#IC 434

[quiltofstars]

The Horsehead Nebula, Barnard 33 // M.zamani

[the-maddest-robot]

Just got a week of clear weather will I had access to my telescope, managed to get a good amount of data, treatment will have to wait though (I have some exams in 2 weeks). In the meantime, here's a quick test I did with the horse head nebula.

This is a SHH composition (there is nearly no OIII emission in this nebula and I did bother imaging in this wavelength).

[my-castles-crumbling]

jealous - Jegulus Microfic - @into-the-jeggyverse - word count: 434

Regulus wasn't sure why he still showed up that night. Rage and confusion was coursing through his system and his mind was so full of conflicting emotions that if felt like a storm was going on behind his forehead. But still he sat, knees pulled to his chest, and waited for James Potter to arrive at their usual spot.

"Alright, Reg?" was James's only way of announcing himself. And immediately, Regulus took his anger out on the unsuspecting Gryffindor.

"Spectacular," he deadpanned, huffing and rolling his eyes. "As are you, I imagine, after spending the day with Lockheart."

James froze for only a moment, levelling him an incredulous look, before stepping forward to try to meet his eyes. Regulus turned away. "Reg. What're you on about? I-"

"It's quite alright, Potter. I'm sure you had a lovely time. And who am I to judge if you see one person in the day and another in the evening?" Regulus muttered, voice cold as ice.

But James took another step closer. "I-"

"Really, I should count myself lucky!" he went on, fires of jealousy burning bright in his veins. "At least I'm not the warm-up act!"

"Reg-"

"Then again, maybe you decided he's good enough to be seen with in public? Meanwhile, you can only see me behind closed doors?"

"Reg, I-"

"I mean, you out to go back to Evans! She's picture-perfect! Everyone approves of her. Or are you still with her and I'm just-"

"Regulus!"

He stopped talking, panting a bit, the pain of holding back tears making his head hurt. Arms crossed, he finally met James's gaze. "What?" he spat vehemently, heart beating so rapidly he could barely discern the pattern.

James moved so their chests were pressed together, his arms pulling Regulus close. "I am not with Lockheart. We were assigned to do a project together. I think he's an annoying prick."

Regulus deflated a bit at that, melting at James's fierce expression, at the way his hand moved to cup Regulus's cheek.

"And I'm not with Lily. I'm not with anyone! I- I don't know what this is with us, but this is all I want. I've just thought you didn't want it! That you were just...I don't know...having fun, or-" James sighed, eyes full of anguish. "I thought you didn't care."

Regulus frowned, fear flooding through him as he realized his vulnerability. "I-I don't."

The other boy let out a small chuckle. "Well. You should know. I do. Quite a lot. Okay?"

Oh, how Regulus wanted to kiss him. "I guess that's alright," he murmured, before pulling their lips together.

[miiyas]

ICE IN HOT TEA

osamu isn’t your boyfriend, but he also isn’t not-your-boyfriend

wc: 434, fluff & small hints of angst, mention of alcohol and cigarettes, not proof read

osamu dazai’s nighttime habits worry you sometimes.

his body always runs cold, making you fear that he has died in his sleep somehow and as you draw awake in the dead of night, hand hovering over his nose to check his breathing, your frozen heart starts to beat again as osamu wraps his legs around your waist, whining lowly as to why you’re awake and telling you to lay back down.

sometimes he’s never around, leaving the shared bed to your apartment cold and empty.

he comes back to the warmth of your home, smelling like whiskey and cigarettes, refusing to speak to you before crawling to bed with cold hands embracing your warm ones. on the days that are especially rough for him, you see him slumped in front of your door, body inches away from reaching for the knob. he looks like a dead man, but you can see him breathing softly and you decide to skip work that day.

but despite it all, osamu likes your apartment. your home has become his. his toothbrush hangs next to yours, his clothes and underwear are mixed in your closet, pale gauze now lives in your cabinets, and his hair starts to smell like your shampoo. he likes the small comfortable routine you two have set with one another. its vastly different from his shabby life style.

there’s a specific care he put into you and when he drinks, he thinks of those tender, more domestic moments, his mind oddly foggy.

he isn’t your boyfriend, but he also isn’t not-your-boyfriend. he’s kinder with you, calloused and scarred hands taking yours to sway in your apartment to an invisible melody that he hums with a small smile. he likes to have you around and lacks fear of being with you. his hands wrap around yours like a matching puzzle and now — he finds himself getting up from the barstool and walking out.

yokohama lights shine down on him and puddles from a storm a few hours ago reflect the neon bulbs. osamu dazai is going home to you once again, and this time, he’s a little more sober. he's going to give you a gentle kiss on the cheek and tell you how much he loves you and you won’t believe him. he’s going to sleep right next to you and make sure you’re warm and sleeping well, even if his body runs cold.

osamu dazai is going to do all of this because his heart reluctantly tells him to, even if his mind begs him to take another bottle and drink the night away.

