Tüm fotoğraflarım arasında bu fotoğrafın kalbimdeki yeri başkadır.

Bugün güne hoş bir sürprizle uyandım 🙃

Ülker (Pleiades) fotoğrafım, dünyanın en büyük astronomi dergisi Astronomy Magazine tarafından günün fotoğrafı seçildi!

And of course, not just emission nebulae is there. There are lots of dust surrounding the galaxy. To easily see this, we invert the image. So black points are the dust structures here. Most are within our galaxy, but hard to say which just by looking at the picture if you don't know them.

When you look closely, details are spectacular!

And here how it looks with Oxygen only.

On the first image, there are lots of point-like structures with red and blue color. Red is from the Hydrogen gas and the blue is from the Oxygen. These are emission nebulae.

To reveal these details we use special filters. Here how it looks only with Hydrogen details.

The goal was to maybe find a structure that has not been detected. However, even 1000 hours under dark skies was not enough to achieve this goal.

Yet, we revealed many details, individual nebulosity in this galaxy. This is how it normally appears. But we did something different.

Can you recognize this object? It's a fairly iconic Triangulum galaxy with an unfamiliar look. But if you look closely, you realize why.

At the Starfront Observatory in Texas, we, 27 people pointed our telescopes to shoot this target for more than 1000 hours! This is a record.

The Pleiades