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Dolphin nebular SH2-308. This nebula is ~70 000 old. The blue color is from the ioniezed oxygen. It’s in aprox. 5200 Lightyears distance to my house. 20x90 Seconds in RGB & 2x ~13 hours in OII + h-alpha line. The data for the Picture was captured during Jan & Feb 2025.

Captured with the qhy268c gain 56 a 94EDPH APO, tracked with a cem26.
Stackend in Pixinsight and PP in Photoshop.

Here is a version of M33, the triangulum galaxy with a hygrogen alpha layer brought by my friend Hugo. You can view my friend work on his Instagram page, thanks to him for his help in this collaboration. We have mostly the same gear, so, making an HaRGB composition wasn't a big deal. We look forward to make more collaborations of this kind to achieve better results in our respective astrophotography.

My friend's intagram page: www.instagram.com/h.u.g.o_astro/

● Object specifications:
 ► Designation: M 33
 ► Object type: Spiral galaxy
 ► Stellar coordinates:
  -Ra: 1h 33m 50,37s.
  -DEC: +30° 39′ 40.2″.
 ► Distance: ~2.7M Ly.
 ► Constellation: Triangle.
 ► Magnitude: 5.72

● Gear:
 ► Telescope: SW 200/1000 F5
 ► Mount: IOptron CEM60-ec, Skywatcher Neq-6 goto
 ► Camera: QHY294C, ZWO asi294C
 ► Autoguiding: guidescope 50mm + ZWO asi
  120mm, /
 ► Other optic(s): TS coma corrrector Maxfield 0.95X, /
 ► Filter(s): Optolong L-pro 2", Optolong L-ultimate 2"

● Softwares:
 ► Acquisition: Nina
 ► Autoguiding: PHD guiding 2
 ► Preprocessing: PixInsight
 ► Processing: PixInsight, Photoshop

● Data acquisition:
 ► total ~4H
► RGB: ~2H, 3min/sub
► Ha: ~2H, 3min/sub

The California Nebula is an emission nebula located in the constellation Perseus. Its name comes from its resemblance to the outline of the US State of California. It is approximately 1 thousand light years away from Earth.

I imaged this target over several nights with a total integration time of 11 hours. I used the following equipment:

William Optics FLT132 with Flat8 0.72x reducer/flattener
ZWO ASI2600MC Pro with Optolong L-Ultimate 3nm Ha & Oiii narrowband filter.
ZWO AM5 mount with ASIAir Plus.

I used PixInsight and Affinity Photo 2 for pre and post processing respectively.

More acquisition details in Astrobin: app.astrobin.com/i/hikwgj

Thanks for looking.

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Eduardo

SH2-157, also known as the Lobster Claw Nebula, is a bright emission nebula located about 11,000 light-years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia.

I started imaging this target in November 2024. Unfortunately, due to bad weather, I haven't been able to get back to it as it has now disappeared behind a large tree on the North/NW. I may get back to this target in 2025.

I acquired this image with:

* William Optics FLT132 telescope with the FLAT8 0.72x reducer/flattener.
* ZWO 2600MC Pro camera.
* Antlia ALT-P dualband 5nm Ha & Oiii filter
* Optolong L-Ultimate 3nm Ha & Oiii filter.
* ZWO AM5 mount with ASIAir plus.

Pre and post processed in PixInsight and Affinity Photo 2.

Total integration of 7hours + 35 minutes over two nights.

More information in Astrobin: app.astrobin.com/i/ceqfkf

Thanks for looking.

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Eduardo

This has been a challenging target. As usual the weather has not been cooperating for the last couple of months, so initially I was only getting a few hours of clear skies here and there. I also had to discard a lot of subs due to low clouds/fog, etc..., so I was very close to giving up at one point. Luckily, I had a few clear(ish) nights over the last week and managed to get overall >23 hours integration time with different filters. All is well that ends well!! :-)

* Telescope: William Optics FLT132 w/ Flat8 0.72x reducer
* Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro cooled colour camera
* Filters: Optolong L-Ultimate 3nm dualband (Ha & Oiii), Antlia ALP-T 5nm dualband (Ha & Oiii) and Antlia ALP-T 5nm dualband (Hb & Sii)
* Mount: ZWO AM5 with ASIAir Plus
* Integration: 23h18m
* Post-Processing: PixInsight + Affinity Photo 2

I didn't think the Hb + Sii filter would get much signal, but at 10 minutes subs, I was able to see the contour of the core of the nebula in reddish (Sii) and the inside in blue (Hb). So, I'm glad I dedicated some time to the Hb+Sii filter.

