Starship Asterisk*

The Coma Cluster or Abell 1656, is a cluster of galaxies composed mostly of elliptical galaxies, located in the constellation of Chioma di Berenice and about 350 million light years away. In addition to the two central galaxies NGC 4874 and NGC 4889, there are thousands of smaller ones. It is an are...

"Leo Triplet"

Leo Triplet by Paolo De Salvatore, su Flickr

The NGC 2903 is a galaxy located in the constellation of Leo and which is about 20.5 million light years away from us. It is very similar to our Milky Way, but slightly smaller and younger. The shots are from the beginning of February, for a total of 11.4 hours of integration, more detailed info in ...

M78 (NGC 2068) is a diffuse reflection nebula, 1600 light years away and located in the constellation of Orion. Together with her we can also see the nebulae NGC 2064, NGC 2067, NGC 2071 and various HH objects, the latter are formed when the ionized gas expelled by the young stars collides with dens...

IC405 - Flaming Star Nebula Location: Manciano (Grosseto) - Italy Telescope: Officina Stellare RiLa 300 Focal: 1150 mm Mount: 10Micron GM2000 HPS II CCD: Moravian G3 16200 Filter: 50mm Astrodon H-a 6nm Exposure details: 80 x 300" bin 1 Sensor Temperature: -25° Integration: 6,6 h Copyright: Pao...

M101 Pinwheel Galaxy Below the data of the shot: ZENIT Observatory Location: Manciano (Grosseto) - Italy Telescope: GSO RC Truss 10" Focal reducer: Riccardi 0,75X - M63 Focal: 1500 mm Mount: 10Micron GM2000 HPS II CCD: Moravian G2 8300 Filter: 36mm Astrodon LRGB Gen 2 Exposure details: L 78 x 3...

M81 The Bode's Galaxy
Copyright: Paolo De Salvatore

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Finally I was able to process the shots I had done almost a year ago on the Rosette nebula. This nebula, catalog NGC 2237, with the open cluster NGC 2244 in the middle, is about 5200 light years from us. The stellar wind generated by this cluster causes a compression of the clouds, the Bok globes pr...

Bubble Nebula - NGC 7635 - Hubble Palette: This nebula discovered by William Herschel in 1787 is visible in the constellation of Cassiopeia, and is about 11,000 light years from us. The shots cover a period that goes from late August to mid-October, but despite the two months used I have totaled &qu...

The shots cover a period from August 13th to September 13th and the subject in question, or rather the subjects in question, are respectively the NGC 7331 and the Stephan's Quintet. We are talking about 45 million light years for the NCG 7331 and 210/340 million instead for the Quintet. The data can...

The shots cover a period from 19 July to 11 August and the subject in question is the NGC 6946 also called Galassia Fireworks. The name comes from the number of supernovae observed in this galaxy, it also seems that it is also very active from the point of view of the birth of new stars. On the dist...

IC 5146 - Cocoon Nebula Image taken from my remote observatory "Zenit" Location: Manciano (Grosseto) Telescope: RC GSO Truss 10" Reducer: Riccardi 0,75X - M63 Focal: 1500 mm Mount: 10Micron Gm1000HPS CCD: Moravian G2 8300 Filtrer: LRGB Astrodon Gen2 36mm Subs: L 80 X 350" bin 2 R...