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

[Levina de Ruijter]

Messier 20 nebula

WIKI
The Trifid Nebula (catalogued as Messier 20 or M20 and as NGC 6514) is an H II region in the north-west of Sagittarius in a star-forming region in the Milky Way's Scutum–Centaurus Arm.[3] It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764.[4] Its name means 'three-lobe'. The object is an unusual combination of an open cluster of stars, an emission nebula (the relatively dense, reddish-pink portion), a reflection nebula (the mainly NNE blue portion), and a dark nebula (the apparent 'gaps' in the former that cause the trifurcated appearance, also designated Barnard 85). Viewed through a small telescope, the Trifid Nebula is a bright and peculiar object, and is thus a perennial favorite of amateur astronomers

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Doesn't get any better than this. Wow.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Did the Rosette again with the Seestar S30 from my backyard

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Did the Rosette again with the Seestar S30 from my backyard

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Beautiful! And mind blowing that you captured it with that simple setup.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

IC 1805 the Heart Nebula taken with my Seestar S30 in mosaic mode
from the wiki

The Heart Nebula (also known as the Running Dog Nebula, Sharpless 2-190) is an emission nebula, 7,500 light-years (2,300 pc) away from Earth and located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William Herschel on 3 November 1787.[1] It displays glowing ionized hydrogen gas and darker dust lanes.[2]

The brightest part of the nebula (a knot at its western edge) is separately classified as NGC 896, because it was the first part of the nebula to be discovered. The nebula's intense red output and its morphology are driven by the radiation emanating from a small group of hot stars near the nebula's center. This open cluster of stars, known as Collinder 26, Melotte 15, or IC 1805, contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of the Sun

 

[Chuck]

IC 1805 the Heart Nebula taken with my Seestar S30 in mosaic mode

Awesome images, like all your astro photography is awesome.

What’s mosaic mode?

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

IC 1805 the Heart Nebula taken with my Seestar S30 in mosaic mode
from the wiki

The Heart Nebula (also known as the Running Dog Nebula, Sharpless 2-190) is an emission nebula, 7,500 light-years (2,300 pc) away from Earth and located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William Herschel on 3 November 1787.[1] It displays glowing ionized hydrogen gas and darker dust lanes.[2]

The brightest part of the nebula (a knot at its western edge) is separately classified as NGC 896, because it was the first part of the nebula to be discovered. The nebula's intense red output and its morphology are driven by the radiation emanating from a small group of hot stars near the nebula's center. This open cluster of stars, known as Collinder 26, Melotte 15, or IC 1805, contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of the Sun

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Beautiful!
And I love the info.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Awesome images, like all your astro photography is awesome.

What’s mosaic mode?

Mosaic mode in the telescope is like panorama or a manual mosaic done with a digital camera where you stitch multiple images together to get a larger FOV. The Seestar smart telescopes allow you to specify the amount of sky you want to image up to 2x the FOV of the scope and then it automatically over several hours takes hundreds of shots moving the scope around the entire area and outside the area and stitching them all together to get a final result.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

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.

 

[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.

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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Wow. Beautiful image, Jeff!

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Wow. Beautiful image, Jeff!

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.