Starship Asterisk*

This is an image of NGC1316 (AKA Cannibal) which received a shortlisting in Insights Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2020 competition. The object is a face on giant elliptical galaxy. It displays many merger shells and has apparently just had an encounter with NGC1317 the smaller galaxy near it. ...

Gum 15

Known as the southern Trifid, this object lies very close to the Vela Supernova Remnant. Image integration is 25 hours. It contains emission and reflection nebula as well as dust lanes.

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The Robin's Egg Nebula The Robin's Egg nebula (NGC1360) is a planetary nebula located around 1200-1700 light years from Earth. A myriad of background galaxies of varying morphologies can be seen within the field with some being very distant and becoming red shifted. Interestingly there are what app...

The snaking river and the slug
Image taken of NGC6559 and surrounds.

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Omega Nebula
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A Supernova's Web This is a mosaic that I have been working on for the last few years. Two panels which contain 82 hours of data. Taken in Ha and OIII. This supernova remnant covers a massive area of the sky. Probably seen around 12,000 years ago by humans, who probably wondered what the new star wa...

A Seagull

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Thors Helmet

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Deadly Dance
NGC1316 and NGC1317
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Pa 161, NGC6818 and NGC6822. Pa 161 was only discovered this January by Dana Patchick. This is the first known amateur image of Pa 161 and also my independent discovery of the object. It is an OIII bubble which I captured during my OIII capture of this field. It led to some excitement when I first v...

NGC300

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Near and Far

Capturing NGC6752, the third brightest globular cluster in the sky, also the devils mask and some IFN.

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Pillars Again

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Bug Nebula.

Taken in Ha OII RGB

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Gum 23.

Located in the constellation of Vela at a distance of around 5000 light years. Often over looked as a target due to the nearby Vela SNR, some of which can be seen in the lower left of the frame. Integration time of 47.5 hours.

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LDN1622 (the Bogey Man Nebula)

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IC434

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Sauron's Eye (NGC1097)

Such a fascinating galaxy, complete with optical jets, star burst ring and supermassive black hole.

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Helix Nebula (81.75 hours of integration) Copyright: Paul Haese This image taken over 28 nights. This image contains 81.75 hours of data. Of interest within the nebula are the detailed shells extending out to the very first eruptions. There are quite a few galaxies visible in the image too. Click he...

Islands in the Universe
NGC253.

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Trifid Nebula in traditional palette and narrow band palette. Each image using a total of 18 hours of data to create each image.

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Bathing in a golden field

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Lagoon and Trifid in combined data sets.
Taken with 26.5 hours of integration of SII Ha OIII RGB and blended together to produce a different take on this often imaged pair.

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NGC6164 in Norma.
a Truly interesting emission nebula which has the appearance of a planetary.

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NGC5189

This small planetary nebula which is about 90 x 62 arc seconds is also known as the Spiral Planetary Nebula. The reason for the nick name is evident in the image below and more particularly in the linked image.

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