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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51418352944_90aaa6efb0.jpg The dumbell nebula by William Ostling , on Flickr When Hubble processes images, they usually crop to the most interesting part. This image, however, shows the entire area captured by the sensor! The pure black areas in this image are pa...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51413353123_187d3f3e1b.jpg NGC 7049 by William Ostling , on Flickr The NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of NGC 7049, a mysterious looking galaxy on the border between spiral and elliptical galaxies. NGC 7049 is found in the constellation ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51406019398_6e380be2cc.jpg A Cosmic Question Mark - NGC 7762 and SH2-170 by William Ostling , on Flickr This target is such a cool target to me – the question mark top is already incredibly interesting, and the little dot below is icing on the cake. NGC 7762 is t...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51400516314_1445238c6d.jpg Messier 16 by William Ostling , on Flickr This was a tough image to process – there were a bunch of tiny dark gaps and hot pixels scattered throughout the image. The image file sizes were also quite big, so processing took a long time. ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51398314609_a6b4bdb818.jpg NGC520 by William Ostling , on Flickr This galaxy is just so bizarre that I had to process it! NGC 520 is the product of a collision between two disc galaxies that started 300 million years ago. It exemplifies the middle stages of the m...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51390995443_7b4bc1dcc8.jpg ARP 273 by William Ostling , on Flickr This is one of my absolute favorite galaxies, so I had to take a shot at processing it! The whirling spirals, the dark dust lanes, the beautiful colors – Hubble really picked a great target! You ca...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51388175926_e9bc55ea75.jpg MACS J0717.5+3745 Epoch 1 + Epoch 2 by William Ostling , on Flickr This is the cumulation of 154 Hubble orbits pointing at this cluster! Looking at the largest elliptical galaxies, almost all of them are disturbed in some way, almost as...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51382786893_0f02cc2395.jpg A Sagittarius triplet – M8, M20, and NGC 6559 by William Ostling , on Flickr This so far is my favorite image! Nearly 21 hours of data (taken across 4! nights) and 3 hours of processing went into this huge project. I love the color rang...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51378368875_778cebfca0.jpg NGC6984 by William Ostling , on Flickr All data was taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). This object was a lot of fun to process! I love adding h-alpha to continuum data, and this was no exception. Details: Data was take...

A galactic porpoise - NGC 2936 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51356782491_c201a10927.jpg A galactic porpoise - NGC 2936 by William Ostling , on Flickr All data was taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) The Porpoise Galaxy (NGC 2936) is an irregular galaxy located in the constellation Hy...

Carina Nebula 4 Panel mosiac, processed entirely in pixinsight. Data from Hubble Legacy Archive
HH 901/902 in the Carina Nebula by William Ostling, on Flickr

Carina Nebula 4 Panel mosiac, processed entirely in pixinsight. Data from Hubble Legacy Archive
HH 901/902 in the Carina Nebula by William Ostling, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51334771869_265acf9415.jpg Messier 22 - Oceans and Oceans of stars by William Ostling , on Flickr An image like this is just so stunning to me - the amount of stars visible is just staggering. I wonder what the night sky would be like in the middle of a star clus...

NGC 4535 - The Lost Galaxy https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51328133811_03c55963d3.jpg NGC 4535 - The Lost Galaxy by William Ostling , on Flickr Data was taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) Located in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin), around 50 million light-years from Earth, NGC...

Arp-Madore 2026-424 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51326716484_7aa3a0030e.jpg Arp-Madore 2026-424 by William Ostling , on Flickr Data was taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) In this Hubble Space Telescope image, an uncanny pair of glowing eyes glares menacingly in our direction...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51324080658_1a7c885bab.jpg ARP 147 - Hubble scores a perfect 10! by William Ostling , on Flickr To get this awesome image, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitation...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51320233220_9643c232e7.jpg The Eagle Nebula by William Ostling , on Flickr Equipment: Nikon D90 (Astro-Mod) Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Sky-Watcher Tripod AF-S NIKKOR 500mm f/5.6 Bahintov Mask Intervalometer Laptop All Sky Plate Solver Sharpcap Stellarium Acquisi...

A new look at NGC 6052 Data was taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) Located in the constellation of Hercules, about 230 million light-years away, NGC 6052 is a pair of colliding galaxies. They were first discovered in 1784 by William Herschel and were originally classified as a single irre...

NGC 5256 is a pair of galaxies in its final stage of merging. It was previously observed by Hubble as part of a collection of 59 images of merging galaxies, released on Hubble’s 18th anniversary on 24 April 2008. The new data make the gas and dust being whirled around inside and outside the galaxy m...

The bright galaxy NGC 3810 demonstrates classical spiral structure in this very detailed image from Hubble. The bright central region is thought to be forming many new stars and is outshining the outer areas of the galaxy by some margin. Further out the galaxy displays strikingly rich dust clouds al...

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Corona Australis Molecular cloud by William Ostling, on Flickr

The Eastern Veil Nebula by William Ostling, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51144998896_1d1c9f1aaa.jpg Eagle by William Ostling , on Flickr A widefield shot of the Eagle and Omega Nebula using a sigma 200mm F4 lens and an Astro-Modified Nikon D90. Taken across two nights from a mountain in Sharon, CT. Full Resolution Fits file (14213 x 9...