Nebulæ

Shooting of the last day of the year without auto-guider. The subject is a peculiar couple of objects: at the top left the Surfboard Galaxy and at the bottom right the Owl Nebula. The particular shape of the nebula seems to be due to its structure: a sphere without material in the polar regions.The two dark areas are placed in correspondence with the polar regions of the nebula, which are not exactly aligned with our line of sight. This is why they appear as two eyes on the nebula disc. The nebula extends for about 3 light-years and it's a few thousand light years away.

This is a structurally very interesting reflection nebula, located in the constellation of Cepheus and easily identifiable. It was my first photo with the telescope made away from home, in fact I moved to Lequio Berria where the sky, although far from being perfect, is better than that of home (average SQM 21 in Lequio against 20.4 at home). The humidity was the real protagonist of the night, also I had an optical problem due to the focal reducer, but overall I was satisfied.

An unfortunate photo interrupted with only 18 minutes of images due to technical problems. A very small piece of the supernova remnant known as the Veil Nebula

After months of inactivity, here is a shot of M57, the famous planetary nebula in the constellation of Lyra. At the center of the nebula is visible what remains of the star that generated it: a white dwarf. Around the most famous bright part of the nebula, a much fainter area surrounding the bright ring is faintly visible.

The Crab Nebula is certainly the best known supernova remnant. It is located within the constellation of Taurus and is what remains of the supernova that was reported by Chinese astronomers in 1054. At the center of the nebula there is what remain of the star that generated it: a neutron star. The photo has two channels: the first was taken without filters, the second in H-alpha (the red color was associated with this channel).

A wonderful planetary nebula in Draco with multiple aspects: the nebula as a whole is able to chronologically tell the story of the star inside it. The outer halo was the first to be produced and surrounds the actual nebula at a great distance. Inside, a complex system of hot gas filaments are surrounded by faint concentric halos that were formed until about 1000 years ago when the inner nebula began to form. A casual peculiarity of this Nebula is that it is located almost exactly at the north pole of the ecliptic. By analogy, she is closer to the pole of the ecliptic than the polar star to the celestial North Pole

Shooting carried out waiting to be able to resume the asteroid Gault. Few shots but taken with incredible transparency for my location

vdB 142 is a small dark nebula in the constellation of Perseus that is easily observable due to the emission nebula behind it. In 2003, star formation was discovered inside the nebula thanks to infrared images

No, I didn't miss the target. The idea of this image was precisely to capture the faint gas structures surrounding the central part of the Great Orion Nebula, in particular those between M43 and NGC 1977

This is the central area of the Rosette Nebula, a large star-forming area. The bright stars inside the nebula by producing ultraviolet radiation excite the gas of the nebula causing it to emit mainly in the hydrogen lines.

Unfortunately not photographed in the best conditions and with the light of Alnitak which, reflecting in the telescope, ruins the shot.

This is the first photo I took with the CCD Sbig. M16 is a nebula in which new stars are forming. Inside this nebula there are the gas structures known as 'the pillars of creation'

A photo of such a famous planetary nebula could not be missing. The structures of gases that form this planetary nebula are much more complex than that which can be observed in this image

This is the first photo I took with the C8 and the Neq6. The moving stars are clearly visible but it was the first experiment ...