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The Elephant's Trunk in IC 1396
Credits: Gordon Haynes
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Almost the Center of our Galaxy
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I really wanted to get as close as possible to the milky way center as possible for my latitude.
This was as close to the horizon as possible before dawn.
It was worth the struggle of waking up at 3:30 AM at this remote location, because I got to test my new portable wide-angle setup for the first time :)

All details: https://app.astrobin.com/u/Kassar?i=8h9azy

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#UMPlus - The Milky Way over Baobab Avenue

https://www.universomagico.net/2025/04/la-via-lactea-sobre-baobabs-avenue.html

This image taken from Baobab Avenue in Morondava, Madagascar, shows the majestic band of our Milky Way Galaxy in the sky. The silhouettes in the foreground are baobab trees, which have unusual barrel-shaped trunks and are known for their longevity. Their scientific name is Adansonia, a genus in.....
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Arp 93: A Cosmic Embrace
Credits: Mike Selby, Observatorio El Sauce
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The Hubble Deep Field
Credits: HDF, STScI, #NASA
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https://www.diyphotography.net/a-short-history-of-pixinsight-the-powerhouse-of-astrophotography/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into DEPTH OF FIELD @depth-of-field-nndflip

Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 from Webb
* Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, M. E. Ressler (JPL) et al.; Processing: Judy Schmidt
https://science.nasa.gov/people-of-nasa/meet-a-citizen-scientist-judy-schmidt/
https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/ressler/
https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/
https://www.esa.int/
https://www.nasa.gov/

Explanation:
What happens when a star runs out of nuclear fuel? For stars like our Sun, the center condenses into a white dwarf while the outer atmosphere is expelled into space to appear as a planetary nebula. The expelled outer atmosphere of planetary nebula NGC 1514 appears to be a jumble of bubbles -- when seen in visible light. But the view from the James Webb Space Telescope in infrared, as featured here, confirms a different story: in this light the nebula shows a distinct hourglass shape, which is interpreted as a cylinder seen along a diagonal. If you look closely at the center of the nebula, you can also see a bright central star that is part of a binary system. More observations might better reveal how this nebula is evolving and how the central stars are working together to produce the interesting cylinder and bubbles observed.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/54206737999/in/datetaken/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_1514
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_1514#/media/File:NGC_1514_by_Goran_Nilsson_&_The_Liverpool_Telescope.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_nebula
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190929.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010AJ....140.1882R/abstract

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211226.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000910.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap970219.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...829...73M/abstract
https://content.cld.iop.org/journals/1538-3881/140/6/1882/revision1/aj370110f9_lr.gif
https://www.geogebra.org/m/sdFGxeYM

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Rampaging Fronts of the Veil Nebula
Credits: Discover the cosmos!, Arizona State University, WFPC, HST, #NASA
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Hitomi Launches
Credits: F. Scott Porter, NASA,Goddard Space Flight Center), ,Goddard Space Flight Center), Goddard Space Flight Center
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Behold the Pink Moon.

You’ll note, of course, that it’s not pink. “Pink” is just the name for the moon in April. This one I captured with the ASI678MC. The full disk fits pretty nicely with the Askar FRA400 + 678, though I do need to worry more about it drifting out of frame sooner.

Best 35% of 500 images, 2x drizzle, stacked & sharpened in PlanetarySystemStacker, edited in Affinity Photo (levels, curves, etc.).

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Near full moon. My first digital lunar image.
FireCapture v2.7.14
AutoStakkert 4.0.11
PixInsight 1.9.3
QHY533C
Astro-Tech AT86EDQ
iOptron GEM28
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#luna

Titan, Rings, and Saturn from Cassini
Credits: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, #JPL, ESA, #NASA
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#UMPlus - NGC 7031 by William Maxwell

https://www.universomagico.net/2025/04/ngc-7031-por-william-maxwell.html

This image by astronomer William Maxwell shows the open star cluster NGC 7031, also cataloged as Collinder 430 among other designations. It is located in the direction of the Cygnus constellation and lies at a distance of approximately 4,500 light-years from the Solar System. Its apparent size indicates a.....
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Phoebe: Comet Moon of Saturn
Credits: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, #JPL, ESA, #NASA
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