The Flickr Ioptroncem25P Image Generatr

M81 (NGC 3031), M82 (NGC 3034), NGC 3177
47 exposures 300 sec. each.
Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 apochromat refractor, Explore Scientific 1x flattener
ZWO ASI2600MC Pro cooled color CMOS camera, gain 100, -20ºC, IDAS DTD light pollution filter
ZWO EAF autofocuser
ZWO ASIAir Pro controller
iOptron CEM25P mount
auto-guided, SVBONY SV2165 30mm f/4 guide scope, ZWO ASI120MM Mini guide camera
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Lightroom, Photoshop

Supernova 2025gvs in galaxy UGC 10058
12 exposures 300 sec. each.
Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 apochromat refractor, Explore Scientific 1x flattener
ZWO ASI2600MC Pro cooled color CMOS camera, gain 100, -20ºC, IDAS DTD light pollution filter
ZWO EAF autofocuser
ZWO ASIAir Pro controller
iOptron CEM25P mount
auto-guided, SVBONY SV2165 30mm f/4 guide scope, ZWO ASI120MM Mini guide camera
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Lightroom, Photoshop

IC 447, a reflection nebula in the constellation Monoceros. 3hr 25min total exposure, Explore Scientific ED102 (102mm f/7), ZWO ASI2600MC cooled color camera, processed in AstroPixelProcessor and Lightroom.

Well, that's a surprise! Sure looks like a bright meteor photobombed my latest image of Comet C/2023 A3 taken through my smaller telescope. At least I'm pretty sure it's a meteor. I thought it could have been a bright satellite glint or aircraft, many of which inhabit a large fraction of my images. But I couldn't find a bright satellite at this location and time in SkySafari, which maintains an accurate list, and It doesn't really look like an aircraft trail, which usually have multiple solid streaks with shorter dashes from the flashing lights.

It appeared in one of 90 60 second frames taken on the evening of November 1st from suburban Bloomington, Indiana. This is a composite of the frames, combined to register on the comet moving against the stars, and again to register on the stars. The single frame with the meteor was added as a separate layer.

#astrophotography #comet

Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 apochromat refractor
ZWO ASI294MC Pro cooled color CMOS camera, gain 120, -20ºC, ZWO UV/IR cutoff filter
ZWO EAF autofocuser
iOptron CEM25P mount
ZWO ASIAir Pro controller
auto-guided, SVBONY SV2165 30mm f/4 guide scope, ZWO ASI120MM Mini guide camera
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Lightroom, and Photoshop

he Pleiades also known as The Seven Sisters, Messier 45 and other names by different cultures, is an asterism and an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the north-west of the constellation Taurus. At a distance of about 444 light years, it is among the nearest star clusters to Earth. It is the nearest Messier object to Earth, and is the most obvious cluster to the naked eye in the night sky.
The nine brightest stars of the Pleiades are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology: Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygeta, Celaeno, and Alcyone, along with their parents Atlas and Pleione.

The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion.[b] It is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky with apparent magnitude 4.0. It is 1,344 ± 20 light-years (412.1 ± 6.1 pc) away[3][6] and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light-years across (so its apparent size from Earth is approximately 1 degree). It has a mass of about 2,000 times that of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.

The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky and is among the most intensely studied celestial features.[8] The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks and brown dwarfs within the nebula, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula

IC 1396, a complex, dynamic region of star formation in the constellation Cepheus also called the Elephant Trunk Nebula for the prominent column left of center. That's a region of denser material being eroded and energized by nearby hot stars. The image was made in the light of hydrogen, from suburban Bloomington, Indiana.

90 total exposures, 6 min. each (total 9 hours) in six overlapping tiles. Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, 0.8x reducer/flattener, ZWO ASI2600MM Pro monochrome CMOS camera, 7nm H-alpha filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller, auto-guided. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.

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