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NGC 6888 or the Crescent or Euro nebula is located in Cygnus, about 5000 light years from Earth. It is an unusual type of emission nebula, found in the midst of a rich area of hydrogen gas in the Milky Way. It's near the central star Sadr in the constellation, but very difficult to see visually unless you have a 10cm or greater aperture telescope. A Wolf-Rayet star is a hot star depleted of most of its hydrogen, rich in heavy elements, with strong stellar winds. One of these stars' stellar winds is interacting with a shell of gas blown off from a red giant star to create the nebula. The first broadband photo I took with my Celestron C9.25/Hyperstar telescope, 52 60-second exposures on my TTS160 mount. The second narrowband photo is more of a wide angle shot created from data obtained by Telescope.live. I used Affinity Photo to stack and process both photos but different techniques which accounts for the color differences. 👉 Follow @azastroguy for beautiful astrophotography! 👉 Follow @azastroguy for fascinating & fun astrofacts!

I've been battling clouds for weeks, but found a short gap and was able to image Jupiter Saturday night. I caught the volcanic moon Io it transited across the face of Jupiter. The first photo shows Io on the edge of a cloud belt, and the second just after it clears the edge. Io leads in several categories: it has the highest density of any moon, the strongest gravity, and is the most geologically active, with over 400 active volcanoes. I took these image with my C9.25 EDGE through average seeing with a ZWO462MC Pro camera. These are my best Jupiter photos to date and I want to shout out kudos to @starizonausa for updating my telescope! 👉 Follow @azastroguy for beautiful astrophotography! 👉 Follow @azastroguy for fascinating & fun astrofacts!

As you might have seen from my Story, it's been relentlessly cloudy lately and I'm not able to do astrophotography. Here's a beautiful Hubble image. It's a closeup of a small part of the Lagoon nebula in Sagittarius. It's thrilling to think that the James Webb telescope is going to be providing even higher resolution photos than this! 👉 Follow @azastroguy for beautiful astrophotography! 👉 Follow @azastroguy for fascinating & fun astrofacts!

The Running Chicken nebula or IC2944 is an emission nebula found 6500 light years away in the constellation Centaurus. The black voids are called Bok globules. Astronomers believe these are areas where gas has collapsed to form protoplanetary disks where new stars may soon ignite. I created this image using narrowband data from Telescope.live. 👉 Follow @azastroguy for beautiful astrophotography! 👉 Follow @azastroguy for fascinating & fun astrofacts!

Did you know the Jupiter has 2.5 times the combined mass of all the other planets and moons put together? I took this photo July 3 with my Celestron C9.25 and just managed to catch the great red spot before it rotated out of view. I'm looking forward to Jupiter rising higher in our sky so it's more easily photographed! I put the photo on a starry background for visual effect. Normally when you expose your photo for Jupiter the stars are too dim to see. 👉 Follow @azastroguy for beautiful astrophotography! 👉 Follow @azastroguy for fascinating & fun astrofacts!

Saturn is the first planet to rise in the sky around midnight, and is probably the most popular target at star parties, tied only possibly by the Orion nebula. Many times I've had people look into the eyepiece, gasp, and then walk around and look in the other end of the telescope to be sure there wasn't a sticker of Saturn there lol. I took this photo at 1am at the Grand Canyon this week with my TEC160FL and ASI462MC camera. AS3!, PiPP, Registax, and Affinity Photo for post processing. For I added the star field artificially for looks. 👉 Follow @azastroguy for beautiful astrophotography! 👉 Follow @azastroguy for fascinating & fun astrofacts! #nightsky #saturn #astro_photography #universe #nightscape #milkyway #stargazing #exoplanet #planet #grandcanyon #scienceteacher #northrim #nasa #stars #astronomy #planets #solarsystem #lordoftherings #interstellar #rings #starrynight #telescope #fantastic #beautiful #amazing #astrophysics_ #astronomylover #astronomhub #cosmology #arizona