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Nebulas Gallery 2020 -

As we lead our daily lives, our planet Earth rotates around our Sun cradled within the Milky Way galaxy we belong to. Nightly, amateur astronomers around the world peer into the sky using their telescopes and cameras.


We come across various gas clouds far beyond our lifetime's reach.


These clouds are known as interstellar gas nebulae or nebulas, consisting of gas and dust where stars are formed and eventually die. These nebulas are truly breathtaking sights in the night sky.

M42, M17, M16, M8

M20, M16, NGC 1977, M1, NGC 2023, IC 443

B33/NGC 2023, NGC 2024, NGC 1499, NGC 6888, NGC 281

NGC 7635, M17, M8, M16, M20, M42

NGC 1977, M42/M43, NGC 1499, M1, B33

NGC 1977, M42/M43, M8, Barnard 33, M1, NGC 7293

UV/IR cut filter
Test exposures from auto-guiding
Resolution: 3008 x 3008
Bok globules of dark collapsing protostellar clouds are seen, The Hourglass Nebula is illuminated by
First auto-guided 5 min exposures
Hydrogen-Alpha filter, Resolution: 4656 x 3520
Bright could be seen during the day for 23 days, visible at night for almost 2 years around world.

M17, Barnard 33, M16, M20

Giant cloud is one of the largest & most massive objects known in
the Milky Way. Resolution: 4656 x
Know as Omega, Horseshoe, Checkmate, Swan, and Lobster nebula
Resolution: 4656 x 3520
“Pillars of Creation” made famous by HST are hydrogen gas/dust at 1-3 light-years tall. 3840 x 2160
Trifid Pillars (bottom) are very active star birth regions
Resolution: 3840 x 2160, last imaged 1998

M42/M43, NGC 7538, Barnard 33, NGC 2024

did not need SHO filters, but tried it
Resolution: 3008 x 3008, last imaged 2001
Active stellar nursery
Resolution: 4656 x 3520
Color processed 3/6/21 image
Resolution: 3008 x 3008
1st 4k RGB image
Resolution: 4656 x 3520
Dark nebula of cold hydrogen gas against emission nebula IC 434.
Resolution: 4656 x 3520
the lower right is star Alnitak at mag 1.74 (Orion’s belt's left star)

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