Martins

To continue the Galaxy parade, M106, super rewarding target, I will revisit it for sure with the mono camera at some point just to get the structures pop, there's so much going on! 5 hours here, clouds are in, later on followed by full moon leaving no chance to gather more exposures.

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Auroras blasting away, not too far from Copenhagen right now

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Excuse me, if other people can go on a Holiday with their golf bags, skis and bycicles, what's there to stop me traveling to Gran Canaria with my telescope to see how the night sky looks like 30° south from where I live? Nothing!

I even found the fuse box and killed all the lights after this picture was taken

Thor's Helmet, not too bad for a target that doesn't rise more than 20° above the horizon at my location. Luckily it's quite bright as far as deep sky objects go. About 3.5h integration time

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Quick pick of the Moon

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IC 443 - Jellyfish Nebula, captured over last couple of nights. I opted to make a false color image using a S-H-H palette. Just over 10 hours of integration time.

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Very strong auroras tonight, clearly visible with naked eye, close to Riga, Latvia
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Jupiter with it's moon Ganymede last night

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I've had about 5 hours of clear sky since end of November. Yesterday, like some sort of a Christmas miracle, it cleared up for 3 hours and I jumped into action. Heart Nebula. Merry Christmas everyone!

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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 by the intense radiation and fast wind from the star. It is five times the radius of the sun, but due to a temperature over 63,000 K it is 400,000 times as luminous as the Sun. (Wiki)

Last of my November yield,
7h total time,
2h S
1h H
4h O, all 5 mins

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The California Nebula (Also known NGC 1499 or Sh2-220) , once again, shot over 3 nights in mid November, in SHO palette, total integration of about 9 hours, with more than 50% of that time spent on Oxygen filter
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The Lion Nebula, Sh2-132, photographed over 3 nights in mid-November using Hydrogen, Sulfur and Oxygen filters although I only ended up using H and O shots for the Nebula.

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While I was waiting for Jupiter to come up, I decided to photograph 2 very small nebulae while I have my powermate attached. I guess normally you wouldn't do that as it dims the telescope, but since these are quite bright, they worked out kinda ok-ish.

Owl Nebula and Blue Snowball Nebula

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I know Jupiter is not in opposition just yet, but who knows If I will have clear skies when it is, so have to grab an opportunity when I can.

Jupiter with it's moon Io on the night of the 15th of November.

Taken with Celestron 9.25 Edge HD and 2x Televue Powermate

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M82 or the Cigar galaxy shot a month ago, 37 x 3 minute shots with UV filter and another 27 with optolong l-Enhance

Skies cleared up last night for the first time in weeks so expect more astro pics in next couple of days :)

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Ghost Of Cassiopeiae, Sh 2-185..

really wanted to have it finished by Halloween because of the "Ghost" theme, but just couldn't make any sense of the data that I gathered (11h of 3 to 5 min exp) (L,G,B,R,H,S,O)

.. so basically what I did.. Lum layer - stars reduced, RGB - keep stars only, .. once again, recombine RGB, this time replacing R with H, because R has a weak signal.. combine reduced star L with freshly acquired HGB . Move on to narrow band data - strong signal with H and S, none in O.. . for narrow band RGB channel combination HSO pallet chosen.. last step, pixel math roughly going 0.5:0:5 RGB + HSO.. This is not a recommendation, these are just notes for myself

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