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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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Toes of the Lagoon

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IC 1274/1275/4684/4685, NGC 6559 – Nebulae in Sagittarius – SHO w/RGB Stars v1

An assortment of nebulae in Sagittarius, very close to the well-photographed Lagoon, thus sort of completing the Lagoon footprint, which made me come up with this nickname.

This is a narrowband (SII, H-alpha, OIII) plus RGB image. For rendering the NB data, I used the “Foraxx” palette described in The Coldest Nights blog along with other techniques. Worked rather well, a pure SHO approach would yield a very green image. Stars are color-calibrated RGB.

Emission and reflection nebulae in this field: IC 1274/1275/4684/4685, NGC 6559

The strange object below and right of NGC 6559 is the planetary nebula PN M 1-41
(RA 18 09 30.10, DEC -24 12 26.0).

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Cometary Globule CG5

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Cometary Globule CG 5 and Dark Friends in Puppis – LHaRGB v1

Still on the hunt for cometary globules, here’s CG5 trying to escape the evil clouds with tendrils already stretching in its direction … ;-)

Meanwhile, I created an extra page in the gallery with some information on CGs and the related astrophotography so far.

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Gum 68

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Gum 68 / Sh2-13 / RCW 133 – Emission Nebula in Scorpius – HSS w/RGB Stars v1

Took me a while to create something with presentable colors from the narrowband data of this obscure nebula in Scorpius, the previous H-alpha black and white version was easier.

This is a bicolor image with R=H-alpha, G=SII, B=SII and mainly H-alpha with a bit of SII used as luminance, plus calibrated RGB stars screened on-top.

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Dark Tower

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Dark Tower – Cometary Globule GN 16.43.7.01 in Scorpius – LHaRGB v1

A lesser known object, the Cometary Globule GN 16.43.7.01, nick-named Dark Tower gained some popularity, especially since ESO’s publication of an image taken with the VLT.

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NGC 6589/90 and Surroundings

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NGC 6589/90 and Surroundings in Sagittarius – SHO w/RGB Stars v1

A 2 panel mosaic of SHO data in Sagittarius, the reflection nebulae NGC 6589/90 and Surroundings, in particular the emission nebulae IC 1283 und IC 1284. NGC 6590 also seems to be cataloged as NGC 6595.

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Blue Lagoon

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M8 – Lagoon Nebula – SHO w/RGB Stars v2

Oldie, but goldie. The Blue Lagoon, not in Iceland, but in the constellation of Sagittarius, Messier 8 (M8), the Lagoon Nebula. Remote acquistion at the IAS Observatory, Hakos, Namibia.

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