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Hello everyone! After a few months of secrecy (more or less well kept), we are pleased to announce the creation of our astrophoto team: "TEAM OURANOS". We have chosen to enter into the benevolence of the primordial divinity of the starry sky for this wonderful adventure among the fascinating spectacles that the Universe offers us to see, and which we hope to share with as many people as possible! 🙂 The team is made up of Jean Claude Mario, Mathieu Guinot, Matthieu Tequi and Jean-Baptiste Auroux. Already very active individually, we decided to pool some of our resources to go even further; team processing, in particular, provides a mutual challenge to offer even more accomplished images. The Team operates two setups: a TEC-140 with an ASI 2600MM (installed in the Alpes-Maritimes) and an AstroSib 360 with a G4-16000 (at an observatory in Corsica). We had originally planned to install the TEC-140 in a remote observatory in Morocco, but unfortunately Jean-Claude's arrival on site for the installation coincided with the terrible earthquake of September 8, forcing us to revise our plans... We'll see later if we install this setup under other skies (and which ones...), but we've already got quite a few clear nights to exploit! For the first image of the Team, today we're taking a look at an intriguing object, the SH2-106 nebula, located around 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus.  At the center of the nebula is a massive young star emitting jets of hot gas from its poles, giving the nebula its shape, which extends over some 2 light-years. This image was taken with the AstroSib360 setup and combines RGB and SHO exposures, for a total of ~39h. We're sharing with you the cropped version to better appreciate the details in the object's structure, as well as the wide-field version! Full (crop version): https://astrob.in/op1v4d/0/ Full (wide field): https://astrob.in/op1v4d/D/ For more details, please visit our website https://team-ouranos.fr/ and follow us via our FB page and our AstroBin gallery https://www.astrobin.com/users/Team_OURANOS/ The content isn't very extensive yet, but we've already clocked up many hours of exposure on other objects... So this image is just the first in a long series and a great collective adventure that we can't wait to share with you! Clear sky to all, Jean-Claude, Matthieu, Mathieu and Jean-Baptiste |
