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Messier 31, The Andromeda Galaxy and a small early Perseid meteor, a 2 x 2 mosaic. Panels have 8 hours 10 min (98x 5min), 6 hours 45 min (81x 5 min), 7 hours 10 min (86x 5 min) en 6 hours 30 min (78x 5 min) of intergration, and data was aqcuired in the nights of July 31, August 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, ...

So after 3 months of mostly clouds and rain, we were finally treated to a stretch of 3 fully clear nights, that even coincided with the new moon. I took this stretch of clear weather to good use and targeted the beautifull region of NGC 1333 (the Embryo Nebula), with its huge field of molecular clou...

LDN 1251; The Angler Fish aka Rotten Fish Nebula. Another dark nebula from the Cepheus Molecualr Cloud, captured under challenging Bortle 5-6 conditions. Attempted this last year with the 200P but ended up with a nasty reflection in the center, which later on proved to be present in all my 200P imag...

Barnard 150; The Sea Horse Nebula from Bortle 5-6 skies Copyright: Tim Schuurman Emmen, The Netherlands Another dark nebula captured under challenging Bortle 5-6 conditions, but the effort put in paid off in the end. Data aquisition: September 3 - 10 2023. 395 frames of 5 minutes, total integration ...

Lynds Dark Nebula 673 from Bortle 5-6 skies Copyright: Tim Schuurman Emmen, The Netherlands Typical challenges for an astrophotographer in The Netherlands, having mostly poor weather conditions, whilst also having to battle a lot of light polution. Data acquisition: August 11 - 16 and 19 - 23. 214 f...

NGC7380; The Wizzard Nebula in HaRGB by DLSR info: http://www.astrovirus.nl/Gallery_NGC7380HaRGB-2013.html Copyright: Tim Schuurman, acknowledgement to Scott Rosen for small color correction due to my color blindness http://www.astrovirus.nl/images/APOD/NGC7380-HaRGB-2013-1200px80.jpg high resoluti...