Messier 51 Luminosity (Remote, Nerpio ESP)
17 x 10 minute subs taken with iTelescope T7 from Nerpio in Spain. The larger Messier 51 is interacting gravitationally with smaller NGC 5195.
A rich spiral pattern of dark dust clouds reaches deep into the galactic core where a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus is located - a dust ring obscures the central accretion disk and supermassive black hole from view.
Subs processed in PixInsight 1.8 with dithering, drizzling, deconvolution, HDR multiscale transform and PixelMath all being used. Final high pass/overlay in Photoshop.
A small edge on spiral galaxy IC 4277 is seen beneath NGC 5195 and a bright bar-like irregular galaxy, IC 4278 lies a third of the way along the bottom left.
Image taken remotely in Spain! Not Limavady!
Messier 51 Luminosity (Remote, Nerpio ESP)
17 x 10 minute subs taken with iTelescope T7 from Nerpio in Spain. The larger Messier 51 is interacting gravitationally with smaller NGC 5195.
A rich spiral pattern of dark dust clouds reaches deep into the galactic core where a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus is located - a dust ring obscures the central accretion disk and supermassive black hole from view.
Subs processed in PixInsight 1.8 with dithering, drizzling, deconvolution, HDR multiscale transform and PixelMath all being used. Final high pass/overlay in Photoshop.
A small edge on spiral galaxy IC 4277 is seen beneath NGC 5195 and a bright bar-like irregular galaxy, IC 4278 lies a third of the way along the bottom left.
Image taken remotely in Spain! Not Limavady!