Das sind die Nordamerika (links) und Pelikan Nebel (rechts) im Sternbild Cygnus. Getrennt werden die beiden Emissionsnebel durch die so genannte "Great Wall", eine gigantische Staubwolke.
Die Aufnahme ist als HOO Variante entwickelt, also als Falschfarbendarstellung, um die Verteilung der verschiedenen Gasgebiete zu zeigen.
M42 is special for me. It's the reason I started my astronomy journey and it's my favorite object in the winter night sky. I keep coming back to it again and again and it became a nice benchmark of my skills in astrophotography.
I captured this image about a week ago and, while processing, had to find out that there‘s a huge white flare overlaying the whole image. Capturing deep sky at full moon is a bad idea already, but this time, I was too close to it and got a massive moon light leaking into my scope. The data went straight to trash. But I just had to try recovering it. So after a LOT of Photoshop trickery, I ended up with an acceptable image :)
Scope: Askar 103APO
Lens: Askar 0.6x Reducer
Camera: Canon EOS 6Da
Filter: Altair Tri-Band
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ5-GT
Guiding: Svbony SV165 with ZWO ASI224MC
Controller: ZWO ASIAir Pro
Three of the four Galilean Moons are visible in this picture along with, of course, Jupiter. (The fourth one might be to the far right...)
Thought they were a linear smudge or reflection from the planet until I realised they were three distinct other objects. Felt a whoosh of excitement with that revelation!
Taken with my mobile phone up to the lens of our telescope in 2016.
What better way to start the new year than capturing some new photons, right?
This is called the rosette nebula. Located around 5000 lightyears from earth and spreading to a diameter of roughly 130 lightyears, the radiation from the young stars excites the atoms in the nebula, causing them to emit radiation themselves producing the emission nebula we see.
Scope: Askar 103APO
Lens: Askar 0.6x Reducer
Camera: Canon EOS 6Da
Filter: Altair Tri-Band
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ5-GT
Guiding: Svbony SV165 with ZWO ASI224MC
Controller: ZWO ASIAir Pro