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.
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Photobook Texas
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.
Toes of the Lagoon
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).
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Continue readingMondaufgang am Rhein
Mondaufgang über der Schäl Sick am Kölner Rheinufer, einen Tag nach Vollmond unterwegs mit dem Team von Quarks – stay tuned. ;-)
Texas – Austin, Houston, Galveston
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
Continue readingNight in Namibia 2023-2025
Two years in the making, here comes a new Night in Namibia time-lapse video.
Special thanks to:
Internationale Amateursternwarte e.V. https://www.ias-observatory.org/
Locations: TimBila Camp Namibia, IAS Observatory Hakos and Hakos Astrofarm, Namibia
An mj’s photography production https://photo.m-j-s.net/
Time-lapse photography Copyright (C) 2023-2025 Martin Junius
Music “Sequenced Variations 1” Copyright (C) 2025 Martin Junius
(Home-made in my studio, hopefully avoiding Youtube Content-ID hell)
Reflection Nebula IC 4601
More on-site OSC data from the IAS Hakos observatory, the reflection nebula IC 4601 in the constellation Scorpius.
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Continue readingOmega Centauri
And one more. ;-) Of course, Omega Centauri aka NGC 5139 is a jewel in the southern sky and a go-to-target. So Omega Centauri’s photons were the “first light” for the ASI 2600 MC Duo on the AK3 astrograph, but I messed up focussing and had to redo it later.
All three globular clusters here in the blog were processed in PixInsight and Lightroom with the same color calibration and processing steps. Interestingly enough, their appearance varies quite a bit!
Also compare this with be previous image of Omega Centauri.
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Continue readingFlickering Globular Cluster
Another globular cluster, only about 9 degrees from M4 towards the constellation Ophiuchus, Messier 62 or NGC 6266 against the dense background star field of the Milky Way.
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Continue readingSpider Globular Cluster
More processed OSC data with the ASI 2600 MC Duo and the IAS 20″ telescope AK3, featuring the globular cluster Messier 4 aka NGC 6121.
Notable change to my previously shown OSC workflow: I used “K2V star” as the white reference for SpectrophotometricColorCalibration. Standard “Average spiral galaxy” yielded stars, which were too “golden” for my taste, thus this bluer/colder rendition.
See also at Astrobin.
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