Starship Asterisk*

North America and Pelican Nebulas in Narrowband OSC

This target rises no more than 15 degress up in the sky where I live.
The amount of details came as a surprise for me.
I have used 2x drizzle integration for this target.

🗓 September, 02nd. 2022
Giruá, RS, Brazil. Bortle 4.
ASKAR FMA230 refractor
asi2600mc camera
🕶 Antlia 5mm ALP-T duo narrow band filter (25x300s, total 2h5')
pixinsight, photoshop

Copyrights: Raul Villaverde, Domingo Pestana & Nicolas Romo
Asociacion Astronomica de Ocentejo

IC 1805 _procesado_2022 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

Please find attached my image for consideration for APOD, Facebook Sky, or Instagram “Universe View Screen.”

This image of M31 is 12 hours of Luminance, 8 hours of color, with 14 hours of Ha data. Totaling 34 hours worth of data across 6 nights.

Software used Astropixel Processor, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Lightroom.

Location: Backyard, Connecticut USA, Bortle 4-5
Total integration: 34 hours
Acquisition Dates: August 2022, September 2022 (6 nights)

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ85 ED Refractor
Mount: Skywatcher Eq6r pro,
Main camera: ZWO ASI 2600MM, MC
Guidecam: ZWO ASI120MC
Controller: ZWO ASIAIR Plus
Filters: Chroma Lum, 3nm Ha

Thank you kindly for considering!

Messier 39 and area

In HALrgb & OIII for PN M 1-79 planetary nebula
Astrobin (full res): https://www.astrobin.com/full/vsxfcj/0/?mod=&real=
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OlivierPhotographie/
Copyright: Olivier Romain


EXPOSURE:
Ha= 119x300s, bin 1x1, -10c
OIII= 63x300s, bin 1x1, -10c
L= 43x300s, bin 1x1, -10c,
R= 12x300s, bin 1x1, -10c
G= 10x300s, bin 1x1, -10c
B= 13x300s, bin 1x1, -10c

EQUIPMENT:
Télescope: Takahashi FSQ106EDX f/5
Mounts: Eq8 skywatcher
Camera: Moravian 16200

Kind regards, Romain.

IC 410: A Cosmic Pond of Dust and Gas



New poster here. Constructive criticism welcome!

Equipment:
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach2GTO
Imaging Camera: ZWOASI6200mm-Pro
Telescope: WO FLT 132mm
Filters: Chroma 3nm Ha/S2/O3

Image Details:
Ha - 56x900s
S2 - 39x900s
O3 - 37x900s
Total integration - 33 hours
Bortle 7 skies

Processed in PixInsight.

Jupiter - GRS at the limb on September 12th, Now nearing opposition and will be closest in seventy years to earth. (LX200ACF 305mm OTA, CGE Mount, ASI290mm Cmos, PowerMate 2.5x Barlows, Astronomik RGB filter sets.)

Sharpless 1 and C/2017 K2 PanSTARRS by Blake Estes, on Flickr

Sharpless 1 and C/2017 K2 PanSTARRS

Technical details are as follows:
Paramount ME
Celestron C14 Edge HD
Starizona Hyperstar 14 V4
Optolong L-Pro Luminance filter
ZWO ASI 6200MC Color Camera
24x120sec exposures
Processed in APP and Lightroom
Aurora HDR

Total exposure was 48 minutes and was a joint effort by me and Dr. Christian Sasse

Moon rise on Medieval Cairo by Wael Omar, on Flickr

"Mohamed Ali " Mosque was built on 1848 AD . This mosque is known as the "Alabaster Mosque", in reference to its marble paneling on its interior and exterior walls. The mosque’s twin minarets are the highest in all of Egypt, each reaching a height of 84 meters. Its l is located inside the Citadel of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi (Saladin) which is one of the most iconic monuments in Islamic Cairo, and among the most impressive defensive fortresses dating to the Middle Ages, You can find it as the wall surrounding the Mosque in the image.

