Nebula Thread - post your images of Deep Sky Nebula's

[Jeff WX1USN]

The Running Man Nebula in Orion, taken with the Slooh 20" telescope at the Australian remote observatory

Sh 2-279 (alternatively designated S279 or Sharpless 279) is an HII region and bright nebulae that includes a reflection nebula located in the constellation Orion. It is the northernmost part of the asterism known as Orion's Sword, lying 0.6° north of the Orion Nebula. The reflection nebula embedded in Sh 2-279 is popularly known as the Running Man Nebula

 

[JohnPD]

The Running Man Nebula in Orion, taken with the Slooh 20" telescope at the Australian remote observatory

Sh 2-279 (alternatively designated S279 or Sharpless 279) is an HII region and bright nebulae that includes a reflection nebula located in the constellation Orion. It is the northernmost part of the asterism known as Orion's Sword, lying 0.6° north of the Orion Nebula. The reflection nebula embedded in Sh 2-279 is popularly known as the Running Man Nebula

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Amazing…

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

NGC 2359 Thor's Helmet
I took 125 minutes of sub exposures, 47 Lights 48 Red, 47 Green, 48 Blue using the Slooh 20" Planewave in the Australia Observatory over the last few months.

Thank you. Aperture and sky conditions rule. There are people who own scopes like the ones at the Slooh Observatory but far and few between.

Slooh is mostly used my Colleges and Universities. I have been using their scopes for about 10 years now. It is unique in the realm of remote amateur observatories in that you actually control the scopes just as if they were your own.

The Running Man Nebula in Orion, taken with the Slooh 20" telescope at the Australian remote observatory

Sh 2-279 (alternatively designated S279 or Sharpless 279) is an HII region and bright nebulae that includes a reflection nebula located in the constellation Orion. It is the northernmost part of the asterism known as Orion's Sword, lying 0.6° north of the Orion Nebula. The reflection nebula embedded in Sh 2-279 is popularly known as the Running Man Nebula

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That telescope captures so much! Crazy good images.

 

[RichardB]

NGC 2359 Thor's Helmet
I took 125 minutes of sub exposures, 47 Lights 48 Red, 47 Green, 48 Blue using the Slooh 20" Planewave in the Australia Observatory over the last few months.

I think the result is really nice

From the Wiki
NGC 2359 (also known as Thor's Helmet) is an emission nebula[3] in the constellation Canis Major. The nebula is approximately 3,670 parsecs (11.96 thousand light years) away and 30 light-years in size. The central star is the Wolf-Rayet star WR7, an extremely hot star thought to be in a brief pre-supernova stage of evolution. It is similar in nature to the Bubble Nebula, but interactions with a nearby large molecular cloud are thought to have contributed to the more complex shape and curved bow-shock structure of Thor's Helmet.

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Jeez look at all those stars! That nebula must be huge. I wonder how much distance there is between these stars. And if they all have planets circling them.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

I have been hesitating about posting my attempt at astro photography, because Jeff's images are so magnificent that anything I have just utterly pales in comparison. Nevertheless I am pleased with my results of the Orion Nebula because it was really hard with the telescope indoors and shooting through an open sliding door in the dark of night. I took these with the 40D and a Skywatcher 80ED refractor.

One of my problems was tracking properly. I had and still have a Celestron mount that I bought a tracking device for. I sort of winged aligning it because I was shooting at the south side of my apartment so I couldn't see the north star, so I couldn't track long before things started to drift. This was one of the results with not exactly round stars. I did blend in differently exposed images for the core.

I would love to try this again with the Seestar! At least it will track better.

Okay, don't laugh now!

Here's another attempt. Stars look better. But looking at this now I'm thinking that maybe I cropped too much?

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Very good shots, In the old film days even professional observatories couldn't get shots like that. We get spoiled with all the new fancy gear and digital everything, but I would prefer that way than the old days of sitting staring into a guiding eyepiece for 3 or 4 hours only to have a plane fly over!

Here is one of my early shots from 2015, I can't find my ones from the 1990's I may have deleted them they were so bad LOL just shows you need lots of practice and proper equipment.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Very good shots, In the old film days even professional observatories couldn't get shots like that. We get spoiled with all the new fancy gear and digital everything, but I would prefer that way than the old days of sitting staring into a guiding eyepiece for 3 or 4 hours only to have a plane fly over!

Here is one of my early shots from 2015, I can't find my ones from the 1990's I may have deleted them they were so bad LOL just shows you need lots of practice and proper equipment.

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Thanks. Yours is much better than my first attempts.

Here's one of my first images with the refractor. I remember I couldn't believe I captured that. The wonderful thing is that once I knew where to look, I could and can see the nebula with the naked eye on clear nights. That still takes my breath away.

This is one of my first images with the 80ED refractor. Cropped of course.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Here is IC1848 from two scopes, my S30 in Bortle 7.5 skies and full moon and high haze and the 85mm Televue refractor at the Slooh Canary Islands observatory with a 10 minute exposure in Bortle 2 skies

 

[RichardB]

Here is IC1848 from two scopes, my S30 in Bortle 7.5 skies and full moon and high haze and the 85mm Televue refractor at the Slooh Canary Islands observatory with a 10 minute exposure in Bortle 2 skies

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These images continue to impress.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Got home from the Ham Radio Testing session at 9:15 and quickly set up the S30 in my window (alt/az) and imaged C31 for an hour getting 40 minutes of 10 second subs. Did come out that bad.