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The just-released 'Nightfall' deep-sky journal from the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa is titled 'Sky Candy’. It is 70 pages of astronomical bonbons in the form of images in the non-visual...

We visual observers and imagers know that spiral galaxies make for some of the most beautiful deep sky objects to chase down and observe or image – especially if we are well-heeled enough to pay for...

The current issue of the Astro.Society of So. Africa journal 'Nightfall' features some of the most difficult -- and beautiful -- planetary nebulae in the sky. The text describes the complex...

Thank you for your comments, Howard. You aren't alone in learning something in these posts. I am learning, too, and usually only a few days ahead of you. I have no formal training in astronomy. I...

Hi all, Jimi's HST Legacy image is in the F606W band, which corresponds to near the g in ugriz. The HST was programmed to acquire survey images in F606W and also F814W. The latter serves us better...

Thank you for the inverted version of UGC 12588, Jimi. Was it a direct inversion from the HST 3.6 MB jpg used in SciTech Daily? Your rendering brings out structural features obscured by crowding in...

NGC 12588 was a cosmic nobody till its image started showing up in SciTech Daily & all The Regular Suspects earlier today. Have any of you logged it, and what did you see?

So now that it's a...

The newest issue of South Africa’s Nightfall journal has just been released and is available here.

Nightfall is breaking new trail with this issue. The page layouts are a complete overhaul of the...