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Photography is a hobby I started when I retired. I now live in València, España . I hope you enjoy my photo albums.

17/03/2025

A Closer Look at the Elephant's Trunk Nebula - IC 1396

The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula (IC 1396) is a giant emission nebula that is over 3 degrees in diameter (Visually, 6 times larger than our full moon). It is illuminated by a hot, massive O-type star (HD 206267) near its center.

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation of Cepheus about 2,400 light years from Earth.

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is now thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 years old) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003.
The Elephant’s Trunk is over 20 light-years long.

16/03/2025

The Wizard Nebula - NGC 7380

NGC 7380 is located in the constellation Cepheus about 7,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy. The star cluster is embedded in a nebula, sometimes called the Wizard Nebula, which spans some 110 light-years. The stars of NGC 7380 have emerged from this star forming region in the last 5 million years or so, making it a relatively young cluster.

The Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) is a glowing region of space about 7,200 light-years away. Named for its mystical, cloaked appearance, if you’ve got a good imagination then you might see a celestial sorcerer casting spells across the night sky. It’s actually a star-forming region home to young, hot stars that illuminate the surrounding clouds of gas and dust.

15/03/2025

Thor’s Helmet – NGC2359

Facebook’s compression algorithm really destroys the details of astrophotography. If you are using a computer or your phone to view this, please click on the photo to enlarge it and the compression won’t be anywhere near as bad. The star field won’t be all blurry.

Thor’s Helmet, also known as NGC2359, is an emission nebula in the constellation Canis Major.

The central star is the Wolf-Rayet star WR7, an extremely hot star thought to be in a brief pre-supernova stage of evolution. It is similar in nature to the Bubble Nebula, but interactions with a nearby large molecular cloud are thought to have contributed to the more complex shape and curved bow-shock structure of Thor's Helmet.

14/03/2025

Revisit The Soul Nebula - IC1848

They call this the Soul Nebula, probably because it is near the Heart Nebula. But once you see Pooh Bear chasing a Butterfly, you can’t un-see it.

13/03/2025

Revisit The Monkey Head Nebula - NGC 2174

Facebook’s compression algorithm really destroys the details of astrophotography. If you are using a computer or your phone to view this, please click on the photo to enlarge it and the compression won’t be anywhere near as bad. The star field won’t be all blurry.

The Monkey Head Nebula, also known as NGC 2174, is a bright and colorful emission nebula located in the constellation Orion. It is located about 6,400 light-years away from Earth and is thought to have formed from the expansion of a hot young star, which has created a bright, glowing region of hydrogen gas and dust. The nebula has a distinctive shape that resembles the head of a monkey.

The Monkey Head Nebula is an active star-forming region, and is home to many young stars that are still in the process of forming. These stars emit intense radiation and strong winds, which interact with the surrounding gas and dust to create the beautiful and complex structures that can be observed in the nebula.

The reddish color of the Monkey Head Nebula is caused by the emission of hydrogen gas, which glows brightly when it is excited by the radiation from the young stars. The blue color is produced by dust that is being illuminated by the intense starlight.

12/03/2025

Revisit Lower's Nebula - Sh2-261

Adding more integration time to this nebula.

Facebook’s compression algorithm really destroys the details of astrophotography. If you are using a computer to view this, please click on the photo to enlarge it and the compression won’t be anywhere near as bad. The star field won’t be all blurry.

Sh2-261 (Sharpless 261) also known as Lower’s Nebula was discovered in 1939. The Lowers (father and son) were amateur astronomers and found this nebula on one of their photgraphic plates taken in 1939. It is a relatively faint region in Orion constellation, emitting doubly ionized hydrogen, and the nebula has an apparent diameter of about 50 arcminutes. There is no accurate measurement as to the distance of this nebula, although best estimation is about 3.300 light years.

09/03/2025

The Heart Nebula and Fish Head Nebula in Foraxx Palette

Facebook’s compression algorithm really destroys the details of astrophotography. If you are using a computer to view this, please click on the photo to enlarge it and the compression won’t be anywhere near as bad. The star field won’t be all blurry.

The Heart Nebula, also known as IC 1805, is an emission nebula located in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is approximately 7,500 light-years from Earth. The nebula gets its name from its distinctive shape, which resembles a heart. It is illuminated by a group of hot, massive stars located near its center, causing the surrounding hydrogen gas to emit light.

The Fish Head Nebula, also known as IC 1795, is located in the constellation Cassiopeia, and it is part of a larger nebula complex that includes the Heart Nebula (IC 1805). It is named for its distinctive shape, which resembles the head of a fish, and it is illuminated by a bright, young star located near its center. The nebula emits light in a variety of colors.

08/03/2025

Revisit the Cygnus Loop (4 Panel Mosaic) in Foraxx Palatte

This Cygnus Loop has so much detail in it. The stars hide much of the detail. I don't often post starless images, but I made an exception for this one.

Facebook’s compression algorithm really destroys the details of astrophotography. If you are using a computer to view this, please click on the photo to enlarge it and the compression won’t be anywhere near as bad.

The Cygnus Loop is a large supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus, an emission nebula measuring nearly 3° across.

The Cygnus Loop marks the edge of a bubble-like, expanding blast wave from a supernova explosion which occurred about 15,000 years ago.

The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun. At the time of explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than Venus in the sky, and visible in daytime.

Named areas of the nebula include the Western Veil Nebula (Witch’s Broom), Pickering’s Triangle, the Eastern Veil Nebula (Bat Nebula), and the Southeastern Knot.

08/03/2025

Revisit the Cygnus Loop (4 Panel Mosaic) in Foraxx Palatte

Facebook’s compression algorithm really destroys the details of astrophotography. If you are using a computer to view this, please click on the photo to enlarge it and the compression won’t be anywhere near as bad. The star field won’t be all blurry.

The Cygnus Loop is a large supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus, an emission nebula measuring nearly 3° across.

The Cygnus Loop marks the edge of a bubble-like, expanding blast wave from a supernova explosion which occurred about 15,000 years ago.

The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun. At the time of explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than Venus in the sky, and visible in daytime.

Named areas of the nebula include the Western Veil Nebula (Witch’s Broom), Pickering’s Triangle, the Eastern Veil Nebula (Bat Nebula), and the Southeastern Knot.

06/03/2025

Revisit Messier 20 - The Trifid Nebula.

So named after its three lobed appearance, it is also aptly named because it is comprised of three different types of Nebula.
An emission nebula, the reddish center.
A reflection nebula, the bluish outer.
And some dark nebula, the dark lines separating the three lobes.
All surrounding a beautiful open cluster of stars.

Wow! Facebook compression really destroys anything with a large star field around it. Sorry!

05/03/2025

The Bubble Nebula – NGC 7635

The Bubble Nebula, also known as NGC 7635 is an H2 region emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. The seething star forming area of this nebula is 45 times more massive than our Sun.

Gas on the star gets so hot that it escapes away into space as a "stellar wind" moving at over 6.4 million kilometers per hour (4 million miles per hour). This outflow sweeps up the cold, interstellar gas in front of it, forming the outer edge of the bubble much like a snowplow piles up snow in front of it as it moves forward. As the surface of the bubble's shell expands outward, it slams into dense regions of cold gas on one side of the bubble. This asymmetry makes the star appear dramatically off-center from the bubble.

Bubble Nebula in Foraxx Palette

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