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Lovely M20 - Trifid Nebula with DSLR:

Not an easy task from 47°N but I used my mobile setup (6inch refractor and APS-C sized DSLR) as I could not reach the Trifid from my little observatory due to being so low on the horizon.

Tulip Nebula + Cygnus X-1:

That lovely H-II emission nebula in Cygnus is accompanied by a strong X-ray source nearby that has become the first black hole being approved,
Imaged with my 10inch Newtonian reflector and APS-C sized DSLR.

Partial Moon Eclipse on July 16th, 2019:

Made a VIDEO out of all my 152 single images recorded between 10pm and 1am of the Moon being quite low (8 - 20°) over the horizon.
6inch APO refractor and APS-C sized DSLR used:

https://youtu.be/0y-BpKjbWts

North Amercia and Pelican Nebula: It's an unused astrophotography summer if you not make at least one visit to the constellation Cygnus. Used the 4inch APO Triplet in my little garden observatory combined with full frame DSLR. A huge emission nebula - over 4 times the size of the full Moon, not far ...

Messier 8 - beautiful Lagoon Nebula

A big interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius an birthplace of stars like the well known Orion nebula.
Imaged with my mobile setup - 6inch APO Triplet and full format DSLR very low on the horizon (13-18°) in my location:

M31 - Andromeda Galaxy:

Our neighbours in space with whom we will one day melt to an elliptical galaxy. Image recorded using my mobile setup with 6inch APO Triplet refractor and full format DSLR in the past week:

50th anniversary coming up: My poster, that I'm providing for the local schools (incl. quiz, handout materials...) for the upcoming 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, using a Moon mosaic I've made with my 10inch Newtonian reflector and 2 official graphics from the NASA website, permission provided as st...

M13 - Great Globular Cluster in Hercules:

Ok, besides having galaxy season we can now image those fine globular clusters.

Image taken using a 10inch Newtonian reflector and APS-C sized DSLR:

Intermediate-luminosity red transient in Messier 51 found:

A quite new phenomenon - see the article:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... Transients

I've used images from 2017 and recently taken in 2019 to mark the ILRT:

An all-time classic - Messier 51, the Whirlpool-Galaxy:

After a first try in 2016, I've now redone that well known object with the same equipment, but better (less dew) weather conditions.
10inch Lacerta-Newton with APS-C sized DSLR.

NGC 4244: edge-on spiral in Canes Venatici

For the 2019 galaxy season, an object off the well known parts, about 15 million lightyears away from Earth. Imaged with a 10inch Newtonian reflector and APS-C sized DSLR.

Hickson 44 - galaxy group

Those 4 galaxies, about 80 million light-years away, form a lovely group in the constellation Leo. Used my 10inch Newtonian reflector with DSLR to image that group in the past week:

NGC 3718 - twisted galaxy in Ursa Major:

Used my 10inch Newtonian reflector and DSLR to capture that lovely galaxy which interacted in the past with its neighbour NGC 3729 to get that specific shape. Also of interest the far distant galaxy group south of NGC 3718 called Hickson 56.

Starting the galaxy season - NGC 2903:

The spiral galaxy NGC 2903 in the constellation Leo has been my first target in the 2019 galaxy season. Imaged with a 10inch Newtonian reflector and APS-C sized DSLR, right from my garden.

Medusa Nebula with the DSLR:

Used a cold night in February to collect photons of that faint planetary nebula in the constellation Gemini with a 10inch Newtonian reflector and APS-C sized DSLR.

Mosaic of the Andromeda Galaxy - 8 single parts:

Oh boy, what a challenge to process 130 subs, collected from July to October last year, and make an 8 panel mosaic out of it, using my 10inch Newtonian reflector and DSLR, to get a detailed image of our neighbour galaxy:

Moon Mosaic made out of 38 single images:

Made this panorama of our Moon out of 38 video-files using the "lucky imaging" technique with my 10inch Newtonian reflector two days ago.

Comet Iwamoto - C/2018 Y1:

Recorded as you've chosen yesterdays APOD...but with shorter single exposures so I don't have that elongated coma.

Used a 10inch Newtonian reflector with attached APS-C sized DSLR in my own garden observatory.

"Lower's Nebula"

Fine emission nebula in the well known constellation Orion. Taken with my 10inch Newtonian reflector and full format DSLR:

Happy New Year!

Shot the fireworks in my neighbourhood and the image includes the trails of the constellation Lion in the upper left corner - you can easily make out that B-class stars like Regulus with its fine blue colour, a hint that the surface temperature is far higher than that of our sun.

Rosette Nebula with open cluster NGC 2244:

Used some breaks in the clouds to capture photons of the famous "Rose" with my 10inch Newtonian reflector and DSLR.

"Close to the Spider"

IC 417 - well known emission nebula in the constellation Auriga. Again made with my 10inch Newtonian reflector and full format DSLR:

Comet 46P/Wirtanen on Dec. 10th, 2018. A long and patiently time out yesterday evening to wait for a break in the clouds to get enough data of the "Christmas Comet" 46P/Wirtanen in the south-eastern part of Austria. ;-) Used my 10inch Newtonian reflector and full format DSLR to get a close...

A closeup of the well known Flaming Star Nebula with AE Aurigae, a hot blue star in the constellation Auriga, about 1500lys away.

Made with my 10inch Newtonian reflector and old full format Nikon DSLR:

Good Evening! An object off the well known paths - young open star cluster (estimated less than 4 million years old) NGC 1624, embedded in a fine emission nebula (Sh2-212) in the constellation Perseus, surrounded by dust clouds and dark nebulae (and Sh2-211, the small one in the upper right corner) ...