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Pentax K-70
Pentax DFA 70-210 f4 (first try)
Skywatcher Star Adventurer
60x 30sec
ISO 12800
Affinity Photo
Messier 31 o La Galassia di Andromeda , e’ in rotta di collisione con la nostra galassia ,Via Lattea .. Tenetevi pronti !! Tranquilli mancano solo circa 4-5 miliardi di anni!! La galassia di Andromeda , lontana da noi 2,5 milioni di anni luce, si sta muovendo sempre più velocemente verso la Via Lattea grazie all’attrazione gravitazionale reciproca . Le due galassie si uniranno , miscelando stelle e , polveri e gas per dar origine ad una super galassia ….. La Galassia di Andromeda (nota talvolta anche con il vecchio nome Grande Nebulosa di Andromeda o con le sigle di catalogo M 31 e NGC 224) è una galassia a spirale gigante che dista circa 2,538 milioni di anni luce dalla Terra , visibile in direzione della costellazione di Andromeda, da cui prende il nome. Si tratta della galassia di grandi dimensioni più vicina alla nostra, la Via Lattea; è visibile anche a occhio nudo ed è tra gli oggetti più lontani visibili senza l'ausilio di strumenti.
La Galassia di Andromeda è la più grande del Gruppo Locale, un gruppo di galassie di cui fanno parte anche la Via Lattea e la Galassia del Triangolo, più circa cinquanta altre galassie minori, molte delle quali satelliti delle principali. Riprese effettuate dal Giardino di Casa Mògoro Sardegna Italia , del 20/08/2022 con Strumentazione. : Celestron C11 , Hyperstar Starizona V3 , cam Zwo Asi 2600 Mc , filtro optolong l-enhance , montatura equatoriale Eq6 R Pro , guida FS60Cb , Asi 120 mm mini .. Asi Air pro , Pixinsignt , Lightroom .. Light 36 x120” , dark 29 , Flat , 29 , dark Flat 29 Cieli Sereni
Well, its been long time..
But I'm here, back to my favourite place, but I've to say sorry, sorry for my absence, sorry for not working in my beautiful photo agency, sorry for the amazing and talent brands that believed in me!
In this long time I had a lot of problems, first my computer got broken then super busy in work things. But in this terrible period that we're spending in Italy, caused by #coronavirus we must stay at home, no working, hoping for a better days and so I decided to come a bit, for distract me a bit from the horrible news I hear everyday.
love you, S.Queen Melody.
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Hair: Natasha - DOUX
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Canon EOS 200D+EF 28-200 USM+EQ3-2, 200mm, ISO 3200, f/5.6, 15x30sec lights, 16 darks, 16 offsets, 12 flats. DSS, FitsWork, Photoshop
My first deep sky shot, 6x30sec ISO3200 at 600mm with my Sigma Contemporary and Star Adventurer Mini including M32 and NGC205, very faint - I think - we can see also NGC206. Stacked with Sequator using 10 noise images and cropped to approx. 1/3 of the image.
The Andromeda Galaxy also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth, and the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. The galaxy's name stems from the area of Earth's sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda.
The virial mass of the Andromeda Galaxy is of the same order of magnitude as that of the Milky Way, at a trillion solar masses.
The number of stars contained in the Andromeda Galaxy is estimated at one trillion, or roughly twice the number estimated for the Milky Way.
The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are expected to collide in around 4.5 billion years, merging to form a giant elliptical galaxy or a large lenticular galaxy. With an apparent magnitude of 3.4, the Andromeda Galaxy is among the brightest of the Messier Objects making it visible to the naked eye from Earth on moonless nights, even when viewed from areas with moderate light pollution.
(Wikipedia.org)
Equipment:
Celestron 9.25” 2350mm Edge-HD Telescope
Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro Computerized GoTo Telescope Mount
Orion 50mm Helical Guide Scope & StarShoot AutoGuider
Celestron 9x50 Finder Scope
ZWO ASI294MC Pro Color Camera
Celestron .7 EdgeHD Reducer Lens
PHD2 Guiding Software
SharpCap Pro
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[ELLE] Andromeda Dress @ BELLEZA Event
[ELLE] Andromeda Pumps @ BELLEZA Event
CKEY Poses - Theodore series
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This lovely andromedas is one of my favorite spring-flowering plants in my garden. The genus name Pieris Japonica was derived from Pieria, a place in Greece. In Greek mythology, Pieris was the home of the Muses, the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. This plant certainly inspires my photography!
Hope you have a good week ahead; take care and stay well. Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for your kind comments, awards and faves -- I appreciate them all.
© Melissa Post 2020
The Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) is the nearest large galaxy to our own Milky Way and one of the most magnificent objects in the night sky. Visible as a faint small smudge from a dark site on a moonless night, M31 is a gigantic aggregation of hundreds of billions of stars at a distance of about 2.5 million light years.
Once thought to be a nebula inside our own Galaxy, its true nature was discovered by Edwin Hubble in 1925, which measured the distance of this "island universe" by studying a special class of pulsating stars known as Cepheids (his estimated distance was more than half smaller than the present value but still large enough to put it well outside the extent of our own Milky Way Galaxy).
