Category Archives: Remote

Lagoon and Trifid Widefield

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M8, M20, M21 – Lagoon and Trifid Widefield – OSC v1

Another widefield, two-panel mosaic with the remote Epsilon-130D and well known objects in the heart of the Milky Way: Trifid and Lagoon with a lot of surrounding nebulae and star clusters.

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Dragons of Ara Widefield

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NGC 6188 – Firebird Nebula in Ara – OSC v1

A well-known target revisited with the Epsilon-130D widefield astrograph. NGC 6188 – the Firebird Nebula or the Fighting Dragons of Ara – energized by the NGC 6193 cluster. Below the main emission nebula, this field includes NGC 6164/65 – the Dragon’s Egg.

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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.

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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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Cometary Globules CG 15 and CG 16

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CG 15 and CG 16 – Cometary Globules in Puppis/Carina – LHaRGB v1

Another CG image, completed just after Christmas Day, showing CG 15 (lower right) in Puppis and CG 16 (upper left) in Carina. Two more for the growing catalog of CGs here.

More details at Astrobin coming soon.

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Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy

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NGC 300 – Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy – LHaRGB v2

Difficult processing with these data: separating stars and galaxy with StarXTerminator doesn’t work well here, too many artefacts. So all the stretching was done with the starfull images, with just a bit of star reduction on L, to preserve the many little, mostly blue stars in the arms of NGC 300.

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