Stunning Deep Sky Astronomy

A collection of deep-sky images showcasing various constellations, nebulas, and star clusters in vibrant colors against a dark, starry background.

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Comet Wirtanen (aka 46P) as it appeared in my sky on November 28, 2018 with it still only 17° above my southern horizon, so partly in haze. The comet was obvious in big 10x70mm binoculars as a large diffuse glow. Wirtanen was moving north and had just entered my western Canadian sky the week I took this. As I write this, Wirtanen will be higher in mid-December when it is closest to the Sun and to the Earth. This is a stack of six 2-minute exposures guided on the stars, with a single exposur

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Comet 2025 A6 Lemmon Traveling Through the Night Sky

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Photograph of a planetary Nebula (NGC 7293), in the constellation Aquarius. Photographed through a 30-inch reflector, Helwan, Egypt. Dated 20th century

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$A telescopic closeup of Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) on January 19, 2015. I shot this from near Silver City, New Mexico, using a TMB 92mm apo refractor at f/4.4 and using a Canon 6D at ISO 1600 for a stack of 4 x 5 minute exposures. The ion tail is primarily from a single exposure to minimize blurring from the comets motion relative to the stars. The rest of the image is from the stacked combination to minimize noise.$

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