Starship Asterisk*

Spanning over 8 nights last autumn, I collected this LRGB data set from my home observatory under Bortle 5/6 skies, with a total integration time just shy of 59 hours. Sporting an uncanny resemblance to a shark, LDN 1235, also known as the Shark Nebula, is a molecular cloud in the Cepheus constellat...

Flying Bat and Squid nebulae (Sh2-129/OU4) 88h 10m over 20 nights. SpaceCat51/ASI2600MMC. Processing in Pixinsight. This has got to be one of the toughest images I've processed. Despite having 54 hours of OIII, a lot of work had to be done to bring out OU4. The stars are RGB and were added to replac...

Sh2-129/ OU4, The Flying Bat and Squid Nebula This is it, the culmination of the entire summer's worth of imaging. My region did not get out from under the winter/spring permacloud until late May, then came thick wildfire smoke, which pretty much stuck around in varying thickness for the entire sum...

"The Heart of the Soul" IC 1871 SHO data, 29h35'. Taken with a Skywatcher Quattro 250p, ZWO ASI 294MM-Pro and Chroma 3nm filters. Data collected with Starkeeper Voyager, processed in Pixinsight. Full res and other data: https://astrob.in/xprybb/D/ Acquisition details Dates: Oct. 10, 2022 ·...

Simeis 57, The Propeller Nebula in SHO Full res image: https://astrob.in/i8o2xg/0/ Telescope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P / 10-S Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI294MM Pro Mount: Astro-Physics Mach2 GTO Filters: Chroma H-alpha 3nm Bandpass 31 mm · Chroma OIII 3nm Bandpass 31 mm · Chroma SII 3nm Bandpass 31 mm Ac...

Barnard 344, a dark nebula located in the constellation Cygnus, stretches 50 light-years across and is about 1800 light-years away. Captured over 7 nights, equaling 29.5 hours of exposure, from my backyard observatory. Nebulae processed in the Hubble palette with 3nm narrowband filters, with RGB dat...

Wolf-Rayet 134 in HO-RGB. Imaging Telescope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P Imaging Cameras: ZWO ASI294MM Pro Mount: Astro-Physics Mach2 GTO Filters: Chroma Blue 31 mm · Chroma Green 31 mm · Chroma H-alpha 3nm Bandpass 31 mm · Chroma OIII 3nm Bandpass 31 mm · Chroma Red 31 mm Accessories: TeleVue 2" ...

SH2-101 Tulip Nebula/Cygnus X-1 Shockwave (HOO) Sharpless 101 (specifically Sh2-101) is also known as the Tulip Nebula and is located approximately 6000 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus (The Swan). Stewart Sharpless first cataloged this rich H II emission region in 1959 in his second ...

Sh2-101, Tulip Nebula and Cygnus X1 shockwave in SHO

21hrs, 15min of data. ZWO ASI294MM-Pro, Stellarvue SV-105-3FT and Skywatcher Quattro 250p. Chroma 3nm filters.

Ha:85x300s, OIII:101x300s, SII:69x300s BIN 2x2

Full res image and details: https://astrob.in/bf2s0p/0/

Lion SHO Final.jpg Sh2-132 is one of the 312 bright emission nebulae catalogued by Stewart Sharpless. This large area of emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus glows from the characteristic red light of ionized hydrogen. Sh2-132 is about 1,200 light years away. Dark patches within it are due ...

I respectfully submit my image of NGC 7822 in the Hubble palette: Equipment: Scope: Stellavue SV105-3FT Mount: AP Mach2GTO Camera: ZWO ASI294MM-Pro Filters: Chroma 3nm narrowband Ha: 75x300s OIII: 95x300s SII: 91x300s Total integration: 21h 45m Location: Pine Creek Observatory, West Bend, WI (person...

I respectfully submit my image of IC 5070, The Pelican Nebula. 36h 50m of integration using a Stellarvue SV105-3FT, ZWO ASI294MM-Pro, and Chroma 3nm narrowband filters. Taken from my personal home observatory in Barton, WI over the evenings of 6/22, 7/2, 7/4, 7/9, 7/13, 7/15, and 7/17 2021. Processi...