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.
Abell 31/SH2-290 is a very large, but faint planetary nebula in the constellation Cancer. I knew I was in for a challenge when I took my first 10 minute sub of this object and could barely make it out. I gathered 30 hours of exposure time, but it could use a great deal more to help control the noise with the extensive stretching needed.
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
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
I've spent a large number of nights the last month and a half or so fighting with my mount to try to get a good image out of my C8. This is the result. It's about 24 hours of good data. I think I used less than half the data I collected.
Not because I have followers that are #blind, but because I myself want to be able to use the #Fediverse on #narrowband connections ranging from #Iridium to #EDGEland aka. throttled #2G...
And that means saving bandwith using text-only and only loading multimedia and other files if need be...
Mein bisher aufwändigstes Projekt: Der Schleier- oder Cirrusnebel.
Dieses riesige Gebilde aus ionisiertem Gas entstand vor 10.000 bis 20.000 Jahren bei der Supernova eines Sterns von etwa 20-facher Masse unserer Sonne.
Das Bild wurde als Mosaik aus zwei Paneelen von je über 5h Belichtungszeit aufgenommen.
The North America Nebula, also ✨ NGC 7000 ✨. I captured it about a year ago using DSLR but decided to finally pull the trigger and get the narrowband filters.
These Sulfur-2, Hydrogen-alpha and Oxygen-3 filters allowed me to recreate the Hubble telescope color palette (as seen on the famous Pillars of Creation image).