Image Description and Details : Dust of Perseus

Lying a thousand light years away, in the constellation of Perseus, lies NGC 1333. It is a reflection nebula which basically is a region of dust and gases which are reflected back from the light of a nearby star. It is a region of beautiful chaos arising out of a dense group of stars being born. Dusty regions intrigue me a lot and I am very fascinated by seeing some brilliant images on various platforms of the dusty regions in Taurus and Perseus. They are best brought out with widefield mosaics with long exposures and a deft hand at post processing. A fast scope such as the E180 married to a modern sensor is best suited for the job.

Telescope: Takahashi Epsilon 180 F/2.8 Astrograph
Camera: ZWO ASI 2400MC Pro Colour CMOS 35mm Sensor
Mount: Software Bisque Paramount MX
Observatory : Roboscopes, Spain.

RGB OSC = 60 frames x 300secs x 4 panels
Total integration = 20hrs
Software = PixInsight

Copyright: vikas chander

Image Description and Details : Tarantula Nebula, NGC 2070

One of the most amazing things in the entire sky - and only seen from the Southern Hemisphere - the Tarantula Nebula NGC 2070 in the Large Magellan Cloud is so large and bright that if it were as close as the Orion Nebula, it was cast shadows at night!

This is a SHO blend with RGB stars, taken over 12 nights through Oct-Nov 2022

Copyright: Christopher Boyd

Image Description and Details : SH2-101 - The Tulip Nebula. Located 6,000 light years away in the constellation Cygnus.

Celestron 11” Edge HD with .7x reducer at F/7
Celestron OAG and a ZWO 174mm guide camera
Ioptron CEM 70 mount
ZWO 2600MM Pro cooled to -10° / gain 100.
ZWO ASIAIR pro+
ZWO EAF focuser
Chroma 3nm filters with ZWO 7x36mm EFW
Processed in Pixinsight.
Shot from my backyard, bortle 8.

Ha - 5 min subs x 64= 5.33 hrs.
Oiii - 5 min subs x 61 = 5.08 hrs.
Sii - 5 min subs x 63 = 5.25 hrs
Total integration time = 15.66 hrs.

Copyright: Richard McInnis

Image Description and Details : Image of the planet Mars in wich we can observe Syrtis Major (on the left side), Syrtis Minor, Isidis Planitia and Gomer Sinus. On the top of Mars we can see the Planum Boreum. Images was captured through a 255mm f20 Maksutov Rumak telescope at f32 (Barlow lens) + Zwo ASI 224MC Cmos color camera and UV-IR Blocking filter.

Copyright: Francesco Badalotti

Image Description and Details : Réalisé en starles sho et hoo pour les étoiles 10h50 temps total

Copyright: Méré Rémi

Image Description and Details : HOO combination of 310 x 300s exposures
NIKON 180mm f 2.8 - ASI 2600MM - Antlia 3nm - AsiAir
Taken at beautiful Astro Finca Olivar - Gaucin / Andalucia

Copyright: M. Hochbruck

Image Description and Details : SH2-115 is a faint emission nebula located in Cygnus, close to Deneb, the brightest star of that constellation.
SH2-116 or Abell 71 is the designation of the small round patch of emission nebulosity in the center, it is a small patch of emission nebula.
Imaged in Bortle 6 skies in Washington DC suburbs in my backyard.

Scope: Astro-Physics Stowaway 92mm f/5.3
Imaging Cameras: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
Mounts: iOptron CEM40
Filters: Chroma 3nm SHO
Software: Adobe Photoshop, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight, Tria

Copyright: gmadkat

Image Description and Details : NGC 2359 (also known as Thor's Helmet) is an emission nebula in the constellation Canis Major. The nebula is approximately 30 light-years in size. The central star is the Wolf-Rayet star WR7, an extremely hot star thought to be in a brief pre-supernova stage of evolution. It is similar in nature to the Bubble Nebula, but interactions with a nearby large molecular cloud are thought to have contributed to the more complex shape and curved bow-shock structure of Thor's Helmet.
The nebula has an overall bubble shape, but with complex filamentary structures.

APM Apo 140 F4,6 (646 mm) + Tecnosky Apo 125 f5,1 (640 mm)
ZWO ASI533MC Pro
iOptron GEM45 + iOptron CEM40

November 2022
Optolong L-Ultimate (3 nm): 62X600"
Optolong Uv Ir cut: 40X30” (star color)
November 2021
Optolong L-eXtreme: 87X600"
Tot: 25h 10'

Modena (Bortle 8), Italy

Copyright: Andrea Arbizzi

Image Description and Details : Nikon D800
Tamron SP AF 17-35mm F/2.4 (25mm, F/4)
ISO 200, 1min x 692
Manfrotto 055D

Copyright: Kim Young Dae

Image Description and Details : After a few months off while i had planetary equipment on the mount. The RC is now back on the mount for some deep sky imaging again. Starting with the Bubble nebula or NGC 7635. 8000 light years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. Captured from my Bortle 5 backgarden in west sussex over many nights. I also added the data i captured back in 2021, as it's a target i find fascinating and keep returning to. Capture details:118x 600 Ha. 63x 600 oiii and 58x 600 sii.Equipment details: EQ6-rASI 1600mmBaader 1.25" narrowband filtersOrion RC 8"
Copyright: Carl Gough

