Starship Asterisk*

Flying High....the Seagull Nebula
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Full details @ https://www.kinchastro.com/ic-2177-seagull-2021.html

Bok Globules of the Rosette Nebula:
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More info @ https://www.kinchastro.com/rosette-nebula.html

SH2-308
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Full info @ : https://www.kinchastro.com/sh2-308-dolphin-nebula.html

Elephant Trunk Nebula (Crop & reprocess last year's data).
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Full info @: https://www.kinchastro.com/ic-1396-with ... ebula.html

IC 1396 (Crop - reprocess of last year's data)
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Full info and higher resolution: https://www.kinchastro.com/ic-1396-with ... ebula.html

Rosette Nebula
(Last years data reprocessed)
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Full details and higher resolution @ https://www.kinchastro.com/rosette-nebula.html

A reprocessing of SH2-115 - Wide Field
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Full info @ https://www.kinchastro.com/sh2-115.html

Jones-Emberson 1 (PK 164+31.1) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Lynx at a distance of 1600 light years. It is a larger planetary with low surface brightness. The 16.8-magnitude central star is a very blue white dwarf. Jones Emberson 1 (Sign) 1500x1000 (300DPI).jpg Click on above to enlarge...

Reworked....Abell 21 (Madusa Nebula) - Crop
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Tak FSQ130 with Astrodon 5nm Filters.
Full details @ https://www.kinchastro.com/abell-21-202 ... ebula.html

Abell 21 - Madusa Nebula
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Reprocess of SH2-114 - The Flying Dragon. Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ130ED Imaging cameras: FLI ML16200 Astrodon Ha 72 x 10' Astrodon SII 42 x 10' Astrodon RGB 3 x 30 x 3' ​Total Time: 23½ Hours Dragon Nebula (1200 x 1200).jpg Full info @ : https://www.kinchastro.com/sh2-114---the-fl...

Clouds of IC 2177

Reprocessed: Full info @ : https://www.kinchastro.com/ngc-2327-sea ... hasho.html

Description by Sakib Rasool: (copied from internet)...... This nebula was first discovered by the astronomer Stewart Sharpless in 1959 who included it in his catalogue of HII regions under the name of Sh2-200. His catalogue was compiled after analysing photographic plates taken at the Palomar Observ...

Sh2-284 is a HII star forming region of gas and dust located in the constellation Monoceros approximately 15 thousand light years from the Earth. This remarkable nebula resembles the more familiar Rosette Nebula (Caldwell 49). Along the edges of Sh2-284 are several "elephant trunk" formati...

NGC 1491 Located on the edge of a vast cloud of gas, about 10,700 light-years away in the constellation Perseus, NGC 1491 is also an H II region (a large, low-density cloud of partially ionized gas in which star formation has recently taken place). Its central star (BD +50 886), is a young blue sta...

M33 Triangulum Galaxy - approx. 3 million light years away!

Triangulum may be home to 40 billion stars, compared to 400 billion for the Milky Way, and 1 trillion stars for Andromeda Galaxy.


Full info @ https://www.kinchastro.com/m33-2020.html

Melotte 15
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Full info (& higher resolution image @ https://www.kinchastro.com/ic-1805---heart-nebula.html)

NGC 1491 Located on the edge of a vast cloud of gas, about 10,700 light-years away in the constellation Perseus, NGC 1491 is also an H II region (a large, low-density cloud of partially ionized gas in which star formation has recently taken place). Its central star (BD +50 886), is a young blue star...

SH2-54
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Full info @: https://www.kinchastro.com/sh2-54--ngc-6604.html

SH2-112
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SH2-132
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Full info @ https://www.kinchastro.com/sh2-132-2020.html

IC 1805 - Heart Nebula
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SH2-155 Cave Nebula Sh2-155 lies at the edge of the Cepheus B cloud (part of the Cepheus molecular cloud), and is ionized by young stars from the Cep OB3 association. It has been suggested that radiation from the hot O-type star HD 217086 is compressing the region, triggering the formation of a new ...

SH2-114 - Flying Dragon
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Sh2-115 Sharpless 115 stands just north and west of Deneb, the alpha star of the constellation Cygnus, the Swan. Noted in the 1959 catalog by astronomer Stewart Sharpless (as Sh2-115) the emission nebula lies along the edge of one of the outer Milky Way's giant molecular clouds, about 7,500 light-ye...