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The Great Wall in Cygnus

By John Chumack|2022-11-20T23:52:03+00:00November 20th, 2022|Tags: #ASIAIR, #ChumackObservatories, #cygnuswall, #GalacticImages, #JohnChumack, #natgeo, #nebula, #NGC7000, #northamericannebula, #Sh2-117, #skyatnight, #starnursery, #universe, #Universetoday, #ZWO, #ZWO294MC, Astronomy, Cygnus, Space|

Sh2-117 or The Great Wall in the constellation Cygnus, A close-up view. SH2-117 is part of NGC 7000, the Lower portion of “The North American Nebula”.
This is a massive star formation region with large amounts of gas & dust visible in this image. The Great Wall is located approximately 2,200 light years away from Earth.
Capture details:
Celestron C6 F5 Newtonian Reflector Telescope, Celestron Coma Corrector, Bisque MyT Mount, ZWO 294MC Cooled Cmos Camera, L-Enhance Filter, ASI Air Plus via Wi-Fi to my I-pad, 45 x 2 minute subs, 90 minute total integration time from my backyard observatory(bortle8) in Dayton, Ohio on 09-16-2022.

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John Chumack
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The Total Lunar Eclipse from the city of Boston, MA. on 11-08-2022.

By John Chumack|2022-11-14T13:19:19+00:00November 14th, 2022|Tags: #boston, #ChumackObservatories, #GalacticImages, #JohnChumack, #luna, #Lunareclipse, #Lunareclipse2022, #natgeo, #Revere, #skyatnight, #Universetoday, Astronomy, Eclipse, Moon, Space|

The Total Lunar Eclipse from the city of Boston, MA. on 11-08-2022.

I was at the 2022 International Digital Image Correlation (I-DIC) Conference on business travel for the University and had to take some shots from downtown Boston.

The 1st shot of Moon was intentionally over exposed to help properly expose the City buildings for my foreground, the following Sequence was captured individually with my Canon 6D DSLR using 24mm-105mm, lens set to 105mm, F7, ISO 400, ranging from 1/2000 sec to 1.3 sec., mirror lock up, live view mode, wireless remote switch, properly exposing the moon during the partial eclipse phases and totality. After aligning & scaling both images they were combined to show the Eclipse Sequence and path as seen from my hotel in Downtown Boston.

Sometimes you just need a chair, trash cans, and sock!

The tripod ii was planning to use, was already in use at our Conference, so I had to come up with a last minute makeshift tripod using one of the hotel’s chairs, two trash cans, and a sock to prop & align the camera for the DSLR sequence, aiming it out the sliding door of my balcony in the hotel.

Best Regards,

John Chumack

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NGC 7741 is a Barred Spiral Galaxy in Pegasus

By John Chumack|2022-11-02T10:56:59+00:00November 2nd, 2022|Tags: #BarredSpiral, #ChumackObservatories, #GalacticImages, #galaxy, #JohnChumack, #natgeo, #NGC7741, #skyatnight, #Universetoday, Astronomy, Space|

NGC 7741 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pegasus. It is located at a distance of ~40 million light years from Earth,

which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 7741 is about 50,000 light years across.

It was discovered by William Herschel on September 10, 1784.

NGC 7741 has a strong bar and two spiral arms. The spiral arms are patchy and diffuse with a (red) HII region visible in this image.

There are a lot of smaller background galaxies visible in the image as well.

TPO 12 inch F4 Newtonian Scope, Baader Coma Corrector, L-Pro Filter, Bisque ME Mount, ZWO 294MC Cooled Cmos Camera,

ASI Air captured via Wi-Fi to I-Pad for a 30 minute total integrated exposure time

from my observatories at JBSPO in Yellow Springs, Ohio on 10-23-2022.

Best Regards,

John Chumack

www.galacticimages.com

M42 -M43 The Sword of Orion and The Running Man NGC-1973-75-77

By John Chumack|2022-11-01T22:37:27+00:00November 1st, 2022|Tags: #ASIAIR, #ChumackObservatories, #GalacticImages, #JohnChumack, #m42M43, #natgeo, #nebula, #ngc1973, #ngc1975, #ngc1977, #OrionNebula, #runningman, #skyatnight, #Universetoday, #ZWO, #ZWO294MC, Astronomy, M42, M43, Orion, Space|

M42 & M43 The Great Orion Emission Nebula & NGC1973-75-77 Running Man Reflection Nebula(Blue on the left)

This massive stellar Nursery (Star Formation Region) never gets old…

Being one of the brightest and most beautiful Nebula to view Visually and capture Photographically, every year around the Autumnal Equinox, in the early morning sky just before dawn, and when it finally clears my neighbors trees,

I need to snap at least one image set of this great sword region of Orion.

