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Hi all, The activity has been recovered, after a three month period (we moved to a new location not far away from Philadelphia). A Planetary Nebula has been added to the web site. This time it is the tiny Shapley-1, a Nebula about which there is still some debate around its structure and distance. The …
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Hi all, A new image has been uploaded. This time, it’s a galaxy, M104, the “Sombrero” galaxy. This nearly edge-on galaxy has the most massive black hole detected in galaxies at a distance of 30 million light years or less. It harbors a 1 billion solar masses black hole in its center. The image …
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Hi all, After a brief period of a certain calm, a new object has been uploaded. This time, it is the Rosette Nebula (a fragment of it). It is a 2×1 mosaic taken in narrowband with the CDK 20″. This mosaic has been quite difficult to assemble as the stars in the “seam” region …
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Hi all, This time, a pair of colliding galaxies are in the recently uploaded image. The Antennae Galaxies, NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 have been imaged. These galaxies outline what our galaxy, together with the Andromeda Galaxy, M31, will resemble when they collide in just a few billion years… It will be nice to see, …
Hi all, A new, deeper version of NGC 5128 has been uploaded. The new version has been taken with the same telescope/camera as the first 2013 version, but longer (and many more) exposures (Luminance) have been added. The result is that the dust structure of the central lane shows much more detail, as well …
Hi all, After a brief, busy period, a new image has been uploaded. It is an emission nebula located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, N51D, also known as NGC 1968. One very distinctive feature of this beautiful nebula is the presence of the first Herbig Haro object found outside our own galaxy (in 2005). …
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Hi all, A new image has been uploaded. This time it’s a galaxy. A very peculiar one named NGC 1316, Fornax A or even the “Galactic Killer” as ESO states in their web site. This is a very peculiar Elliptical/Lenticular galaxy that has been the target of many telescopes. The outer structure (that is very …
Hi all, The result of a big effort has been completed and uploaded. The 1×2 mosaic of the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) has taken a much longer time than I initially expected. The images were taken during the 2015 and 2016 seasons (our Summer) and finally it has seen the light! You can find …
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Hi all, A new image has been uploaded! This time it is the Bubble Nebula, NGC 7635, taken with the Schulman Telescope (a wonderful 32 inch, located in Mount Lemmon, AZ) during a Beta Test trial. As, due to the weather, the Blue images could not be taken, this image has used the frames taken …
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Hi all, The mage of M20 in mixed narrowband (Ha + OIII) and broadband blue, has been selected as an AAPOD on Jan 14th, 2017. Please take a look at it at: http://www.aapodx2.com/2017/20170114.html This image was taken as a new way to capture mixed emission and reflection nebulae and there are some more to come… Enjoy! …
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