The Angel Nebula

The Angel Nebula

The Angel Nebula Distance: 2400 Light Years Download Reference Frame Thx ams.astrophotography for these reference images. I must confess that I had not planned to make this a BAT target but some of the bat members produced such beautiful images that I couldn’t...
Crescent Nebula

Crescent Nebula

Crescent Nebula Distance: 5000 Light Years Download Reference Frame This is a rather rarely shot widefield view of the Crescent nebula and WR134. Since this FOV is mostly consisting of emission nebula, narrowband imaging is necessary for this image. Duo Narrowband...
Cocoon Nebula

Cocoon Nebula

Cocoon Nebula Distance: 10 Million Light Years Download Reference Frame The Cocoon Nebula is a rather bright, but very small region in our milkyway with an active region of star formation. Its emission is mainly H-alpha. Furthermore, with longer integrations from...
Hubble’s Variable Nebula

Hubble’s Variable Nebula

Hubble’s Variable Nebula Distance 2500 light years Download Reference Frame Cross you fingers that this season Hubble’s Variable  wakes up because if she does we’re gonna get an APOD (I mean surely we will no?) Last Season Hubble’s Variable...
New Born Solar Systems in Orion

New Born Solar Systems in Orion

Spotting New Born Solar Systemsin Orion? Distance 1344 Light Years Download Reference Frame Inside the Orion Nebula is a treasure trove of stellar nursery delights including; bow shocks (like the one around LL Ori and iX Ori  and in the “baby Orion Nebula” M43),...