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NIGHT OVER ONTARIO

These photos were taken by Lynn Hilborn of Grafton, Ontario.
Pictures have appeared on the cover and inside editions of SkyNews magazine and in Sky & Telescope and Astronomy magazine, and as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.

“ Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,”
W.B.Yeats



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LDN 673 in Aquila. Canon 6d at 3200 ISO and TEC140 f5.3 telescope. 30 x 10minutes. Imaged by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs,Grafton,Ontario on July 22,23,2015.

Part of a dark expanse that splits the crowded plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the Aquila Rift arcs through the northern hemisphere's summer skies near bright star Altair and the Summer Triangle. In silhouette against the Milky Way's faint starlight, its dusty molecular clouds likely contain raw material to form hundreds of thousands of stars and astronomers eagerly search the clouds for telltale signs of star birth. This telescopic close-up looks toward the region at a fragmented Aquila dark cloud complex identified as LDN 673, stretching across a field of view slightly wider than the full moon. In the scene, visible indications of energetic outflows associated with young stars include the small red tinted nebulosity RNO 109 at top left and Herbig-Haro object HH32 above and right of center. The dark clouds in Aquila are estimated to be some 600 light-years away. At that distance, this field of view spans about 7 light-years. Text from APOD.

  • Blue Horsehead
  • Colors of Rho Ophiuchi Nebula
  • 6 Planets
  • Five Planets over NASA
  • The Whale and the Hockey Stick...2 galaxies in Canes Venatici
  • Needle Galaxy NGC 4565
  • Barnard's Loop, Horsehead,Flame,Running Man and M42.
  • California Fires
  • Flaming Star, Tadpoles,Starfish and Pinwheel
  • Elephant Trunk and Garnet Star
  • Into the Heart and Soul
  • Perseus Molecular Cloud...APOD (NASA Astronomy Photo of the Day)
  • Astronomy Photographer of the Year short list 2015
  • Aurora over Grafton  October 7, 2015  8:18pm
  • North American and Pelican nebula
  • Kayaks, meteors and Star trails
  • The Coathanger
  • Gold dust
  • Lagoon Nebula
  • Lagoon and Trifid Nebula ( M8 and M20), TS 71 @f5, Canon 6d, 30 x 240 seconds at 1600ISO.<br />
Captured in BYEOS,preprocessed in Nebulosity and Registar, processed in Lightroom and CS6.<br />
June 21 and 23, 2015, Taken by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs,Grafton,Ontario.
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