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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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Galaxies and Supernova in Crater Reloaded

NGC 3660, SN 2026cff, and PGC 1000714 – Galaxies and Supernova in Crater – OSC v1

A second attempt at NGC 3660 and friends, previously imaged here, with the longer focal length of the Cassegrain (4500 mm) at the IAS Hakos Observatory, Namibia.

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Oddball Planetary Nebula

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PGC 49877 / Fr 2-8 – Galaxy / Planetary Nebula in Centaurus – OSC v1

Imaged at the IAS Hakos Observatory, Namibia with the 20″ Philipp Keller Cassegrain at full focal length of 4500 mm, f/9, this oddball object is listed both as a galaxy (PGC 49877) and a planetary nebula (Fr 2-8).

Quoting from Planetary Nebulae in the Solar Neighbourhood: Statistics, Distance Scale and Luminosity Function by David John Frew

Fr 2-8 (Fr 1400-5102, AM 1357-504, LEDA 49877). This small nebula, about 2′ across, was found serendipitously from SHASSA field 057, while measuring a Hα flux from the nearby PN MeWe 2-4, and has been confirmed spectroscopically as a high-excitation PN, with the 2.3m MSSSO telescope. The position is coincident with the SIMBAD ‘galaxy’ AM1357-504 (Arp & Madore 1987). It had been independently noted as a PN by Cˆote et al. (1997), but no details were provided in their paper.

Interestingly enough, the team around IAS member Uwe Glahn observed this object visually at Hakos back in 2009.

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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.

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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.

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