Akis Manolis

Night sky

Nebulae, galaxies and the Moon, shot with a ZWO Seestar S30 smart telescope and mostly stacked by hand.

The Moon one night before full: grey maria and bright highlands, with long rays fanning out from the crater Tycho near the bottom.
The Moon, a night before full
A waning gibbous Moon against black: the lit left side shows smooth grey seas, and craters stand out in sharp relief along the shadow line on the right.
Waning gibbous Moon
The Andromeda Galaxy: a bright yellow-white core inside a faint, tilted oval of dust and stars, with the small fuzzy satellite galaxy M110 near the top left, on a dark field full of stars.
Andromeda Galaxy (M31) 182 × 10s (30 min)
The Omega Nebula: a bright red, swan-shaped cloud of glowing hydrogen in the middle of a dense Milky Way star field.
Omega Nebula (M17) 52 × 10s (9 min)
The Monkey Head Nebula: a round cloud of red glowing gas with darker lanes cutting into its lower right edge, surrounded by thousands of stars.
Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2175) 460 × 10s (77 min)
A long red curtain of glowing gas with the dark silhouette of the Horsehead Nebula on its edge; above it the orange Flame Nebula sits beside the bright star Alnitak.
Horsehead and Flame Nebulae
The Orion Nebula: a glowing red cloud of gas with a bright white core, surrounded by stars on a dark sky, with the smaller round M43 just above it, a faint nebula near the top and a bright star with a small cluster below.
Orion Nebula (M42) 420 × 10s (70 min)