Nebula thread - post your images of deep sky nebula's

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is an H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter.

The nebula has been noted to be having a shape reminiscent of a human skull, and is sometimes referred to as the "Skull Nebula." It is not to be confused with NGC 246, which is also nicknamed the "Skull Nebula."

Taken with the Slooh observatory.

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

The Orion Nebula M42
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion, and is known as the middle "star" in the "sword" of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky with apparent magnitude 4.0. It is 1,344 ± 20 light-years (412.1 ± 6.1 pc) away and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light-years across (so its apparent size from Earth is approximately 1 degree). It has a mass of about 2,000 times that of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula
I took this using the Slooh telescopes and cameras. processed in Pixisight and LR

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

The Flaming Star Nebula

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

NGC3576, taken with the using the Slooh scope and camera process in Pixinsight and LR and Topaz
Both B&W and Color, known as the "Statue of Liberty nebula" it is at 12 oclock in view
NGC 3576 is a bright emission nebula in the Sagittarius arm of the galaxy a few thousand light-years away from the Eta Carinae nebula. It is also approximately 100 light years across and 9000 light-years away from Earth. It was discovered by John Frederick William Herschel on 16 March 1834.[4] This nebula has received six different classification numbers. Currently, astronomers call the entire nebula NGC 3576. A popular nickname is "The Statue of Liberty Nebula" because of the distinctive shape in the middle of the nebula

 

[By-tor]

Horse Head & Flame Nebula

 

[By-tor]

Orion & Running Man Nebula

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

By-tor
I love both of the images! very good job, and good stars!

 

[By-tor]

By-tor
I love both of the images! very good job, and good stars!

Thank you.. I do struggle with stars most of the time, but going to work on that more.

 

[West Coast Birder]

Great stuff!

 

[By-tor]

Flaming Star Nebula IC405

 

[By-tor]

Thor's Helmet NGC2359

Not a great image, but you can see it.

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

My Bernard 33 the Horsehead Nebula, shot with the Slooh 11" Astrograph in the Canary Islands Observatory, it doesn't have a big enough field of view to show the entire Flame Nebula

 

[By-tor]

Jeff I was running into the same issue with my main scope at 420mm and not being able to get many of the larger DSO's and built this smaller rig at 242mm in hopes of capturing larger objects. So far I'm happy with the results from the little setup I'm using.

The California Nebula with 40 min. of data from the guide scope setup below.

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

That is a great shot! great setup, I have one of the skywatcher trackers but haven't seen it in a few years as my son has it.

I am using the Skywatcher EQ6-R in the backyard.

 

[By-tor]

Nice setup.

I like this little setup as it's small, lightweight and easy to transport to our clubs dark sky site. I live in pretty dark Bortle 4 sky area, but we have access to a Bortle 2 area on Harkers Island near Cape Lookout on the NC coast.

I have an old Skywatcher EQM-35 mount that is tuned to help with backlash and an Astro-Tech AT65EDQ Quad scope on it and once It's all done I'll be able to transfer the Evoguide scope with the ASIAIR and guide scope to the other setup and just move the camera and filter wheel to the Astro-Tech and shoot that way.

I have been looking into ZWO harmonic drive mounts as my next upgrade.

Thanks

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

My home is Bortle 8 on a good dark night Bortle 7.5, even the astro club observatory in RI is a 6.5 That is why I do mainly solar. Also I just find it hard to stay up at night LOL

I belong to SLOOH the remote observatory. That one you actually get to remotely control the scopes and can actually watch in real time as it images targets, none of the other subscription scopes do that.

 

[By-tor]

A couple of the club members belong to Slooh and they have taken some nice images and some from south of the equator on targets we won't get the see up here.

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

Slooh is hit or miss, in other words sometimes a single imaging run will yield a good image, other times you really have to work at it. As always the more data the better

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

M42 taken with the now retired 90mm Takahashi at the Slooh observatory in Chile. This was a 10 minute exposure 2 L 2 R 2 G 2 B wish I had done more runs.

 

[Skygod44]

I just want to say, every single image in this thread blows my mind.

The effort and dedication required is something I have total respect for.

You're all brilliant stars in your own right!
And sharing these images is, to be honest, generous beyond words.

Carl Sagan would be proud.