New Reflection Nebula Discovered - The Firefly Nebula - Joint project by Maicon Germiniani and Gabriel Santos (Gabriel R. Santos (grsotnas))

New Reflection Nebula Discovered - The Firefly Nebula - Joint project by Maicon Germiniani and Gabriel Santos

Nova Nebulosa de Reflexão Descoberta - A Nebulosa do Vagalume [English below]

Temos uma novidade muito legal para a astrofotografia amadora:

Acabamos que esbarrando em uma Nebulosa de Reflexão ainda não catalogada, próxima da famosa Nebulosa do Cone em Monoceros, a partir de dados da Chilescope.

Após extensa busca nos bancos de dados astronômicos, concluímos que a nebulosa ainda não foi catalogada. Apresentamos um breve artigo de nossa pesquisa e história da descoberta, e também o as primeiras imagens em alta qualidade da nebulosa, que chamamos de Nebulosa do Vagalume.

*ARTIGO [Português]*

*ARTIGO [Inglês]*

*Post Facebook*

*Flickr*

Abraços e Céus Limpos,

Maicon Germiniani e Gabriel Santos, 27/02/2019

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New Reflection Nebula Discovered - The Firefly Nebula

We have exciting news for amateur astrophotography: We noticed an uncatalogued reflection nebula, near the famous Cone Nebula in Monoceros, using data by Chilescope.

After extensive search in the astronomical databases, we concluded the nebula is indeed uncatalogued. We present a brief article on our research and discovery story, and the first high-quality images of nebula, by us named Firefly Nebula.

*ARTICLE [Portuguese]*

*ARTICLE [English]*

*Facebook Post*

*Flickr*

Best regards and Clear Skies,

Maicon Germiniani and Gabriel Santos, 27/02/2019

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Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

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Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

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