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by terry.hancock
Wed May 20, 2015 4:59 am
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2015 May
Replies: 155
Views: 74071

Gamma Cygni Region Mosaic

Copyright: Terry Hancock The Gamma Cygni/Sadr Region, named after the central star Sadr/Gamma Cygni the central star of Cygnus's Cross surrounded by diffuse emission and dark nebulae and part of the much larger Cygnus Molecular Cloud. https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/17847718611/in/datepos...
by terry.hancock
Thu Mar 12, 2015 8:34 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2015 March
Replies: 177
Views: 295752

Thors Helmet NGC 2359

Copyright: Kim Quick & Terry Hancock Thors Helmet NGC 2359 Presented here in LRGB, H-Alpha and OIII, this collaboration by Kim Quick and Terry Hancock was captured by Kim over 17 nights between 12/28/14 - 2/15/15 from his backyard observatory in Florida under moderately high light polluted sky c...
by terry.hancock
Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:26 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2015 March
Replies: 177
Views: 295752

Four Seasons Of The Horse

Copyright: Terry Hancock This is a combination of data captured from my backyard observatory in Western Michigan between 2011 and 2014 using QHY9 and QHY11 Mono CCD’s, 5 inch TMB 130 and TMB92 refractors, AT12RC and Takahashi E180 Astrographs, processed with CCDStack, Registar and CS5 https://www.fl...
by terry.hancock
Tue Jan 27, 2015 12:19 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2015 January
Replies: 295
Views: 151258

The Orion Nebula

Copyright: Andy D'Arienzo & Terry Hancock
One of my earliest collaborations from 2010 with Andy who did the post processing
https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhanc ... /lightbox/
by terry.hancock
Mon Dec 22, 2014 9:32 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2014 December
Replies: 171
Views: 114060

A Hybrid View Of The Heart & Soul

Copyright: Terry Hancock Also known as IC 1805 The Heart Nebula & IC1848 The Soul Nebula, this is a Hybrid process using both Color (RGB) and Narrowband (H-Alpha, SII and OIII) and a crop of my 4 panel Mosaic of this area. Captured from my backyard observatory in Fremont, Michigan USA, between A...
by terry.hancock
Tue Dec 09, 2014 3:13 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2014 December
Replies: 171
Views: 114060

A Matter of Perspective: 3 Views of the Andromeda Galaxy

Copyright: Terry Hancock, Brian Ventrudo http://oneminuteastronomer.com/10494/three-views-andromeda-galaxy/ A Matter of Perspective: 3 Views of the Andromeda Galaxy Image 1 https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8593/15793485608_298e0932b3_b.jpg A Matter of Perspective: 3 Views of the Andromeda Galaxy Image...
by terry.hancock
Mon Dec 08, 2014 2:24 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2014 December
Replies: 171
Views: 114060

The Pleiades Cluster (M45)

Copyright: Terry Hancock, Kim Quick https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/15790014857/in/photostream/lightbox/ This is a collaboration of The Pleiades with data from Kim Quick of Florida and myself. Kim collected 5 hours of LRGB using a Takahashi FSQ106/ST11000 remotely from New Mexico Skies wi...
by terry.hancock
Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:07 am
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2014 November
Replies: 222
Views: 90942

Happy Thanksgiving From The Heart & The Soul

Copyright: Terry Hancock My final image which completes this interesting chapter within this region of Cassiopeia is a 6776x4170 pixel 4 panel Mosaic of The Heart & Soul Nebulae also including, Emission Nebula SH2-202 bottom left, Planetary Nebula HDW 2 also known as Sh2-200 near top left hand c...
by terry.hancock
Wed Nov 26, 2014 7:35 am
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2014 November
Replies: 222
Views: 90942

The Soul Nebula IC1848

Copyright: Terry Hancock This Hubble Palette image combines all data captured from my backyard observatory in sunny Fremont, Michigan USA, September-October 2014 using QHY11/TAK E-180 and data collected in 2012 using QHY9/TMB92SS Bottom left is part of lesser known emission Nebula SH2-202 I added da...
by terry.hancock
Tue Nov 25, 2014 8:47 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2014 November
Replies: 222
Views: 90942

Re: The Heart Nebula

This is a very nice image! The narrowband data has made a hidden secret more apparent, a small planetary nebula catalogued as WeBo 1. See the attached crop for a closer view! webo1.jpg again thanks starsurfer, I looked at that earlier and could not find any reference to WeBo 1 cheers, happy thanksg...
by terry.hancock
Mon Nov 24, 2014 6:09 am
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2014 November
Replies: 222
Views: 90942

The Heart Nebula

This Hubble Palette image combines all data captured from my backyard observatory in sunny Fremont, Michigan USA, October 22nd 2014 using QHY11/TAK E-180 and data collected in 2012 using QHY9/TMB92SS you can see my earlier data here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/8504006910/in/photostre...
by terry.hancock
Sun Nov 23, 2014 4:52 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2014 November
Replies: 222
Views: 90942

Re: Heart & Soul Nebulae

Ann wrote:
terry.hancock wrote:4 panel Mosaic consisting of RGB+H-Alpha data, 6792x4188 pixels.

Wonderful picture, Terry! :D

Ann
Thanks so much Ann :D
by terry.hancock
Sun Nov 23, 2014 4:45 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2014 November
Replies: 222
Views: 90942

Re: Heart & Soul Nebulae

4 panel Mosaic consisting of RGB+H-Alpha data, 6792x4188 pixels. Wow everyone keeps producing stunning widefields with surprising composition and framing! The cluster near the centre of Sh2-202 is Stock 23, which is also known as Pazmino's Cluster. There is actually another bonus surprise in your i...
by terry.hancock
Sat Nov 22, 2014 3:01 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2014 November
Replies: 222
Views: 90942

Heart & Soul Nebulae

4 panel Mosaic consisting of RGB+H-Alpha data, 6792x4188 pixels. Captured from my backyard observatory in Fremont, Michigan between August and October 2014 using QHY11/Takahashi E180 Total Integration Time 14 Hours Bottom left is part of lesser known emission Nebula SH2-202 https://www.flickr.com/ph...
by terry.hancock
Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:38 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2014 November
Replies: 222
Views: 90942

A Mono Andromeda Galaxy M31 (NGC224)

Here is a monochrome view using Red, Green, Blue and H-Alpha filters, data captured during October 2014 from my backyard Observatory in Michigan. Annotated view http://nova.astrometry.net/annotated_full/882068 Negative view http://nova.astrometry.net/image/880367 https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryh...
by terry.hancock
Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:19 am
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2014 June
Replies: 156
Views: 64802

Gamma Cygni Region (Mosaic)

Copyright: Terry Hancock Please view this in high resolution to see the detail by going to the following link to see this and the 5 images that make up this Mosaic. https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/sets/72157644719309238/ 187 individual frames and a total exposure time of over 18 hours mak...
by terry.hancock
Sat May 17, 2014 8:38 am
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2014 May
Replies: 173
Views: 60916

The Whirlpool Galaxy M51

Copyright: Terry Hancock Captured from my backyard observatory in Fremont, Michigan LRGB Version https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/14214628503/ https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7352/14214628503_9cd1a05046_h.jpg LRGB+H-Alpha Version https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/14017056848/ https...