Starship Asterisk*

The Tarantula nebula (30 Doradus) by Logan Carpenter, on Flickr

The Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus)

The Tarantula nebula is located in the large Magellanic Cloud,
a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
This is a somewhat unique target in that we are able to image
a nebula, in some detail, situated in another galaxy.
It is said that if the Tarantula nebula wasas close to earht
as the Orion nebula, it would be visible during the day and
take up a quater of the sky.

Location: Backyard, Auckland, New Zealand

Total integration: 14hrs 20mins in SHO
Telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 2600mmPro
Camera:ASI2600mmPro
Filters: Optolong 7nm narroband filters
Mount: iOptron CEM120

Processed Pixinsight, Photoshop

Full Moon Rise at Abbey of Pannonhalma
Copyright: György Soponyai

Last Wednesday I travelled to Western Hungary in order to observe and capture the rising 99.9% Full Moon. Near Écs village, the Moon could be seen rising next and above the Abbey of Pannonhalma. This Abbey was founded in 996 and has been continuously functioning since then -- it's one of the earliest/oldest historical monument of Hungary. The gothic basilica was built in the 12th century. Today it's an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
I hate making HDR compositions, this is the post-processed result of one single shot.




2021.10.20. Écs, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Tamron EF 150-600 @500mm
0.5s, F/6.3, ISO 500

NGC 247 – Needle’s Eye Galaxy

Field of Galactic Gems!

Copyright: Mark Hanson
I don’t know what else to say other than this field of galactic gems puts a smile on my face. It reminds me of when I visited the crown jewels in London. Think about how many real gems are in this portrait!

You can see the full version here:
https://www.hansonastronomy.com/ngc-247 ... eye-galaxy

Thank you,
Mark Hanson

The Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380)
Starless Version

This image was captured through 3nm ultra-narrowband filters and is a composite of ionized Sulphur, Hydrogen, and Oxygen atoms and displayed with a modified SHO "Hubble" Palette. Data was collected over 2 nights from the 11th to 12th of October 2021 from the outskirts of Vancouver, Canada.


Imaging telescopes or lenses: Planewave CDK 12.5
Mounts: Astro-Physics AP1100 GTO CP4

Chroma 3nm H⍺: 52x300" (4h 20')
Chroma 3nm OIII: 36x300" (3h)
Chroma 3nm Sii: 35x300" (2h 55')

Integration: 10h 15'
Pixel scale: 0.923 arcsec/pixel

Location: San Romualdo - Ravenna (italy)
Sky Bortle 6
Refractor Tecnosky Apo 130/900 - QSI520wsi cooled -10
Avalon M1 - QHY5III 174M on OAG Celestron
Astrodon RGB GenII I-series and Narrowband 5nm filters
HA-OIII-RGB: HA 40x10min, OIII 12x10min, R 30x5min, G 30x5min, B 30x5min
Acquired with: MaximDL5 - Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat.
Processed with: MaximDL5, Astroart8, StarTools1.6, Paint Shop Pro 2021, Photoshop, plugin Topaz and Nik.

The Ghost Nebula Lies Hauntingly Close to the Iris Nebula.

LRGB taken from my Bortle 5 backyard in Ayr Ontario Canada using an Esprit 100ED and ZWO ASI2600MM. Processing done in PixInsight and Photoshop 2021

Copyright: David Jenkins

The Rosette Nebula (Caldwell 49) - Oriented in the 'Skull' position the beautiful rose turns into a spooky space skull. This image was combined with the HOSS color palette and then tweaked to ghastly Halloween color scheme.

Image data collected in Michigan in Febuary, and reprocessed for a Halloween rendition. This image represents ~7 hours of integration time.

Photographer: Joe Schlaf
@astrojoetography

Rosette Nebula - Spooky Skull version by Joe Schlaf, on Flickr

The Wishing Well Cluster

Copyright: Nicolas Adriano

Image URL: https://cdn.astrobin.com/images/67318/2 ... 324b9c.jpg
Acquired by CHI-2 telescope system from Telescope Live
Telescope: ASA 500N
Camera: FLI PL16803
Filters: Astrodon LRGB 2GEN
Mount: ASA DDM85
Location: El Sauce Observatory - Río Hurtado, Coquimbo Region, Chile

L: 2x300"
R: 2x300"
G: 2x300"
B: 2x300"
Total Integration Time: 40'

In the theme of Halloween, I decided to shoot the "Ghost" of Cassiopeia (IC 63) & nearby IC 59.

