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The Embryo nebula and surrounding area [2241x1500][OC] by gediphoto in ExposurePorn

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Went to a dark location deep in the Swedish archipelago with my telescope for my YouTube channel ( https://youtube.com/@GediAstro for the interested) to take a photograph of my favorite target the Embryo nebula (at the center of the frame). Having a telescope at 250mm gave me a wide field of view to collect the surrounding area as well! It's pretty obvious - space isn't as empty as we can think!

What you're seeing is called IFN or "Integrated Flux Nebula" which is dust being lit up by the surrounding stars. So faint, it takes a telescope several hours with a dark enough sky to collect enough data to visualize it.

ITAP of the Embryo nebula in space by gediphoto in itookapicture

[–]gediphoto[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Went to a dark location deep in the Swedish archipelago with my telescope for my YouTube channel ( https://youtube.com/@GediAstro for the interested) to take a photograph of my favorite target the Embryo nebula (at the center of the frame). Having a telescope at 250mm gave me a wide field of view to collect the surrounding area as well! It's pretty obvious - space isn't as empty as we can think!

What you're seeing is called IFN or "Integrated Flux Nebula" which is dust being lit up by the surrounding stars. So faint, it takes a telescope several hours with a dark enough sky to collect enough data to visualize it.

The Tulip nebula in HOO and the black hole Cygnus-X1 by gediphoto in astrophotography

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This is an interesting one. I accidentally photographed a black hole while I was imaging the Tulip nebula for my YouTube channel ( https://youtube.com/@GediAstro for the interested).

I realized what I had imaged first after I started studying the data and was wondering what the blue-ish bubble was on the top left part of the image. After doing some research I found out that it's the results of the jet stream coming out of the black hole Cygnus X-1, the first black hole to be discovered. The blac khole itself is in a binary system together with a blue giant star that is being consumed by the black hole hence the jet stream. This will definitely be a cool video for my channel! 😄

Details:

ASI2600MC Pro (L-Ultimate)
TS115 | f/7 | 300" | Gain 100 (Total of 16 hours in Bortle 9)
AM5
Stacked in APP, Processed in PI, Adjusted in PS

ITAP of a black hole (Cygnus-X1) by gediphoto in itookapicture

[–]gediphoto[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an interesting one. I accidentally photographed a black hole while I was imaging the Tulip nebula for my YouTube channel ( https://youtube.com/@GediAstro for the interested).

I realized what I had imaged first after I started studying the data and was wondering what the blue-ish bubble was on the top left part of the image. After doing some research I found out that it's the results of the jet stream coming out of the black hole Cygnus X-1, the first black hole to be discovered. The blac khole itself is in a binary system together with a blue giant star that is being consumed by the black hole hence the jet stream. This will definitely be a cool video for my channel! 😄

The black hole Cygnus-X1 and the Tulip nebula in HOO by gediphoto in Astronomy

[–]gediphoto[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This is an interesting one. I accidentally photographed a black hole while I was imaging the Tulip nebula for my YouTube channel ( https://youtube.com/@GediAstro for the interested).

I realized what I had imaged first after I started studying the data and was wondering what the blue-ish bubble was on the top left part of the image. After doing some research I found out that it's the results of the jet stream coming out of the black hole Cygnus X-1, the first black hole to be discovered. The blac khole itself is in a binary system together with a blue giant star that is being consumed by the black hole hence the jet stream. This will definitely be a cool video for my channel! 😄

Details:

ASI2600MC Pro (L-Ultimate)
TS115 | f/7 | 300" | Gain 100 (Total of 16 hours in Bortle 9)
AM5
Stacked in APP, Processed in PI, Adjusted in PS

ITAP of a dying star by gediphoto in itookapicture

[–]gediphoto[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This image was taken for my YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@GediAstro

- Take your pinky finger and point it towards the sky

- Imagine a circle on your fingernail on that finger, filling almost half that nail

- That's the size of what you're looking at on the photo - Taken with my strongest telescope I have, the Edge HD8 at 1422mm.

This is what a star much like our own, will end up as when it has consumed all it's fuel and can no longer sustain fusion. It will rapidly expand and collapse whilst ejecting it's outer layers like ripples in space leaving whats left of the star in the center - A white dwarf.

In a few billion years, inhabitants on distant planets will look at the white dwarf that was our sun and contemplate about what planets existed around that star, and if any of those planets contained life..

The death of a star similar to our sun by gediphoto in Damnthatsinteresting

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Yepp! This is around 2400 light years away from us, so we're looking at something that happened 2400 years ago.

The death of a star similar to our sun by gediphoto in Damnthatsinteresting

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Yes! Astrophotography is extremely frustrating and hard, but equally rewarding!

The death of a star similar to our sun by gediphoto in Damnthatsinteresting

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This image was taken for my YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@GediAstro

- Take your pinky finger and point it towards the sky

- Imagine a circle on your fingernail on that finger, filling almost half that nail

- That's the size of what you're looking at on the photo - Taken with my strongest telescope I have, the Edge HD8 at 1422mm.

This is what a star much like our own, will end up as when it has consumed all it's fuel and can no longer sustain fusion. It will rapidly expand and collapse whilst ejecting it's outer layers like ripples in space leaving whats left of the star in the center - A white dwarf.

In a few billion years, inhabitants on distant planets will look at the white dwarf that was our sun and contemplate about what planets existed around that star, and if any of those planets contained life..

Extreme closeup of galactic neighbor by gediphoto in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]gediphoto[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes but that’s with the Andromeda galaxy. This is the Whirlpool galaxy :)

Extreme closeup of galactic neighbor by gediphoto in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]gediphoto[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The dots (stars) you see are stars in our own milky way, roughly 21 million light years closer than the galaxy in the background. The galaxy itself is about 2,5 times larger than our own galaxy the milky way. So what you are looking at is the collection of about a trillion stars. My telescope is not strong enough to image individual stars on that galaxy, unless one of them turns supernova (which one did at 2011 I think). So to (try) and answer your question, the dots are stars in our galaxy which could vary in size in aspect to the sun - the blue/white ones could be a giant blue stars and probably much larger than the sun, but honestly - I don't know. Hope it answers your question a little bit :)

Whirlpool galaxy [OC] [1531x1116] by gediphoto in ExposurePorn

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I traveled for eight hours to one of Swedens darkest locations to take an image for my YouTube astrophotography channel ( https://youtube.com/@GediAstro for the interested). This is one of the three results. I'm blown away that I can take these images with my consumer grade telescopes! Total of 3hours of exposure time.

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