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The supergiant star Gamma Cygni, better known as Sadr, is located in the center of this beautiful Hydrogen II emission region, along with a complex of stars, dust clouds and glowing nebulae along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. The field of view extends over 3 degrees (six full moons) in the sky and includes the emission nebula IC 1318 and the open star cluster NGC 6910 (toward the top left of the image). Formed like two glowing cosmic wings separated by a long dark dust alley, IC 1318's popular name is the Butterfly Nebula. Distance estimates from Earth for Sadr are around 1,800 light years, while the estimates for IC 1318 and NGC 6910 are between 2,000 and 5,000 light years. The image is a 6 hour exposure shot from our Alpine yard night before last.

Messier 100 is a spiral design, starburst galaxy, that is seen almost face-on. It is one of the largest and brightest galaxies of the Virgo cluster. As M100 is moving through the Virgo cluster, it is slowly losing some of its gas.
55 million light years away
107,000 light years across

Messier 104 appears as a very small object, but it holds the biggest supermassive black hole ever recorded in any nearby galaxy. Despite its small size, it is a popular target among amateur astrophotographers because of its beautiful dust lanes that cross in front of its luminous center.
50 million light years away
105,000 light years across

The Omega Nebula, also known as M17, is a massive star-forming region in the Sagittarius constellation, 5,500 light-years from Earth. It's a bright, colorful nebula with a 17 light-year diameter and is estimated to contain over 800 times the Sun's material. The Omega Nebula has several nicknames, including the Swan Nebula, the Lobster Nebula, and the Horseshoe Nebula. Astronomer John Herschel named it the Omega Nebula because it resembled the Greek letter
4 Light years across

Overview

Messier 13 (M13), also known as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, is a dense, spherical cluster of hundreds of thousands of stars in the Hercules constellation. It's one of the brightest globular clusters visible from the Northern Hemisphere and is best seen in July. Appearance and visibility: M13 appears as a fuzzy ball of light through binoculars. With a telescope, its dense core reveals countless stars packed together.
26,000 light years away
250 light years across

One of the most popular star clusters.

IC 1848 is an emission nebula spanning about 100 light-years in the constellation Cassiopeia. Also known as the Soul Nebula, it is home to several open clusters of stars and huge evacuated bubbles formed by the winds of young massive stars. Its red tint is due to the emission of hydrogen gas.
7,500 Light years from Earth 🌎
200 Light years across

Located in the constellation Monoceros (the Unicorn), NGC2264 actually designates two astronomical objects: the Cone, a diffuse nebula located in the south, and the Christmas Tree, a young star cluster located in the north. NGC2264's brightest star is S Monocerotis.
2,180 Light years away
24 Light years across

A lunar eclipse occurs during a full moon when the Earth blocks the Sun's light from reaching the Moon.

The Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405, Caldwell 31 & Sh2-229) is a rippling cloud of gas and dust lying about 1,500 light years away in Auriga, the Charioteer. It is one of the finest imaging targets in the northern sky as a large, attractive and famous nebula that’s both an emission (H-II region) and reflection nebula rolled into one. It can be found and observed through a medium- to large-aperture telescope and has the dual advantage that it’s observable all night and rides high close to the zenith at culmination.

Photo By Fluorine Z. & YSF
Image Camera : ZWO ASI2600MMpro
Image Telescope/Lens : SKY ROVER 102APO Pro
Mount : iOptron GEM45-EC
Integration : LRGB 20 hours
Location : Daocheng Obs. @Sichuan, China

Photo By Fluorine Z. & YSF
Image Camera : Touptek ATR2600M
Image Telescope/Lens : SkyWatcher Quattro 150P
Mount : iOptron HAE29C
Filter : R(60sec*30+300sec*11)/G(60sec*30+300sec*11)/B(60sec*30+300sec*11)
Integration : 255min
Location : Lift Up Your Skull Observatory@Shenzhen, China
SQM Readings : 19.5

I have been very fortunate over the past week to have had 7 continuous clear nights which is unheard of here in Devon, in fact I can't ever remember having such a prolonged spell.

This image of the Strawberry or Raspberry nebula is the first from this week. SH2-263 is an emission nebula juxtaposed with the reflection nebula VdB 38. The main sequence, blue giant HD34989, located around 736.26 light years from Earth, illuminates the nebula which is located just north of the star Bellatrix in the head of Orion.

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The Tadpoles

My latest astro image taken recently. The Tadpoles is an emission nebula and star forming region in the constellation Auriga. The colours are determined by assigning the three main bands of emission to the R,G and B respectively - Sulphur SII to R, Hydrogen Alpha to G and Oxygen OIII to Blue. This colour mapping was first developed for the Hubble telescope an hence known as the Hubble palette.

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The Horsehead and Flame nebulae in Orion. The famous Horsehead is a dark nebula, catalogued as Barnard 33, framed by the Hydrogen Alpha emissions of IC434. The large bright star is Alnitak, the furthest East of the three stars of Orion's belt and further east is The Flame Nebula, NGC 2024. Further emission nebulae, including NGC2023, IC435 and VdB51 also feature.

The total image is composed of a total of 7 hours 13 minutes of Hydrogen Alpha and RGB data.

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Wishing you all a Happy New Year.

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H2-174 the Valentine Rose, is a mysterious object and extremely faint at a magnitude of 14.7 located in the northern constellation Cepheus. It's also the most northerly entry in the Sharpless Catalogue at 81° North.

Imaged over several nights in August and September with my colour camera with Ha combined with the pure RGB totalling just over 18 hours.

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