This was really a challenging shot. I planned for it for several days to find the best location in a very crowded area down town to put the moon within the same frame with " Mohamed Ali " mosque and Citadel of "Salah Al Deen".
I climbed an old Minaret that was built in Medieval ages away by 2 km from the Citadel to observe the moon rising beside the Minaret of the Mosque . I use canon 200 D with Sigma lens 600mm . The imaging session was really exhausting in very hot weather and climbing old stairs inside the high minaret but I really enjoyed the result at the end.
Settings : iso 800 . F5.7 - 4/5 second at focal lens 150 mm.
For the moon 13 shots , iso 200- F 5 - 1/10 sec at 150 mm to make HDR moon.
Image credit : Wael Omar WO / https://www.instagram.com/waelomar_astrophotography/
Location : Cairo, EGYPT

BARNARD 272 - DARK NEBULA

The central image is of the Barnard 272 nebula, any resemblance to Sauron's symbol in rings of power is pure coincidence.

BEST DETAILS:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/vuxpxs/C/

EQUIPMENT:
Esprit 150mm triplet
ASI 6200mc
Mount CEM120
96x300"

LOCATION: Munhoz - MG - Brazil
DATES: 08/04/2022 to 23/10/2022

Author: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
(Organizing author of the book Amateur Astrophotography in Brazil)
https://clubedeautores.com.br/livro/ast ... -no-brasil

Located in the constellation of Scorpius this dark nebula is known as SL 17.
The nebula resembles the shape of a wolf's profile and often is referred as the Wolf Nebula.
SL17 is situated in the emission nebula RCW113 (or Gum 55).

Askar FRA400 refractor
Asi294mm camera
Ioptron CEM26 mount
Antlia filters
60x 180s Ha
97x 120s B
49x 120s R
39x 120s R
Total 9h10" integration time

Pixinsight, Photoshop.

Giruá, Brazil. Bortle 4 zone.

Blue Rays and a Golden Lion - Sh2-132 starless version

Copyright: Bogdan Borz

This is a starless version of the Lion Nebula, in the Hubble palette, using narrowband filters.

Telescope: Teleskop Service ONTC Newtonian 250mm @ 3.8
Mount: Skywatcher AZEQ6 Pro
Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MM filtres Astrodon Ha, OIII, SII 3nm;
Software: Sequence Generator Pro, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Starnet2
Dates : 8 nights between July 3 - Sept 8 2022
SII 106 x 300s
Ha 84 x 300s
OIII 89 x 300s
Backyard Bortle 8, Toulouse, France
Dates: July 3 - Sept 8
Total exposure: 23h15'

Andromeda Galaxy

42 Hours of 120s subframes
Rasa8
120s subframes
2600mcpro @ 0c
Celestron Rasa light pollution filter.
Bortle 8
Creator: @astroaloha_photography
www.astroaloha.com
IG: Astroaloha_photography
(c) Steve Duke


Higher Resolution:
https://www.astroaloha.com/astrophotogr ... 67cf29ae3b

Vela SNR by Mathieu Guinot, sur Flickr

Vela (or SNR G263.9-03.3) is one of the closest known to us supernova remnant, located in the southern constellation Vela. Its source Type II supernova exploded approximately 11,000–12,300 years ago, and was about 800 light-years away.

I chose the SHO rendition instead of the more classical (but so beautiful) HOO versions in order to restitute the richness of the color shades of this wonderful target, and to bring a personal vision into it.

Datas from Telescope LIve website, taken at HEAVEN'S MIRROR OBSERVATORY, AUSTRALIA from 2020/12/17 to 2022/06/15

FSQ106
FLI PL16803
Paramount MX+

H : 67x300s
S : 58x300s
O : 67x300s

Processed with Pixinsight & Photoshop

3h48’ integration divided in R, G and B filters
With the Asi294mm camera
FRA400 refractor from Askar.
Location: Giruá, Brazil. bortle 4 zone.
August,20th. 2022.

Please find attached my image for consideration for APOD, Facebook Sky, or Instagram Universe View Screen.

