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Dear deep-sky image friends, today I'd like to show my latest image of Heart & Soul - IC1805 + IC1848. You also can find the famous double cluster h/chi Persei in the lower left, as well as some planetaries, for example Sharpless 200 in the upper right. http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/He...

Dear deep-sky image friends, today I'd like to show my latest images of Sharpless 132. This objekt is not shown very often and as a special, there is also a tiny little planetary nebula at the lower left corner visible - Abell 79 http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Bilder-Galerie/Deep-Sky/Sharpless132-2-...

Dear friends, I'd like to show my latest image: NGC7000 and IC5070, better known as the North-America-Nebula and the Pelican-Nebula in constellation cygnus. http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/NGC7000-Rolf_Geissinger.jpg Heres a bigger one where you can fade out the stars by mouse-touch http://w...

Hello! With greetings from Germany I'd like to show my latest image: Pickering's Triangular Wisp: [attachment=0]triangle_rolf.jpg[/attachment] http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/Pickerings-Triangle-SSA.jpg For all imaging data and a high res image please follow this link: http://stern-fan.de/Se...

NGC6888 The Crescent-Nebula in detail


For full res please click here:
http://stern-fan.de/Seiten/galerie_Bild ... etail.html

Regards

Rolf Geissinger
http://www.stern-fan.de

NGC6888 The Crescent-Nebula http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/NGC6888+Soap-Bubble-Geissinger.jpg in the lower left, you will also find a relatively new planetary nebula called "Soap-Bubble-Nebula" For full res please click here: http://stern-fan.de/Seiten/galerie_Bild_NGC6888.html Re...

M16 - The Eagle Nebula
For full res please click here:
http://stern-fan.de/Seiten/galerie_Bild ... nebel.html

Best Regards

Rolf Geissinger
http://www.stern-fan.de

Hello, I'm Rolf Geissinger, the astro-photographer of this Christmas-Tree APOD. Thanks a lot for your interested discussions on my image. My goal was, to achive a very deep and wide view around the christmas-tree cluster. It's amazing, how much "matter" there is around. I just had the same...

Hello, today I'd like to show my recent favorite image of NGC 2264 the "Christmas Tree Cluster" in a wide field of view. Also visible are the "Cone Nebula", the "Fox Fur Nebula" and "Hubble's Variable Nebula" in the upper left. http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/I...

Hello, I'd like to show you my latest image: NGC 281 - Pacman-Nebula in Hubble colors http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/NGC281_Pacman-HST-1200-Geissinger.jpg and in real-colors as well http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/NGC281-Pacman-RGB-1200.jpg Enjoy! Regards Rolf Geissinger http://www....

Cirrus Nebula aka Veil Nebula

Have fun!

Regards
Rolf Geissinger
http://www.stern-fan.de

http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Bilder-Galerie/Deep-Sky/IC1318-Butterfly-Vorschau.jpg http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Bilder-Galerie/Deep-Sky/IC1318-Butterfly-1200.jpg higher res: http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Bilder-Galerie/Deep-Sky/IC1318-Butterfly-1800.jpg Enjoy! Regards Rolf Geissinger http://ww...

NGC 7380 real color mapping: [attachment=1]NGC 7380_rolf1.jpg[/attachment] http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/NGC7380-RGB-1600.jpg Hubble color mapping: [attachment=0]NGC 7380_rolf2.jpg[/attachment] http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/NGC7380-HST-1600.jpg Enjoy! Regards Rolf Geissinger http...

NGC7822

red-orange version: red-blue version: Enjoy!

Regards
Rolf Geissinger
http://www.stern-fan.de

Comet C/2009 P1 Garradd
Aprox. 13' x 9'

[attachment=0]Garradd_Geissinger.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet ... arradd.jpg

Regards
Rolf Geissinger
http://www.stern-fan.de

IC 410 - Tadpole-Nebula [attachment=1]geissi1.jpg[/attachment] http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Bilder-Galerie/Deep-Sky/IC410-Tadpole-1600.jpg [attachment=0]geissi2.jpg[/attachment] http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Bilder-Galerie/Deep-Sky/IC410-Tadpole-Detail-1600.jpg Enjoy! Best Regards Rolf Geissinger...

IC 405 - overview
[attachment=1]geissi.jpg[/attachment]
Full-sized image


IC405 - detailed view
[attachment=0]rolf.jpg[/attachment]
Full-sized image

Enjoy!

Regards
Rolf Geissinger
http://www.stern-fan.de

NGC 1499 - California-Nebula

natural colors: Hubble-palette colors:
Enjoy!

Regards
Rolf Geissinger

http://www.stern-fan.de

IC 1805 - Heart Nebula http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/IC1805-1600.jpg Detailed view - Heart of the Heart http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/IC1805-Detail.jpg colors mapped: light red = H-alpha cyan = OIII dark red = SII IC 1805 in Hubble palette http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/...

Hi, I'm Rolf, author of the Cygnus-APOD. Thanks a lot for your kind replies. Could this photo be color-enhanced, or am I mistaken? This image is strongly color-enhanced by using a slightly modified tone-mapping method by J-P Metsaväinio. The RGB-image only was used for star color enhancement. All ne...

Hello, a few days ago I could check out my new 80 mm medium format lens. I tried to get some shots of Cygnus and it's large nebula areas. This wideview image shows an amazing amout of deep sky objects. A few of them have been marked on a separate pic. The imaged FOV is about 25° x 26° http://www.ste...

IC 1396 "Elephant's Trunk" I'd like to show my latest astro-image. It's the "Elephant's trunk" in IC 1396. http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/IC1396-Rolf_Geissinger.jpg Here's the data: Location: Remseck / Germany, balcony observatory Date: 9th and 10th of October 2010 Scope...

[attachment=0]103P_Harley2_h_chi_1600.jpg[/attachment][/i] http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/103P_Harley2_h_chi_1600.jpg Hi, in the night from 8th to 9th October 2010 comet 103P/Hartley 2 met the famous double cluster h/chi Persei. Unfortunately the air was very humid but I could manage to ca...

http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/H-alpha-21Sept2010-1.jpg http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/H-alpha-21Sept2010-2.jpg Fireworks on our sun These pretty prominences have been captured on 22th September 2010 with a TEC 140 APO, 160 mm Baader D-ERF and a SolarSpectrum 0.5A ASO H-alpha syst...

http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet/NGC6888+IC1318-Rolf_Geissinger-color.jpg Widefield NGC 6888 (Crescent-nebula), IC 1318 (Butterfly-nebula) and much more - Remseck / Gemany - FLI ML 16803 / 18x 1200sec H-alpha / 14 x 1200 sec OIII - Mamiya 200 / 2.8 APO medium format lens http://www.stern-fan...