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

Barnard 92 Black Hole Nebula and Barnard 93 Black Spot Nebula

Image Description and Details : Barnard 92 (B92) or more commonly known as the Black Hole Nebula and its neighbour Barnard 93 (B93) or the Black Spot Nebula are dark nebulae or interstellar dust clouds contrasting nicely against the bright Hydrogen-alpha rich background of the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud M24, of which it obscures parts. Stardust — clouds of carbon soot blown out by ageing stars — weaves all through this scene, creating the dark canyons winding through the stars. These dark nebulae lie at an approximate distance of 10,000 light-years from Earth.
10x600s Ha, 19x180s Lum and 49x300s RGB subs were shot @-10C taken over 6 nights for an integration time of almost 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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Sh2-124

Image Description and Details : SH2 124 is located between the swan and cepheus. Very little photographed and very little documented.... This emission nebula would be located at around 8500AL

Antlia 3.5nm Narrowband H-alpha: 112×300″(9h 20′)
Antlia 3.5nm Narrowband Oxygen III: 62×600″(10h 20′)
Antlia 3.5nm Narrowband Sulfur II: 75×300″(6h 15′)
25h 55′
ASI2600mm
Ts76edph

France

Copyright: Astromac

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Wizard nebula

Image Description and Details : NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula.

Celestron 11” Edge HD with .7x reducer. Celestron OAG, Ioptron CEM 70, ZWO 2600MM Pro cooled to -10° and gain 100. ASIAIR pro+, ZWO 36mm EFW, ZWO EAF, 5 min subs shot with Chroma 3nm filters Sii, Ha, Oiii. 16 hours total. Processed in Pixinsight. Shot from my backyard, bortle 8.

Copyright: Richard McInnis

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The Bear Claw Nebula

HDW-2 - The Bear Claw Nebula - Planetary Nebula in Cassiopeia

PlaneWave CDK-20 20" f/7.7 Astrograph

PlaneWave L-500 Mount

QHY600M CMOS Camera

Total exposure: HaOiiiLRGB 16.8 hours

Sierra Remote Observatories

August 2022

Data acquisition by Eric Coles

Image processing by Bob Fera

The Bear Claw is a large, faint planetary nebula that's officially, and poetically, known as Hartl-Dengl-Weinberger 2. (It's also known as Sh2-200, from the Sharpless catalog of emission nebulae.) Discovered in 1983, it wasn't determined to be a planetary nebula until 2017. This image is a composite taken through narrowband Hydrogen-Alpha (red) and Oxygen-III (teal) filters along with standard broadband RGB filters for the stars. The nebula is extremely faint, especially in H-alpha, and took lots of post-processing to bring out. As I normally do, I processed the narrowband data to approximate "true" color as best as I could.

Copyright: Bob Fera

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Neptune and Triton

Image Description and Details : Neptune and Triton October 08th, 2022

Under good seeing conditions.
Some bright features in the southern hemisphere can be seen.
The orientation is confirmed by the position of Triton.
The false color image is only for aesthetic reasons.

C14 Edge HD, Fornax52 mount,ASI 290 mono, Baader R+IR610nm

Agerola-Amalfitan Coast-Italy

Copyright: Luigi Morrone

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California Nebula

Image Description and Details : A favourite deep-sky target of astrophotographers is NGC 1499, the California Nebula. The California Nebula is found in the Orion Arm of our Milky Way galaxy, and has been given its informal nickname because its shape resembles the outline of the US state of California. It is a large emission nebula stretching across almost 2.5 degrees of the night sky in the constellation Perseus, with an apparent magnitude of 6.0 and lies approximately 1,000 light-years away. It is very well imaged in broadband filters as well as the narrowband Hubble palette seen here.

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106-ED F/3.6
Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro CMOS
Mount: Paramount MX
Observatory : RoboScopes, Spain.

Sii = 51 x 240s
Ha = 38 x 240s
Oiii = 51 x 240s
Total integration = 9h20m
Software = PixInsight

Copyright: vikas chander

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NGC 1333 Embryo Nebula

Image Description and Details : Nearly 12 hours of data using the RASA 8, ASIAIR PRO, EQ6-R PRO, ASI071 MC PRO. Filters included the Celestron LP filter for the RASA 8, and the Optolong L-Pro. Processed using Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop and Topaz Denoise.

Copyright: Copyright: John Quinn

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Ngc 7123

Here is a galaxy you may not have seen before.

Located in Indus 180 million light years from here, NGC 7123 is a rarely imaged spiral seen edge on. The shape is some what reminiscent of the Sombrero Galaxy. The galaxy itself presents a very small target in the field of view.

Imaged in LRGB on our Planewave CDK 1000 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile

Image Processing: Mike Selby

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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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The Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) and lots of dust

Image Description and Details : Shooting from suburban Bortle 5-6 skies, dark nebula are a real challenge for me. After two sessions on the wonderful Iris Nebula in Cepheus, I wasn't satisfied with the quality of my picture. So, I invested another night to increase the total integration time to 11 hours, which made bringing out the faint dust surrounding it possible. Hope you like it!

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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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