Continuing the with the cometary globules, here comes CG 11, also part of my growing catalog of CGs here at Gallery > Photography > Astrophotography > Cometary Globules.
More details at Astrobin. Also posted to Spektrum Leserbilder Astronomie.
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The photobook of the Texas – Austin, Houston, Galveston series is now readily available at my Blurb bookstore. Even if you don’t want to buy it, paging through the preview gives a good impression of the book, which I think turned out rather well.
Die Serie Texas – Austin, Houston, Galveston is jetzt als Fotobuch bei Blurb verfügbar. Auch wenn man es nicht kaufen will, kann man beim Durchblättern in der Vorschau einen guten Eindruck gewinnen. Ziemlich gut geworden, finde ich.
An assortment of nebulae in Sagittarius, very close to the well-photographed Lagoon, thus sort of completing the Lagoon footprint, which made me come up with this nickname.
This is a narrowband (SII, H-alpha, OIII) plus RGB image. For rendering the NB data, I used the “Foraxx” palette described in The Coldest Nights blog along with other techniques. Worked rather well, a pure SHO approach would yield a very green image. Stars are color-calibrated RGB.
Emission and reflection nebulae in this field: IC 1274/1275/4684/4685, NGC 6559
The strange object below and right of NGC 6559 is the planetary nebula PN M 1-41
(RA 18 09 30.10, DEC -24 12 26.0).
More details at Astrobin.
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Mondaufgang über der Schäl Sick am Kölner Rheinufer, einen Tag nach Vollmond unterwegs mit dem Team von Quarks – stay tuned. ;-)
Nach 2017 brachte uns wieder eine Sonnenfinsternis über den großen Teich in die USA, im April 2024. Die Wetteraussichten favorisierten Texas, daher ging’s dann dort auch hin. Das mit der Sonnenfinsternis wurde noch spannend, aber zunächst einmal standen die Städte Austin, Houston und Galveston auf dem Programm, deren Portrait sich in dieser ersten Bilderserie findet.
After 2017, another total solar eclipse brought us back to the US, in April 2024. The weather forecasts favoured Texas, thus that’s where we went. Things turned out a bit differently with the eclipse, but the first part was a visit to the cities of Austin, Houston, and Galveston, portrayed in this first series of images.
Komplette Serie / complete series: Gallery > Photography > USA > USA 2017 – Texas
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