Milky Way
Milky Way in Cepheus and Cassiopeia. Lots of nebulae visible: Sh 2-155 (Cave Nebula), NGC 7538 (Northern Lagoon Nebula), Sh 2-157 (Lobster Claw Nebula, NGC 7635 (Bubble Nebula), NGC7822, Sh 2-170 (Small Rosetta Nebula). And NGC 7789 (White Rose Cluster).
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Milky Way
Just another part of the Milky Way. Visible are HII-regions NGC6823, Sh 2-87, Sh 2-88 in the upper half and M27 (Dumbbell Nebula) towards the upper left corner. Globular Cluster M71 just in the center of Sagitta, which horizontally in the image center.
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Milky Way
This is a mosaic of the following four images. It is not perfect but it is very difficult to achieve a better match of all four images.
The region around Sadr or Gamma Cygni is full of emission nebula, dark nebula, star clusters, planetary nebula and all other sort of interesting objects. It is one of the most fascinating regions in our galaxy visible from the northern hemisphere.
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Emission Nebulae
This is an wide field image showing the southern part of Cepheus. Right in the Center IC 1396, which contains the famous Elephant’s Trunk Nebula.
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Milky Way
Just a number of molecular clouds in constellations Serpens and Libra: LBN 183, LBN 134, LBN 10, LBN 8.
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Milky Way
The Dark Horse is a dark cloud of dust near the center of the Milky Way. In this picture we see the horse riding perpendicular upwards …
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Milky Way
A view approximately towards the center of our galaxy the Milky Way in constellation Sagittarius. Hidden behind massive clouds of gas and dust the central black hole. Lagoon Nebula and Trifid Nebula on the bottom right.
Omega Nebula and Eagle nebulae to the top.
Other
Originally I wanted to image something else … and got this instead. Molecular clouds LDN 134 and LDN 1778 on the top and just in bottom left corner IC 4592 (Blue Horsehead Nebula). This is mainly in constellation Ophiuchus, Scorpius and Libra.
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Other
Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant in constellation Cygnus.
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Other
This is an overview over constellation Ursa Major (Big Dipper), which holds quite some galaxies and other nebula in this simple image. Click more to see crops …
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