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“For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says,
on the star tree,
pale with luminous
ocean leaves.”
― Rolf Jacobsen
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M31 the Andromeda galaxy, can be found about 2.5 million light years distant. The galaxy contains 400 billion stars, though some estimates say up to a trillion stars. The galaxy is destined to crash into the milky way in the distant future. Does life exist, most likely it does.
This image, my best yet, is not an accurate representation of the true colour of the galaxy. But I can say the blue colour in the outer spiral arms are regions of young hot blue stars, whilst the orange central core area, is densely packed with much older yellow stars, these cannot be resolved, as they are to far away. The mass of foreground stars across the image all reside in our galaxy, the milky way. The smaller galaxies, at the bottom of the image M110 and M32 just left of centre are both gravitationally tied to the Andromeda Spiral.
61 images at iso 6400iso, at 25 seconds, stacked in deep sky stacker, with dark frames subtracted, 25 minutes in total. Canon 760D, 80mm F6 Refracter, on a driven mount, unguided.
M31 Galaxy
William Optics 73 leveled
William optics 50/200 guide with Omegon 224
Ioptron Cem120 mount
Moravian G2 8300 mark II camera with internal filter wheel
Astronomik filters
Cls CCD, R, G, B, Ha 6nm,
CLS 180x25 -5 °
CLS 300x25 -5 °
It has 900x30 -5 °
R 240x21 -5 °
G 240x21 -5 °
B 240x21 -5 °
Acquisition software Nina, Phd2, Ioptron commander and Vnc
Processing software
Pixinsight, Photoshop and star spikes
Sombrero Galaxy MN190 F5.3 +1.4 extender F7.5 +Enhance filter,, ISO 3200, ISO 800, 4h 53m 46s, exposure time, 70 frames.
Triangulum Galaxy M33
The Triangulum Galaxy is the third largest of the local group of galaxies including ourselves, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy and lies 2.73 million light years from Earth. This was taken over two nights in early January.
Technical stuff:
Bortle 4 skies
Canon EF 600mm f4 + 7D II on iOptron CEM70
Primaluce 60mm Guidescope + ASI290MC
Optolong L-Pro filter
4 hours of 10 min subs
Stacked in DSS
Processed with Photoshop & Topaz Denoise
The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as
Messier 33 or NGC 598. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy.
The Triangulum Galaxy was probably discovered by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna before 1654.
Additionally, the Galaxy was independently discovered by Charles Messier on the night of August 25-25, 1764.
It was published in his Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters (1771) as object number 33; hence the name M33.
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
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year!
Gemma
The Sculptor Galaxy is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. The Sculptor Galaxy is a starburst galaxy, which means that it is currently undergoing a period of intense star formation.
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
Thank you for your comments.
Gemma
M101 The Pinwheel Galaxy May 2025
The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101 or NGC 5457) is an asymmetrical, face-on spiral galaxy distanced 21.6 million light-years from Earth in Ursa Major. At 252,000 light-years across it is 70% larger than our own Milky Way galaxy, has a disk mass of over 100 billion solar masses and contains about a trillion stars.
This is the first image I took with my 7” Askar refractor.
