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Recently I made images of M101. Color was not perfect yet, but then I got a message from Irving Pieters who offered to share his data. We combined our data and stacked them together. He also had good colordata, with as a result the attached image. Some of the weak structures around M101 already start …

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Today was one of the rare occasions that Northern lights were visible from the Southern part of the Netherlands. I went into the polder to a dark place to see if I could catch a glimpse of it. I was nicely surprised 🙂   Camera: Canon EOS40D with 18-200 Tamron zoomlens @ 18mm F3.5  10sec …

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Simeis-147, also known as SH2-240, is a supernova remnant between the constellations of Auriga and Taurus. It is also known as the Spaghetti nebula because of its filamentary structure. It is a not very often imaged object because of several reasons that make it an extremely difficult object for imaging: the remnant spans a region …

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