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Donald the Mushroom - Samsung Galaxy S10 - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Sombrero Galaxy (first attempt)
Total exposure : 38 minutes
Light frames : 229 x10"
Filters : UV/IR cut
Telescope : ZWO APO triplet
A magnificient large galaxy seen nearly perfectly side-on.
RC10' telescope with an ASI2600M at -15°C.
25 exposures of 300'' in Luminance and 3x5x300'' in RGB filters.
Sky was rather hazy
Target:M31 Andromeda Galaxy, the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way at 2.5 million light years. M31 is expected to collide with the Milky Way in about 4.5 billion years.
Location:14-09-21 @tynewyddcampsite Aberdaron Wales, Bortle 2, 61% Moon, high humidity.
Acquisition:155x 120s, Iso800, no filter, 25x each bias, dark, darkflat, flat. Total Integration 5.2 hours.
Equipment:Altair 60EDF, Flat60, Canon 1200D (astro modified), Skywatcher AZ-GTi, Sirui AM-284-EU.
Guiding:Altair MG32mini with GPCAMAR0130M.
Software:Astroberry EKOS, PHD2 on RPi4.
Processing:Affinity Photo, Siril, Starnet++.
Pinwheel Galaxy ( Messier 101 )
Backyard (Bortle class 6), stack of 30 X 5 minutes sub using ZWO ASI2600MC camera and processed in Pixinsight.
The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way. And by all means of accounting, it is much larger than the Milky Way (MW). It is more than 200,000 light years in diameter while the MW is about 150,000 light years across. The MW has only one half the number of stars of Andromeda, estimated to contain one trillion stars.
While the Andromeda Galaxy is 500,000 light years away, it can be seen with the naked eye when the air is clear and light from towns is minimal. In about 4.5 billion years, Andromeda and MW will merge and become one. Put it on your calendar!
Three galaxies are visible here. M31 is a classification name for the Andromeda Galaxy. M32 (very close to Andromeda, to the right, with a globular form) and M110 (slightly elongated, to the left of Andromeda in this frame) are satellite galaxies of Andromeda.
90 frames (f/4.5, ISO 1600, 43 seconds) were aligned in StarrySkyStacker. 43 dark frames and 11 flat frames were employed to produce a cleaner image. The composite was processed in PhotoShop and Topaz DeNoise AI to produce the final image.
The Sculptor Galaxy, also known as the Silver Coin or Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253, 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.
It is about 11.4 million LY away.
This photo was imaged in RGB, natural, color through an 8" SCT at 2032mm focal length using a astro-modded and cooled DSLR.
NGC 6946 is a medium-sized, face-on spiral galaxy about 22 million light years away from Earth. In the past century, eight supernovas have been observed to explode in the arms of this galaxy. Chandra observations have, in fact, revealed three of the oldest supernovas ever detected in X-rays, giving more credence to its nickname of the "Fireworks Galaxy."
I finally got around to processing some shots taken remotely in New Mexico earlier in the year.
This is a single 300 second image in colour of Messier 31, The Andromeda galaxy.
considering this is a single 5 minute frame there is a good amount of data to be able to resolve some detail in the dust lanes.
M51 is a pair of interacting galaxies, sometimes referred to as M51a and M51b (they also have NGC numbers), located about 31 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy.
This is a small target for my telescope's focal length, so I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of detail I managed to get. There are at least five additional galaxies in the image.
Rio Rancho NM Bortle 5 zone,
April 14-17, 2023
William Optics Redcat 51
ZWO 183MM pro
ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini
ZWO ASI Air Pro
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
72 x 300s Red
87 x 300s Blue
72 x 300s Green
Darks Flats Dithering
Gain 111 at -10C
Processed in DSS, GraXpert, and PS
Sombrero Galaxy
This is a really interesting object that everyone seems to remember. The Sombrero Galaxy, also known as M104 or NGC 4594 is located in the constellation Virgo. It’s smaller than our galaxy, measuring 50,000 light years across. It has a very large central bulge and an incredible dust lane in its inclined disk. This is where it gets its name from as it has an appearance of a sombrero. This galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole. In fact it is one of the most massive black holes measured in any nearby galaxies. The speed of revolution of the stars within the centre of the galaxy could not be maintained unless a mass of 1 billion times the mass of our Sun is present in the centre.
