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Hi all, An image of the spiral galaxy NGC 2903 has been uploaded. It is a surprising barred spiral galaxy with a very fine structure (dust lanes) in its central regions. You can find it at: NGC 2903. UGC 5079 Enjoy, Josep

Hi all, I know that it is a bit late, but better than never… On 27 March, Ceres crossed in front of Messier 100, a beautiful spiral galaxy. My friend Christian Sasse, took 42images of this event and now, the stacked and processed image has been uploaded. The luminance of M100 as well as all …

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Hi all, An image of a fragment of the Veil Nebula, called the Dragon’s Head, has been uploaded. This image is the result of an attempt to process it using a different processing procedure in order to render it with a more natural color. You can find it at: Veil Nebula. The Dragon’s Head Enjoy, …

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Hi all, An image of Ced 211 has been uploaded. I know that there already is an image of this nebula in this web site, but this one has been taken with another equipment that provides a bit more detail. The data were acquired by Christian Sasse. You can find this new version at: Ced …

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Hi all, An image of Sh2-170, the Little Rosette Nebula, has been uploaded. This nebula has an open cluster, Stock 18, inside it and one of its members, BD+63 2093p, the bright star at the very center of the nebula, is the responsible one for the ionization, and therefore the emission, of the entire nebula. …

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Hi all, An image of the so called “Hidden Galaxy” or IC 342 has been uploaded. The color of this galaxy is very reddened because we see it through the dust of the disk of Milky Way. It has an ULX (Ultra Luminous X-ray source) and many emission nebulae. You can find the image and …

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Hi all, A reprocessed image of NGC 6888 has been uploaded. This image was the first one that I was able to take with the 24 inch telescope, that was commissioned in 2019 in New Mexico. Ever since I uploaded the image in 2019, I thought that it deserved a reprocessing. Now it has been …

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Hi all, An image of a very faint supernova remnant (SNR), Puppis A, has been uploaded. This is a pretty strange SNR, with shapes that have been formed due to the gases expanding in a non homogeneous medium. You can find the image and more information at: Puppis A, a faint SNR Enjoy, Josep

Hi all, An image of a beautiful fragment of the Vela SNR has been uploaded. Some call it the “Bowtie”, which is pretty well found, but no name would be enough to describe the beauty of this object. You can find the image as well as some more information at: Eastern Vela SNR. A fragment …

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Hi all, An image of LDN 953 has been uploaded. This is a fragment of NGC 7000, the North America Nebula, and shows how fine are the filaments that form this dark nebula, most probably due to the absence of near hot stars, whose strong stellar winds could carve and ionize this cold gas/dust nebula. …

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