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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

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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

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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

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My longest integration yet. This is a total of 25.13hrs combined 5 minutes exposures on Ha/S2/O3 (not counting the 5% obligatory throw-away exposures). Image was taken using an Svbony 102ED scope paired with an ASI294mm through 2" 3nm Antlia filters. All mounted on an AM5 mount, guided by a Skywatcher 50ED+ASI120mini.

Copyright: Paul Capino

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The California Nebula. 110 hours of integration, imaged for 29 nights over the course of 2 months.It seems rare that I see images of the California Nebula with more than 40-50 hours, so I wanted to pile on a lot of data and see what details I could bring out.Imaging details:Imaging Telescope: OPT Telescopes TPO UltraWide 180 f/4.5Imaging Camera: ZWO Astronomy Cameras ASI2600MC ProMount: Sky-Watcher USA EQ6-R ProFilters:Baader Planetarium Fringe Killer 2"Optolong Astronomy Filter L-eXtreme 2"Accessories: ZWO ASIAIR Plus, ZWO EAFBaader Fringe Killer 2": 350×5″ (29′ 10″)Optolong L-eXtreme 2": 818×480″ (109h, 4min)

Copyright: Jeffrey Horne

Image Description and Details : The Dumbbell Nebula is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Vulpecula at about 1227 light years. It was discovered by Charles Messier on 12 July 1764 and is the first observed planetary nebula in the history of astronomy. It is number 27 in his catalogue.

This object is particularly bright and has a very large apparent diameter, with the brightest part being 1/5 that of the Moon. With an expansion rate of 6.8 arcseconds per century, its age is estimated at 3 000 to 4 000 years.

The central star (the origin of the nebula) has an apparent magnitude of 13.5, which makes it difficult for an amateur astronomer to observe. It is a white dwarf with a very hot blue colour (85 000 K).

The peculiar shape of the luminous part of the nebula has earned it the name Dumbbell Nebula.

Looking at this nebula, we can see the end of our own solar system in 5 billion years.

Photo taken in South Portugal in Remote de France by the ARO team, from
04/08 to 28/09/22.
Set-Up: Astrosib RC 400 (F/D 8) on DDM 85 ASA mount. Camera Moravian G3 16200.
52 Hours in H,O,L,R,G,B

Copyright: Team ARO

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A short trip to Cassiopeia has brought out this impressive star field. It is teeming with star clusters and galactic dust. Since there are delicate foothills of Ha areas in this region, I have decided to collect additional Ha data in addition to the LRGB data.Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-85EDCamera: ZWO ASI2600MM ProMount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R ProFilters:Baader Blue (B-CCD) 36 mm · Baader Green (G-CCD) 36 mm · Baader H-alpha 6.5nm (CMOS-Optimized) 36 mm · Baader Red (R-CCD) 36 mm · Baader UV/IR Cut / Luminance 36 mmSupport:Takahashi Flattener for FSQ-85EDX (TKA37582)Guiding: Primaluce Lab 60mm Compact Guide scope, ZWO ASI120MM MiniDatum: 25. Oktober 2022 · 26. Oktober 2022 · 27. Oktober 2022 · 29. Oktober 2022 · 4. November 2022

Copyright: Stefan "Harry" Thrun

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The Bear Claw Nebula Sh2-200 is a very low brightness planetary Nebula discovered by Stuart Sharpless and incorporated into his catalog in 1959, although it wasn't until 2017 that it was spectroscopically confirmed as a planetary nebula!Planetary Nebulae are so called because to astronomers in years past, they looked disc-like, like a planet!.They are actually the remnants of a star reaching the end of its life and exploding into space, its outer layers, this will be the fate, one day of our sun.This is a very highly evolved and ancient planetary nebula.Someone has to call these objects, to me it looks more like a snow globe set adrift in a sea of glowing hydrogen ( that's the red background)Another fact that makes this image interesting is the halo of ionized Hydrogen gas that surrounds it. This is thought not to be linked to the planetary nebula, but the result of the extremely hot remnant star at its center ionizing the surrounding interstellar hydrogen.Tech stuffLocation: Animas, NMScope : Planewave CDK14Mount : Planewave L-350Camera : ZWO 6200 Mm Pro HOO ImageHa (Antlia 4.5nm) 25 x30 mins, OIII (Antlia 4.5nm) 25x30minsTotal Integration time 25 hoursProcessed in Pixinsight and PS