The bright blue star is Gamma Cassiopeia (Navi) and is the central star in the W-shaped asterism of Cassiopeia.

This image has 30 minutes each of RGB for color (in the nebula and stars) and 8 hours of Hydrogen Alpha to bring out the nebulosity, of which there is quite a bit lingering around this area.

Full resolution:

https://astrob.in/full/4h1itg/0/

Integration Time: 10h

Image captured in September in Michigan

Photographer: Joe Schlaf
@astrojoetography

The Ghost of Cassiopeia by Joe Schlaf, on Flickr

The mind blowing IC5148
https://www.facebook.com/Cielmonchili
The little studied PR IC-5148 exhibits an outer halo with somewhat unusual structures as revealed by the long exposure layer in Oiii.

Copyright: Patrick Dufour

LDN899 Dark Nebula
This is a 6 panel mosaic captured using a 5nm Ha filter on an SBIG ST10XME and TMB130 OTA.
The stars were removed to highlight the Ha and better display what looks like a dusty ghost emerging from the structure.
Frame calibration and mosaic assembly in Astro Pixel Processor and image processing in Photoshop.
Exposure times: Ha-3 hours per panel, RGB- 30 minutes per panel
An HaRGB mouse over color version which also shows reflection nebula NGC6914 can be seen at http://helixgate.net/ldn899-2.html

Copyright: Michael Siniscalchi

M16, the Eagle Nebula.

Captured at the end of this summer from Bortle 5 skies in The Netherlands.

RGB 38 x 180s iso 800

Total exposure time 1 hour 54 minutes

🖥 Edited in AstroPixel Processor, Photoshop and Lightroom
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Sky-watcher HEQ5, TS Optics 115 f/7 Triplet APO, Svbony 60 mm guidescope with a ZWO ASI120MM guidecamera.

🕹ZWO ASIAIR Pro

Canon EOS 750Da

The Cosmic Reef in SHO

Copyright: Bogdan Borz

NGC 2020 and NGC 2014 are located in Dorado, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Both nebulae are shaped by powerful stellar winds. NGC 2020 is the blue circular nebula and the neighbour, displaying warm colors is NGC 2014 in the upper left part of the picture. They are of course only visible from the Southern Hemisphere. Together they are named the "Cosmic Reef".

HD 269748 is a Wolf-Rayet star (Brey )48, located in the center of the NGC 2020 nebula, explaining the the shape of the nebula and the ionized Oxygen that gives its color.

The acquistions were made at Chilescope and the composition is in the Hubble palette.

Location: Rio Hurtado, Chile
Dates: October 2, 5, 6 2021
Exposure: 8h 20'

Full version and technical details : https://www.astrobin.com/full/wz2txi/0/?mod=&real=

Pelican Nebula shot on October 9th from my backyard with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount.

SH2-188, a planetary nebula
https://astrob.in/zis2hv/C/
https://skyandtelescope.org/online-gall ... ry-nebula/
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen

Rho Ophiuchi Star Complex
https://www.astrobin.com/users/roi/
Copyright: Roi Levi
https://cdn.astrobin.com/images/38116/2 ... 1721aa.jpg

Lagoon & Trifid

https://www.astrobin.com/users/roi/
Copyright: Roi Levi
https://cdn.astrobin.com/images/38116/2 ... 2c63a0.jpg

Andromeda Constellations and IFN
Image data:
Andromeda constellation and IFN
Dates: 9/9/2021, 9/10/2021, 8.102021, 10/9/2021
Camera: Canon EOS 6DMod
Lens: Samyang 135 / F2
Mount: iOptron iEQ30 Pro
Exposure: 340x120 "ISO 800 (four panels, 81-89 subframes per panel)
Guiding: Finderscope 9x50 with guiding camera QHY 5LII
Location: Czech Republic, Stranske
Copyright:Martin Vyhlidal