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The Headphone Nebula: This beautiful planetary nebula in the constellation Lynx is reminiscent of our blue world the Earth set amidst the backdrop of night. Its official name is Jones-Emberson 1 (PK 164+31.1) and is 14th magnitude, lying at a distance of 1,600 light years with a magnitude 16.8 central blue white dwarf star. This was a 3.25 hour SHO composition taken with a Sky Watcher Esprit 80 triplet refractor with an ASI 533MM Pro camera and EFW.
Supernova SN 2026kid: A new supernova in the galaxy NGC 5907 in Draco was discovered on the 22nd April and is estimated at mag 16.6; lying near to the galaxy’s core. I shot 2 hours of 2 minute LRGB subs and 30 minutes of 1 minute RGB over the nights of the 28th/29th April with a Sky Watcher Esprit 80 triplet refractor with an ASI 533MM Pro camera and EFW. The data were combined as one in Pixinsight, and processed to show the position of the supernova using Pixinsight's annotation process.
The Sun in white light imaged on April 27th: This mono image comprises 25% of a 1,050 frame SER captured with Astro DMx Capture using an Astro Engineering SolarVue 2 AC635 solar observing diagonal attached to a Sky Watcher 80 Esprit triplet refractor. The data was stacked in Autostakkert!4, with wavelet processing done in Registax and final adjustments made in Photoshop.
The Moon on the morning of the 29th April: An in camera stack of 102 images of the Moon taken with a Dwarf Mini.
Chris Bowden
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