This is a full frame image. The galaxy’s orientation is dictated by the only guide star I could use, so it may look a bit off. After all, there really is no right or wrong way up. Cropping the image would allow for a more tradition presentation, but I really wanted to show as much of the field as possible. It’s full of galaxies. That’s so cool.
Equipment Used:
Telescope: 10 inch RCOS, F9 Ritchey-Chrétien configuration
Mount: Astro-Physics AP-900 Mount
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 CCD (-20 C)
Image scale: 0.83"/pix
Processing: CCDStack and Photoshop
Terry
Galaxy bridge on the LuGu lake in china,Waiting for a night, at 4:00 am, the Galaxy from the east came up, how beautiful!Still lake reflecting the sky galaxy, willing every night can indulge in this piece of the stars of the sea.Northern Hemisphere in March.
Date:March 22 2015
EXIF:F2.8,ISO6400,10X30S for this
This is a strange and damaged galaxy, presumably the result of a Galactic encounter.
Barred spiral galaxy, bar is visible in the center.
I have emphasized the dusty background.
Processed in pixinsight and Lightroom.
Sb galaxy, 5 hours Total exposure LRGB 2:1.2:1.3:0.6 hr on CHI-2
0.5 m telescope, telescope live.
0.5 m ASA Imaging Newtonian. Chile.
Difficult data set required substantial editing.
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Fireworks Galaxy Region
The 2 prominent features in this image are NGC 6946, The Fireworks Galaxy at the upper left, and NGC 6939 in the lower right.
NGC 6946 is a wonderful spiral galaxy clearly showing its entire face to us. At 25 million LY from Earth, and only about 1/3 the diameter of our own galaxy, it still shows us a lot of its detail and bright star forming regions.
NGC 6939 is an ancient open clister located 3860 LY from Earth. It is estimated to be 1-1.3 billion years old. Of particular interest to astronomers is that this cluster houses several variable stars.
-=Tech Data=-
-Equipment-
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
Mount: Celestron CGX
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Focus: Pegasus Astro Dual Motor Focuser
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120 Mini
Guide Scope: Starfield 60mm guide scope
Dew Control: Kendrick
Power: Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box
- Acquisition -
∙ 101 x 3 minute exposures (5hours 3 mins)
Calibration:
∙ Darks: Master dark from my dark library (2H of 120s darks)
- Bias: Master bias from my bias library (stack of 100 exposures)
- Software -
Acquisition / Rig Control: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Processing: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
Shot at the Camden Lake Provincial Wildlife Area near Moscow, Ontario.
The Triangulum Galaxy, M33, is the most distant object visible to the naked eye from under a dark sky. This spiral galaxy lies some 3 million light years away in the constellation Triangulum. It is part of the local group, of which the Milky Way, nearby Andromeda galaxy and some other 40 or so smaller galaxies are members.
The diameter of M33 is around 60000 light years and contains about 1/10th as many stars as our own Milky Way. Red emission nebulae are clearly visible in some of the spiral arms, four of which are so large, their own NGC designation are given. These regions also have intense rates star formation. The brightest of them, NGC604, is 40 times larger and over 6000 times more luminous than the Orion Nebula. If it were in place of the Orion Nebula in our galaxy, it would be the third brightest object in the sky, outshining Venus.
Details:
Scope: TMB130SS
Camera: QSI683-wsg8
Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Ultrastar
Mount: Mach1 GTO
L: 23x10min
RGB: 13x5min each
7.1 hrs total exposure
Interesting trio of galaxies.
Spiral galaxy on left, and shell elliptical in center.
“NGC 5982 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Draco. It is located at a distance of circa 130 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 5982 is about 100,000 light years across. It was discovered by William Herschel on May 25, 1788.
NGC 5982 has a kinematically decoupled nucleus, with its major axis being nearly perpendicular to the rotation of the galaxy.NGC 5982 features many shells in its envelope, nearly 26. The shells form circular arcs, with the further being located at a radius of 150 arcseconds along the major axis of the galaxy, while the innermost one lies 8 arcseconds off the nucleus. The shells and the kinematically decoupled nucleus are the result of the merger of the elliptical galaxy with a small elliptical galaxy.” Wikipedia
Total 7.6 hours total exposure LRGB. May – June 2022
Telescope live Spain
SPA-2, 0.7 m RC telescope.
