M22 Great Sagittarius Cluster 10.1″ f/4.5, Mallincam DS432cTEC with 0.5 focal reducer and Astronomik UHC filter Exposure = 5 sec, Live Stacked frames = 40, Gain = 41 of 250 Spectacular M22 is one of the brightest globulars in the sky, coming in at a combined magnitude of 5.1. Despite being low in the murk…

M18 Open cluster in Sagittarius 10.1″ f/4.5, Mallincam DS432cTEC with 0.5 focal reducer and Astronomik UHC filter Exposure = 5 sec, Live Stacked frames = 50, Gain = 40.99 of 250 A very sparse cluster with maybe a couple or so dozen stars, M18 spans 26 light years and is approximately 4200 light years away.…

M17 Swan Nebula in Sagittarius 10.1″ f/4.5, Mallincam DS432cTEC with 0.5 focal reducer and Astronomik UHC filter Exposure = 5-12-20 sec, Live Stacked frames = 20-30-20 (70 total), Gain = 25.54 of 250 Also known as the Swan Nebula, Checkmark Nebula, Lobster Nebula, and the Horseshoe Nebula, M17 is a rich star-forming H II region…

NGC 654 Fuzzy Butterfly Cluster in Cassiopeia 10.1″ f/4.5, Mallincam DS432cTEC with Astronomik UHC filter Exposure = 2.6 sec, Live Stacked frames = 30, Gain = 72 of 250 A pretty little cluster that stands out well against the background sky with a wedge-shaped core of densely-packed stars and a bright magnitude 7.3 yellow supergiant…

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NGC 6822 Barnard’s Galaxy in Sagittarius 10.1″ f/4.5, Mallincam DS432cTEC with Astronomik UHC filter Exposure = 13 sec, Live Stacked frames = 60, Gain = 70 of 250 Barnard’s is a dwarf irregular galaxy lying 1.6 million light years away, or two-thirds the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy. It is a member of the Local…

NGC 6210 Turtle Nebula in Hercules 10.1″ f/4.5, Mallincam DS432cTEC with Astronomik UHC filter Exposure = 15 sec, frames = 1, Gain = 13.72 of 250 The small light-green disk of planetary nebula NGC 6210, measuring approximately 25 arcseconds across, is visible in the lower-right corner of this image. The shape of this planetary is…

NGC 5746 Mini Sombrero Galaxy in Virgo 10.1″ f/4.5, Mallincam DS432cTEC with Astronomik UHC filter Exposure = 15-29 sec, Live Stacked frames = 25-15 (40 total), Gain = 25-40 of 250 Also known as the Blade and Pearl Galaxy, NGC 5746 is a spiral that we see nearly edge-on, appearing about 5 arcminutes long in…

M19 Globular cluster in Ophiuchus 10.1″ f/4.5, Mallincam DS432cTEC with Astronomik UHC filter Exposure = 5 sec, Live Stacked frames = 15, Gain = 60 of 250 This globular cluster is very compact and oblong in the north-south axis, appearing about 10 arcminutes across in this image. M19 is 28,700 light years away and only…

M11 Wild Duck Cluster in Scutum 10.1″ f/4.5, Mallincam DS432cTEC with Astronomik UHC filter Exposure = 5 sec, Live Stacked frames = 20, Gain = 41 of 250 M11 is an unusually rich and dense open cluster containing what appears to be hundreds of stars within about a 15 arcminute space, so dense that it…