This image of NGC 3324 is from Martin Pugh’s El Sauce Observatory data that I processed.

Software used Astropixel Processor, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Lightroom.

Gabriela Mistral Nebula (NGC 3324)

Credit: Image processing by Gil Ching. Data acquisition by Martin Pugh, El Sauce Observatory, Chile.
Telescope: Planewave CDK17
Acquisition Date: March 2021. Processed 9/16/2022
Processing in LRGB with SHO Blend

Thank you for considering,
Gil Ching

Mellote-15: Heart of the Heart Nebula (IC-1805)

Target: IC-1805 / Mellote-15
Imaging Telescope: Explore Scientific ED127 CF
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro
Guide Scope: Explore Scientific ED127 CF
Guide Camera: ZWO 290mm-Mini
Mount: Sky Watcher EQ8-R Pro
Polar Alignment: ASIAir Plus
Bortle Class: 6
Filter: Chroma 3nm
60 x 300s (Ha)
36 x 600s (Ha)
70 x 300s (OIII)
70 x 300s (SII)
Integration: PixInsight

Full Resolution: https://astrob.in/8nnz4s/0/

M12 is a globular cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus, and it is about 16kly away from us. I often use clusters to focus the telescope.

This image was taken on 8-2-22 with the 1m Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain. The telescope is operated by the Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA)

The image consists of 10 unfiltered 4 second exposures and six 10 second exposure each in RGB.

Total exposure time is 3 minutes and 40 seconds.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/157002650 ... 302141115/

Target: M27 aka the Dumbbell Nebula in LRGB

Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/nixw5x
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colorado_astro

Equipment:
ASI533MM-Pro camera
Astrodon 1.25" LRGB filters
Orion 8" f/4 Newtonian telescope
Skywatcher Quattro CC

Image Details:
L - 120x60s, bin 1x1, -10c, gain 100
R - 80x120s, bin 1x1, -10c, gain 100
G - 80x120s, bin 1x1, -10c, gain 100
B - 80x120s, bin 1x1, -10c, gain 100
10 hrs total integration

Acquisition/Processing:
NINA, Sharpcap, PHD2 / Pixinsight, Photoshop CC

THE BUTTERFLY NEBULA ( NGC6302)

It is a bipolar planetary nebula, with two apparent lobes, located in the constellation of Scorpiun.

BEST DETAILS:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/l8swxd/0/

EQUIPMENT:
Esprit 150mm triplet
ASI 6200mc
Mount CEM120
150x300"
100x50"

LOCATION: Munhoz - MG - Brazil
DATES: 07/13/2022 and 08/02/2022

Author: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
(Organizing author of the book Amateur Astrophotography in Brazil)
https://clubedeautores.com.br/livro/ast ... -no-brasil

NGC6914 Complex

The image corresponds to the NGC6914 complex, a beautiful area in the constellation of the swan, with a great variety of objects and different types of nebulae that provide spectacular colors.

Image was obtained last August from my own remote observatory at Àger, Catalonia, Spain.
Total integration time is 28h and 45' with a Vixen Visac F9 telescope, 1800mm focal length, QHY268M camera and LRGB and Ha filters.

Technical details and the high resolution image can be found in the following link at astrobin:



Best Regards,
Daniel Trueba.

Abell 2151 - Hercules Galaxy Cluster
Copyright Michael Deger
https://galaxyphoto.de/wp-content/uploa ... n-full.jpg


Image details and MouseOver for object identification: https://galaxyphoto.de/en/abell2151/


Kind regards
Michael Deger

IC 5201 in Grus (The Crane)

IC 5201 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Grus at a distance of 40 million light years.Given its apparent dimensions, means that IC 5201 is about 90,000 light years across. It was discovered by Joseph Lunt in 1900 from Cape Town Observatory in South Africa. IC 5201 is characterised by its bright bar, that measures 0.6 × 0.16 arc minutes. The galaxy has multiple thin arms which contain a large number of HII regions, where new stars are born.
IC 5201 is characterised as an isolated galaxy. Despite the fact IC 5201 does not belong to a galaxy group.

