This image shows Lynds Dark Nebula 1251 in the constellation of Cepheus. The image was taken from my holiday location in Steinborn-Daun in Germany. We were planning to leave home on Sunday, but the forecast for that night was so good that we decided to stay one night longer, as it was also almost …
This colorful skyscape features the dusty, reddish glow of Sharpless catalog emission region Sh2-155, the Cave Nebula. About 2,400 light-years away, the scene lies along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the royal northern constellation of Cepheus. Astronomical explorations of the region reveal that it has formed at the boundary of the massive …
This image shows one of the toughest objects I have ever imaged. This is PuWe (Purgathofer-Weinberger) 1 (also known as PGN 158.9+17.8), a very weak planetary nebula in the constellation of lynx. The nebula was discovered in 1980 (original discovery paper: http://goo.gl/fW6TQB) by Purgathofer and Weinberger on the Palomar Deep Sky Survey prints. The nebula …
Stars are forming in the Soul of the Queen of Aethopia. More specifically, a large star forming region called the Soul Nebula can be found in the direction of the constellation Cassiopeia, who Greek mythology credits as the vain wife of a King who long ago ruled lands surrounding the upper Nile river. The …
This image was taken on several clear nights between 03/06 – 11/06/2015. Images were taken by myself with my TMB92 and by Tim Schuurman (a fellow astrophotographer) with his 20cm Newton telescope. At the center of the image two blue reflection nebulae are visible. The one on the upper right is called VdB131, the central …
A dramatic study in contrasts, this skyscape features stars, dust, and glowing gas in NGC 6914. The complex of nebulae lies some 6,000 light-years away, toward the high-flying northern constellation Cygnus and the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. The view spans nearly 100 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 6914. Ultraviolet radiation from …
NGC 7000 is also known as the North America Nebula with the so called Gulf of Mexico. In this area the Cygnus Wall can be found. This part is the Mexican and Middle American part of the Nebula. It’s one of the most interesting parts of the nebula because this is a region of active …
Recently I attended a lecture from Jay Gabany at our national astrophotography meeting about intensifying colors in your images. I decided to work on one of my favorite images to see if I could get more out of it. Especially the star colors and delicate structures in the nebula I like a lot in …
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 …
Somewhere in October I started with gathering some data of M42 with my TMB92. With this scope it was finally possible to get this nebula in my field of view. Weather only didn’t cooperate lately (nicely said). So when it was clear yesterday I did shoot some more data. It is not enough yet for …