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Palouse Falls Galaxy
In 2013, I put a lot of time and energy focusing on capturing the night skies. Especially the beautiful milky way where it is almost impossible to capture it in the city. That's simply because there are too much light pollution release to the atmosphere from the amount of lights using within the city.
And I try to find and drive to locations that are extremely dark, as far as possible from the cities. Trying to get more connected to the universe. And of course capturing the night sky. After a few trip in the west coast. I found myself falling in love with this experience. And I hope to go to new places to capture the night sky from different parts of the world.
And this place - Palouse Falls State Park, is one of my fav trip from 2013.
I wish you all have a wonderful holiday and hope you enjoy this night sky as much as I do when I was there!
Happy New Year!!
This galaxy resembles a bull's eye, which is appropriate because its appearance is partly due to a smaller galaxy that passed through the middle of this object. The violent collision produced shock waves that swept through the galaxy and triggered large amounts of star formation. X-rays from Chandra (purple) show disturbed hot gas initially hosted by the Cartwheel galaxy being dragged over more than 150,000 light years by the collision. Optical data from Hubble (red, green, and blue) show where this collision may have triggered the star formation.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC; Optical: NASA/STScI
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Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Galaxy Macau (Chinese: 澳門銀河綜合渡假城) is a casino resort located on the Cotai Strip, Macau, China. Construction on the Cotai project began in 2002. Its opening was rescheduled several times. Its developer, Galaxy Entertainment Group, announced on 10 March 2011 that the HKD 14.9 billion (US$1.9 billion) resort would officially open on 15 May 2011. The resort is designed by Gary Goddard. The resort currently consists of five different hotels, each with its own 'theme', Galaxy Macau, Banyan Tree, Hotel Okura, The Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott.
When the Cotai project's first phase opened in 2011, the 550,000 square metres (5,900,000 sq ft) property offered around 2,200 hotel rooms comprising the Galaxy Macau hotel tower complete with casino and entertainment areas, as well as two hotel partners, the Japanese-owned Hotel Okura and the Singapore-operated Banyan Tree Hotel.
On 26 April 2012, Galaxy Macau announced that JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels would be added to the Cotai resort. Galaxy's Chief Financial Officer Robert Drake said it would start construction of the two hotels at the end of 2013 and begin operations gradually from 2016 through 2018.
According to a presentation released by Galaxy Entertainment, the total investment for Galaxy Phase 2 was estimated to be 16 billion HKD with construction completion scheduled for mid-2015. Phase 2 would consist of 450,000 square metres (4,800,000 sq ft) of new resort space, additional rooms across the five hotels and an increased casino table count of up to 500. Phase 2 was eventually opened on 27 May 2015.
I made good use of the clear and dark Karoo desert skies on an early astrophotography trip with Tanja in April, 2014, to make this 5x3m image of the core of our Milky Way galaxy, which stretches beautifully directly overhead in the southern hemisphere.
Image details:
5x 180s exposures, ISO800
Canon 5D Mark II, stock sensor
Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L2, 24mm, f/2.8
Celestron CG-5 ASGT, unguided
A wet spinning tennis ball turned out like an astronomical object.
Shooting that type of shot in daylight is kinda cliché so I chose to do it at night using external flash.
I used both the built-in flash of the camera and the external flash (in slave mode).
Took me almost 50 attempts to do that and me and my friend got drenched by the end of the shooting.
But still it was totally worth it seeing that unique photograph.
[ 50mm | 1/200sec | ƒ/4 | ISO 800 ]
EOS Kiss X7i+50mm+External Speedlite
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Second attempt at capturing this beautiful Galaxy.
Shot with Nikon D7500 and Sigma 100-400 (at 400mm) on Skywatcher Staradventurer mount.
11 pictures of 30s each stacked together with Deepskystacker.
Deuxième tentative de photographie de la Galaxie d'Andromède, notre voisine la plus proche. Sous un ciel bien sombre elle est visible à l'oeil nu. On aperçoit aussi ses deux galaxies satellite: M32 et M110.
Y a du progrès depuis ma première tentative mais j'essaierai de faire encore mieux à l'avenir :)
MN190+CLS, ISO 6400, 111M 28S, 80 frames unguided.
Not my best astro image, probably my worst, the stars have no color, the galaxy has no detail and looks washed out and the image is noisy. I will have another go at processing this, damn think I may have deleted the subs already.
“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos
Here is the M82 Galaxy in Ursa Major in LRGB.
