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Continuing on my Japan photos, here's one from another airport, Haneda Airport in Tokyo. I took this back in 2007 as well so I'm not sure if this design is still there.
Andromeda Galaxy -- taken September 23, 2022
Nikon D850
Svbony 503 OTA w 0.8X field flattner
about 40 of 30 sec exposures;
stacked with Sequetor
TIFF edited with photoshop.
9-23-22_AG-D850-OTA
The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus. It lies in the constellation Canes Venatici, and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. Its distance is 31 million light-years away from Earth
Optic: RC GSO 8" F/8
Mount: Ioptron CEM60 HP
Autoguider: Magzero QHY 5L II, OAG 9mm TS, Phd guiding
Camera: Moravian G2 8300 Filters: 31mm unmounted Optolong
Frames: L 11X420sec - Ha 7nm 9X600sec - RGB 4X600sec each Bin2 -30°
Camera: QSI 583wsg Filters: 31mm unmounted Astrodon gen. 2
Frames: L 12X600sec - Ha 3nm 9X600sec each Bin2 -30°
Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop, Maxim
APT automation
Located in the constellation Hydra, this colorful, swirling spiral galaxy is known as M83. A "starburst" galaxy, M83 is considerably smaller than our own galaxy but is producing stars at a much faster rate. The pink clouds of hydrogen gas that dot the galaxy's spiral arms are the nurseries where new stars are being born. The blue, grainy clumps mixed in with these star-forming regions are clusters of hot, young stars that have blown away the surrounding gas with their fierce ultraviolet radiation. Some of these young stars are only about a million years old. The yellow glow closer to the center of the galaxy comes from more mature stars that have lived for 100 million years or more. Data from Telescope Live.
The Whirlpool Galaxy in Canes Venatici: astrobackyard.com/m51-whirlpool-galaxy/
This was an exciting project for me!
I've never had enough reach to do M51 justice before. This image was created by collecting LRGB exposures (5-minutes each) over several cold nights in March and April, 2020.
36 x 300-seconds Lum
9 x 300-seconds Red
12 x 300-seconds Green
15 x 300-seconds Blue
The images were stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed entirely in Adobe Photoshop 2020.
I've recorded a 30-minute image-processing tutorial of the techniques used for this image that will be live in my image processing guide by the end of this week. If you've already downloaded it, remember to update to the new version (for free) this weekend to find it!
Clear skies!
Had a quick look outside and saw that the clouds were clearing fast and the galaxy core was almost right overhead, it's actually pretty clear tonight.
ISO 5000 | f/2.8 | 25 sec | 14mm
Actually two interacting galaxies, it's the most irresistible spring imaging target. Here I have aimed for the best image I can do from my red zone location using my portable gear. We had 4 clear nights in a row and I used each one to collect 2 to 3 hours of decent data. All captures used 8 second exposures, albeit a buttload of them (where 1 buttload = 4,275 subframes).
Tech Stuff: Borg 71FL/TeleVue 2.0X PowerMate/QHY 166mono/ZWO LRGB filter set/iOptron CubePro unguided. Data collected with SharpCap in 6 minute LiveStacks with dark and flat subtraction L X 186 min; R X 162 min; G X 102 min; B X 120 min. Total 9.5 hours. Processed in PixInsight, GIMP, ACDSee. Collected April 5-9 2021 from my yard in Westchester, SQM-L 18.4-18.7 (Bortle 7 Suburban/Urban Transition sky).
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 Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye. The galaxy gets its name from the constellation Triangulum, where it can be spotted. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Pinwheel Galaxy."
Taken on Celstron RASA, Mayhill Observatory. 180 sec x 20. stacked in DSS and processed in photoshop and lightroom. First time renting telescope time on nice equipment, and then downloading the images for processing. 2.7 million light years away.
This was taken the night before my last post at Palouse Falls State Park. Arrived around 2AM with a clear dark skies, and I couldn't help myself and started shooting until morning. It was a moonless night with minimal light into Palouse Canyon. So I did 2 different exposures and blended them together in PS.
I did try to head up to the higher ground where you can see the Palouse River in the canyon and capture it from there. But after heading up there with absolutely NO visibilities over the edge, think that it wasn't a smart thing to do and head back down. Finally settle with this, and can't recall there's a milkyway shot done from here! Please correct me if I'm wrong!! :)
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The Beijing Galaxy is the biggest shopping mall in Beijing. It’s also one of the most controversial malls in the country too.
The nearly 400,000 square meter complex was designed by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, the internationally acclaimed architect.
The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a, M51a, or NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. Recently it was estimated to be 23 ± 4 million light-years from the Milky Way, but different methods yield distances between 15 and 35 million light-years. Messier 51 is one of the best known galaxies in the sky. (Wikipedia).
