This is comet C/2020 F8 SWAN, as observed on April 30, 2020: This image was taken using the Slooh.com Canary 1 telescope and processed using MaxIM DL.
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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...
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...
Witch Head Nebula – IC 2118
This is the Witch Head nebula: This is a faint target so I focused a lot of the processing effort on bringing out the details of the nebula. As pictured here, the nebula spans...
Widefield NGC 7000 – the North America Nebula
This is a widefield view of the North America nebula and the surrounding region. This is a narrowband image taken over several hours and presented here in the Hubble Palette (SHO). There are actually...
NGC 6188 – Fighting Dragons of Ara
This is a wide field view of NGC 6188, imaged in narrowband and presented here in the Hubble Palette (SHO): The dragons are clearly visible at the center of the image – locked in...
Veil Nebula Complex Desktop Background
I took a fantastic narrowband picture of the Veil Nebula complex and thought it would look nice as my computer’s desktop background. This article explains how you can adapt the image to your desktop...
Full Moon
This is the full moon as seen on September 20 2021 from Slooh.com’s Canary Islands observatory: The darker regions on the moon are called Mare, or ‘sea’ in Latin. These Mare formed as a...
Pair of Visual Multiple Star Systems
This is a pair of visual multiple star systems: When you look up and see the stars, in most cases, you’re actually looking at multiple star systems. In many cases, the stars that make...
Waxing Crescent Moon
This is the waxing crescent moon as it appeared on September 9, 2021. Many of the features you see on the moon are impact craters – there are about 9,000 of them. The darker...
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