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Under the lights of Orion It could have been a traditional deep-sky photograph of Barnard's Loop, with its splendid winter nebulas, but instead, something different was born. I had been eagerly anticipating diving into this genre of images. I admit, I've always loved them, like any new inspiration f...

Little Dumbbell Nebula Approximately 2500 light-years from our planet, a dying star disperses a shell of gas around itself, creating a nebula with a distinctive double-lobe structure. M76 is one of the few planetary nebulae listed in the Messier catalog and is located in the Perseus constellation. I...

The Milky Way Over Wadi Rum Wadi Rum is a surreal panorama of rocks sculpted by wind and time that captivates you with its grandeur. The golden dunes stretch to the horizon, while the Milky Way illuminates the desert night with a cascade of stars, enchanting the eyes and soul of anyone privileged en...

The Two Comets On a cold night, documenting the conjunction between the weak comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) and Mars. Thanks to a perspective effect with the dark dust of our galaxy, Mars also seems to have a dust tail like a comet. In the frame also the Pleiades. A beautiful memory of the passage of this cu...

Integration: Ha 3nm 28x600’’ R 24x120’’ G 24x120’’ B 24x120’’ L-Pro 573x120’’ Total integration: 26h Location: Maranello (Italy) - From 03/22/2022 to 03/25/2022 With Sky-Watcher 300 f/4, EQ8R-Pro, Ha 3nm, L-pro, R, G, B Filters, ZWO ASI 294MM Developed with PixInsight and Photoshop 2022 Copyright: L...

The Fishhead Nebula in Hubble Palette  The Fishhead Nebula is cataloged as IC 1795 and NGC 896 and islocated right next to the Heart Nebula, in the constellation of Cassiopeia. I thought of photographing it in a narrow band aiming to compose a Hubble Palette that would enhance the abundance of ioniz...

Interstellar Cloud, Bok Globules and Pareidolia in the Rosette Nebula What do interstellar dust clouds have in common with pareidolia? The human brain is extraordinary. During his evolution he got used to recognizing familiar structures and forms everywhere, even in abstract scenarios. Thus observi...

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Nebulae of the Triangulum galaxy M33 With a diameter of more than 50,000 light years, the Triangulum galaxy M33, in the constellation of the Triangulum, shows itself in all its incredible richness of vast ionized zones HII. This galaxy completes together with our Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy ...

The Tadpole Nebula The Tadpole nebula (IC 410) is for me one of the most fascinating objects in the deep sky, along with the Horsehead nebula and a few others. This is what you can do in astrophotography, you can photograph one of the most spectacular corners of our galaxy that is nearly 20,000 ligh...

IC 1848 The Soul Nebula | Luca Fornaciari Astrophotography This is a very extensive HII region, whose distance is estimated at 7600 light years from us; its gas is illuminated by the stars of some clusters and associations of nearby stars. The light is then re-emitted by the nebula in the typical re...