Gallery: Guest Images

                                         
                                                  by Herbert Walter and me. e
Object Description:
M13 was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714,
and catalogued by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764.
This 24 million year old formation of stars is one of the most impressive
globular clusters in the northern hemisphere.
Containing over 300,000 stars packed into a 145 light year sphere,
the center of this glorious object is 500 times more concentrated
than its outer perimeters. M13 is located in approx 25000 light year distance from our sun.

Globular star clusters are huge globe-shaped stellar cities
teeming with tens to hundreds of thousands of stars. Globular
clusters orbit the Milky Way galaxy outside the galactic disk
at tens of thousands of light-years away. In contrast,
the relatively nearby Pleiades and Hyades open star clusters
reside within the galactic disk, and usually harbor a few hundred
to a thousand stars.

  Image captured by Josef SCHWARZ,  June 2014 Kiripotib

                                         
                                                  by Josef Schwarz  and me. e
Object Description:
IC 1284 and VdB118/VdB119

These objects can be found in Sagittarius, north of the M8/M20 nebulae. The view shows some redish emission nebulae and dust and two bright blue reflection nebulae known as VdB118 and VdB119, named also NGC 6589 and NGC 6590. The bright blue stars that light up these reflection nebulae are members of NGC 6595 (Sharpless 37) which is a loose open cluster of stars lying at a distance of about 5,850 light years.

The bright magenta emission nebulae near the centre are IC 1283 and IC 1284.
Visible to the right are some of the outermost extensions of nearby Messier 24, the Sagittarius Star Cloud. Below VdB118/119 there is the soft diffuse reddish glow of ionised Hydrogen named Sh2-35.

The entire image is colourful because of the nebulae overlaying and obscuring each other to a certain degrees and enhanced with the dense packed star fields that dominate the views towards the Milky Way centre.

  Image captured by Josef SCHWARZ,  June 2014 Kiripotib

                                         
                                               by Josef Schwarz  and me.
Object Description:
Cometary Globule 12 is a low mass star forming region associated with the cluster and reflection nebula NGC5367. While the cluster and the associated nebula were discovered by John Herschel in 1834, the cometary globule CG12 was discovered only in 1976 on an ESO/SRC Sky Survey plate taken with the UK Schmidt telescope.  Like a comet in the sky, NGC 5367 appears to have a blue nucleus and a brownish tail. Cometary globules are known stellar birthplaces that show a head–tail comination similar to comets. Their heads are dusty, compact and bright-rimmed.

  Image captured by Josef SCHWARZ,  June 2014 Kiripotib

 by Josef Schwarz  and me.

Object Descriptiona:
This region in the constellation Ara consists of emission-, reflection nebulas and obscuring dust lanes. It is lying near the edge of a large molecular cloud and immense expanding bubble of neutral hydrogen gas.
The emission nebula NGC6188 expands roughly 600 light-years across and lies approx. 4,000 light-years away. It is the home of a group of young stars which forms the open cluster NGC 6193. Its stars are very bright
so the interstellar dust is forming a diffuse blue glow which is visible as VdB-H72b.
NGC6164-5 (at the right border) is a bipolar emission nebula surrounding by a massive star. The star is near the end of its life, as a result it is shedding gas. The star's fast rotation and magnetic field, creates the symmetric shape of the bipolar nebula.

                        

  Image captured by Josef SCHWARZ,  June 2014 Kiripotib

 
by Josef Schwarz  and me.

Object Description of the the Vela Supernova Remnant:
About 11,000 years ago a star in the constellation of Vela exploded. As gas flies away from the detonated star, it reacts with the interstellar medium, knocking away closely held electrons from even heavy elements. When the electrons recombine with these atoms, light in many different colors and energy bands is produced and shows red and green filaments of expanding excited Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms!

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Image captured by   Manfred Fischer   Zwerndorf

Exposures:
RGB 5x10 Minutes, Ha 9x10 Min., OIII 6x10 Min., Luminance 13x10 Minutes.

Captured: in Zwerndorf/Austria by Manfred Fischer.

Image Processing: Each Channel registered and separately combined with CCDSTACK                           by Manfred Fischer.

                           All other image Processing was done with
                                         
                           by Dr. Franz Gruber in  Pitten and me.

Object Description:
Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. While the Veil is roughly circular in shape covering nearly 3 degrees on the sky in the constellation Cygnus, this portion of the eastern Veil spans only 1/2 degree, about the apparent size of the Moon. That translates to 12 light-years at the Veil's estimated distance of 1,400 light-years from planet Earth. In this composite of image data recorded through RGB, Luminance and narrow band filters, emission from hydrogen atoms in the remnant is shown in red with strong emission from oxygen atoms in greenish hues. ..