More data from the IAS remote telescope, the Abell 194 galaxy cluster in Cetus. Featuring NGC 519, 530, 535, 538, 541, 543, 545, 547, 548, 557, some ICs and tons of PGCs, see below.
All details at Astrobin.
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Category Archives: Remote
Galaxies in Dorado
Recent data from the IAS remote telescope, collected over two nights. NGC 1546, NGC 1549, and NGC 1553, plus IC 2058 in this field of view in the constellation Dorado. The interacting galaxies NGC 1549 and 1553 are part of the Dorado Group.
More details at Astrobin.
Continue readingCometary Globule CG1
Like a dolphin ahead of the red flood. Nick-named “Flipper” by the IAS remote team, this is the Cometary Globule CG1 in the outskirt of the Gum Nebula. [1] [2]
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Continue reading47 Tuc Cluster
My personal first test run with the VdS remote telescope, also based at Hakos, Namibia. A well known target deep in the southern skies here, the 47 Tucanae globular cluster, near the Small Magellanic Cloud, also known as NGC 104.
More details at Astrobin.
Continue readingSculptor Dwarf Galaxy [Update]
New data from the IAS remote telescope, a lesser known object, the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy.
Details at Astrobin (new revision).
Continue readingIC 2395 – Open Cluster in Vela
Another open cluster of the southern skies … and a lot of cosmic “Schmodder” ;-)
All details at Astrobin, see also Herbert Walter’s Astrobin IOTD.
Continue readingNGC 2547 – Open Cluster in Vela
Quite a bit more colorful nebulosity in this image of NGC 2547, an open cluster in Vela. Took me while to finalize the image processing, the data is back from February 2023, using the IAS remote telescope at Hakos.
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Continue readingAntennae Galaxies
Another IAS Remote image from Hakos, Namibia. NGC 4038/4039, the Antennae Galaxies in Corvus.
More details at Astrobin.
Continue readingvdB 96
A lesser known object, the reflection nebula vdB 96 in Canis Major. The vdB catalog was originally published in 1966 by Sidney van den Bergh and contains 159 reflection nebulae.
All details at Astrobin.
Continue readingOutskirts of Carina
NGC 3324 / IC 2599, an open cluster and emission nebula in the Outskirts of the Carina Nebula, imaged as narrowband data using the SHO Hubble palette with added RGB stars at the IAS Remote Observatory Hakos, Namibia.
All details at Astrobin.
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