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The Winter Albireo Catalogued as 145 CMa, the Winter or Southern Albireo is a beautiful pair in Canis Mayor. It is well visible even with small telescopes. The primary is yellowish-orange and the companion is a pale bluish white. As increasing magnification the colours began to fade compare to the ...

Messier 93 in Puppis M93 is one of the latest deep sky objects personally found by Charles Messier. It was discovered and catalogued on March 20, 1781. The cluster is rather small but bright and gathers approximately 80 members covering an area of 20 to 25 light years across. The brightest stars of...

Bubble and star forming region in the LMC NGC 2014 (Henize 55) is a cluster of hot, young stars, merged within the brightest part of the nebula. On top of the cluster a single star has begun the process of dispersing strong stellar winds producing a bubble like shaped nebula known as NGC 2020. Imag...

30 Doradus Region within the Large Magellanic Cloud Our nearby galaxy (after Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy) is one of the marvelous sight of the southern sky. First spotted by Persian astronomers and afterwards by Amerigo Vespucci, but it was by Ferdinand Magellan on his voyage in 1519 who brought it to...

From Crux to Carina The classic view of the southern constellation of Crux (The Cross) joined in this case by the western side of Centaurus and part of the eastern side of Carina Constellation. This vast region is best seen with binoculars. Due the variety of objects to explore, someone can spend a...

NGC 2014 & NGC 2020 in the LMaC The Large Magellanic Cloud presents interesting objects which are usually seen in wide field pictures. Well… here is a "close up" of two extra galactic pearls: Intriguing NGC 2020 a kind of open bubble generated by strong stellar winds from massive youn...

CG4 in Puppis: The Hand that grabs the Galaxy? Well not really... These two objects are not even related and are separated by 118 Million light years. The galaxy on top is ESO 257-19 a Spiral Galaxy that appears smaller but in fact it is far larger that Cometary Globule CG4. Nevertheless both objec...

One Million Star Light Happy New Year to all !! NGC 104, better known as 47 Tucanae, is the second largest and second brightest globular cluster in the sky, outshone only by another southern globular, Omega Centauri (NGC 5139). As its name "47 Tucanae" indicates, this object was first cat...

Diamonds in the Sky?? Well that is what it is called NGC 2516: The Diamond Cluster. Located deep south in the constellation of Carina this cluster contains more than 100 starsThe brightest member is a red giant shining at magnitude 5. NGC 2516 is very easy to spot for the naked eye in darks locatio...

M42 - in Orion

Below an image taken by my friend Ezequiel Bellocchio from Buenos Aires suburbs (Argentina) with an ODK 10" and a FLI Ml 8300
Total exposure time 5 hours.

More resolution in
http://www.astropilar.com.ar/nebulosas/M42_1.html

Best Regards
Sergio

NGC 55 in Sculptor

Image taken by Ezequiel Bellocchio

http://www.astropilar.com.ar/galaxias/NGC55_1.html

IC 2220 in Carina (aka The Toby Jug Nebula) IC2220 is the result of the reflection of gas and star material coming ejected from the red giant HD 65750. The dust emitted from the red star is not displaced equally in all directions. It is thought that the material is distributed via magnetic fields, ...

NGC 1313 in Reticulum - A Star Making Machine Deep South in the Constellation of Reticulum, lies this asymmetric shaped Galaxy which is also considered as a Starburst Galaxy. There is evidence of brilliant clouds and massive blue stars scattered though its disc which spans through 50.000 light year...

The reddish medium size star in the center of the image is Proxima Centauri Proxima in Latin means "next to" or "nearest to" is the closest star to our planet after the Sun and lies about 4.2 light years. Although its proximity is too fain to be seen with the naked eye due to its...

NGC 3532 in Carina Hello all This is one of the Southern finest jewels. It is also known as the "Wishing Well Open Cluster" because it resembles silver coins shimmering. This target is a joy to see through the eyepiece. For any summer Star Party, NGC 3532 is always booked as a "must ...

Thanks Ann for your reply
Very interesting comments
Sergio

Thanks Ann for yor nice description

A perfect face on spiral galaxy. This object is quite a challenge for astro imagers. Despite its relative high magnitude it has with very low brightness surface.

Best Regards
Sergio

Hello all

Another fantastic image of Ivan. IMHO one of the greatest astrophotographers around.
Very useful to study and planning several object to grab with longer focal length scopes.

Cheers
Sergio

Fantastic picture !!

Sergio

Hello Dont want to start a discussion but a bit of info related the equipment The TMB (7" f8) used 1420 mm of focal length and a 4020 chip gives a resolution arround 1.07 arc seconds per pixel. I my humble opinion will be hard to resolve the IC 10 stars. I might resolve some clusters but this g...

Wow !!!
I wonder how it will be to see that in real time...

Amazing picture
Sergio

Fantastic composition and very original
Congrats Carlos Caccia a nice way to close 2011 !!

Happy new year to all !!
Sergio

Very Intresting the picture and the description
Always something to learn ....

Regards
Sergio

Excellent image Stefano.

I also checked your site and is full of marvelous pictures.

Congratulations
Sergio

Thanks Ross, César, Ann, Neufer, Orin, Randar and NoelC for passing by and your nice comments This is in fact my first APOD and you can imagine how happy I am. As I told to Robert and Jerry after finishing the processing of M6 I went to APOD database to benchmark similar images and look for info. It...