IC 4628 – The Prawn Nebula
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IC 4628 – The Prawn Nebula

Taken on the Rooisand farm in Namibia.

NGC 5139 – Omega Centauri
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NGC 5139 – Omega Centauri

DWB 111 – The propellor Nebula
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DWB 111 – The propellor Nebula

When the moon is up, narrowband imaging is the way to go. Only 21 x 300s of HA-OIII images were…

NGC 3726
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NGC 3726

NGC 3726 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major. It is located at a distance of circa 45 million light years from Earth,…

SN 2022hrs in NGC 4647
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SN 2022hrs in NGC 4647

This Supernova was discovered on 2022-04-16 19:15:28 by Koichi Itagaki. It was mag 15 in the discovery image. I am estimating…

LDN 1235 : A Dark Shark.
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LDN 1235 : A Dark Shark.

Dark molecular clouds are pretty challenging. They need lots of integration time and optimising that image time can best be…

Summer milky way
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Summer milky way

Image taken with the old EOS 300D on an Ioptron Skyguider, from the Llano De Los Animas, La Palma.

NGC 4618 + 4625
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NGC 4618 + 4625

These distorted galaxies are gravitationally interacting. Because of that, they appear to have only one spiral arm or ring.

Messier 100
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Messier 100

This large and bright spiral galaxy is Messier 100. It is accompagnied by lots and lots of small background galaxies…

NGC 2903
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NGC 2903

This beautiful galaxy is found in the constellation LEO.  It is a barred spiral, and known to have very active…

NGC 3953
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NGC 3953

NGC 3953 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation UMA. Lots of very faint background galaxies show up in…

NGC 3642
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NGC 3642

This galaxy in UMA is a very peculiar one. A very faint arc is seen around the bright nucleus, it…