Happy Christmas everyone! Hope you all have a peaceful, happy and healthy New Year ahead.....Eta Carinae captured over the last few nights with the RASA 8, ASI 294MC Pro & L-eNhanse filter - 240 X 30 sec at gain 125 ✨🎄#Astrophotography

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Not my best image bit definately my favourite capture this year
Orion

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The moon had this cool glowing halo of light around it tonight.

Is there a name for this phenomenon?

https://t.co/7jvkdtXIQV

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Good morning friends

Have a pleasant day!

Heart Nebula


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July - a string of long winter clear nights gave me a chance to complete some big Nebula projects (Lagoon & Trifid, War & Peace in several palettes and the Prawn up close and wide). Plans for a home observatory were also drawn up

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June - “Fate should down you, just get up and take another cuff;
You may bank on it that there is no philosophy like bluff,

And grin.” Robert William Service.

June was the month of big nebulae and staying positive.....

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I took a picture of "Thor's Helmet" in Canis Major from my light-polluted backyard.

This spectacular nebula lies 15,000 light-years from Earth!

5.8 Hour Total Exposure.

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Andromeda turned out better than expected! Rushed the RGB data last night with only a few hours of clear skies. Imaged H-alpha too.

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Here’s my first attempt at the Sadr Region🦋

This image is a 3 hour exposure with the L-eXtreme filter.

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Great of Gorgeous as ever :D 2h41m of narrowband hydrogen-alpha and oxygen-III images taken from my backyard near Berkeley, CA, through my 8" reflector.

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The Orion nebula, captured yesterday from my house in bortle 9 area.
I used a Cosmos 152 refractor for this and asi1600gt
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My picture of the Andromeda galaxy.. 2.5 million light years away from Earth..

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A few reasons I got obsessed with astrophotography , it the next 10 years are as fulfilling as the first , happy days !

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AstroBin's Image of the Day: "WR 134 (V1769 Cyg)" by Luca Marinelli

https://t.co/iffUtIp8pm

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Cygnus Without Stars
Image by Bowen James Cameron

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Some of my favorite images taken so far this year since building a small observatory in my backyard. Soon I’ll be moving out of state and leaving it behind, but the images I’ve taken with it will always be with me.

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Wolf-Rayet stars are hot stars on their way to supernova. The radiation emitted by WR134 creates the blue oxygen shell. ONTC 10in f4 ASI1600MM Pro Paracorr Type 2 Astrodon https://t.co/GHwy45XqCj

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Morning and happy Sunday to all, some deep sky porn for today . NGC7380 , Wizard Nebula, SHO palette (Hubble Palette) 15 hours of photon catching on total.

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The Helix!

One of the brightest and closest examples of a planetary nebula in the night sky. 

A cloud of gas created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star.

This is 26 x 4-minutes using the QHY268C and Optolong L-eXtreme filter.

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IC 1396 and the Elephant's Trunk nebula. This is a four panel mosaic that I shot last summer with the 8" RASA and color camera.

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