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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

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April 2022, 2022 Jason Matter April 2022, 2022 Jason Matter

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

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April 2022, 2022 Jason Matter April 2022, 2022 Jason Matter

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

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April 2022, 2022 Jason Matter April 2022, 2022 Jason Matter

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

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April 2022, 2022 Jason Matter April 2022, 2022 Jason Matter

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

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2022, April 2022 Jason Matter 2022, April 2022 Jason Matter

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

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April 2022, 2022 Jason Matter April 2022, 2022 Jason Matter

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

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2022, April 2022 Jason Matter 2022, April 2022 Jason Matter

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 

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