Officina Stellare ProRC 700, F8
FLI PL16803
Credit: Eric Ganz telescope live
“In the centre of NGC 5982 lies a supermassive black hole whose mass is estimated to be 8.3×10^8 M☉. …NGC 5981, a spiral galaxy seen edge-on, lies at a separation of 6.3 arcminutes from NGC 5982 and NGC 5985, a spiral galaxy seen face-on, lies at a separation of 7.7 arcminutes.The three galaxies are known as the Draco Trio or the Draco Group, although there is no evidence that they form a compact group.” Wikipedia
M81 spiral galaxy image of last night from my balcony
A 5 hour constant struggle with guiding, re-centering and guidescope flexure with the C9.25 Edge HD, and many more work in post to clean it up as much as I could using 3 softwares (Pixinsight - Photoshop - Lightroom)
Luminance data using the Hutech LPS 2" filter / ASI1600MM-C (Mono)
320 x 1 minutes subs (limited exposure due to flexure, poor seeing and bad guiding)
No flats, no darks, but the constant flexure helped with dithering the data :D
0.7x Edge reducer
First attempt at this galaxy. Lying at 11 million light years away, this galaxy is undergoing an intense period of stellar creation. At its core, astronomers hypothesize that there is a black hole 5 million times more massive than our own Sun.
Image Details:
•Imaging Scope: Celestron C8 8” Schmidt-Cassegrain FL2000mm @ F6.3
•Imaging Camera: Nikon D750
•Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval Refractor
•Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Autoguider
•Guiding Mount: Celestron CGEM
•Guiding Software: PHD2
•Exposures: 20*5 minutes at ISO1250, 38*flat files, 12*dark files, 38*bias files.
•Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
•Tweaked in LightRoom - Clarity, Blacks, Vibrancy, Saturation, DeNoise
Also shown are the satellite galaxies, NGC 205 and M32.
Manually guided for 8 x 7-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/6.25. Modified EOS 600D & Sky-Watcher ED80 refractor, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope for guiding.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; initial curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; final curves & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
From Wikipedia: NGC 4274 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is located at a distance of about 45 million light years from Earth. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1785.
NGC 4274 is characterized by its overlapping outer arms, forming a ring structure. The inner arms begin near the edge of the bulge and they are bright and dusty, with dust lanes that more prominent at the near side. Outside the near-ring a set of fainter outer arms. These outer arms also form a ring. A third rings exists near the nucleus.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, Canon 6D (stock), 60 x 60 second exposures, ISO 3200, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using Sequence Generator Pro and processed using PixInsight. Image date: February 22, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Having not had a lot of telescope time during the summer months, I find myself reprocessing data collected in the past. This is a reprocessing of the Andromeda Galaxy region including insets of the two brightest satellite galaxies, M110 and M32. This is from data collected from 2015-2016. The wide-field view was collected using a Canon 6D and 400mm lens, the inset images were captured with my Meade 12” LX90 telescope.
M33, the Triangulum Galaxy.
Taken on August 30 2024 from a Bortle 3 location.
A Lovely galaxy, the second closest to us, about 2.7 million light-years and it's the third in size in the local cluster, After Andromeda and our own Milky Way
TS-Optics 80mm CF Apo
ZWO ASI2600MC
ZWO AM5
50 x 300sec frames
No filters
At 2.5 million light-years, the Andromeda galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy and the most distant object that we can see with naked eye from Earth. This image is a stack of 29 x 300 seconds (5mins) images using the free software Deep Sky Stacker. I also used the free copy of Adobe photoshop CS2 to do final tweaks. The images were taken here at Astrofarm using an unmodified Canon 600D attached to an Altair Astro ED80-R, Refracting telescope mounted on an IOptron CEM60 (Guided). No darks, flats or bias frames used.
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Right now is a perfect time to capture Bode's Galaxy (M81) in Ursa Major!
It's one of the brightest galaxies in the night sky.