Copyright: Richard Whitehead 2022

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SW 130PDSHeq5pro QHY268C Baader CMOS optimized 2" UV/IR Pegasus pocket powerbox Pegasus flatbox Beelink miniPC/Mango travel router 210x180" Gain 56 Offset 11 mode 1 Location: Mt. Parnon, GreeceShot with NINA processed in Pixinsight

Copyright: George Karantzalos

The Orion Nebula, AKA Messier 42 (or M42), is a very near, star-forming region, located approximately 1,350 light-years away and is about 2 million years old.

Image Description and Details : 273×180″(13h 39′) (gain: 120.00) -15°C bin 1×1Darks:30Flats:30Flat Darks:30TS-Optics PHOTON 200mm/8" f/5 Newtonian ZWO ASI294MC ProSky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro Optolong UV/IR cut 2"Baader 2" MPCC Mark III Newton Coma Corrector ZWO ASIAIR PlusSVBony SV106 50mm Guide ScopeZWO ASI120MM MiniBortel 4Queidersbach/Germany
Copyright: Bryan Krafczick

Image Description and Details : About 3 degrees east of the famous Soul Nebula and right on the border between Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis lies a rather long area of dark molecular clouds within a larger area of background HII emission. A good portion of these molecular clouds are part of Lynds Catalog of Dark Nebulae which is a list assembled by Beverly Lynds in the 1950s-1960s. These dense molecular clouds are often areas of star formation and indeed there is at lease one easily visible young stellar object (YSO) within the image and nine LDN objects (1378-1386). The annotated image circles these LDN objects along with a few background galaxies. This area also has a large area of HII emission and some brighter un-catalogued emission nebula and is part of the larger Sharpless 2-202 area. Just left of center is the large (29 arc minute) Stock 23 open star cluster which lies 1200 light years distant.

Scope: Stellarvue SVX 152T, Camera: ZWO ASI 6200, Paramount MyT. Image taken from 24-30 Sept 22 at the Okie Tex Star party. 180min of Luminance, 240min or Red, Green and Blue, 1200min of Ha. 14.3hrs total.

Copyright: Jonathan Talbot

Image Description and Details : This widefield image consists of the extremely dusty patch of the Cepheus constellation. The region contains a plethora of dark and bright nebulae belonging to the Lynd's dark and bright sky catalogue, the more notable of them being the three nebulae named after the fishes LDN 1251 or the Rotten fish or Angler fish Nebula, LDN 1235 or the Shark Nebula, and VBD 152 or Barnard 175 also sometimes referred as the Eel nebula, which all seem to be engrossed in some sort of a race.

Equipment:

Nikon Z5

Samyang 135 f2

Fornax Lightrack ii

EXIF:

180 n 240s subs shot over 2 sessions

Calibrated with flats

Total Integration: 6h 33m

Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop

Shot under Bortle 1 skies in Spiti Valley, India.

Copyright: Copyright: Shikhar Gupta

Image Description and Details : Taken over 4 nights with my 8" newtonian, there are approximately 12 hours total with a small addition of RGB integration purely for the color stars. While most people use SCNR to remove the green, I particularly enjoy it on this target; it adds a nice taste of color depth. I am also fond of the stars glowing through the 'bullet hole' iof the trunk.

TPO 8" F/4 Newtonian

QHY-268M with Antlia 3nm 2" SHO filters

Paracorr 2" Coma Corrector (Final FL 920mm, F 4.5)

EQ6-R Pro

Copyright: Copyright: Brian Puhl