Category Archives: IAS

Carina Widefield

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NCG 3372 – Carina Nebula – OSC v1

Since April 2026 the IAS 10″ remote telescope “Lukas” features a piggybacked Epsilon-130 with an ASI2600MC one-shot-color camera, with a way wider field of view than the main telescope. Ideal for comets und overview images.

The first test target was – of course, under southern skies – the vast expanse of the Carina Nebula, just a bit more than two hours of exposure time.

Many thanks to Thomas Klemmer for providing the scope and the camera.

More details at Astrobin.

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Close-up of CG 20 and CG 21

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CG 20 – Cometary Globule in Musca – OSC v1
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CG 21 – Cometary Globule in Musca – OSC v1

More close-ups with the longer focal length of the Cassegrain (4500 mm) at the IAS Hakos Observatory, Namibia, portraying cometary globules CG 20 and 21.

And of course adding to my growing catalog of cometary globules.

More details at Astrobin: CG 20, CG 21

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Galaxies and Supernova in Crater Reloaded

NGC 3660, SN 2026cff, and PGC 1000714 – Galaxies and Supernova in Crater – OSC v1

A second attempt at NGC 3660 and friends, previously imaged here, with the longer focal length of the Cassegrain (4500 mm) at the IAS Hakos Observatory, Namibia.

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Oddball Planetary Nebula

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PGC 49877 / Fr 2-8 – Galaxy / Planetary Nebula in Centaurus – OSC v1

Imaged at the IAS Hakos Observatory, Namibia with the 20″ Philipp Keller Cassegrain at full focal length of 4500 mm, f/9, this oddball object is listed both as a galaxy (PGC 49877) and a planetary nebula (Fr 2-8).

Quoting from Planetary Nebulae in the Solar Neighbourhood: Statistics, Distance Scale and Luminosity Function by David John Frew

Fr 2-8 (Fr 1400-5102, AM 1357-504, LEDA 49877). This small nebula, about 2′ across, was found serendipitously from SHASSA field 057, while measuring a Hα flux from the nearby PN MeWe 2-4, and has been confirmed spectroscopically as a high-excitation PN, with the 2.3m MSSSO telescope. The position is coincident with the SIMBAD ‘galaxy’ AM1357-504 (Arp & Madore 1987). It had been independently noted as a PN by Cˆote et al. (1997), but no details were provided in their paper.

Interestingly enough, the team around IAS member Uwe Glahn observed this object visually at Hakos back in 2009.

More details at Astrobin.

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Cometary Globule CG 19

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CG 19 – Cometary Globule in Centaurus – OSC v1

Results from the second night at the IAS observatory on the Gamsberg plateau with the 28 inch Newtonian “Wolf-Peter-Hartmann-Teleskop”, adding to my growing catalog of cometary globules.

Alas, sky flats at dusk didn’t work well, so some of the dust struture seen here may be artefacts of the calibration and gradient removal.

More details at Astrobin.

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Galaxies and Supernova in Crater

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NGC 3660, SN 2026cff, and PGC 1000714 – Galaxies and Supernova in Crater – OSC v1

First result from this year’s trip to Namibia, including two nights at the IAS observatory on the Gamsberg plateau using the mighty 28 inch Newtonian telescope for astrophotography. I came across this field of view when observing the supernova SN 2026cff in NGC 3660 with the IAS remote telescope and noticed the near-by, peculiar Hoag-type galaxy PGC1000714 with its ring structure.

More details at Astrobin.

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Cometary Globule CG 10

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CG 10 – Cometary Globule in Puppis- LHaRGB v1

Continuing with the CGs, this one took really loooong, from mid January to mid February. Alas, CG season is also rain season in Namibia. Good for the country, but not so much for astrophotography.

Part of the ever growing CG catalog here at Photography > Astrophotography > Cometary Globules.

As always, more details at Astrobin.

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