More acquisition details in Astrobin: astrob.in/437k1m/G/

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Some basic info on NGC7822 from Wikipedia:

NGC 7822 is a young star forming complex in the constellation of Cepheus approximately 2,935 light years away. The complex encompasses the emission region designated Sharpless 171, and the young cluster of stars named Berkeley 59. The complex is believed to be some 800–1000 pc distant, with the younger components aged no more than a few million years.

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Deep Sky Object NGC 7000

North America nebula was photographed under a 100% Full "Hunter's" Moon.

63 Lights x 300 sec
25 Darks
30 Flats
50 Bias

Redcat 51
ASI2600MC Pro
Star Adventurer GTi
ASIAIR Plus
L-Ultimate filter
Bortle 5

Stacked and part processed in PixInsight, Lightroom and Photoshop

The Soul Nebula is an emission nebula located in Cassiopeia, 6,500 lightyears away. It is a cloud of cosmic gas and dust 150 lightyears wide that's being illuminated and carved by powerful streams of charged particles emanating from an open cluster of stars.

This image of the Soul Nebula completes my project to image the three main nebulae in the same region. The Heart Nebula (IC1805) flic.kr/p/2qgwVE8, The Fish Head Nebula (NGC896) flic.kr/p/2qg6dbf and the Soul Nebula.

Starless version here: flic.kr/p/2qkE9hs

The weather has not been great over the last month, but I managed to get close to 26 hours integration time over 5 separate nights.

Equipment:
* William Optics FLT132 with the FLAT8 0.72x reducer.

* ZWO ASI2600MC Pro cooled camera with 2 narrowband/dualband filters: Optolong L-Ultimate 3nm Ha & Oiii, and Antlia 5nm Ha & Oiii.

* ZWO AM5 mount with ASIAir Plus.

* Processed with PixInsight and Affinity Photo 2

More integration and acquisition information in my Astrobin page: astrob.in/jjjpim/0/

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My Heart Nebula photo was the result of an experiment with a new filter, the Optolong L-Ultimate narrowband filter. It is hasn't all of the frames that I want, but will work on later in the year.

Heart Nebula as seen from my Duoband filter, Hydrogen Alpha (Ha) and Oxygen III (OIII).

Bortle 5 sky
ASI2600MC-Pro
Redcat 51 Refractor
L-Ultimate filter
ZWO AM5N Mount
ZWO 30mm mini and 120mm guide camera and scope
215 x 300 seconds. 30 Dark, Flats and Bias.

Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop.

And a few clear skies!

I have photographed the Heart Nebula before, and was always curious and interested in the little appendix in the corner. It can easily be overlooked when looking at the much larger and impressive details of the Heart Nebula (see flic.kr/p/2qgwVE8). This time, I decided to spend some quality time imaging NGC896; I love the intricate patterns of dark dust clouds interspersed with brighter regions full of young stars.

In total, I've managed to acquire 27 hours of narrowband data, with both the Optolong L-Ultimate (3nm Ha & Oiii) and with the Antlia ALP-T 5nm Ha & Oiii filters. I used the ZWO ASI2600MC Pro camera, on an AM5 mount with ASIAir Plus. Processed with PixInsight + Affinity Photo 2.

This is the Starless SHO palette colours. Please see the HOO with stars here: flic.kr/p/2qg6dbf

More acquisition details in Astrobin: astrob.in/cf11hv/D/

I hope you like it and perhaps be inspired to spend some time imaging and/or admiring this somewhat overlooked but beautiful nebula.

Thanks for looking.

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Eduardo


===== From Wikipedia ====
The Fish Head Nebula, or the Northern Bear Nebula, is part of a large star forming system of gas and dust located along the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way. The nebula is located in the Constellation Cassiopeia, approximately 6,000 light-years from Earth and is adjacent to the much larger Heart Nebula. The brighter region of the nebula is designated NGC 896 and is the home to many young and large stars. These stars radiate high amounts of ultraviolet light. This UV radiation excites the surrounding gas and causes it to shine at a high brightness.

I have photographed the Heart Nebula before, and was always curious and interested in the little appendix in the corner. It can easily be overlooked when looking at the much larger and impressive details of the Heart Nebula (See flic.kr/p/2qgwVE8). This time, I decided to spend some quality time imaging NGC896; I love the intricate patterns of dark dust clouds interspersed with brighter regions full of young stars.

In total, I've managed to acquire 27 hours of narrowband data, with both the Optolong L-Ultimate (3nm Ha & Oiii) and with the Antlia ALP-T 5nm Ha & Oiii filters.

