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 readingLike 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 readingMy 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.
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Continue readingNew data from the IAS remote telescope, a lesser known object, the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy.
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Continue readingAnother open cluster of the southern skies … and a lot of cosmic “Schmodder” ;-)
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Continue readingQuite 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 readingAnother IAS Remote image from Hakos, Namibia. NGC 4038/4039, the Antennae Galaxies in Corvus.
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Continue readingA 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.
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Continue readingNGC 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.
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Continue readingAn object actually from the southern hemisphere, even if well within reach from Europe, the Seagull Nebula in Monoceros.
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Continue readingThe classic southern sky object, the Tarantula Nebula and surrounding nebulosity.
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