- Acquisition Date: 04/1/202 - 05/26/2025 – 05/27/2025
- Location: Western Massachusetts, USA
- Imaging Camera: QHY600PH-M -10°C - Mode 1(High Gain) Offset:15 Gain:56
- Telescope: Askar 185 APO 185mm f/7 Triplet Refractor
- Flattener: Askar 1x Full Frame Flattener for 185APO
- Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100 w/GTO4
- Guide scope: Celestron Off Axis Guider
- Guide Camera: ASI174m mini
- Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Sequence Generator Pro, PixInsight 1.9 Lockhart, Aries Astro Pixel Processor
Filters:
- Chroma Hydrogen Alpha 50mm filter
- Astrodon Gen II E 50mm LRGB Filters
Exposure Times:
- Luminance:10 x 300 sec bin 1x1 (50 min)
- Red: 17 x 300 sec bin 1x1 (85 min)
- Green: 17 x 300 sec bin 1x1 (85 min)
- Blue: 20 x 300 sec bin 1x1 (100 min)
Total Exposure:320min. (5.3hrs)
Sky Quality:
-Magnitude: 19.71
-Bortle Class 5
-1.41 mcd/m^2 Brightness
-1234.6 ucd/m^2 Artificial Brightness
In galaxy and nebulae
Mirrors the deep and lustrous
Kind of planet
Reflecting its alike twins
Already existing for trillion generations
The trillion light years beyond the universe and outer space
In galaxy and nebulae
Matters not a daytime or a night
The planets distributed the gravity without right or wrong
Flying stones, dusts and rocks drifting without gain or loss
Nebula alternating its light and dark in deep outburst
The instant birth and death of meteor’s collision
In galaxy and nebulae
Every moment is like this life
Setting forth the human in earth
The future is an unpredictable journey
Subsisting in a spacecraft with constant temperature
The heading direction beyond cold and hot
In galaxy and nebulae
Sperm and ovum combining the continuation of embryo
Youth withered in flight
Life a newborn in flight
Soaring further to a deep and gloomy milky way
The difference of love and hate gradually lost its remembrance
In galaxy and nebulae
The countless stars flashing high in universe
Dodging a farewell, separation is beyond the countless light years
Suddenly find one like the twin of earth
A new birth or a casting shadow?
The contradiction of lonesomeness and intimacy entangled in an encounter
by DePen Chang
Monday, May 3, 2010
Ο Γαλαξίας φωτογραφήθηκε με ISO 3200 και χρόνο έκθεσης 10sec σε 8 συνεχόμενες φωτογραφίες με την μέθοδο του Image Averaging
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.
Spiral galaxy NGC 5236
Image exposure: 12.7 Minutes
Image field of view: 39.2 x 25.9 arcmin
Image date: 2022-04-05
Cette photo montre la majestueuse galaxie d’Andromède (M31), notre voisine cosmique située à environ 2,5 millions d’années-lumière de la Terre.
Pour accentuer l’effet de grandeur et souligner son immensité, j’ai volontairement augmenté la taille du rendu de la galaxie lors du traitement. On distingue aussi ses galaxies satellites, M32 et M110.
This photo shows the majestic Andromeda Galaxy (M31), our cosmic neighbor located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth.
To accentuate the effect of grandeur and emphasize its immensity, I deliberately increased the size of the galaxy's rendering during processing. Its satellite galaxies, M32 and M110, are also visible.
Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged as Messier 31, M31, and NGC 224. Andromeda has a D25 isophotal diameter of about 46.56 kiloparsecs (152,000 light-years)[8] and is approximately 765 kpc (2.5 million light-years) from Earth. The galaxy's name stems from the area of Earth's sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which itself is named after the princess who was the wife of Perseus in Greek mythology. (Wikipedia)
Taken over 7 nights.
Details:
Device: Dwarf III Smart Telescope
Filter: Astro
Focus: AF
Tracking: EQ Mode
912 x 30 sec frames
Gain: 60
Darks: 20 frames
Bortle 5/6
Programs: Siril, PixInsight, BlurX, NoiseX, StarX, Photoshop
La belle galaxie d'Andromède culmine haut dans le ciel en ce moment en début de nuit.
J'attendais avec impatience une nuit claire pour m'éloigner de Paris et réaliser un beau portrait de cette galaxie. C'est chose faite depuis les environs de Provins.
En début de nuit nuages bas et brouillard m'ont fait craindre l'échec mais finalement le ciel s'est dégagé et j'ai pu en profiter à fond !
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Nikon Z6+ FTZ2 + Sigma 100-400
45x30s at 400mm / f8 / ISO3200
Tracking with Skywatcher Staradventurer
Processed with Siril, Starnet++ and PS
So a lot has changed since my last post, and with that change I opted for some change of my own. Decided to chop off some hair, color it, and try out a new pair of contacts. Think I'm liking my new look for the foreseeable future!
credits:
• jacket - eliavah - moonstone jean jacket (rare)
• tank - little fox - jennie knitted top
• skirt - ison - tianna skirt
• necklace - !13ACT - moon phases necklace
• glasses - triggered - lumos maxima glasses
• bracelet - :::NOIR::: - blair bracelet
• phone - #187# - ouija phone case
• eyeshadow - jack spoon - smoke glow eyeshadow
• lipstick - gorsimi - kasadya lipstick (LEL EVO)