[spacevoyagerx]

Horsehead Nebula

The Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula located in the constellation Orion, approximately 1,500 light-years away from Earth.

It is one of the most famous and recognizable nebulae in the night sky, named for its distinctive shape that resembles a horse's head. The Horsehead Nebula is part of a larger region of star formation known as IC 434.

The Horsehead Nebula is also a region where new stars are being formed, and it is often studied by astronomers to understand the processes of star formation.

Credits: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

[space-pics]

IC-434 Nebula in Orion (NASA, Marshall, 11/11/13) by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

[apod]

2023 November 20

The Horsehead Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Mark Hanson & Martin Pugh, SSRO, PROMPT, CTIO, NSF

Explanation: Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is some 1,500 light-years distant, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex. About five light-years "tall," the dark cloud is cataloged as Barnard 33 and is visible only because its obscuring dust is silhouetted against the glowing red emission nebula IC 434. Stars are forming within the dark cloud. Contrasting blue reflection nebula NGC 2023, surrounding a hot, young star, is at the lower left of the full image. The featured gorgeous color image combines both narrowband and broadband images recorded using several different telescopes.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231120.html

[footballerimaginess]

Instagram File | Figure Skater

Can I request Erling Haaland and a figure skating gf? An Instagram au, or headcanons, or anything really would be lovely🤍 thank u Credit to the owners of these photos! Please reblog and support this fic! x

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[thefirststarr]

SPACEMAS DAY 1 ✨🪐🌎☄️☀️🌕

What a better way to start than with one of the faves!!

Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is around 1,500 light-years away, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex and is sculpted by stellar winds and radiation. About 5 light-years "tall," the dark interstellar cloud, is cataloged as Barnard 33, is a star forming region. It is visible only because its dust is silhouetted against the glowing red emission nebula IC 434. To the lower left of the image there is a contrasting blue reflection nebula NGC 2023, surrounding a hot, young star. The featured gorgeous color image combines both narrowband and broadband images recorded using several different telescopes.

Image Credit: Mark Hanson & Martin Pugh, SSRO, PROMPT, CTIO, NSF

[doublestarphotography]

Alnitak's Treasures

Alnitak, the lower left star in the belt of Orion the Hunter, is surrounded by several prominent nebulas that are part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, a massive star-forming region approximately 1,350 light-years from Earth. These nebulas include:

Located near Alnitak, the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) is a bright emission nebula. The ultraviolet radiation from Alnitak ionizes hydrogen gas, causing it to emit light. Dark dust lanes cross its bright central region, creating a fiery appearance.

IC 434 is the bright emission nebula that serves as the backdrop for the Horsehead Nebula. Its reddish glow is due to hydrogen gas being excited by the radiation from nearby stars, including Alnitak.

Situated to the right (in this image) Alnitak, the Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) is a dark nebula. It is a cloud of dust and gas that appears silhouetted against the bright emission nebula IC 434 that lies behind it.

Located near the Horsehead Nebula, is the bright reflection nebula NGC 2023. It is illuminated by the star HD 37903 and is one of the brightest reflection nebulas in the sky. It features a combination of molecular clouds and photodissociation regions.

These nebulas are intricately linked, forming part of the dynamic and visually stunning Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.

©DoubleStar Photography

[ominoose]

hello ! what do you think about anselm vogelweide x asexual! reader ??

𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐦 𝐱 𝐀𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥!𝐆𝐍!𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫

Summary: HC's about the above! Warnings: Non-graphic references to jerking it. WC: 434

Hiya ! I am no @reallyrallyauthor, but I took a shot :) Kisses to all my ace followers :*

He's intrigued. In his mind sexual pleasure is one of the basic forms of pleasure as a whole, its like ice cream without milk, how is such a thing possible? This leads to him wanting to find out and further experience what type of pleasures you engage with to satisfy yourself in place of the "void".

If you mention that you have a hobby that brings you lots of fulfillment he'd simply nod, a small hum in acknowledgment before the conversation moves on. A week later and he's balls deep in said hobby, sending you letters. "Dearest birdie, I cannot truthfully agree that crocheting satisfies me as carnally as the satanic orgies of my younger years. However, it does seem to simmer down my twitching trigger finger." "My devoted love, why on Earth would you pick scrapbooking as a hobby? If I wanted my fingers coated in sticky substances and my desk to look an absolute array I'd simply fuck or kill. I cannot say we are on the same page here."

After he's tested your habits to a decent extent, he's content and moves on. Your asexuality is neither here nor there anymore. He's had it explained, he's dabbled in it (as much as he could, asking him to actually abstain from sex is akin to asking him to become a Eunuch) and that's all there need's be. It's on par with your hair colour now; perhaps the topic of small talk over tea ("Did you know, it's often speculated that Nikola Tesla was asexual?").

Shoots anyone that makes rude remarks or grimaces about it. Partly because you're his and he shall not tolerate such disrespect, partially because its such a stupid thing to care about and if they're wasting mental capacity remarking over it then they clearly aren't thinking enough of their job.