If nothing else a reminder to me of how beautiful our universe truly is and also a reminder that winter is coming!

Capture details:

Celestron C6 F5 Newtonian telescope, Baader Coma Corrector, Bisque MyT Mount, ZWO 294MC Cooled Cmos Camera, L-enhance Filter,

ASI Air Plus, via Wi-Fi to my IPAD, 61 x 60 second Subs, 60 minute total integration exposure time from my backyard Observatory

in Dayton, Ohio on 09-21-2022.

Best Regards,

John Chumack

www.galacticimages.com

NGC-253 Spiral Galaxy with 12 Inch + ZWO294MC

By John Chumack|2022-10-25T12:57:56+00:00October 25th, 2022|Tags: #ChumackObservatories, #GalacticImages, #JohnChumack, #natgeo, #NGC253, #sculptorgalaxy, #skyatnight, #theskyatnight, #Universetoday, Astronomy, Space|

NGC-253 Spiral Galaxy
NGC-253, A Bright Galaxy In The Constellation of Sculptor.
NGC-253 is a relatively Nearby Galaxy, located at 11.4 Million Light years away, it shines at ~ Magnitude 8, so is visible in Binocular from a dark location.
I only got 31 minutes of data before high cirrus clouds came in on me…I’m surprised at how well it turned out considering it sits very low in the sky and I was shooting through a lots of hazy muck on the horizons that night.
I almost did not bother processing it, but glad I gave it a go anyway, picked up some nice dusty details too!

12 inch F4 TPO Newtonian telescope, Baader Coma Corrector, Bisque ME Mount, ZWO 294MC Cooled Cmos Camera, L-Pro Filter,
ASI Air via WiFi to Ipad, 31 x 1 minute subs, 31 minutes total integration exposure time on 10-21-2022 taken from my Observatories at JBSPO in yellow Springs, Ohio.

Best Regards,

John Chumack

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NGC-7772 The Cluster that once was!

By John Chumack|2022-10-18T12:18:04+00:00October 18th, 2022|Tags: #ChumackObservatories, #gaia, #GalacticImages, #JohnChumack, #natgeo, #NGC7772, #openclusters, #skyatnight, #Universetoday, Astronomy, Pegasus, Space|

Often overlooked, but not forgotten…I really like this little gem of a chance alignment of a stars, just sitting out here all by itself.

NGC 7772 is a tiny collection of stars, spanning 3 arc minutes in the constellation Pegasus that were once thought to be an open cluster.

The stars were first recorded on 7 October 1825 by the British astronomer John Herschel.

It is located 4,900 light years away from Earth.

Recent Gaia Satellite data shows the stars in the area are unrelated.

Celestron C6 Newtonian Reflector, Baader Coma Corrector, Bisque MyT Mount, ZWO 294MC Cooled Cmos Camera, 10 x 120sec subs, 20 minutes total exposure integration time.

Captured on 09-20-2022 from my backyard observatory in Dayton, Ohio.

Best Regards,

John Chumack

www.galacticimages.com

M76 The Little Dumbbell Nebula, A Bipolar Planetary Nebula

By John Chumack|2022-10-16T16:27:44+00:00October 16th, 2022|Tags: #ASIAIR, #barbellnebula, #bipolarplanetarynebula, #ChumackObservatories, #corknebula, #DyingStar, #GalacticImages, #JohnChumack, #littledumbbellnebula, #M76, #messier76, #natgeo, #ngc650, #ngc651, #perseus, #planetarynebula, #skyatnight, #Universetoday, #whitewarf, #ZWO, #ZWO294MC, Astronomy, Space|

M76 The Little Dumbbell Nebula, A dying star in Perseus, also known as Messier 76, NGC 650/651, the Barbell Nebula, or the Cork Nebula.

The structure is now classed as a bipolar planetary nebula (BPNe), denoting two stars which have burst, leaving neutron star or white
dwarf remnants and luminous envelopes.
The distance to M76 is currently estimated as 780 parsecs or 2,500 light years, making the average dimensions about 1.23 light years across.