I used my William Optics FLT 132 with the Flat8 0.72x reducer, the ZWO ASI2600MC Pro camera, on an AM5 mount with ASIAir Plus. Processed with PixInsight + Affinity Photo 2.

Please see the starless / SHO palette here: flic.kr/p/2qg7Hpe

More acquisition details in Astrobin: astrob.in/cf11hv/0/

I hope you like it and perhaps be inspired to spend some time imaging this somewhat overlooked but beautiful nebula.

Thanks for looking.

Clear Skies
Eduardo


===== From Wikipedia ====
The Fish Head Nebula, or the Northern Bear Nebula, is part of a large star forming system of gas and dust located along the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way. The nebula is located in the Constellation Cassiopeia, approximately 6,000 light-years from Earth and is adjacent to the much larger Heart Nebula. The brighter region of the nebula is designated NGC 896 and is the home to many young and large stars. These stars radiate high amounts of ultraviolet light. This UV radiation excites the surrounding gas and causes it to shine at a high brightness.

The Flying Dragon Nebula, SH2-114, in the constellation Cygnus. It's a very faint nebula that wasn't as easy as I thought to capture and process. The wing is on the left, body in the middle and the long neck and head on the right. I processed the photo only to scrap the hours of work and restarting from scratch at least 5 times in order to get a photo I found satisfactory.

Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 8" with a .7 reducer
Mount: Losmandy GM811G
Camera: ASI2600MC
216x300" about 18 hours
Pixinsight, Photoshop, Lightroom for processing
Bortle 7.1

Located about 7500 light years away in the constellation Cassiopeia lies IC 1805, the Heart Nebula and IC 1794, the Fish Head or Northern Bear Nebula.

This was the first light photo using the Starizona Hyperstar 8 v4 that changed my telescope to a 390mm f/1.9 lens. I was worried about the stars in the corners because they looked really odd, but RC Astro's BlurXTerminator took care of them. This photo only contained Hydrogen alpha (Ha) and Oxygen III (OIII) wavelengths but I actually liked the way the Ha looked so I didn't use any other wavelength.

Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 8" with Starizona Hyperstar 8" v4
Mount: Losmandy GM811G
Camera: ASI2600MC Pro
Filter: Optolong L-Ultimate
Exposure: 30"x400
Software: Pixinsight, RC Astro, Photoshop, Lightroom
Bortle 7.1

Roughly 10 hours total integration taken from the driveway at home under Bortle 5/6 sky but also under 50-75% moon over 4 nights, dual narrowband filter working its magic for sure

Difficult target to shoot for us in Australia with it being so low in the sky

2 panel stitch of the Vela Supernova Remnant with the goal of creating a 4 panel mosaic; been getting an unbelievable run of clear nights here in Brisbane so I've been busy trying to get as much time on the target as I can. Unfortunately the Supernova sets quite early now so even with the clear nights there's not much time to shoot. So far total integration time's about 13 hours all up with roughly 6.5 hours spent on each panel.

Taken with a H-alpha modified Canon 77D, Askar FRA500 telescope + 0.7x reducer, Optolong L-Ultimate dual narrowband filter tracked with Proxisky UMi 17 Lite Harmonic Drive mount under Bortle 5 sky.

"The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula is a dense region of dust and gas found within the considerably larger star forming region IC 1396 in Cepheus constellation. Designated IC 1396A, the elongated globule of dust and gas was named the Elephant’s Trunk because it resembles an elephant’s head and trunk at visible wavelengths, appearing as a dark patch with a bright winding rim. It is located at a distance of 2,400 light years from Earth."

i captured this image with my William Optics FLT132, FLAT8 0.72x reducer, ZWO ASI2600MC Pro camera and ZWO AM5 mount. I used the Antlia Triband RGB Ultra for around 2 hours and then the Optolong L-Ultimate narrowband filter for another 6 hours, with a total 8 hours integration time over two consecutive nights (in 180 and 300 second subs).

Pre and post processed in PixInsight, with final touches in Affinity Photo 2. i used the GeneralizedHyperbolicStretch (ghsastro.co.uk) in PixInsight, which was super useful in extracting/showing the dust clouds in this image. This is the SHO palette with RGB stars.

See the HOO palette version here: flic.kr/p/2pNwVfG

More acquisition details and different versions of the image (variations on the palette) in Astrobin: astrob.in/sl7sof/D/

Thanks for looking

(See the starless version, full on nebula only here: flic.kr/p/2pCaKuW)

I've been trying to image NGC2264 for a while now, but only got 3 nights with partially clear skies so far in march. I was hoping to get more time on it, but the weather forecast is now clouds, clouds and more clouds for the foreseeable future, so I've decided to publish it and may go back to it if/when we get clear skies. This target disappears very early behind a very large oak tree behind my garden, so available time was very limited. I have been pivoting to M64 once NGC2264 disappears behind the tree (see my images for M64 Black Eye Galaxy).

