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What's in the sky this month? 🌜Moon Edition🌛 • • • 🌝Sept 17: The Moon is near Saturn 🌕Sept 17: Full/Super Moon (AKA, The Harvest Moon) 🌔Sept 17: Partial Lunar Eclipse (at maximum, less than 4% of the Moon’s disk will be covered by the umbral shadow of the Earth) 🌓Sept 23: The Moon is near Jupiter 🌒Sept. 25: The Moon is near Mars

This week's #repost goes to, APOD Winner, Ani Shastry!💫 "The beautiful Tulip Nebula, or Sh2-101, located in the constellation of Cygnus approximately 6,000 light years away from our Earth, elucidates its shape magnificently from the background of Hydrogen-Alpha stellar nebulosity through additional Oxygen-III and Sulfur-II emissions. Furthermore, just to the right of the image underneath the bluish arc, the brighter of the two stars is a micro-quasar, termed Cygnus X-1, that is the site of one of the first suspected Black Holes. The arc is supposed to have been created by a jet of energetic particles from the Black Hole as they interact with the stellar medium. Captured from my remote setup at Sierra Remote Observatories in Auberry, California: PlaneWave CDK350 Observatory System ZWO ASI6200MM Pro Camera Chroma R, G, B, 5nm H-alpha, 3nm Oiii and Sii Filters R: 30x120s, G: 30x120s, B: 30x120s, Ha: 35x600s, Oiii: 27x600s, Sii: 24x600s Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Photoshop" Congratulations, Ani! 🤩👏 Tag us at PlaneWave Instruments to be featured! ✨🔭

This week's #repost goes to Bernard Miller! 💫 "This is an image of NGC 253, also known as the Sculptor Galaxy. It is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 11 million light years away in the constellation Sculptor. The Sculptor Galaxy is a starburst galaxy, which means that it is currently undergoing a period of intense star formation. Image Data: Telescope Live Processing & Copyright: Bernard Miller August 13, 2024 Location: Rio Hurtado, Chile Telescope: PlaneWave CDK24 Camera: QHY 600M Pro Mount: Mathis MI-1000/1250 Luminance: 44x5 minutes (binned 1x1) Red: 40x5 minutes (binned 1x1) Green: 47x5 minutes (binned 1x1) Blue: 49x5 minutes (binned 1x1)" . . Tag us at PlaneWave Instruments to be featured next! 🔭✨

Blast off to our Annual Open House this fall on October 5 and 6! This ✨free✨ event invites you to orbit our Adrian campus for a stellar day of fun. It’s an out-of-this-world experience with food trucks, live music, activities for all ages, and even a to-scale solar system stroll! 🌌 ✨ Bring your crew and prepare for a cosmic adventure—planet-sized fun awaits! Learn more: https://hubs.la/Q02LWjrs0

This week's #repost goes to @christophevergnes and Aziz Kaeouach!💫 "The galaxy M 83, also cataloged NGC 5236, is a spiral galaxy located in the direction of the constellation Hydra, about 15 million light years from Earth. Medium-sized and similar to our own Milky Way, M 83 is a barred spiral galaxy, meaning it has a central bar of stars and dust that extends several thousand light years. Around this bar are spiral arms containing very active star forming regions. Indeed, one of the most striking features of M83 is its magnificent spiral arms densely filled with young blue stars. These stars are actively forming in these arms, giving the galaxy a vibrant and colorful appearance. Besides its visual appeal, what sets this magnificent galaxy apart from others is its massive halo of gas and dust that extends far beyond its spiral arms. This halo is the product of billions of years of evolution of the galaxy M 83. Researchers believe that this halo was formed during interactions and collisions with other galaxies several billion years ago, and that these interactions continue to influence the evolution of the galaxy. PlaneWave CDK500 {CDK20 on an L-500 Mount) ZWO ASI6200MM Pro 21h 16min integration" . . Tag us at PlaneWave Instruments to be featured! 🔭✨

Great success! ✨ We are celebrating the completed installation at Sam Houston State University Dominey Observatory! This state-of-the-art system is enhanced with an ADA-compliant periscope, ensuring that the wonders of the cosmos are accessible to all aspiring astronomers. The Sam Houston State University Dominey Observatory marked a significant milestone as it opened its doors to the public with a ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this year. Read more about this awesome observatory: https://hubs.la/Q02LZ6Gf0 #shsuplanetarium #planewave #astronomy #education

This week's #repost goes to Kevin Morefield!💫 "NGC 6726 | Corona Australis *** Stars forming in the dust. The little red Herbig-Haro objects are associated with star formation and often align with the rotational axis of the new star. The blue is reflected light from young hot stars. The globular cluster NGC 6723 is, I think, an unrelated happy accident. *** 32.6 hours HaLRGB data PlaneWave DR350 QHY600M PlaneWave L-600" Tag us at PlaneWave Instruments to be featured next! 🔭✨

Our partner Hellas-Sky (www.hellas-sky.com) is now testing all the new equipment that we have installed in the last months (2x PlaneWave Instruments DeltaRho 350 f/3, a Celestron, LLC. Rasa 36cm f/2.2 as well as a new PlaneWave CDK17 in the existing Baader 3.5m Allsky Dome). The tests of the new hardware were successful! Check out the images – Congratulations! M8: The image is a section of M8 with the Rasa 36cm (24x120s) exposure time! M82: LRGB with Planewave CDK17 In 2023 our team dismantled the old instrumentation and replaced it with 10Micron GM3000 HPS with PlaneWave CDK17 and the latest camera technology in the existing 3.5m Allsky Dome. https://lnkd.in/dGxtn-yF In May 2024, we installed two extraordinary telescope systems for deep-sky photography, data acquisition and public events at this location. The Celestron Rasa 36cm works with a #QHY 600 OSC camera and the two Planewave DeltaRho350 with two mono QHY 600 cameras. https://lnkd.in/dp8pzQUd

The new telescope, a PlaneWave Instruments DeltaRho 350 for the ATHOS Centro Astronómico La Palma has arrived and found its way onto the mount in the observatory. We are already looking forward to the first images with the telescope. This f/3 telescope with Cassegrain focus has only 1,050 mm focal length at 350 mm aperture for stunning results in widefield astrophotography.

This week's #repost goes to Rod Pommier! 💫 "NGC 4565 is an edge-on Hubble class SB spiral galaxy that lies approximately 40 million light-years from Earth. It's location marks the Galactic North Pole, similar to how Polaris marks the North Celestial Pole. This means we have a view of it which is perpendicular to our Milky Way galaxy's equatorial dust plane, providing a view virtually impeded by galactic dust. In stark contrast, NGC 4565's equatorial dust plane is oriented nearly directly toward us, making its equatorial dust lane plainly visible and we can see that it divides the galaxy's central bulge almost equally with the galaxy's bright nucleus shining just to one side of the dust lane. Because of its orientation, our galaxy is hidden from view from much of NGC 4565. The spiral galaxy to the upper left is NGC 4562a nd the galaxy directly below the core is IC 3571. Many distant PGC galaxies are scattered throughout the image. Telescope/Mount: CDK400-- CDK17 on L-500 series mount. Location: Pommier Observatory, Portland, OR, USA. Camera: SBIG STL 11000 with Baader Planetarium Filters. Exposure: 11 hours, 25 minutes, completely unguided." Tag us at PlaneWave Instruments to be featured! 🔭✨