Captured from my (Bortle8) Backyard observatory in Dayton, Ohio.
Celestron C6, 6 inch F5 Newtonian Reflector telescope, Baader Coma Corrector, Bisque MyT Mount, ZWO 294MC Cooled Cmos Camera, L-Enhance Filter, 30 x 120 sec. subs, total 60 minute integrated exposure time.

Best Regards,

John Chumack

www.galacticimages.com

The Full Disk Sun in Hydrogen Alpha Light and Sunspots AR3112 on 10-09-2022

By John Chumack|2022-10-13T10:51:34+00:00October 13th, 2022|Tags: #ChumackObservatories, #GalacticImages, #JohnChumack, #natgeo, #Prominence, #QHYCCD, #skyatnight, #SolarActivity, #solarflare, #solarsystem, #Universetoday, Astronomy, Sol, Space, Sun, Sunspots|

Here is another set of my Active Sun shots…

The Full Disk Sun in Hydrogen Alpha Light on 10-09-2022

SB MyT Mount, QHY5IIL Cmos Camera, Lunt 60mm/50F H-Alpha Filter, B12 Blocking Filter, 0.6ms exposure.

Fire-Capture SER Video File, best 500 frames out of 1200, Stacked in Autostakkert, Registax6, & Adobe Raw 2022.

Captured from my backyard observatory in Dayton, Ohio on 10-09-2022

I also captured a nice close-up the Sunspots/Active region AR 3112, same scope, but with 2x barlow and QHY290 Cmos camera for a 12ms exposure.

According to NASA’s Space weather page:

“Underachieving Sunspots/AR 3112 finally exploded on Oct. 10th–twice–producing a pair of M-class solar flares.

Aviators, mariners and ham radio operators may have noticed fading and other unusual effects at frequencies below 15 to 20 MHz for as much as an hour after each flare.”

Best Regards,

John Chumack

www.galacticimages.com

Sadr & Gamma Cygni Nebula Complex _Wide Field

By John Chumack|2022-10-05T02:24:00+00:00October 5th, 2022|Tags: #butterflynebula, #ChumackObservatories, #GalacticImages, #gammacygni, #IC1311, #ic1318, #JohnChumack, #natgeo, #nebula, #skyatnight, #Universetoday, Astronomy, Space|

Bright Star Sadr and The Gamma Cygni Emission Nebula Region (wide field)
Here is a nice capture with a 135mm Lens, of this large nebulous region in the Constellation Cygnus.
The region has many catalog numbers and common names assigned pieces of the Nebula.
Lynds Catalog of Bright and Dark nebulae, and many Barnard’s Dark Nebula
LBN-259, LBN-257, LBN-251 LBN-239, LDN 893, LDN897, LDN-892, The Butter-Fly nebula IC-1318, The Propeller Nebula DWB-111, The Tilapia, The Sphinx, are all in this shot.
Several nice open Star clusters are visible as well like M29, Herschel H56-8, and IC-1311.

Bisque MyT Mount, Samyang 135mm Lens at F4, ZWO294MC Cooled Cmos Camera, L-Enhance, 41 x 2 minute subs, 82 minutes total integration time.
Captured from my backyard observatory in Dayton, Ohio on 08-12-2022.

Best Regards,

John Chumack

www.galacticimages.com

IC-1396 & Mu Cephei – Samyang 135mm lens

By John Chumack|2022-09-27T11:57:52+00:00September 27th, 2022|Tags: #ASIAIR, #ChumackObservatories, #elephantstrunknebula, #GalacticImages, #garnetstar, #IC1396, #JohnChumack, #mucephei, #natgeo, #nebula, #skyatnight, #Universetoday, #ZWO, #ZWO294MC, Astronomy, Cepheus, Space|

IC1396 The Elephant’s Trunk Emission Nebula Complex in Cepheus with the Garnet Star Mu Cephei.

The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region,

IC 1396 Nebula Complex is about 2,400 light years away from Earth.

Mu Cephei,(the bright 4th magnitude star at top) also known as Herschel’s Garnet Star, Erakis, or HD 206936, is a red super-giant or hyper-giant and is a variable star in the constellation Cepheus. It appears garnet red and is located at the edge of the IC 1396 nebula.

I captured this wide field shot with a Samyang 135mm lens & ZWO 294MC cooled Cmos Camera, L-Enhance Filter, Bisque MyT Mount, 60 x 120sec subs exposures, for a total of 2 hours of exposure time,

from my backyard Observatory in Dayton, Ohio on 08-182-2012, using the ASI Air app, captured via my I-pad.

Best Regards,

John Chumack

www.galacticimages.com