First-year astronomy student seeking raw deep-sky observation data for final project

Acquisition Collaboration Request for feedback Deep Sky Galaxy M6 Messier Objects NGC3532 NGC660 NGC Objects Open Cluster
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Jun Luzano avatar
Jun Luzano avatar

Hey everyone! I’m a first-year Astronomy student working on my final project for an Observational Astronomy course. I need to collect raw deep-sky data, process it myself, and write a paper on the targets.

Our prof is letting us use data that we captured ourselves (I have no equipment, I just use the equipment from the University), Microobservatory or from fellow astrophotographers and so here I am, I’m looking for unprocessed master stacks (FITS/TIFF) for any of these targets:

  • Clusters: Wishing Well (NGC 3532), Jewel Box (NGC 4755), Butterfly (M6)

  • Nebulae: Medusa (Abell 21), Abell 73, vdB 31

  • Galaxies: NGC 2403, Arp 82, NGC 660

If you've shot any of these or any objects that you are keen on and don't mind sharing your data for me to practice processing on, I’d be incredibly grateful!

I promise full credit, proper citations/captions for your gear and name in my final paper, and absolutely zero commercial use.

Clear skies! 🔭

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Spacetime Pictures avatar
Spacetime Pictures avatar

Hi Jun,

Great project! We actually have raw masters for a couple of the targets on your list:

- https://www.spacetimepictures.com/datasets/SP_0142

- https://www.spacetimepictures.com/datasets/SP_0160

These should give you something solid to practice processing for the paper. Since you're a student and this is purely academic, we'd be glad to give you free access to those datasets; full citation back to the original imager(s) of course, which fits your plan anyway.

Feel free to send me a PM and I'll sort it out.

CS,

Laurent

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andrea tasselli avatar
andrea tasselli avatar

Hi Jun,

I have imaged A21, A73, M6 and NGC2403. Except for Abell 73 (an unfinished project, sadly) they can be seen in my gallery. If you think any of it could be useful drop me a PM and I’ll sort it out. Also, you should specify what you’re after, such a colour data (in RGB), Narrow Band data (typically; H-alpha, H-beta, OIII and SII) or luminance or all of them.

P.S.: Actually, I have both NGC3532 and NGC4755 as part of wide field images, same scale as M6. So, if interested these are there too.

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