For NGC2264 I decided to use a narrowband filter (Optolong L-Ultimate 3nm Ha and Oiii) to capture the hydrogen and oxygen in this area of space. I used the William Optics FLT132 at its native focal length (910mm at f6.9), and my colour OSC ASI2600MC pro. Pre and post processed in PixInsight and final touches in Affinity Photo 2.

Overall I'm pleased with the resulting image, I hope you like it.

More acquisition details in my astrobin page: astrob.in/5oq4to/B/

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Some information about NGC2264:

From www.constellation-guide.com/christmas-tree-cluster/

"The Christmas Tree Cluster is a young open cluster located in the constellation Monoceros. It is part of the star-forming region NGC 2264, which also contains the Cone Nebula, the Fox Fur Nebula, and the Snowflake Cluster.

The Christmas Tree Cluster lies at an approximate distance of 2,350 light-years and stretches about 30 light-years across. It is a member of the Monoceros OB1 association, a loose association of very young stars located in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way.

The stars in the cluster formed within the emission nebula NGC 2264. They are still heavily obscured by the thick dust clouds that keep producing new stars. The ultraviolet light of the luminous young stars ionizes the surrounding clouds and makes them glow red in long-exposure images.
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Thanks for looking and clear skies
Eduardo

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 cluster NGC 2244.

NGC 2244 appears in the centre of the Rosette. The hot young stars of the cluster were formed from the nebula’s material in the last 5 million years.

I love this Nebula, it's one of my favourite targets. I have imaged it before with the Redcat 51 and the FLT91, but this is a close up of the Rosette Nebula taken with the William Optics FLT132 and F68III 1.0x flatter (at 910mm focal length and f6.9) over 3 nights. Clouds and a bright moon got in the way, but I managed to get over 8 hours integration time over the 3 separate days. For this image, I used the 3nm dual-band (Ha, Oiii) Optolong L-Ultimate 2" filter with the ASI2600MC Pro camera. Pre and post-processed in PixInsight and Affinity Photo 2.

I love the extra details of the nebula compared with the previous images with the RC51 and FLT91. I will upload two versions, one in HOO (flic.kr/p/2puMD8V) and this one in simulated SHO. I hope you like it.

More details in astrobin: astrob.in/2zwu6g/F/

Thanks for looking and Clear Skies!!!

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 cluster NGC 2244.

NGC 2244 appears in the centre of the Rosette. The hot young stars of the cluster were formed from the nebula’s material in the last 5 million years.

I love this Nebula, it's one of my favourite targets. I have imaged it before with the Redcat 51 and the FLT91, but this is a close up of the Rosette Nebula taken with the William Optics FLT132 and F68III 1.0x flatter (at 910mm focal length and f6.9) over 3 nights. Clouds and a bright moon got in the way, but I managed to get over 8 hours integration time over the 3 separate days. For this image, I used the 3nm dual-band (Ha, Oiii) Optolong L-Ultimate 2" filter with the ASI2600MC Pro camera. Pre and post-processed in PixInsight and Affinity Photo 2.

I love the extra details of the nebula compared with the previous images with the RC51 and FLT91. I will upload two versions, one in HOO (this one) and another in simulated SHO (flic.kr/p/2puRpcs). I hope you like it.

More details in astrobin: astrob.in/2zwu6g/B/

Thanks for looking and Clear Skies!!!

IC 410 is located 12,000 lightyears from Earth in the Auriga constellation, and is nicknamed the Tadpole Nebula because of the tadpole-shaped clouds of dark dust that appear to be swimming towards the centre.

The Tadpole Nebula is a region of ionised hydrogen gas spanning over 100 lightyears across that's carved and sculpted by streams of charged particles called stellar winds emanating from open star cluster NGC 1893.

Yesterday was a very cold and clear night (-6c), so I took this image with my William Optics FLT 132, ZWO ASI2600MC Pro colour camera, Optolong L-Ultimate 3nm dual-band (Oiii and Ha) filter, on a ZWO AM5 mount. I obtained just over 4 hours of images, which I pre-processed with PixInsight and post-processed with PixInsight and Affinity Photo 2 to generate the final image.

Thanks for looking, I hope you like it.
Clear skies!!

More details in astrobin: astrob.in/2238pr/C/