
Star trail over the Terlingua Ranch Lodge. This image is a composite of the foreground landscape at dusk and 2 hours of starry night after the Moon set in the wee hours.
Star trail over the Terlingua Ranch Lodge. This image is a composite of the foreground landscape at dusk and 2 hours of starry night after the Moon set in the wee hours.
You don’t get this often: colorful aurora at 51° latitude, north-east of Cologne, Germany. A strong solar storm is currently impacting Earth.
Das sieht man auch nicht alle Tage: Polarlichter in allen Farben über den ganzen Himmel bei heimischer 51° Breite, nordöstlich von Köln. Ein massiver Sonnensturm trifft gerade auf die Erde.
Continue readingAnother astro image with data from the IAS remote telescope, Barnard 35, a dark nebula in Orion. Nothern hemisphere form southern skies, or the other way round? ;-)
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Continue readingAnother CG in Puppis, also called “God’s Hand” trying to snatch PGC21338, but for me it looks more like a sandworm.
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Continue readingNew data from the IAS remote telescope, comprising 2 panels for this mosaic. Somewhat uncharted territory in Puppis, at least regarding the NGC and IC catalogs, with several cometary globules in the outskirts of the very large Gum Nebula.
More scientific details about the objects can be found in this older publication by ESO, see page 71, section 2.1.4 CG30/31 and HH12.
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