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IC1396 Sh-131 VdB142 Telescope: Astro-Physics 130GTX KAF16803 ccd 45 hours in SHO (SII, H-alpha, OIII all at 3nm) Pixinsight with traditional Hubble Palette Taken from Villaverde Observatory (IT), 230m above seal level Copyright:Marco Cosmacini 4Kx4K image can be seen here: https://www.flickr.com/g...

M81 and M82 galaxies in Ursa Major
Credit: Marco Cosmacini - Osservatorio Villaverde

Jellyfish Nebula IC443 , VdB 75 and IC444 IC443 (also known as the Jellyfish Nebula and Sharpless 248) is a galactic supernova remnant in the constellation Gemini. Also visible the blue reflection nebula VdB 75 and the IC444 (SH2-249). This is a total of 22hours exposure in SHO elaborated then with...

SH2-157 - NGC7635 (Bubble Nebula) - SH2-162 - SH2-159 - NGC7538 - M52 - NGC7510 Copyright: Marco Cosmacini - Osservatorio Villaverde It took me 30 hours at a 180mm refractor telescope with H-alpha, Oxygen3 and Sulfur2 all at 3 nanometers and one weekend and two nights in post production to combine ...

The most famous horse in the sky IC434 this is the horsehead nebula taken from Villaverde Observatory, north of Italy with a 180mm f/9 refractor; this image took 50 hours of exposure in Hydrogen alpha and RGB. A tone mapped H-alpha and clear channel were used for the luminance. Camera is a KAF16803....

An heart in the sky. IC1805 Taken from Villaverde Observatory, north of Italy with a 180mm refractor; this image took nearly 100 hours of exposure in Hydrogen alpha, Oxigen III and Sulphur II all at 3nanometers. Camera is a KAF16803. IC1805_mc.jpg Full 4K resolution at https://www.flickr.com/gp/cosm...

Good morning all, these are my shots of M82 and M81 galaxys taken over a month with an Astro-Physics 180mm refractor and KAF 16803 camera. Location north-east of Italy. 15 hours in LRGB eeach. For the H-alfa I took dedicated images with an astrodon Ha 3nm filter. Especially for M82, this meant 90 ho...

Good morning, I would like to show how astrophotography has changed in the last 10-15 year, achieving results that were impossible even to think 15 years ago. This is a my shot of the galaxy M82 (NGC3034). As you know M82 is an active galaxy about 12 millions of light years away form us. Previously ...