SN 2026sqf in NGC 3310
Catching a two-day-old supernova at sunset: a quick 8-minute run on the EdgeHD 9.25 captured SN 2026sqf, a fresh Type II supernova in the starburst galaxy NGC 3310.
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The Whirlpool Galaxy, Punctuated
M51 and its companion NGC 5195 framed as a cosmic question mark — a close galactic encounter 30 million light-years away, from the EdgeHD 9.25.
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Elephant's Trunk Widefield
IC 1396 in Cepheus, a vast emission complex about 2,400 light-years away, with the famous Elephant's Trunk — a dense globule of gas and dust being eroded and lit from behind by the hot O-star at the cluster's heart — winding through the middle.
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Sh2 92 The Scream Widefield
Sh2-92, nicknamed "The Scream" for the anguished face that emerges in narrowband renders — a faint, rarely imaged H II region in Vulpecula.
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Triangulum Galaxy HaLRGB
M33, the Triangulum Galaxy in HaLRGB — 2.7 million light-years away, with hydrogen-alpha lighting up its star factories, from four hours of 15-second subs plus 3nm Hα.
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SH2-101 The Tulip Field
The Tulip Nebula, Sh2-101, blooming in Cygnus about 6,000 light-years away — an emission region sculpted into petals by radiation from young O-type stars.
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WR-134 Wolf-Rayet Wide Field
WR 134 in Cygnus, a Wolf-Rayet star roughly 6,000 light-years away — a massive star in its final act, shedding its outer layers in a ferocious wind.
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Andromeda and Friends (M31)
The Andromeda Galaxy and its entourage — M32 tucked against the disk and M110 floating below.
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Wider Veil Nebulas (C33 C34)
The Veil Nebula complex in Cygnus — the shredded remains of a star that exploded ten to twenty thousand years ago, now a lacework of shock fronts some 2,400 light-years away and six full moons wide.
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Sh2 119 Clamshell
Sh2-119, the Clamshell Nebula — the North America Nebula's overlooked next-door neighbor, sitting just east of it in Cygnus around the naked-eye star 68 Cygni.
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