Wolfgang W.

@wolfgang-w.bsky.social

Amateur Astrophotographer in Munich, Germany.

#IC405 The Flaming Star Nebula Spectacular nebula illuminated by central star AE Auriga. Collected 6h of data over 2 nights using a dual narrowband filter on my small refractor. 🔭 TSAPO72F6 📷 Player One Ares-C pro, SV220 filter ⌛ 6h@120s 💻 Siril, GraXpert, Veralux, SCUNet Denoise #astrophotography

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M45 The Pleiades, aka "The Seven Sisters" or what I like: "Subaru", taken 01/07/2026 The open star cluster is only 444 light years from earth which makes it the nearest Messier object to earth. 🔭 TSAPO72F6 📷 Player One Ares-C pro, uv/ir cut filter ⌛ 3h@120s 💻 Siril, GraXpert, Veralux, darktable

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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, 12/18/2025 Finally, a break in the clouds to catch me a new project. And what a beauty she is: the Triangulum Galaxy @ 3 mio ly distance she is our neighbour in the local group. 🔭 TSAPO72F6 📷 Player One Ares-C pro ⌛ 2.5h 💻 Siril, GraXpert, darktable #astrophotography

M33 Triangulum Galaxy, three million light years away. Our neighbour in the Local Group of galaxies. Photo taken from Munich, Germany.

Kicking off galaxy season with M81 Bode's Galaxy (right) and M82 Cigar Galaxy (left). Light that travelled 12 million light years to be caught on a 1 inch sensor. What are the odds? 🔭 TSAPO72F6 📷 Player One Ares-C pro, SV220 filter ⌛ Ha 3h, RGB 1h 💻 Siril, GraXpert, darktable #astrophotography

M81 Bode's Galaxy, M82 Cigar Galaxy and in the right bottom corner a third galaxy UGC 5398. One hour full spectrum combined with three hours of H alpha to emphasize the red hydrogen in M81 and M82.

The Seagull Nebula - IC2711 Beautifull region of nebulosity in Monoceros, 3650 ly away. Four hours of data collected a week ago with my 72mm refractor and a dual narrowband filter. 🔭 TSAPO72F6 📷 Player One Ares-C pro, SV220 filter ⌛ 110 lights@120s 💻 Siril, GraXpert, darktable #astrophotography

Complex of dust and gas forming a shape reminiscent of that of a seagull in flight.

I know I'm late to the party but here is my Christmas Tree Cluster. A little more than 3 hours of light collected over the last few nights with dual narrowband filter. 🔭 TS APO 432mm F/6 📷 Player One Ares-C pro, SV220 filter ⌛ 94 lights@120s 💻 Siril, GraXpert, darktable #astrophotography

NGC 2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster and the Cone Nebula

The Rosette Nebula from last night. Got creative while processing OSC dual narrowband Ha & OIII and tried out some variations for composition with Pixel Math in Siril. This one is made with: R: 1.7*H-O G: ((H)^~(H))*H+~((H)^~(H))*O B: O Function in G aka Power of Inverted Pixels. #astrophotography

The Rosette Nebula taken with
🔭 TS APO 72mm F6
📷 Player One Ares-C pro, SV220 filter
⌛ 2 hours@120s
💻 Siril, GraXpert, darktable

I keep coming back to the moon to discover ever more detail. Taken on 02/05/25 with a 4" Maksutov as a 2 tile mosaic, 2x upscaled with PSS. Original is 38MP, my best shot yet 🌔. 🔭 SW SkyMax 102T 📷 Player One Ares-C pro ⌛ 300 of 2000 images 💻 PlanetarySystemStacker, gimp, darktable #astrophotography

Waxing gibbous moon, 57% illumination

My 2nd narrowband project: the Tadpole Nebula #ic410. Thin high clouds took away a lot of the signal. But processed the data anyway, twice, for the fun of it. 🔭 TSAPO72F6 📷 Player One Ares-C pro, SV220 dual narrowband filter ⌛ 3 hours, @120s 💻 Siril, GraXpert, darktable #astrophotography

Tadpole Nebula in HOO pallette which tends to be dominated by the H-alpha in red channel.Tadpole Nebula with dynamic factor for green channel as described on thecoldestnights.com in tutorial "Dynamic narrowband combinations with PixelMath". Shifts the colours towards SHO look.