Author: Erik

Messier 46 and NGC 2438

This is Messier 46 and NGC 2438: Messier 46 is the open cluster of colorful stars and NGC 2438 is the small, colorful nebula above the center of the image. This picturesque image contains...

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Recovering Blurry or Smeared Stars

Sometimes there’s wind during your observation and your image is good, except for elongated, smeared, or blurry stars. You could try this technique in Photopea.com to try to recover your image. Here’s an example...

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Widefield view of NGC 253

This is a widefield view of NGC 253 (bottom left) and NGC 288 (top right): NGC 253, the Sculptor galaxy, is usually presented alone because it is an impressive galaxy with lots of nice...

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