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Gallery / Keyhole Nebula from Chile

« on: 2019 April 16 18:04:10 »

Dear group, after a long time without posting here, I would like to share with you my last image obtained from my remote observatory. This time is for the classic Keyhole nebula, aka NGC 3372 in Carina constallation.

Even though there are tons of images of this beautiful object, I wanted to incorporate data from all the filters that I have. So the "natural" color is a blend of Ha, OII, SII and LRGB. Please find it at the "NEW" corner on my site :

http://www.astro-austral.cl/home.htm

Details on acquisition data and equipment :
http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/NGC%203372%20ESO/info.htm

Further more, I wanted to blend in the classical "Hubble palette". Not my speciality, but here we go:
http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/NGC%203372%20ESO/SHO.jpg

Best regards,

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Gallery / War & Peace in Scorpius

« on: 2018 August 19 18:41:44 »

Dear Group , I would like to share with you one of the last images from El Sauce Observatory

Description and capture data: http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/NGC%206357%20ESO/info.htm
H-alpha version : http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/NGC%206357%20ESO/NGC-6357-Ha-web.jpg
HaOIIILRGB Full Res Version : http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/NGC%206357%20ESO/full_res.jpg

Best regards,

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Gallery / Puppis, Vela and Chamaeleon

« on: 2018 May 13 19:58:06 »

I've been a bit lazy the last few months and I have not posted any new images. Let me share with you some new objects from january to march obtained from my remote observatory in Chile.

Please review :

FEST 1-109
Cederblad 111 and
NGC 2660  in  the NEW section at http://www.astro-austral.cl/

Also

    Sandqvist 114 : Firts amateur image for this obscure nebula in Vela http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/Sandqvist%20114/info.htm
    CG 30 & 31 : two cometary globules in Puppis http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/CG30/info.htm
    BBW56 : a "mountain" of Ha also in Puppis http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/BBW56/info.htm
    Puppis A  http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/Puppis%20A/info.htm

At the end, a lovely globular cluster in Vela http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/starclusters/ngc%203201/info.htm

Be sure to check the full res versions available.


Hope you like it.

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Gallery / New images from Vela constellation

« on: 2018 February 11 17:43:20 »

Hello to all, from this link you can review my  homework of january from my remote instalation in Chile.

http://www.astro-austral.cl/

This time, the objects were:

    NGC 2736 : Pencil nebula or Herschel´s Ray
    GUM 46 : stellar nursery, relatively unknown
    Sandqvist 111 : dense dark nebula


I personally have not been very prone to narrow band filters, a little for laziness and a bit for not mastering the techniques for this particular type of filters. Now I think that those makes a huge difference. I suppose that this was already obvious to many of you, but I still had not experienced it at first hand 

Hope you like it.

All the best,

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Gallery / Images from december 2017

« on: 2017 December 26 13:21:25 »

Dear group, hope all of you are enjoying your holidays time.

I would like to share with you the last acquisitions from my remote observatory :

1) Messier 78 in Orion

http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/M78_El%20Sauce/info.htm

Full res version

http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/M78_El%20Sauce/full_res.jpg

2) vdB96 and NGC2362

http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/CED95/info.htm

Full res version

http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/CED95/full_res.jpg

3) NGC1760 in the LMC

http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/NGC1760/info.htm

With best regards,

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Gallery / New Lights from New remote Onservatory

« on: 2017 November 22 04:19:08 »

Dear  group, here I'm again with some new images from my new remote observatory.This will be my astroimaging home from now.

The site is located in Rio Hurtado, 1.600 masl. Seeing is expected to be 1 arcsec or so.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/El+Sauce+Observatory/@-30.4725411,-70.7630512,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x8477c0b93afee859!8m2!3d-30.4725411!4d-70.7630512

So far, everything is working as expected with observation tasks programmed for each night.

The equipment installed there consist in OOUK AG12 newtonian astrograph, STL11K camera all mounted on Astro-Physics 1100 GTO GEM

Here you can see the instalation of the ROR :

http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/galaxies/Dorado_Group/DSC_5148(1).JPG

And a drone overview of the hill :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbwtlPIDI4

Regarding the new images obtained so far :

1) First Light and the classics :

    Helix PN in Aquarius


http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/NGC7293/info.htm

    Silver dollar galaxy in Sculptor :


http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/galaxies/ngc253/info.htm

    Running Man Nebula in Orion :


http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/NGC%201977/info.htm

    Full resolution crop :


http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/NGC%201977/crop.jpg

2) Overlooked objects.

    Dorado Group in Doradus :


http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/galaxies/Dorado_Group/info.htm

    MBM 47 in Aquarius


This is an interesting region of dust consisting of multiple interlocking ribbons of dust.

 http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/Dust%20in%20Aquarius/info.htm

I'm working in a 2x2 mosaic of this region, but this will take a little more time.

Hope you like it.

Best regards,

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Gallery / LMC mosaic

« on: 2011 November 10 12:52:30 »

Hi Group, enclosed you will find my work from the last new moon.

From Hacienda Los Andes, a nice place very close to Cerro Tololo International Observatory, I managed to expose two L:R:G:B series in order to compose a two frame mosaic.

Almost 15 hours of exposition and a similar time processing (ufff), so here is the result :

http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/nebulae/NGC-2070-Hacienda/info.htm

Hope you like it.

Best regards,

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Gallery / M83 en Hydra

« on: 2011 April 08 07:34:32 »

Estimados amigos, les envío mi primera galaxia (nunca antes había hecho una). Se trata de M83 en Hydra, fotografiada desde Río Hurtado, Hacienda Los Andes durante la última luna nueva.

8 horas exposición L:R:G:B con mi setup habitual.

Me gustarían sus comentarios y espero les guste

http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/galaxies/M_83/info.htm

Saludos cordiales.

Dear friends, I'm sending to you mi first work on a galaxy. Is the case of M83 in Hydra, taken from Río Hurtado, Hacienda Los Andes during the last new moon.

Exposition : 8 hours L:R:G:B with my current setup.

I would like to hear your comments and hope you like it

http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/galaxies/M_83/info.htm

Best regards,


--
José Joaquín Pérez
Rancagua_Chile
http://www.astro-austral.cl