First attempt at capture (RGB) from light polluted west London.
LHaRGB image: 8/3/16 & 9/4/16
Oxfordshire (Lum) and London (colour), UK
5 Hours Total Combined Exposure
Bin1x1 16x600s L, 4x600s R, 4x600s G, 4x600s B, 1x1200s Ha
Heavily cropped.
Equipment:
T: Takahashi FSQ106ED @ f/5, extender-q 1.6x (f/5->f/8)
C: QSI683ws Mono CCD, Astronomik Filters (6nm Ha)
M: Celestron Advanced Vx
G: QHY5-II
Acquisition and Processing:
PHD2, Sequence Generator Pro, CCDStack, Photoshop CS6
Government Street Victora, rotated.
Out for a walk downtown alone Thursday doing rotations. Here one of my favorites. What do you see?
Finally processed my M31 the last new moon. I don't normally do much in RGB, but the consecutive moonless and dark nights were too much of an opportunity. The image is stacked up of around 6 hours of data.
RGB 30x180seconds per channel
HEQ6 Pro
ASIair
APM Lomo 80/480 @370mm
ZWO 1600mm pro
Realistically, this is one of most distant object you can see with your naked eye (at least in the northern hemisphere) at a little over 2 million light years away, so the light hitting my camera sensor left the galaxy when the first humans were starting to come into existence (Homo Ergaster).
What baffles me is that the light on the far side of the galaxy is some 200,000 years behind the light at the front of the galaxy, so my image is effectively skewed by time. The whole thing is moving towards us at a rate of arouns 60 miles per second.31 Andromeda Galaxy data
M33 Triangle Galaxy
Distance from Earth: 2,723,000 light years
The Triangulum Galaxy, also known as M33 (object number 33 in Charles Messier's catalogue) and NGC 598, is a so-called SA-type spiral galaxy about 3 million light years away from Earth and located in the constellation Triangle. In the Anglo-Saxon world M33 is also informally called Pinwheel Galaxy (in Italian literally Girandola Galaxy) in some amateur astronomy publications, but also in some official press releases of professional sites. However, both the SIMBAD astronomical database, which contains the names and formal designations of various astronomical objects, and several other amateur astronomy sites refer to the M101 galaxy as the "Pinwheel Galaxy".
Built in 1984, the Galaxy once set the standard for new technologies such as THX when it debuted. However, its 4 small theatres couldn't compete with the new megaplexes nearby, and it was forced to close its doors in late 2005.
Ambient light combined with a couple pops of a blue-gel'd flash.
The Taralga Wind Farm in New South Wales, Australia, is a 51-turbine installation that can power around 45,000 average Australian homes per year. I chose the site as the foreground for a Milky Way panorama that I photographed between 1:00 & 2:00 am on Saturday 3rd of August. Like the title says, this image includes five galaxies, all visible to the naked eye, and I have also noted some other objects that were visible on the night.
The five galaxies you can see in the photo are 1. The Large Magellanic Cloud, 2. The Small Magellanic Cloud, 3. Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, 4. The Andromeda Galaxy, aka M31, and 5. The Triangulum Galaxy, M33. I admit that the fourth and fifth of those are hard to see, but they’re there in the photo, and I could see them even with my 55-year-old eyes. Also noted in the picture is the globular cluster Omega Centauri, as well as the planets Jupiter and Saturn. The photo doesn’t show how cold it was on this night, but this was the first time I’ve seen a 0-degree Celsius reading on my car’s thermometer.
I shot each of the 17 photos that make up the panorama using a Canon EOS 6D camera, a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens @ f/2.4, with an exposure time of 15 seconds @ ISO 6400.
NGC 4725 is a barred spiral galaxy of more than 100 thousand light-years across, located about 41 million light-years away from Earth in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices. While most spiral galaxies, including our own Milky Way, have two or more spiral arms, NGC 4725 has only one. This single arm is tightly wound around the core, and is made up of dust and gas illuminated by newborn stars, many bright blue star clusters and pinkish HII regions where new stars are forming, which are seen more where the arm connects to the central bar. In the center is a population of older yellow stars.
The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula (see below), is a barred spiral galaxy with diameter of about 220,000 ly approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth and the nearest large 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, which itself is named after the Ethiopian (or Phoenician) princess who was the wife of Perseus in Greek mythology. The virial mass of the Andromeda Galaxy is of the same order of magnitude as that of the Milky Way, at 1 trillion solar masses. The mass of either galaxy is difficult to estimate with any accuracy, but it was long thought that the Andromeda Galaxy is more massive than the Milky Way by a margin of some 25% to 50%. The Andromeda Galaxy has a diameter of about 220,000 ly, making it the largest member of the Local Group in terms of extension. 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.
