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I Captured a deep-sky view of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, featuring some of its most iconic nebulae:

M42 (Orion Nebula) – One of the brightest and most well-studied star-forming regions in the night sky.

M43 (De Mairan’s Nebula) – A smaller companion to M42, separated by a dark lane of dust.

IC 434 & Barnard 33 (Horsehead Nebula) – A striking dark nebula silhouetted against the glowing hydrogen emission of IC 434.

NGC 2024 (Flame Nebula) – A bright emission nebula near Alnitak, shaped by intense ultraviolet radiation.

Capturing Details:

📷 Camera: Nikon Z6 🔭 Lens: Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 150mm ⚙ Settings: f/3.2, ISO 10000, 2s exposures 415 frames (total Integration time~13.8 minutes)

Bortle 4

Xiaomi 12T Pro (23mm - 1x wide lens)

[F/1.69 | ISO 800 | 30s] x ~510 lights + 28 darks + 40 biases + 10 flats

Total integration time: 4h 15m

Equipment: EQ mount with single motor drive

Stacked with Astro Pixel Processor (2x Drizzle)

Processed with GraXpert, Siril, Photoshop and AstroSharp

HaRGB Panorama | Tracked | Stacked | Composite

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vhastrophotography?igsh=YzNpcm1wdXd5NmRo&utm_source=qr

The image shows the Cygnus region of the Milky Way in an area with stronger light pollution. To the right, the bright core of the Milky Way is slowly rising. It is now visible again in the northern henisphere during the early morning hours. Due to the numerous stray lights affecting my shots, achieving accurate colors in the image was quite challenging.

Exif: Sony A7III Sky: Sigma 28-45 f1.8 ISO 1600 | 4x30s per Panel | f1.8 2x2 Panel Panorama

Foreground: Samyang 24mm f1.8 ISO 3200 | 60s per Panel | f2 2x2 Panel Panorama

Halpha Data: Sigma 65mm f2 ISO 2500 | 20x90s | f2.5

Region: Germany, Bortle 5

As my wife and I were hoing to bed last night, we both noticed that the sky was strangely clear and that there was a massive amount of stars visible to the naked eye. There was one star in particular that was super bright and we both wanted to know what it was.

So I decided to set my phone on a tripod and take a 5 minute exposure photo of the sky and I couldn't believe how the photo turned out. I honestly didn't think phones cameras were capable of this...

I tried putting the photo into nova.astrometry but it just shows that the star is in the taurs constellation, but I cannot seem to find what this large star actually is.

If anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated! And apologies if these kind of posts aren't permitted!(I did check the rules).

I would normally use stellarium for working out what something is, but for some reason it wouldn't work at all for me last night.

Kittinger jumped from his Excelsior III gondola, experiencing 22Gs, reaching over 900ft/s, and broke the freefall record with a time of 4 minutes 36 seconds.

I took a picture of Jupiter with my Celestron 9.25” Evolution. However as most of you know, only its sunlit side is visible from Earth.

But there’s a way to get around this (literally and metaphorically). I used a very neat software called WinJupos to map my image of Jupiter 3-dimensionally, and display only the bottom half of my image from a different perspective. No actual texturing or colors were added or altered, only the perspective.

C9.25, ASI662MC, 2x Barlow, UV/IR Cut filter. 10ms exposure 290 gain for 4 x 3 minutes, derotated on WinJupos, processed on Registax6 and Lightroom, mapped on WinJupos.