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Over three nights last week, I shot #M17 over for a total of just over 8 hours.

This #Nebula is known as the #SwanNebula aka the #OmegaNebula aka #LobsterNebula aka #CheckmarkNebula aaaand #NGC6618, which is far, far too many names. Please do me a favour, and don't add to them.

For some reason, my telescope has decided that it is also #IC4701 aka #SH2-44 , but that is actually the fainter, sparser nebula in the top left.

In any event, this rich star forming region also contains several open clusters - #NGC6618 is embedded in M17, but #NGC6596 is in the foreground of SH2-44, and is not part of the star forming region.

Many of the stars are very hot fast burning stars, and they brightly illuminate the clouds of gas and dust.

Shot on a #Dwarf3 with the inbuilt Ha/OIII filter. Postprocessing in #Dwarflab Stellar Studio and #Snapseed .

#Astronomy #Astrophotography #Astrodon #BackYardAstronomy #SouthernSky

Very early this morning, just after my night's schedule had completed, there was still some dark sky. So I had a look around in #Stellarium, and found a comet in the far Western sky - 10P/Tempel . So I did a quick stack of it with my #Dwarf3 , and this was the result. One #musktrail , but I thought I'd leave it in in this case.

10/P Tempel is one of the Jupiter family of comets, and has a period of only 5.4 years, so we get to see it quite often. Because it does not get particularly close to the sun, we don't get to see much of tail, but we do get the neat fuzzy green of the excited gases around the nucleus.

#10pTempel #Astronomy #Astrophotography #SmartTelescope #BackYardAstronomy #SouthernSky #Astrodon #comet10ptempel2 #comet

#M8 and #M20 the #LagoonNebula and #TriffidNebula .

Shot last night over 3 hours from my front yard.

#Dwarf3 OIII/Ha and post processed in Stellar Studio and #Snapseed .

#Astrodon #Astronomy #Astrophotography #SouthernSky