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Barnard 118 Bullet holes in a star wall? by
WA0CKY
Barnard 118 is a very small but very dark nebula on the edge of the Scutum star cloud one and a third degrees southeast of M11. It is in a very dense part of...
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December 2nd 16 08:50 PM
by slilge
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Sh2-187 by
slilge
Another image from September was Sharpless 2-187.
A star forming region that is still covered by surrounding molecule clouds that show up as dark nebulae in my...
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November 24th 16 06:22 AM
by WA0CKY
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The Egg Nebula by
WA0CKY
The Egg Nebula/IV Zw 67/CRL 2688/PK 80-6.1 is a bipolar protoplanetary nebula in Cygnus almost 8 degrees south of the North American Nebula. It's very...
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November 23rd 16 06:43 PM
by slilge
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ASTRO: Abell 82 by
slilge
During September full moon season I imaged Abell 82 in Cassiopeia. At that time I had two setups running at the same time for eight nights in a row. This is...
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November 22nd 16 12:57 AM
by WA0CKY
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Open Cluster NGC 6827 by
WA0CKY
NGC 6827 is an open cluster in Vulpecula about 5.5 degrees east of the far more famous Coathanger asterism. It is also known as Berkeley 48. It is classified...
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November 22nd 16 12:55 AM
by WA0CKY
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NGC 6629, 6332 and Many More by
WA0CKY
This field in Hercules contains part of the NGC 6329 galaxy group anchored by the large elliptical galaxy. The group is about 370 million light-years distant...
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November 21st 16 07:44 PM
by slilge
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November 9th 16 10:39 PM
by slilge
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M33 by
slilge
The fast Celestron RASA scope plus the new colour camera (ASI1600MC cool) gives me an excuse to image well known objects.
Actually this OSC image of M33 is...
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November 9th 16 10:32 PM
by slilge
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ARO11 / Campbell's hydrogen star by
slilge
Another image from the unbelievable spell of good weather in August/September. When I imaged ARO11 I did not know that it was identical to Campbell's hydrogen...
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October 23rd 16 06:47 PM
by WA0CKY
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NGC 6207 with Satellite Galaxies by
WA0CKY
NGC 6207 is a much imaged galaxy but almost always because it is in the same field with M13 the rather famous globular cluster to its south southwest. It was...
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October 21st 16 07:40 PM
by slilge
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Sh2-132 Ha:OIII and RGB by
slilge
I imaged Sh2-132 trying to combine narrow band and RGB to make it look like pure RGB. I got 123x60s of RGB with my ASI1600MC cool OSC camera and added 51x180s...
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October 21st 16 04:28 PM
by WA0CKY
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Ic 5146 by
slilge
The new cameras (ASI 1600MM and MC) give me an excuse to image some standards just for comparison ;-)
This time IC 5146 was the target. And at f/2.2 it was...
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October 19th 16 10:37 PM
by slilge
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PGC 58135 and a lot more by
WA0CKY
This field is located in Hercules. It is on the north northwest edge of Abell 2199 and the south southwest edge of Abell 2197 galaxy clusters. Both have a...
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October 19th 16 10:00 PM
by slilge
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Astro: Ic 59/63 by
slilge
I have done a bit of imaging with colour cameras (QHY8, several DSLRs), but the ASI1600MC cool is the first one that I am really having fun with.
It is the...
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September 26th 16 11:53 PM
by slilge
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ASTRO: Sh2-170 by
slilge
As my news-provider had a databank crash 2-3 month ago and still does not get any new messages for a.b.p.a I finally turned to spacebanter.com and found my...
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September 26th 16 11:44 PM
by slilge
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NGC 4666 and two other NGC Galaxies by
WA0CKY
NGC 4666 is a very active galaxy though doesn't look it in ordinary light. Seen in X-rays however it is a different story. While not listed at NED as a...
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September 25th 16 12:37 AM
by WA0CKY
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M 59 and its more interesting friends by
WA0CKY
M59 somehow escaped my early imaging efforts when I first went digital. Probably because it seemed a very ordinary, featureless elliptical galaxy. Which it...
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September 24th 16 09:10 PM
by slilge
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Asteriod Nagincox by
WA0CKY
Normally I don't take main belt asteroids, only near earth ones as they pass by but I made an exception here. I doubt many have heard of Nagin Cox, but you...
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September 23rd 16 04:33 AM
by WA0CKY
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NGC 5759 A Pair of Interacting Galaxies by
WA0CKY
NGC 5759 is a pair of interacting galaxies about 400 million light-years distant in southeastern Bootes. It consists of two galaxies, one stripped of its...
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September 18th 16 06:34 PM
by WA0CKY
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