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This image was made using a dataset from Insight Observatory of NGC6888 and the Soap nebula combined with my own extended dataset of these objects. The result is a very high resolution (0,48″/pix) image of this beautiful nebula. Processing was quite extensive because of the huge files and large amount of data (116 hours). Imaging …

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  This image is the result of a cooperation with 3 fellow astrophotographers, Sara Wager, Dominique Dierick and Kees Scherer and myself. It all started in 2017 when we worked together on a larger mosaic of part of the Cygnus constellation. The zoomable result of this cooperation can be seen here and I would recommend …

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IC 5146 (also Caldwell 19, Sh 2-125, and the Cocoon Nebula) is a reflection/emission nebula and Caldwell object in the constellation Cygnus. The NGC description refers to IC 5146 as a cluster of 9.5 mag stars involved in a bright and dark nebula. The cluster is also known as Collinder 470. It is located near …

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This image was made last week on holiday in the Eifel in Germany. Under a Bortle 3-4 sky I wanted to try to catch some nice dark nebulae. Unfortunately it looked like the weather was not really cooperating with thunderstorms in the evening and clear skies during the day. Luckily on August 13 the clouds …

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This image shows the result of my imaging sessions in the Eifel, Germany during my holidays last year. When I was there we had 2 very clear nights and 2 nights with some high clouds. I decided to go for a dark nebula as these are impossible to image from where I live. This image …

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