I captured this image from my backyard in the city (Bortle Scale Class 6/7) using a monochrome CCD camera.
Integration:
7 x 300s Blue
6 x 300s Green
9 x 300s Red
5 x 300s Lum
9 x 300s Ha
Thanks for looking!
This is my first attempt to track and capture M31 The Andromeda Galaxy. Located in the constellation of Andromeda and is the closest galaxy to our own. The small galaxy to the lower left of M31 is M110.
This was captured from by back garden using a 70-200 2.8 G2 lens (at 200mm) attached to a Nikon D750 mounted to a Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2i. I took 23 images ranging in exposure time from 90 secs up to 189 secs (32 mins total) all at f4 and ISO 800 and then stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and edited in Lightroom.
I must admit for a first attempt I am pretty impressed at what I have captured although for more detail I will need to take a lot more images so more work to be done.
Thank you very much to you all and hope you like what I captured.
The Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) is a face-on spiral galaxy 25 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. The giant spiral disk of stars, dust and gas is 170,000 light-years across — nearly twice the diameter of our galaxy, the Milky Way. M101 is estimated to contain at least one trillion stars. The galaxy’s spiral arms are sprinkled with large regions of star-forming nebulas. These nebulas are areas of intense star formation within giant molecular hydrogen clouds. Brilliant, young clusters of hot, blue, newborn stars trace out the spiral arms.
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."
This is an intergrated LRGB image of M51, approx 5 hours of L and an hour each of R, G and B. Taken on a QHY163M camera with Optolong filters and a WO FLT110 on an AZ-EQ6 mount. Captured with SGP and PHD2, post-processed in PixInsight.
Observed from Prachinburi, Thailand
Galaxies are not scattered randomly across the universe. They gather together not only into clusters, but into vast interconnected filamentary structures with gigantic barren voids in between. This “cosmic web” started out tenuous and became more distinct over time as gravity drew matter together.
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a thread-like arrangement of 10 galaxies that existed just 830 million years after the big bang. The 3 million light-year-long structure is anchored by a luminous quasar – a galaxy with an active, supermassive black hole at its core. The team believes the filament will eventually evolve into a massive cluster of galaxies, much like the well-known Coma Cluster in the nearby universe.
This deep galaxy field from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) shows an arrangement of 10 distant galaxies marked by eight white circles in a diagonal, thread-like line. (Two of the circles contain more than one galaxy.) This 3 million light-year-long filament is anchored by a very distant and luminous quasar – a galaxy with an active, supermassive black hole at its core. The quasar, called J0305-3150, appears in the middle of the cluster of three circles on the right side of the image. Its brightness outshines its host galaxy. The 10 marked galaxies existed just 830 million years after the big bang. The team believes the filament will eventually evolve into a massive cluster of galaxies.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona), and Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
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After a very long time i finaly managed to properly use software and finish my M31 photos.
specialy thanks to Mark-Jaap a colleague at the public obserbatory Bussloo who showed me the ropes and let me use his telescoop.
M31 The Andromeda Galaxy.
Location:27-11-24 St Helens, UK, Bortle 7, No Moon, Poor Seeing.
Acquisition:140x 180s Astronomik UV-IR cut calibrated with Bias Darks and Flats. Total Integration 7 hours.
Equipment:Altair 60EDF with 1x Flat60; ZWO ASI2600MCpro, EAF, AM5; Astronomik UV-IR cut.
Guiding:Altair MG32mini with ZWO ASI120MMmini.
Software:NINA, PHD2
Processing:Siril, StarNet++, GraXpert, Affinity Photo2 with Topaz DeNoiseAI and HLVG plug-ins.
Finished this one today. No extra Ha or O3 data. Just straight up broadband with no filter. 20 hours and 4 minutes of exposure.
Scopes: StellarVue 90mm Raptor, Askar FMA180 Pro
Cameras: ASI 2600 mc pro, ASI 290mm
Others: ASIAir+, AM5
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Processed entirely in PixInsight
This huge galaxy is the nearest galaxy to us and it equals six full moons across the sky. It’s double the size of our Milky way galaxy and located 2.5 million light years from Earth. This galaxy is the farthest object that could be seen by the naked eye from a dark sky. It’s moving toward our galaxy in a speed of 110km/sec. It will collide Milky way in 3.75 billion years. Total exposure is 3 hours. Light subs 60 x 180 sec, Darks 20, Flat 20, Bias 50. Gear setup: Celestron RASA 8 @ f/2.0, iOptron GEM 45 guided by ZWO Mini guide scope and ZWO 120MM-S, Optolong L-Pro filter, ZWO 2600MC @ 0, Celestron Motor Focuser. Stacked in APP and processed in PI & PS.
Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, this image shows NGC 7513, a barred spiral galaxy. Located approximately 60 million light-years away, NGC 7513 lies within the Sculptor constellation in the southern hemisphere.
This galaxy is moving at the astounding speed of 1564 kilometres per second, and it is heading away from us. For context, the Earth orbits the Sun at about 30 kilometres per second. Though NGC 7513’s apparent movement away from the Milky Way might seem strange, it is not that unusual.
While some galaxies, like the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy, are caught in each other’s gravitational pull and will eventually merge together, the vast majority of galaxies in our Universe appear to be moving away from each other. This phenomenon is due to the expansion of the Universe, and it is the space between galaxies that is stretching, rather than the galaxies themselves moving.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Stiavelli; CC BY 4.0
This is my latest attempt at the Andromeda Galaxy with my William Optics Redcat 51. The great Andromeda Galaxy known also as Messier31 is our nearest neighbor at a distance of about 2,500,000 light years away. Hope you all enjoy and thanks for any constructive comments.
Equipment:
Telescope - William Optics Redcat 51
Imaging Camera- Qhy268m
Mount - Sky-watcher EQ6-R Pro
Software:
Sequence Generator Pro
Pixinsight
Lightroom
Photoshop
Lights:
L-60x60sec
R-60x60sec
G-60x60sec
B-60x60sec
Ha-30x300sec
35 Darks
100 Bias
Total integration 6.5 hours
Galaxies are gigantic far away systems of billions of stars each, held together by gravity. The Milky Way is our home galaxy in which our single star and solar system lives.
These are the Leo Trio found in the constellation Leo the Lion. But it is no coincidence that they look like they are together. They actually are quite close to each other and are interacting with each other. The top one, NGC 3628 known as the Hamburger Galaxy and the lower left, M66 came close to each other a long time ago. The disruption caused by gravity can be seen with a tidal stream coming off the Hamburger galaxy and the distorted spiral arms in M66 with intense star birth at its centre. The lower right galaxy, M65 seems calm, but it too will eventually experience crazy distortions as it is getting very close to M66. I imaged the Leo Trio over 13 moonless nights this past winter. I gathered 40 hours of total data using LRGB and hydrogen-alpha filters.
Equipment:
Telescope: Ceravolo300mm at f/4.9 (1470mm focal length)
Camera: SBIG STX 16803 CCD camera
Myrmeleontidae - antlion
Nikon D3000
Laowa 25mm ultra macro, 2.5:1, f/8
Built-in flash + diffuser
hand held focus stack (4 images)
This spiral galaxy is about 25 million light years away. It is 18 x 8 arc min in diameter. Gear setup: Celestron Edge HD 8 @ f/7, iOptron GEM 45, Celestron OAG w/ ZWO 174MM, ZWO 2600MC @0, ZWO EFW 2”, Optolong L-Pro 2”. Lights subs 24 x 300 sec, Flats 20, Darks 20, Bias 50, total exposure 2 hours. Captured by APT, Sharpcap pro, PHD2, Stacked by APP and Processed by PI, PS, Topaz Denise. Bortle sky class 4.
Andromeda Galaxy
My first successful capture in my backyard! I live in a bortle 8+ sky near bright city lights, so not ideal for astro. However, it's good practice as I learn this very challenging genre.
Technical details:
Olympus OM-1
300mm f/4 Pro
Star Adventurer 2i tracker
lights at f/5.6, iso800, 30sec
186 lights out of 247
Various darks by temperature
50 flats
stacked in ASTAP
processed in Photolab 6
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Part of the 3in1 Space Creator set proposal is the Galaxy Dropship, a mashup of the Galaxy Explorer and the Galaxy Commander. Check out the wings. They may be moved up and down.
After the first Project galaxy was a success the hero factory commissioned two more. Slightly more economic than the original these two are now armed to the teeth.
(Mostly and excuse to build twin mocs and to use my hockey chest plates)
Andromeda Galaxy is fuzzy blob in the right third of the image - best spotted in larger view ....
.... speaking of which ....
do you know why Cheetahs don't play the game of hide and seek very well ....
..... because they are always spotted.