Image was aquired in Observatorio Cielos Albertinos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069128023709

More info at
www.baskies.com.ar

Best Regards
Sergio

IC-1396 or the "Elephant Trunk" Nebula in SHO. This nebula is located in the constellation Cepheus roughly 2,400 light-years from Earth spanning about 20 light-years across. This nebula is composed of cooler gasses that block light on its way back to us, giving it it’s notorious shape of an “Elephant Trunk”.

Imager - Keaton Schoech
Target - IC-1396
Location – Columbus, KS, 66725 (Bortle 4)
Dates – August 4th-6th 2022
Total Integration - 17.4 hours
Integration Exposures:
Unity Gain
HA - 78 x 300 seconds
SII - 74 x 300 seconds
OIII - 60 x 300 seconds
Dark Frames - 20 x 300 seconds
Flat Frames - 0
Dark Flat Frames - 0
All shot at -10 degrees Celsius
Equipment:
Mount - Ioptron CEM-70
Tripod - Ioptron Tri-Pier
Imaging Telescope - Astro-Tech RITCHEY-CHRÉTIEN 6"
Telescope Corrector - N/A
Camera - ZWO ASI294MM Pro
Filter Wheel - ZWO EFW 7-position 36mm (unmounted)
Filters - ZWO 36mm unmounted LRGB, NB- HA, SII, OIII (7nm)
Focuser - Pegasus Astro Focus Cube V2
Guide Camera - ZWO ASI 120MM Mini
Guide Scope - Astromania 60mm with helical focuser
SBVONY 1.25" IR Cut filter (for guide camera)
Dew Heaters - Kiwifotos USB powered x2
Polar Aligned using Ioptron IPolar
Auxiliary Accessories - mounted USB green laser pointer
Software:
N.I.N.A., PHD2, Deep Sky Stacker, Processed in Pixinsight

Socials:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AstroGeek.SEK
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/astrogeek_/?hl=en

Target: SNRG082.2 in Cygnus This is a very faint Supernova remnant in the Cygnus region. I randomly found this area in Stellarium and wasn't expecting much. But I was pleasantly surprised. There isn't much information on the web about this target, but it contains some interesting Oxygen 3 filaments. I may try and get more data on this region to try and get more detail on the OIII.

Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/wr1z4g/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colorado_astro/

Equipment:
ASI2600MM-Pro camera
Antlia 36mm 3nm SHO filters
Orion 6" f/4 Newtonian telescope
Starizona Nexus .75x Reducer/CC @ f/3
Bee Link Mini PC

Image Details:
Ha - 60x300s, bin 1x1, -10c, gain 100
OIII - 40x300s, bin 1x1, -10c, gain 100
SII - 40x300s, bin 1x1, -10c, gain 100
11.4 hrs total integration
Bortle 5

Acquisition/Processing:
NINA, Sharpcap, PHD2 / Pixinsight, Photoshop CC

2 great nights on Jupiter
Full version : https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/9HoV04z ... 2EQU70.jpg

The nights of 11 and 12 September were particularly good (even excellent at few moments) in Paris; especially the night of the 11th as far as my balcony is concerned!
Here's a small selection of the best images (trying to vary the look of the planet a bit...) from those two nights.
The images of the 11th are on top and those of the 12th on the bottom ; you can see the difference of quality according to the time, the elevation of the planet and the seeing... the best one is probably the one of the 11th at 23h20 UT, with some beautiful details up to both of the poles...
Animation of the global rotation of Jupiter made with these images is available here : https://youtu.be/e8wHQNqScag

Takahashi Mewlon 210 - AZEQ6 - ASI 462c - ADC ZWO - Barlow 2x
11 & 12 Septembre 2022 - Paris (France)

Copyright: Jean-Baptiste Auroux
https://millenniumphoton.com/
https://www.astrobin.com/users/Jean-Baptiste_Paris/