Image Description and Details :

Shot in true color (with Ha added) in Borrego Springs earlier this month at the Nightfall star party, this is one I have attempted several times at home and it's never really worked out. It needs a dark sky. Casper is a rather famous reflection nebula in Orion not far from the Horsehead and the Great Orion Nebula. About 1,500 light years distant, Casper is a dynamic star-forming region containing about 45 T Tauri stars (young stars that are still forming) and 17 Herbig-Haro (HH) objects (objects that are not quite stars but presumably will be soon). Several of the HH objects are visible in the image as bright red dots surrounded by cold, dark dust.Details: Celestron EdgeHD 1100 telescope with 0.7x reducer; 10Micron GM1000HPS mount; ZWO ASI6200MM camera; Chroma LRGB filters and Chroma 3nm Ha filter for the hydrogen-alpha signal); 9 hours exposure time.

Copyright: Copyright © 2022 by the Accidental Astronomers

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I captured Jones 1 back in 2019, but wanted to really add on more data to not only bring out more detail, but that Ha off to the side as well: The planetary nebula Jones 1 (Jn 1, PK 104-29.1, VV '578) was discovered in 1941 by the American astronomer Rebecca Jones on photo plates of the Harvard Observatory. Two years earlier, together with Richard M. Emberson, she discovered another planetary nebula: Jones-Emberson 1 (PK 164+31.1) in the constellation Lynx. The designation PK 104-29.1 comes from the two Czechoslovak astronomers Luboš Perek and Luboš Kohoutek, who in 1967 compiled a catalog of all the planetary nebulae of the Milky Way known at the time. The designation VV '578 goes back to the Russian astronomer Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov, who studied and classified planetary nebulae in addition to cataloging galaxies. Jones 1 is a large planetary nebula with an angular diameter of 320 arcseconds, but a faint with only 15 magnitudes. The central star is 16.8 magnitudes bright. Distance measurements range from 716 pc to 826 pc (around 2300 to 2700 light years).

Copyright: Douglas J Struble

Image Description and Details :

Flaming Star Nebula (IC405) Tadpole Nebula (IC410)IC417Messier 38 (NGC1912)Exposure: 10 Hour Equipment:Optics: Askar Fra400 (Reducer)3.9Focal Ratio / 280 Focal Length Mount: ZWO AM5Camera: ASI2600 MC ProOptolong L UltimateAsiAir Plus

Copyright: Godfrey Aguinaldo

At 5,500 light years distant, the Cat's Paw is an emission nebula with a red color that originates from an abundance of ionized hydrogen atoms.

The Cat's Eye Nebula AKA NGC 6543, a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Draco, discovered by William Herschel.

Mars, the red planet is by joined by IC 405 and IC 410 two large emission nebulae. The 3 targets lined up in the constellation Auriga for this this widefield image.

In that great journey of the stars through space, about the mighty, all-directing Sun, the pallid, faithful Moon, has been the one companion of the Earth.

A Solar Eclipse: Ella Wheeler Wilcox - 1850-1919

Image Description and Details :

NGC 602 or the Flying Lizard Nebula and its neighbors lie near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) some 200,000 light-years away. 204 x 300s SHO subs shot @-10C spread across 5 nights for a total integration time of about 17hrs Equipment used:Skywatcher 10" f4 Newtonian 250PSkywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma CorrectorSkywatcher NEQ6 Pro Hypertuned by Astronomy Academy PerthZWO ASI2600MM Pro Cooled CameraPrimaluce Sesto Senso2 Electronic FocuserWilliam Optics Uniguide 50/200mm guidescopeZWO ASI290MM Mini Guide CameraZWO Electronic Filter WheelAntlia Pro 36mm unmounted filtersRollon rolloff modified shed observatoryBortle 5Data acquisition software: NINA Astronomy SoftwareProcessing software: PixInsight and Photoshop CC

Copyright: Capturing Ancient Photons

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NGC 2174, also known as the Monkey Head Nebula, is an emission nebula home to active star formation, and is about 6400 light years from Earth.Nearly 7 hours of data, RASA 8, ASI071 MC PRO, ASIAIR PRO, Radian Triad Ultra Quadband. EQ 6-R ProBortle 6

Copyright: John Quinn

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For this photo I integrated narrow field shots of 2018 (carried out with newton 200/800) with wide field exposures (carried out with apo triplet) of 2022.Lights were acquired in Taranto (Italy) in August 2018 and September 2022.Technical data--------------Total integration: 15hSky: Bortle 6Lights: 885x40s (2018, ZWO ASI 224) + 60x300s (2022, Omegon veTEC571)Telescope: Skywatcher 200/800 Wide Photo + TS PhotoLine Triplet FPL53 102@564mm Camera: ZWO ASI 224mc + Omegon veTEC571Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 GTFilters: Optolong L-ProProcessing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CC, PixInsight

Copyright: Tommaso Stella