M16’s region close to the galactic center. Famous for featuring the Pillars of Creation, M16, popularly known as the Eagle Nebula, here resembles the face of a bearded man (can you make it out?).
Took this picture from my rooftop in Mexico City.
After upgrading my desktop's RAM, I was able to process the data we collected on Lower's Nebula. Given the nebula's dim surface and NYC's abysmal light pollution, the resulting image required nearly twenty-six hours of integration time!
Imaging by @alex NYC-Bortle 9 / 311 x 300s subs / Poseidon-C Pro / Z61 (f5.9, 360 mm) / AM5 ZWO asi120mm mini / Anti-Halo PRO Dual-Band Filter
Djaffar a capturé #ngc2237 la #nébuleuse de la Rosette en SHO. 1h20 de poses en tout dont 5 de 5 minutes en H-Alpha, 5 de 5 minutes en O3 et 5 de 5 minutes en S2 avec son matériel habituel, une lunette FRA500 avec son réducteur, ASI 2600mm, Filtres SHO Antlia. Traitement avec #pixinsight
This turned out to be the last picture with my 130 mm Newtonian telescope. Unfortunately, high winds knocked it out despite my ZWO Mount had more than 11 pounds of counterweights to hold it in place. Anyway, the fact that I was able to capture 3 galaxies that are about 35 M-ly away makes me love my hobby no matter what.
This is a work-in-progress image of the Boogeyman Nebula. Located off Orion's left side, this area is rich with red hydrogen alpha gas and dark dust. This image contains about 6 hours of Ha data + 11 hours of broadband data, but it could use quite a bit more. Orion is setting earlier and earlier and the nights are getting shorter, so hopefully I can grab enough data before it's gone for the season.
I published a few weeks ago a widefield view of the Omega Glob Cluster with my Rokinon 135 mm lens. Couldn’t resist to try a closer look with my 130 mm newt, so I shot it again! Wouldn’t you have done the same? Love this yaw dropping cluster!
A bit of random browsing around the night sky stumbled across Sharpless Sh2-140 in Cepheus. 10.5hr data shot with an 80ED and IDAS NBZ filter, processed and Ha & OIII channels extracted in APP, tweaked and combined in PixInsight and Affinity.
If I understood well, our cosmos at the beginning was a very dense but chaotic nebula. With inflation, it started to break into smaller clouds. Gravity pulled some of this gas and started to form stars. These stars, thanks to their energy, carved and shaped these nebulae.
Lower’s nebula, depicted in my attached picture, is a small remnant of this lengthy process.
Yesteryear did not take a picture of this big celestial rose. Yesterday I decided to give it a shot with my Rokinon 135 mm lens to capture it wide field. Though I used a OSC camera, I could through process create a Hubble-ish pallette. The central cluster of huge and very hot stars is catalogued as NGC2244. #Astrodon#astrophotography#astronomy#nebula#space