Optik / Mount: Tak Epsilon 180 f2.8, Alt-5 TeenAstroCamera / Filter: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro MonoAstrodon LRGB true colors 4h ( 3min sub)Date 11.10.2023 The Andromeda galaxy belongs to the group of spiral galaxies and, with its diameter of approx. 200,000 light years, is twice as large as the […]
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Markarian’s Chain in the Virgo Cluster
Optik / Mount: Tak Epsilon 180 f2.8, Alt-5 TeenAstroCamera / Filter: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro MonoAstrodon LRGB true colors 7h30 ( 3min sub)Date 11 – 12.05.2024 The Markarian chain is a group of galaxies belonging to the Virgo cluster. It owes its name to Benjamin Markarian, who discovered that […]
California Nebula
Optik / Mount: Tak Epsilon 180ED, Alt-5 TeenAstroCamera / Filter: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro MonoMosaik 2 panels: Astrodon SII, Ha, OIII, 3h all 2binDate 13.01.2024 The California Nebula (NGC 1499/Sh2-220) is an emission nebula located in the constellation Perseus. Its name comes from its resemblance to the outline of […]
M33 Triangulum Galaxy
Optik / Mount: Tak Epsilon 180 f2.8, Alt-5 TeenAstroCamera / Filter: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro MonoAstrodon LRGB true colors 7h ( 3min sub)Date 18 – 19.12.2023 Like our own galaxy, or M 31, the Andromeda galaxy, M 33 is part of the “Local Group”, “our” galactic group.Located 3 million […]
Witch Head Nebula
Optik / Mount: Tak Epsilon 180 f2.8, Alt-5 TeenAstroCamera / Filter: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro MonoAstrodon LRGB true colors 7h ( 3min sub)Date 18 – 19.12.2023 NGC 1909 is an extremely faint reflection nebula in the constellation Eridanus (distance about 900 light years), which could have originated from a […]
NGC 6823
Optik / Mount: Tak Epsilon 180ED, Alt-5 TeenAstroCamera / Filter: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro MonoAstrodon Ha, OIII, SII 6h all 2bin and 1h for RGB-StarsDate 09.05.2023 NGC 6820 is a small reflection nebula near the open cluster NGC 6823 in Vulpecula. The reflection nebula and cluster are embedded in […]
Medusa Nebula
Optik / Mount: 12″ACF f7, Alt-5 TeenAstroCamera / Filter: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro MonoAstrodon Ha, OIII 3,5 all 2bin Date 27.12.2022 The Medusa Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Gemini. It is also known as Abell 21 and Sharpless 2-274. It was originally discovered in 1955 […]
Wizard Nebula
Optik / Mount: 12″ACF f7, Alt-5 TeenAstroCamera / Filter: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro MonoAstrodon Ha, SII, OII 5h all 2bin and 1h for RGB-StarsDate 02.11.2022 NGC 7380 is a young open cluster of stars in the northern circumpolar constellation of Cepheus.The cluster spans ~20 light-years with an elongated shape […]
The Milky Way’s twin
Optik / Mount: 12″ACF f7, Alt-5 TeenAstroCamera / Filter: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro MonoAstrodon LRGB true colors 5hDate 20.09.2022 NGC 7331, also known as Caldwell 30, is an unbarred spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1784. NGC […]
WR 134
Optik / Mount: 12″ACF f7, Alt-5 TeenAstroCamera / Filter: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro MonoAstrodon Ha,OII 7h all 2bin Stars RGB 1.25hDate 22-23.09.2022 WR 134 is a variable Wolf-Rayet star located around 6,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus, surrounded by a faint bubble nebula blown […]