He will obviously still feel sexual attraction to you, but you'd rarely know. Anselm would never dream of burdening his beloved with the "nuisances" of the physical body. It's only when he wakes up beside you with morning wood and looks down with a "Oh, I see I have an early morning meeting I must attend. Stay in your Egyptian silk cocoon, my love, I shall be back in but a minute."

Any time he does feel horny, after some 'self care', he goes online and purchases something related to your hobby, e,g a large lego set, an instrument, fancy cookware. Him explaining this to you after 50 packages arrived for you in the span of one week was fun.

Pronounces it "a-thex-ual", like how he says "de-lith-ous".

[quiltofstars]

The Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33, center) and NGC 2023 (lower left) // Sky Story

[the-maddest-robot]

Ok, so I was searching for information on some of the objects visible in my photo of the horse head nebula and I found these two posts (Reddit and Astrobin) by DanielZoliro that also used a SII and Ha combination but with a slightly different processing (Notably, the RGB combination being R: SII, G: 0.6xHa + 0.4xSII, B: Ha). I loved his results and I had to try it with my own data. Did turn out great, but there was a reflection of a star on the SII data and this processing amplified it (the big reddish round/donut thing on right of the full image).

(Image taken using a CarbonStar 150/600 newtonian telescope with a 0.95 coma corrector, ZWO ASI294 monochrome camera and Baader 6.5nm SHO filter. 5x120s image for each colour filter (RGB), 22x300s for the Ha filter and 32x300s for the SII filter, total imaging time 5h, stacking and processing done in PixInsight.)

[theofficialastronomy101]

M 42 | Orion Nebula & IC 434 | Horsehead Nebula

1100 megapixel

[ghw-archive]

A pair of black leather button boots with lattice cut-work uppers, 1919

[jamietarttsnorthernattitude]

if you're still taking words: book, table, green, sky

Thank you my friend! I am always happily taking words! Thank you for your patience it's taken a bit to get through the associated sprints, thank you for the inspiration :)

Book from copenhagen:

The fucking plane suddenly felt too small as it began to take off. Roy was torn between wanting to run to the back of the aeroplane and beg Jamie to tell everyone the truth or open the emergency exit and jump.  He pulled out his latest book as a distraction, reread the same paragraph six times and then gave up and closed it. He could feel Beard watching him out of the corner of his eye, probably wondering if he or Nate were going to be acting manager when Roy was placed on leave.  It was an accident.  He hated Jamie was hurting, but it was an accident for fuck’s sake. 

Added 225 words in a sprint :)

Table from the next chapter of false confidence:

Ted let his hand fall onto Jamie’s shoulder before he violently shrugged it off. “Don’t fucking touch me!” Jamie scrambled off the bed, almost falling again, knocking into the movable table, bouncing off that until he steadied himself on one of the chairs. At some point, the IV had been pulled from Jamie’s arm. Ted wasn’t sure when, but there was blood dripping down Jamie’s hand, dripping off his fingers, in small droplets on the floor.  “Don’t fucking touch me!”

I added 133 words via sprint.

Green from a hostile reception aka the kindergarten cop au no one asked for:

“What do you mean you have food poisoning?” Jamie stood against the closed bathroom door, the only sound he heard was Keeley's breathing and Keeley’s retching. The toilet flushed, followed closely by the sink, and finally, the door opened. Keeley Jones stood on the other side, looking the palest green Jamie had ever seen. Her hair was plastered to her face or pulled up in a messy bun, and her eyes were glassy.  “I mean, I have food poisoning,” Keeley said as she slipped by him to curl into the fetal position on her hotel bed. “I already talked to Captain Beard; he said you have to go in my place.” “No, no, no,” Jamie shook his head. “I can’t teach little kids!”

I added 329 words in a sprint : )

Sky from old habits die screaming:

“You were in prison?” Jamie asked. Beard nodded, he once thought everyone who looked at him saw the word convict tattooed across his forehead, that people could tell he had done time simply by looking at him. When had that changed? Had it been the way he carried himself? Or had it been that he could read others so he assumed they could read it in him as well? Was it that he could see the ones who had been inside in the way they carried themselves? The way they reacted to a door closing, to the sound of a lock? The way they hated when they couldn’t see the sky from where they were?  The way they always sat with their back to the wall so no one could get behind them?The way they reacted when someone touched them?  Along the road he had become more than a former inmate, he just was unsure when.  Or how.  Along the road, he had become the sum of his parts. His past misdeeds were a part of him the same way his favourite colour or his mastery of chess. But they were still a part of him, and they were still part of his story. It was still a way he could help Jamie. 

He went to the freezer to gather his thoughts under the guise of ice for Jamie, which he needed anyway. He handed him the refrozen peas for his eye and a larger pack to hold under the sweatshirt on his ribs. He took the chair again, adjusted his seat, crossed his legs and opened himself to the man he closed himself off to. 

Added 434 words via sprint with this one!