The Milky Way galaxy over some pine trees in Mount Laguna, California on Saturday June 22, 2019
This image is a noise-reduction stack of 5 frames each shot at 15 sec f/2.8 ISO 4000 with a Canon 6D and a Sigma 15mm EX DG lens. This is my first time experimented with aligning and masking multiple frames to reduce noise reduction. Due to the complex foreground - the intricate - details of the pine tree branches - lining up and masking the layers was a lot more challenging. This image isn't as sharp as I had hoped for, but I hope to improve upon this technique over time.
Weather conditions were perfect - no wind, clear skies, and pleasant temperatures.
Mount Laguna is a small census-designated place (CDP) in San Diego County, California. It is approximately 6000 ft above sea level in a forest of Jeffrey pine, east of San Diego in the Laguna Mountains on the eastern edge of the Cleveland National Forest (named after former president Grover Cleveland). The hamlet sits at the high point of a scenic drive on Sunrise Highway from Interstate 8 to Highway 79. Mount Laguna consists of a small general store, rustic lodge and cabins, local restaurant, rural post office, and campgrounds adjacent to the Pacific Crest Trail. The Laguna Mountain Recreation Area surrounds the village, and the visitor's center for the pine-covered area is located here. The mountain backcountry of San Diego County is high enough to receive snowfall in winter months, and the Mount Laguna region offers locally-unique winter recreation in the form of snow play, sledding, and cross country skiing for several days after larger storms.
A beautiful face-on galaxy located in the constellation of Ursa Major at around 21 million light years away from Earth.
This picture took two nights and around 420km of driving!
Exposure time:
L - 50x300s
RGB - 20x180s per channel
Equipment:
Telescope - TS107 at 525mm
Camera - ASI183MM Pro
Filters: Optolong LRGB + L-Pro
Mount: NEQ6 Pro II Modified + autoguiding
These two galaxies, NGC4038 and NGC4039 are best known as the Antennae Galaxies. The collision has produced the two long tails of dust and gas that was ejected by the gravitational forces interacting. The interaction has also produced millions of new stars, many of them forming star clusters. This is the fate awaiting our Milky Way galaxy when it collides with Andromeda galaxy a few billion years from now. I think this looks more like a heart tied with a ribbon.
I have been wanting to redo this since 2017 when I first got into astrophotography, I have to say this version makes me proud. This Spiral galaxy M33 is located in the triangle-shaped constellation Triangulum, earning it the nickname the Triangulum galaxy, but is also known as the Pinwheel galaxy. At 2.73 million light-years from Earth and about half the size of our Milky Way galaxy, M33 is the third-largest member of our Local Group of galaxies following the Andromeda galaxy (M31) and the Milky Way. Hope you all enjoy and thanks for any constructive comments.
Processed as an Halrgb.
Equipment:
Telescope - Sky-watcher Esprit 120 with Apex reducer
Imaging Camera- ZWO ASI 1600mm Pro Cool
Mount - Sky-watcher EQ6-R Pro
Software:
Sequence Generator Pro
Pixensight
Lightroom
Photoshop
Lights:
HA- 30x300sec
L-120x60sec
R-60x60sec
G 60x60sec
B 60x60sec
25 Flats
35 Darks
100 Bias
Total integration 7.5 hours
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The Whirlpool Galaxy is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici and lies some 23 million light years away. It's an interacting galaxy pair and was the first to be identified as a spiral galaxy. This interaction has set up waves of star formation through the compression of interstellar hydrogen gas and dust. These dust lanes are prominent features of the Whirlpool. The Whirlpool has been host to several supernovae, the most recent of which was SN2011dh.
Details:
Scope: TMB130SS
Camera: QSI690-wsg8
Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Ultrastar
Mount: Mach1 GTO
L: 18x5min
RGB: 14x5min each
Software: SGP, PHD2, APCC, Pixinsight
5 hrs total exposure
I photographed the Andromeda Galaxy on a recent camping trip.
(Video: youtu.be/yu8WZfb4nGk)
The image include 67 x 2-minute exposures at ISO 800 using a Canon 60Da DSLR camera.
The telescope used was a William Optics Zenithstar 73 APO, which is quickly becoming one of my all-time favorite scopes.
Unlike when shooting from home, I was able to swap a light pollution filter for a UV/IR to collect natural colors. Man, so much more enjoyable to process!
Total Exposure: 2 Hours, 14 Minutes
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Filter: Optolong UV/IR
Telescope: William Optics Z73 APO
Mount: Sky-Watcher HEQ5
Thanks for looking!