140 million times greater than our sun. The black hole is surrounded by a ring with numerous areas of star formation. The ring is lit by an influx of material moving towards the central bar of the galaxy.

The galaxy contains four optical jets (one of which is extremely faint) that seem to emanate from the nucleus region. Studies have determined the jets are not emissions but are made up of stars.

There are two satellite galaxies NGC 1097 A and B. A is a peculiar galaxy which is orbiting only 42000 light years from the center of NGC 1097 while B is a dwarf galaxy which was discovered by emissions and has not been well studied.

Imaged in LRGB and H alpha on our CDK 1000 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile

Image Processing: Mike Selby and Mark Hanson

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