Hi all, The Small Magellanic Cloud is a region with a much higher rate of star formation, compared to the Milky Way. This image depicts NGC 261 and its immediate neighbors, all of them fueled by a close-by open cluster and forming stars at high rates. This is, as usual for nebulae, an image taken …

Hi all, Following the reprisal of uploading new images, an image of NGC 3242, a planetary nebula has been uploaded. This nebula shows two distinct nebulosities, the planetary itself and the surrounding nebula, the origin of which is not yet fully known. This is not an easy target, due to the very wide dynamic range …

Hi all, An image of an interesting reflection/emission nebula has been uploaded. This is a reflection nebula located just on top of an emission nebula (RCW 27) and an active starbirth area. As a confirmation, even a Herbig Haro object is in the frame (HH 132). You can find this image at: https://astrodrudis.com/ngc-2626-a-reflection-nebula/ Enjoy! Josep

Hi all, Another image has been uploaded. This time, it’s a quite peculiar nebula, N70, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This nebula is often considered as a supernova remnant, but its shape has been also affected by the presence of a tight group of hot O and B stars (LH114). It is quite bright …

Hi all, An image of the Eta Carinae Nebula has been uploaded. It is a wide field image taken with a Takahashi FSQ 106 from the iTelescope site 230×230 arcmin. As long as I already had several (six) images of this region, taken with the CDK 20″, I have blended them into the SuperLuminance of …

Hi all, I have just uploaded a reprocessed image of the  -4×4 deg-  wide field Vela Supernova Remnant. This should be the definitive one. I have also added two fragments captured with the CDK 20″. All images were taken as bicolor narrowband (Halpha and OIII). The fragment #2 has been rotated in order to give …

Hi all, An image of Messier 33, taken with the RC500 has been uploaded. Of course, the field of view (30x29arcmin) is smaller than the complete galaxy (69×42 arcmin) and, therefore, what is shown is the central region. It includes the large HII regions, NGC 604, NGC 595 and IC 142. This image is the …

Hi all,   A new image, this time a mosaic containing N602, N90, N89 and several other objects, has been uploaded. This 2-pane mosaic includes a region that is not visited very often. There is even a very faint supernova remnant in it. You will find this image at: https://astrodrudis.com/ngc-602-n90-n89-and-more/ Enjoy! Josep

Hi all,   A new image has been uploaded to the web site. This time, it’s a nebula: NGC 2467. This is a rather interesting nebula, because it is an active star nursery. It has many (45) YSOs (Young Stellar Objects) and five of them have been labelled in the annotated copy. One remarkable feature …