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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 …

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Image taken during 2 consecutive nights with my TMB92 and QSI583ws. 55x600s = 9,1 hours lum Intriguing to me is the huge galaxy cluster that can be seen if you go straight down from M63 to the bottom and then about the diameter of the galaxy to the right. Here hundreds of small galaxies can …

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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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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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  Recently I started working on crawling through some science databases of several large telescopes to see what data can be found in these archives. Some of the most interesting archives I found are, amongst others, the Subaru Telescope, the Gemini Telescopes, the Canadian-French-Hawaii-Telescope (CFHT) and of course the Hubble Legacy Archive. This image shows …

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