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Supernova in M778 views47 million years ago in a galaxy far far away a star exploded. Its light has just reached Lancashire! It is close to the galaxy's centre so not easy to spot and the weather only allowed a few hazy shots last night. Inset is of my previous image of 10 years ago. David R.Dec 15, 2018
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NGC89112 viewsAn edge on spiral galaxy similar in size to the Milky Way but 30 million LY distant in Andromeda constellation. Five & half hours with a UHC clip filter fitted. The 8" reflector is on a pier mounted EQ6 Pro.
Bill CDec 08, 2018
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Globular Cluster M1513 viewsOne of the brightest globular clusters in the northern sky and home to around 100,000 stars. It is one of the most densely packed globulars in the Milky Way galaxy and is classed as 'core collapsed'. Whether it has a black hole at its centre is subject to much speculation but even images taken with the Hubble were unable to resolve its dense core and solve the problem. David R.Dec 06, 2018
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Planetary Nebula NGC 709418 viewsSome planetary nebular shapes are so "messy" - as is the case with NGC 7094 - that perhaps triple or even multiple stars systems must be involved. In a recent paper, Bear & Soker, placed NGC 7094 in the category "Maybe shaped by a triple stellar progenitor". It is certainly an odd one. David R.Nov 28, 2018
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Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy27 viewsThis dwarf galaxy is part of the local group and is a distant satellite of M31. Recently Hubble images have confirmed the presence of a substantial globular cluster (DDO216-A1) near the centre of the galaxy. It is 3mly away whereas the tiny edge-on galaxy is way in the background at around 900mly. David R.Nov 20, 2018
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IC 1396 Elephants trunk nebula39 viewsPart of an emission nebula in Cepheus. Taken on a pier mounted EQ6 Pro mount and guided with a Gerald Bramall made off axis guider. Essential for the long exposures.
Bill CNov 16, 2018
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Escaping the Void33 viewsAlfaZoa is the galaxy that my talk finished with on Tuesday. It is one of only 2 attested galaxies within the Local Void and it is escaping fast. It was discovered with the Arecibo Radio Telescope. David R.Nov 08, 2018
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IC1396-Elephants Trunk Nebula53 viewsThis is the red channel Using a Ha 6nm filter. eight & half hours giving me all the info I need before combining it with 4 hours UHC filter on 28th & 29th to get the star colours. (note the triple star on the left.) Bill COct 31, 2018
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NGC 700057 viewsNorth American Nebula reprocessed from October 2012Oct 24, 2018
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NGC 45742 viewsFirst attempt as using my modified Canon 600D, Stacked with DSS, Processed with GIMP. Seem to have a very large number of hot pixels following the Astro Modification Oct 23, 2018
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Messier 2961 viewsSomewhat ignored Messier object which does look a bit like a small Pleiades. All is not what it seems though with 2 of the seven brightest stars not being cluster members. The blue one is a background giant and the "handle" star (top left) is a foreground object. Age 5 million years. David R.Oct 14, 2018
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Blazar - BL Lacertae68 viewsIt took many years for astronomers to work out what this object was - it has a featureless spectrum. We now know it is a Blazar - a quasar where the jet from its central black hole is pointing straight at us. Its distance is around 900 million light years. David R.Oct 03, 2018
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82 viewsSun Taken at Kelling heath.Sep 18, 2018
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Lifting the Veil71 viewsKelling Heath 2018. Just managed to get 45 60s between the clouds. Ross Wilkinson did his magic on the Tiff to produce this image.Sep 14, 2018
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Saturn & Mars - 31 August 201888 viewsCivilised time for imaging but boy are they low. Mars is large this year being close to the Sun and they are both are at the same scale here - I didn't even re-focus. South polar cap is visible on Mars and despite the dust storms some surface markings are visible too. There also seems to be a haze over its north pole. David R.Sep 01, 2018
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Crescent Nebula97 viewsImaged in Gloucestershire om 11th-8-18, ISO 400 processed in IRIS and Photoshop.Aug 20, 2018
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Veil Nebula84 viewsImaged in Gloucestershire 5-8-18, ISO 400, processed in IRIS and PhotoshopAug 20, 2018
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Gamma Cygnus83 viewsIMAGE TAKEN ON 17-8-2018, iSO 400, 10 MIN Subs in GloucestershireAug 20, 2018
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Noctilucent clouds over Longridge118 viewsJul 08, 2018
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Noctilucent clouds & passing car103 viewsJul 08, 2018
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