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Meticulously planned center line Moon transit, shot yesterday 🌝🐦 #astrophotography

Hey Geffo, good job capturing the ghost. Look at the two bright stars in the center and you will see the little bugger

#IC405 The Flaming Star Nebula
Spectacular nebula illuminated by central star AE Auriga. Collected 6h of data over 2 nights using a dual narrowband filter on my small refractor.

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📷 Player One Ares-C pro, SV220 filter
⌛ 6h@120s
💻 Siril, GraXpert, Veralux, SCUNet Denoise
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M45 The Pleiades, aka "The Seven Sisters" or what I like: "Subaru", taken 01/07/2026
The open star cluster is only 444 light years from earth which makes it the nearest Messier object to earth.

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⌛ 3h@120s 💻 Siril, GraXpert, Veralux, darktable

The Rosette Nebula is an H II region in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way at a distance of approx. 5000 light years. The Nebula measures roughly 130 light years in diameter. The bright stars in the center excite the atoms in the nebula, causing them to emit radiation themselves.

Reedit of my Rosettte Nebula taken last February: Using Veralux HyperMetric Stretch in Siril 1.4 really helps me bringing out more contrast.

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The Soul Nebula #IC1848 is an emmission nebula located in Cassiopeia. Image was shot 12/27/2025 using SV220 narrowband filter with 2h of integration.

The Heart Nebula #IC1805 is an emmission nebula located in Cassiopeia, next to the Soul Nebula. Image was shot 12/26/2024 using SV220 narrowband filter with 2.5h of integration. Reedit with Siril 1.4, using Veralux HyperMetric Stretch.

The Heart cannot be without the Soul!

So here is the Soul Nebula I shot on 12/27/2025 in narrowband and stretched with Veralux HyperMetric Stretch with a reedit of my Heart Nebula from a year ago.

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NGC1499 California Nebula is an emmission nebula in Perseus, excited by nearby star Menkhib (upper right). Shot in narrowband on 12/26/2025 and stretched with Veralux HyperMetric Stretch.

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M33 Triangulum Galaxy, three million light years away. Our neighbour in the Local Group of galaxies. Photo taken from Munich, Germany.

M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, 12/18/2025
Finally, a break in the clouds to catch me a new project. And what a beauty she is: the Triangulum Galaxy @ 3 mio ly distance she is our neighbour in the local group.

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The Whirlpool Galaxy also known as Messier 51. Shot with a 72mm APO refractor from my backyard.

M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy
First attempt on this "little" gem with 1h in RGB and 1h in dual narrowband to add some H-alpha and OIII.

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📷 Player One Ares-C pro, SV220 filter
⌛ RGB 1h, Ha/OIII 1h
💻 Siril, GraXpert, darktable
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Nice shot! How do you manage to catch / track the ISS?

M81 Bode's Galaxy, M82 Cigar Galaxy and in the right bottom corner a third galaxy UGC 5398. One hour full spectrum combined with three hours of H alpha to emphasize the red hydrogen in M81 and M82.

Kicking off galaxy season with M81 Bode's Galaxy (right) and M82 Cigar Galaxy (left). Light that travelled 12 million light years to be caught on a 1 inch sensor. What are the odds?

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📷 Player One Ares-C pro, SV220 filter
⌛ Ha 3h, RGB 1h
💻 Siril, GraXpert, darktable
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Complex of dust and gas forming a shape reminiscent of that of a seagull in flight.

The Seagull Nebula - IC2711
Beautifull region of nebulosity in Monoceros, 3650 ly away. Four hours of data collected a week ago with my 72mm refractor and a dual narrowband filter.

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📷 Player One Ares-C pro, SV220 filter
⌛ 110 lights@120s
💻 Siril, GraXpert, darktable
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NGC 2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster and the Cone Nebula

I know I'm late to the party but here is my Christmas Tree Cluster. A little more than 3 hours of light collected over the last few nights with dual narrowband filter.

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📷 Player One Ares-C pro, SV220 filter
⌛ 94 lights@120s
💻 Siril, GraXpert, darktable
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Hi Marco, this looks like a part of M16 Eagle Nebula. Next to the Pillars of Creation

details on used equipment and software are in the Alt text

yes, H stands for light in Hydrogen Alpha wavelength, O for light in Oxygen III wavelength. These are wavelengths collected with narrowband filters.
^ sign for power
~ sign for 1 minus the given value

The Rosette Nebula taken with 🔭 TS APO 72mm F6 📷 Player One Ares-C pro, SV220 filter ⌛ 2 hours@120s 💻 Siril, GraXpert, darktable

The Rosette Nebula from last night. Got creative while processing OSC dual narrowband Ha & OIII and tried out some variations for composition with Pixel Math in Siril. This one is made with:
R: 1.7*H-O
G: ((H)^~(H))*H+~((H)^~(H))*O
B: O

Function in G aka Power of Inverted Pixels.
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The Monkey Head Nebula

NGC 2174 - The Monkey Head nebula from my garden in Munich, Germany. Do you see the monkey?

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📷 Player One Ares-C pro, SV220 filter
⌛ 3 hours@120s
💻 Siril, GraXpert, darktable
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Waxing gibbous moon in daylight

Beautiful daylight moon in bluesky
Feb 8th, 2 tile mosaic.

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📷 Player One Ares-C pro
⌛ 200 of 2000 images per tile
💻 PlanetarySystemStacker, gimp, darktable
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Waxing gibbous moon, 57% illumination

I keep coming back to the moon to discover ever more detail. Taken on 02/05/25 with a 4" Maksutov as a 2 tile mosaic, 2x upscaled with PSS. Original is 38MP, my best shot yet 🌔.

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📷 Player One Ares-C pro
⌛ 300 of 2000 images
💻 PlanetarySystemStacker, gimp, darktable
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The horsehead nebula IC 434 and the flame nebula NGC 2024

My third season on the Horsehead Nebula. Each time with different, better equipment. Perfection is still some way to go, but we are on a road here ;-)
{insert rant about weather not giving more clear skies}

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📷 Player One Ares-C pro, SV220
⌛ 2 hours@120s
💻 Siril, GraXpert, darktable

The sun with of active regions visible as dark spots on the surface.

The sun today with many active regions.

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📷 Player One Ares-C pro
⌛ 200 out of 2000 images, @2,5 ms
💻 PlanetarySystemStacker, darktable
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Tadpole Nebula in HOO pallette which tends to be dominated by the H-alpha in red channel.

Tadpole Nebula with dynamic factor for green channel as described on thecoldestnights.com in tutorial "Dynamic narrowband combinations with PixelMath". Shifts the colours towards SHO look.

My 2nd narrowband project: the Tadpole Nebula #ic410. Thin high clouds took away a lot of the signal. But processed the data anyway, twice, for the fun of it.

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📷 Player One Ares-C pro, SV220 dual narrowband filter
⌛ 3 hours, @120s
💻 Siril, GraXpert, darktable
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I am an amateur astrophotographer with a focus on deep sky imaging. Have been following the feed for some weeks and would like to contribute.

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About 3 hrs integration (96x120s) collected on 12/26/24. Processed with siril, graxpert and darktable.

This is my take on the heart nebula #ic1805 with the fishhead #ic1795 in top right.

First light with player one ares-c pro (imx533) and dual narrowband filter sv220.

Clear skies!
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