Andromeda Galaxy - M31
25 x 180s subs, darks, flats, bias
Canon 7D modded (Astrodon)
Canon 400mm f5.6L @ F5.6
Astronomik CLS filter
Astrotrac unguided
Shot from southern France
Stacked in DSS, processed in PS
Uncropped
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Andromeda Galaxy / Galaxia de Andromeda (M31, Messier 31, NGC 224)
The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy with approximately 1 billion stars and is located at a distance from the earth of 2.5 million light-years. It is the farthest object visible to the naked eye from Earth.
La galaxia de Andrómeda es una galaxia espiral con aproximadamente 100.000 millones estrellas y se encuentra a una distancia de la tierra de 2,5 millones de años luz. Es el objeto celeste visible a simple vista más lejano de la Tierra.
- Date/Fecha: 19/08/2020
- Location/Lugar: Piedrafita de Jaca - Huesca (42°42'4.4"N 0°19'52.6"W)
GEAR/EQUIPO
- Tracker/Montura Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi
- Guiding with QHY 5L-II Mono and guidescope EZG-60
- Camera Sony ILC3-A7M3 APS-C Mode
- Lens Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
IMAGE/IMAGEN:
- 22 Lights at 900mm, ISO 10000, 120seg, f6.3
- 5 Darks at ISO 10000, 120seg, f6.3
- Total time of exposition/Tiempo total de exposición 44min. 20seg.
SOFTWARE
- Stellarium Scope & Stellarium to guide the tracker
- Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
- Guiding with PHD2
- Image viewer Adobe Bridge
- Image processing with Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop CC
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Whirlpool galaxy M51 represents a collision between two galaxies. The gravitational interaction between M51 and its companion will result in formation of one large galaxy. Whirlpool galaxy is a spiral galaxy and it is 76,000 light years across which is smaller than our milkyway galaxy. It lies at a distance of 31 light years from us and located in constellation of Canes Venatici. Gear setup: ES 102 CF APO @ 710mm Zero x F/F, Optolong L-Pro, ZWO 2600MC @0, iOptron GEM 45, ZWO mini guide scope+ZWO 120MM-S. Captured by APT, PHD2, Sharpcap Pro. Light subs 130 x 180sec, Darks 20, Flats 20, Bias 50 total exposure of 6.5 hours over two nights. Processed by PI.
What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Just a few hundred million years ago, NGC 2936, the upper of the two large galaxies shown, was likely a normal spiral galaxy -- spinning, creating stars -- and minding its own business. But then it got too close to the massive elliptical galaxy NGC 2937 below and took a dive. Dubbed the Porpoise Galaxy for its iconic shape, NGC 2936 is not only being deflected but also being distorted by the close gravitational interaction. A burst of young blue stars forms the nose of the porpoise toward the right of the upper galaxy, while the center of the spiral appears as an eye. Alternatively, the galaxy pair, together known as Arp 142, look to some like a penguin protecting an egg. Either way, intricate dark dust lanes and bright blue star streams trail the troubled galaxy to the lower right. The featured re-processed image showing Arp 142 in unprecedented detail was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope last year. Arp 142 lies about 300 million light years away toward the constellation, coincidently, of the Water Snake (Hydra). In a billion years or so the two galaxies will likely merge into one larger galaxy.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA
My first galaxy with the F4 Quattro, M33 - Triangulum Galaxy. The galaxy is located approximately 3 Million light years away in the constellation of Triangulum, it is the third largest member in a cluster of galaxies which includes our own and the famous M31 Andromeda Galaxy
The image was the first taken with my Nichrome wire in front of the Mirror Fan to prevent dew forming on the Primary.....And it worked!!!
Image Details:
21x300S in LRGB
16x600S in HA
The HA was added as a Lighten Layer to the Red Channel, all frames have 25 Flats and 25 Darks applied
Equipment Used:
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 8-CF @ F4
Imaging Camera: Atik Cameras 383L+ Mono Cooled to -20C
Filter Wheel: Starlight Xpress Ltd 7x36mm unmounted USB Filter Wheel
Filters: Baader Planetarium 36mm LRGB + 7nm HA
Guide Scope: Celestron Telescopes C80ED
Guide Camera: Qhyccd QHY5L-II
Software Used:
Image Acquisition: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro
Image Stacking and Combining: Maxim-DL
Post Processing: Photoshop CS5, Noise Ninja
NGC 253 or the Silver Dollar Galaxy. Exceptional sky conditions (very still and dry) enabled me to capture this galaxy with reasonable detail. So if the sky was exceptional why is the result just OK?
Well I'm at latitude 50° and so the galaxy was a mere 12° above the horizon (the highest it ever gets for me) when this picture was taken! Total of 48mins exposure. Canon 350D & 7" Intes Mak-Newt.