Jonathan

IC 2177 - The Seagull Revisited - LRGBHOO - AstroBin I shot this target almost as an afterthought last year and had time only for an HOO image, but noticed a lot of features that would be more interesting in broadband. Decided to revisit it this year an...

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a pinkish-red nebula resembling a bird

IC 2177 - The Seagull in LRGBHOO

One of the first targets I captured with the Cat91 telescope, decided to revisit it and get some broadband data to mix in with the HOO data I already had from last year.

Captured from Starfront Remote Observatories

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To California, From Kansas - NGC 1499 in SHO - AstroBin An image on AstroBin.

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a yellow (false-color) nebula resembling the state of California

To California, from Kansas

NGC 1499, aka the California Nebula, in SHO. Just under 80hrs total exposure time, all from my backyard in Kansas.

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OED1 - The Winged Sandals of Mercury (with starless rollover)

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "OED1 - The Winged Sandals of Mercury (with starless rollover)" by Andy 01
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Testing the Limits of Bortle 8 - ~100hrs of the Veil Nebula - AstroBin First light with the Pleiades 68, so of course had to go after old reliable in the Veil Nebula. But, to really test my patience, I decided to push the limits of what’s possible from bortle 8 skies and...

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a large supernova remnant consisting mostly of wispy red (hydrogen alpha) and blue (oxygen-III) filaments, with background red nebulosity

Another of my recent images and a rare backyard capture, this is ~100hrs on the Veil Nebula complex, a large supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus

Captured from my backyard with my Pleiades68 telescope

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The Sapphire Diadem of Cassiopeia (SNR G126.2+01.6) and a new discovery

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "The Sapphire Diadem of Cassiopeia (SNR G126.2+01.6) and a new discovery" by Julien De Winter, Jonathan Hill, Nick Ambrose, Max Kuster, Joydeep Biswas and Jamie Moon
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a region of red nebulosity surrounding an area of light blue nebulosity, lending it the name "Clamshell Nebula"

Been a bit lazy about posting here (and on editing images too tbh), so going to post some of my recent astrophotos that bluesky has missed.

First up, this is a two-panel mosaic of Sh2 119, aka the Clamshell Nebula, captured in HOO with RGB stars with my Cat91 telescope

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"Deal" to reopen the government that doesn't guarantee ACA subsidies

Fell for it again award

All this just to fall for the same shit they did last time this happened. Same old Dem party I guess

Two Wolf-Rayets for the Price of One - WR134 and NGC6888 - AstroBin An image on AstroBin.

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a nebulous region of space in the constellation Cygnus, with red and blue wispy nebulosity throughout, and two main features: the crescent nebula, a nebula that looks like a brain with a blue shell in the upper left hand corner, and WR134, a blue, circular nebula in the bottom right hand corner

Catching up on editing some images. This is a cool region in the constellation Cygnus with two Wolf-Rayet stars, the ever-popular Crescent Nebula, aka NGC6888, in the top left and WR134 in the bottom right.

Captured from Starfront Remote with my Cat91 telescope
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Float Like a Butterfly - IC1318 HOO w/ RGB Stars - AstroBin An image on AstroBin.

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a bright pinkish red region of space vaguely resembling a butterfly, fading to a more blue and pink region in the bottom of the photo

Been a bit lazy about editing photos lately, but finally decided to finish one up.

IC1318 - Sadr Region and the Butterfly in Cygnus

Captured from Starfront Remote with my Cat91 telescope
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M8 and M20 - The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae - AstroBin Bright objects + dark skies are almost a cheat code, making objects like this an easy LRGB target

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a nebulous region of the Milky Way, with a blue nebula with a pink core in the bottom left (the Trifid Nebula), a pink region in the top middle (the Lagoon Nebula), which fades into a more yellow/brown region of the Milky Way core in the upper right

Another quick project now that the weather is finally getting better. M8 and M20, the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae in LRGB. Dark skies and bright objects are basically a cheat code, making targets like this almost easy.
Captured from Starfront Remote with my Cat91 telescope
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a dusty region near the Milky Way band, with a bright blue reflection nebula on the left and bright yellow on the right, with a dark nebula splitting the two

Another from Starfront Observatories, part of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex.
15hrs total exposure time, shot with Cat91 telescope and Player One Poseidon-M Pro camera.
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It's finally reached the "oh god why does anyone live here" time of year in Kansas

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a large, dusty nebula resembling a horsehead, with a distinctive blue reflection nebula region around where the horse's eye would be

A quick two-panel mosaic on the Blue Horsehead nebula, shot from Starfront Observatories

About 10.5 total hours, shot with Cat91 telescope, Player One Poseidon-M camera, and Antlia LRGB filters

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a spiral galaxy in a sea of stars and smaller galaxies

a closer crop of the galaxy

Been a slow spring for astro but I finally got around to finishing an image. 75hrs on Messier 83, a very tough target from the northern hemisphere as it is pretty low in the sky.
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Sh2-284 - An Interesting Region in Monoceros - AstroBin An interesting object that reminds me of another Sharpless object, the Lion Nebula, with its distinctive separation between an Oiii heavy region and an Ha heavy region.

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A red and blue nebula in the constellation Monoceros, with a distinctive blue region and a lot of surrounding red nebulosity

My latest from Starfront Remote Observatories, Sh2-284

The main object in this image, Sh2-284, is interesting object that reminds me of another Sharpless object, the Lion Nebula, with its distinctive separation between an Oiii heavy region and an Ha heavy region

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Double Sunrise: Like headlights through the fog, a rare sight through the morning's murk and mire. The crescent tips of an eclipsed sun break the horizon simultaneously, giving the illusion of two rising.

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just for the record, I have a zero-tolerance policy towards transphobia and if I see it in my mentions it's an instant block.