M31 is classified as a spiral galaxy with its galactic plane inclined about 13o to our line of sight, and it is therefore seen nearly edge-on. It has a number of smaller satellite galaxies, the most prominent of which are M32 (the bright, star-like concentration above and to the left of the nucleus) and M110, the more extended bright patch below and to the right of the nucleus). Astronomers have found evidence of a massive black hole at the center of this galaxy (as is the case for our own Milky Way).
They have also calculated that we are in a collision course with our grand neighbor in space - approaching each other at a speed of about 100 Km/sec, the two galaxies will collide in about 3 billion years and maybe merge into a giant elliptical galaxy.
I can’t really know if E.T.’s home was the Andromeda Galaxy, but I can tell you that this galaxy is exceptional, either through a telescope or in deep sky photographs.
I wish you all health, happiness and clear skies!
Image Details:
Telescope: Orion EON 80/500 mm ED refractor with TS 0.79 Reducer/Corrector
Mount: Modified Vixen Sphinx (NexSXW)
Camera: Canon EOS 600Da
Light frames: 13 x 5 mins, ISO 800, Custom WB, no filter
Guiding: Skywatcher Evoguide 50/240 mm with Lacerta Mgen-3 autoguider
Date & Location: 13/10/2023 - Chalkidiki, Greece (Bortle 4)
Processing: PixInsight, Adobe Photoshop
Dati: 39 x 300 sec a gain 5 e offset 25 a -10° c + 70 dark + 25 flat e darkflat
Filtro Astronomik UV/IR Block L2
Montatura: EQ6 pro
Ottica: Takahashi FSQ106
Sensore: QHY168C
Cam guida e tele: magzero mz5-m su Scopos 62/520
Software acquisizione: nina e phd2
Software sviluppo: AstroPixelProcessor e Photoshop
Data for this image was acquired from Trevor Jones @astrobackyard - Image was captured from a dark sky site in Southern Ontario (Bortle Scale Class 4/5) using a Canon EOS 60Da DSLR camera, and a 74mm refractor telescope. The images were shot using only a UV/IR cut filter in front of the camera sensor, something I cannot do from my light polluted backyard in the city. Post-processing was done by me using Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tool v1.6.2, and Milky Way Finisher.
6DmkII | 135mm | 20x8s - 6x10s | f.2.8 - f/5.6 | ISO6400 - ISO800
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The Andromeda galaxy, 2.5 million lightyears distant, the furthest object in the sky that can be seen with the naked eye. Contains more than 400 billion stars, the bright yellow core has most of the mass, consisting of the oldest yellow stars. The blue regions around the galaxy consist of younger hotter stars. The darker areas consist of dust and gas lanes tracing out the spiral arms of the galaxy. The galaxy is edge on with a slight tilt to our line of site, the warp in the galaxy stands out clearly, this is possibly due to gravitational interactions with the satellite galaxies, or nearby galaxies like M33 in Triangulum. Note the warp is in the outer regions of the galaxy, where the gravity is less strong. The two smaller satellite galaxies are gravitationally tied to Andromeda and interact with it.
Bortle class 6/7 skies.
Exposure time, 2hrs 42m 41s, 233 frames @ ISO 6400, 3200, 1600. Capture and processing time etc approx. 30hrs, several dozen subs were deleted due to slight tracking errors and light pollution, haze, fogging etc.
80mm F6 refractor
Fornax Lightrack mount unguided
Canon 760D, no filters were used.
Post processing in Lightroom and Canon DDP.
Subs collected over several nights in all conditions, ie dodging clouds and haze, moon present and only 3 clears nights with excellent seeing, but I could not dedicate all the time to M31, read on.
Due to the type of mount I use, I cannot track across the Zenith as my 500mm refractor hits against the Fornax drive, I would have to wait for 1 to 2 hours for the sky to move to the west allowing my scope to be set up on the other side of the mount. I would look at objects rising in the east until I could get back to M31 a while later.
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. ”
Bill Waterson
Canon EOS 80D | EF 70-200mm f4 L IS USM | Omegon MiniTrack LX2 | 25 minutes
It is finished! I have been slowly trying to learn deep-space photography using my camera, a telephoto lens, and a star tracker. It is the most challenging type of photography that I have attempted, and the editing process on this photo nearly broke me...BUT...I got it done. This photo was taken last weekend on Sunday, September 1st into the early morning hours on Labor Day (Monday), September 2nd. This was taken a few miles northwest of Munising Michigan in the UP. This photo combines 66 minutes (33 images exposed for 2 minutes each) of exposure time. The long exposure time allows the faint galaxy light to be collected in the data captured. Photo was taken with a Nikon Z6iii, Tamron 150-600mm lens, & ioptron skyguider pro. 33 exposures set at 2 minutes long, ISO 3200, f/6.3, focal length 550mm.
(Explore # 230)
Tricky to get as it doesn't get very high in the sky here, only 4 subs between crossing antennas! 300 seconds, ISO400, f2.8,300mm lens
Taken w/ Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D7500.
105 lights x 90 s @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop