Optics/mount: 180 Epsilon f2,8 Takahashi Alt-5 Camera/filters: QHY12 OSC Exposure:59x900sec 14,7h
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vdB152 Reflection Nebula in Cepheus
Optics/mount: 180 Epsilon f2,8 Takahashi Alt-5 Camera/filters: QHY12 OSC Exposure: 24x900sec / 6.00 h, 16 October 2012 Described as a “dusty curtain” or “ghostly apparition”, mysterious reflection nebula vdB 152 really is very faint. It lies about 1400 light-years away, along the northern Milky Way in the royal constellation Cepheus. […]
Dark Nebula Banard 171-174
Optics/mount: 180 Epsilon f2,8 Takahashi Alt-5 Camera/filters: QHY12 OSC Exposure: 20x900sec / 5.00 h, 9 Sept 2012
Iris Nebula Widefield
Optics/mount: 180 Epsilon f2,8 Takahashi Alt-5 Camera/filters: QHY12 OSC exposure: 38×1200 sec / 12,6h The Iris Nebula, also NGC 7023 and Caldwell 4, is a bright reflection nebula and Caldwell object in the constellation Cepheus. NGC 7023 is actually the cluster within the nebula, LBN 487, and the nebula is […]
Veil Nebula NGC6960
This image is a combination of LRGB frames and halpha and OIII mixed to the redchannel and the bluechannel Image in HST-palette This is the “classic LRGB” version The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. It constitutes the visible portions […]
M3 Globular Cluster
Optics/mount : 12″ACF 2.7m AP-Reduzer Alt-5 Camera/filters: Atik 11002 Astrodon LRGB Exposure: 12×300 sec Lum, 12x300sec RGB all 1bin 29 March 2012 Messier 3 (also known as M3 or NGC 5272) is a globular cluster of stars in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Charles Messier […]
M95 with Supernova
Optics/mount : 12″ACF 2.7m AP-Reduzer Alt-5Camera/filters: Atik 11002 Astrodon LRGBExposure: 17×600 Lum, 7×600 RGB all 1bin30 March 2012 Messier 95 (also known as M95 or NGC 3351) is a barred spiral galaxy about 38 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781, and […]
M99 Pin-wheel Nebula
Optics/mount : 12″ACF 2.7m AP-Reduzer Alt-5 Camera/filters: Atik 11002 Astrodon LRGB Exposure: 17×600 Lum, 7×600 RGB all 1bin 29 March 2012 Messier 99 (also known as M99 or NGC 4254) is an unbarred spiral galaxy approximately 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy has a normal […]
Revision of NGC 3718
Optics/mount : 12″ACF 2.7m AP-Reduzer Alt-5Camera/filters: Atik 11002 Astrodon LRGBExposure: 37×600 Lum, 12×600 RGB all 1bin23-24 March 2012 I did some changes with the processing to make the background less noisy Discovered by W. Herschel in April 1789 NGC 3718 is located in the constellation of the big dipper and […]
NGC 4216
Optics/mount : 12″ACF 2.7m AP-Reduzer Alt-5Camera/filters: Atik 11002 Astrodon LRGBExposure: 49×600 Lum, 9×600 RGB all 1bin26 March 2012 NGC 4216 is a metal-rich intermediate spiral galaxy located not far from the center of the Virgo Cluster] of galaxies, roughly 40 million light-years away.