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https://astrob.in/geg3ls/C/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure NGC 3324, Gabriela Mistral Nebula HaRGB with OSC. NGC 3324 is an open cluster in the southern constellation Carina, located northwest of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) at a distance of 9,100 ly from Earth. It is closely associated with the ...

NVQTZHPBcXLK_620x0_esdlMP5Y[1].png NGC 3324, Gabriel Minstral Nebula HaRGB with OSC. https://astrob.in/geg3ls/0/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure 🗓 February, 16th to 19th. 2023 📍 Giruá, RS, Brazil. Bortle 4. 🔭 FotonAstro Newtonian 200mm f4 📷 asi2600mc 🕹 ZWO AM5. 🕶 Built-in UV/IR and Antlia ALP-T - ...

9r2Sm_nN5V2Q_620x0_esdlMP5Y[1].png https://astrob.in/p1glyv/B/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure NGC 2451 and NGC 2477 in Puppis Beautiful and not-so-often photographed targets. The H-alpha region we can see in this picture is part of Vela´s Supernova Remnant. The targets that name this framing are ...

https://astrob.in/ojmrom/0/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure Gum 15 (RCW32) in Vela Constellation, rgb osc - no filters. Gum 15, also known as RCW32, in the constellation Vela and about 3000 light years away. 🗓 January, 23th to 27th. 2023 📍 Giruá, RS, Brazil. Bortle 4. 🔭 FotonAstro Astropipe 200MM ...

https://astrob.in/m406x4/D/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure Carina Nebula and surroundings, HaRGB combination with OSC. This was the first light of the fast newtonian Sharpstar 13028HNT. 🗓 February, 10th to 12th. 2023 📍 Giruá, RS, Brazil. Bortle 4. 🔭 Sharpstar 13028HNT (Newtonian, 130mm f2.8) 📷 as...

https://astrob.in/ojmrom/C/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure Gum 15 (RCW32) in Vela Constellation, rgb osc Gum 15, also known as RCW32, in the constellation Vela and about 3000 light years away. 🗓 January, 23th to 27th. 2023 📍 Giruá, RS, Brazil. Bortle 4. 🔭 FotonAstro Astropipe 200MM F4 Newtonian A...

https://astrob.in/kqum5v/0/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure Pencil Nebula and a portion of Vela Constellation. Wide Field. The idea was to create a mixture of several hours of RGB data with the asi6200mc camera's built-in UV/IR filter and a few hours of narrowband data to enhance the thin lines of...

c6LKQQUNGS-D_620x0_CvlzE9Ft[1].png https://astrob.in/men1p3/B/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure Molecular Clouds in Chamaeleon This framing shows an area of star formation (one of the closest we have from earth, only 500ly) in the constellation of Chamaeleon. The brightest nebula (blue nebula up in...

9GgWkYGLG2qs_620x0_CvlzE9Ft[1].png https://astrob.in/i5ho0d/0/ https://astrob.in/i5ho0d/0/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure Seagull Nebula (IC 2177) and Thor’s Helmet (NGC 2359) The Seagull Nebula consists of IC 2177 (the wings), a region of nebulosity and NGC 2327 (the head), some 3.650 light-year...

https://astrob.in/9rx37a/B/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure IC447, Reflection Nebula in Monoceros. RGB + Duo narrowband OSC. Starless version of the rgb and the narrowband flows were blended then rgb stars were put back. This is the last processing of 2022. Here in Brazil we are about 1h from the ...

https://astrob.in/az64nh/0/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure The Rosette Nebula in RGB color camera (caldwell 49 and NGC2244 Cluster) What is special about this processing? Exactly nothing. And that was my point all along. I wanted a Rosette nebula without filters (I just used a luminance filter to...

https://astrob.in/ky125z/0/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure Mighty Alnitak, Horsehead and the Flame. Newtonian Astrograph Version. OSC camera. Alnitak is a Big star. Not just one, it actually is a 3-stars system. The biggest is estimated to be up to 33 times as massive as the Sun and with a diamet...

https://astrob.in/yel8du/0/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure jgf NGC2170, aka The Angel Nebula. Newtonian Astrograph Version. OSC camera. A very faint complex of emission, reflection and dark nebulae in the constellation Monoceros. It´s hard to acquire the data and also hard to process it. I tried ...

https://astrob.in/se5sgf/0/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure M78 nebula, NGC2071 Newtonian Astrograph Version. OSC camera. Newtonian Astrograph. About the Target: M78 It's a reflection nebula (clouds of interstellar dust that shine due to reflected and scattered light from nearby stars) that's part...

https://astrob.in/1ak1gh/0/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure Orion Nebula (M42) and the Running Man Nebula (NGC1977) Newtonian Astrograph version Still in the process of discovering the best workflow for this fast newtonian. I´ve tried since I started in astrophotography to achieve a decent M42. We...

https://astrob.in/bmk8e7/B/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure Tarantula Nebula in Duo Narroband OSC, 200mm Newtonian. Reprocessed, wider version This is the third production of mine with the new Newtonian Astrograph described in the specifications. It´s been a quite hard learning curve, but I am pro...

1vWUQ5VDfCJi_620x0_CvlzE9Ft[1].png Tarantula Nebula in Duo Narroband OSC, 200mm Newtonian. https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/1vWUQ5VDfCJi_16536x0_EwouY30K.png This is the third production of mine with the new Newtonian Astrograph described in the specifications. It´s been a quite hard learning curve,...

GBm9DErIEeyx_620x0__sPnTECk[1].png Portion of the Large Magellanic Cloud , NGC2020, NGC2014, NGC2040, NGC2032, etc. The portrait features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020, along with other NGC's, which together form part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Clou...

https://astrob.in/1pkwu0/0/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure The Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) and surroundings. OSC camera. This image consists of a composition between a 7h integration image with an UV/IR filter and a 3.5h integration image with a Duo-Narrowband filter to pull some of the faint h...

https://astrob.in/707tos/0/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure NGC 253, also named Sculptor Galaxy is one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible. This dusty galaxy lies 11 million light-years away. About 70 thousand light-years across, NGC 253 is the largest member of the Sculptor Group of Galaxies...

https://astrob.in/o773u2/0/ Z2mEYXlF-t2i_620x0__sPnTECk[1].png The Rosette Nebula is a vast emission nebula located about 5,200 light years away. The star forming region lies near a large molecular cloud in the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. It is closely associated with the young open star c...

https://astrob.in/tf0icz/0/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure M78, Barnard´s Loop and LDN1622 in Orion LDN 1622 is a dark nebula in Orion. It is known as the Boogeyman Nebula due to both its shape and its dark color. the obscuring dust of LDN 1622 is thought to be much closer than Orion's more famou...

https://astrob.in/707tos/0/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure The Sculptor Galaxy, NGC253 NGC 253, also named Sculptor Galaxy is one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible. This dusty galaxy lies 11 million light-years away. About 70 thousand light-years across, NGC 253 is the largest member of th...

https://astrob.in/sd4ugw/0/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure From WR-134 to The Tulip Nebula in Cygnus (SHO) Very hard target for us in the south, it only rises about 24 degrees height where I live (-28). 🗓 September, 23rd to 25th. 2022 📍 Giruá, RS, Brazil. Bortle 4. 🔭 ASKAR FRA400 refractor 📷 asi2...

https://astrob.in/b0f52a/0/rawthumb/regular/get.jpg?insecure The Seven Sisters (Pleiades Star Cluster, M45) in Taurus. I tried to be truthful to this target. This part of the sky has a wide area of little-to-none real background, and my goal was to show the cluster with details but also not to kill...