It's a rewarding astrophotography project, no matter which telescope you use.
A wider field of view will reveal the nearby "Cigar Galaxy."
I captured this image while testing a new, affordable monochrome astronomy camera in the backyard.
While I could have used a LOT more exposure time on this project, I eventually got an image I am happy with (for now!)
Total Exposure Time: 5 hours
30 x 180-seconds (Each RGB filter)
30 x 60-seconds Lum Filter
Camera: bit.ly/42NBh8C
Telescope: bit.ly/3YxGbTA
Mount: bit.ly/437Q7E8
LWL presents Galaxy Pumps and Galactica Space suit for the SAVIAD birthday event in conjunction with spring fashion week.
Three colors are now exclusively available at the event: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Violator%20HQ/143/29/3902
The Sunflower Galaxy ( messier 63)
Some info from Wikipedia 👇👇👇
Messier 63 or M63, also known as NGC 5055 or the seldom-used Sunflower Galaxy,[6] is a spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici. M63 was first discovered by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain, then later verified by his colleague Charles Messier on June 14, 1779.[6] The galaxy became listed as object 63 in the Messier Catalogue. In the mid-19th century, Anglo-Irish astronomer Lord Rosse identified spiral structures within the galaxy, making this one of the first galaxies in which such structure was identified.[7]
Equipment Used;
Lacerta 200/800 photo Newtonian
Celestron CGX mount
QHY9s CCD
Baader lrgb filters
ZWOasi224mc guide camera
60mm deluxe guide scope
Capture details;
24 x 5min Red
24 x 5min green
24 x 5min blue
50 x 5 min lum
31 x darks
Super bias (pixinsight)
Software used;
SGP, PHD2 & Pixinsight
Galaxy NGC7479
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Luminance : "Shai-hulud Tooth" SW N254/1200
QHY174MM - 5227 x 3s - bin1 - 1"/pixel
Color layer by "JP Cazard" - 2020
C11 EdgeHD - Atik 4000MM - 8x300s R/V/B
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Full : www.flickr.com/photos/187071820@N02/51673343489/sizes/o/
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Origin color : www.astrosurf.com/topic/138568-ngc7479-au-c11-edgehd/
Andromeda Galaxy
Crediti: ZTF/Dss2/Giuseppe Donatiello
(J2000) RA: 00 h 42 m 44.3 s dicembre: + 41° 16 ' 9 ′′ (core)
L ' Andromeda Galaxy, o Messier 31 (M31) e NGC 224, è una galassia a spirale circa a 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 milioni di anni luce). È il più grande menber del Gruppo Locale di galassie, che contiene anche la Via Lattea, la Galassia del Triangolo e altre 88 galassie più piccole.
L ' Andromeda Galaxy, Z = − 0.001001, si avvicina alla Via Lattea a circa 110 Km / sec
A Galaxy on Edge - The Needle Galaxy
Picture yourself an observer on a planet orbiting one of the millions of suns in the small bluish galaxy in the lower right side of my picture. On your home planet, the neighboring Needle would dominate the sky as an enormous face-on Grand Design Spiral Galaxy.
Here on Earth, 40 million light-years away, we see the "Needle" as a spectacular edge-on galaxy.
For galaxy season, I removed the reducer on my Celestron HD8 to achieve a little more reach at f10. I used 5 minute exposures on the ZWO 2400MC (ff) and cropped a bit.
With the cloudy nights here in the East Bay I have taken the time to tweak an image of the Andromeda Galaxy from August, 2024. I refined my workflow to improve how I added Ha data. I applied a 16x9 crop to the image of the full galaxy to create this image. The image of the full galaxy is also included in this album.
Date of capture: August 4, 2024
Bortle Class 5 backyard, SF Bay Area (East Bay)
Capture: 5 x 600s Ha, 14 x 240s RGB, 18 x 180s L
Dithered
Telescope: William Optics RedCat 71
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro
ZWO EFW 7x36mm
Astronomik 6nm Narrowband Filters, 36mm
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI174MM mini
ZWO OAG-L
Mount: iOptron GEM45
Calibrated with Darks, Flats and Dark Flats
ZWO ASIAIR Plus Control and Capture
Processed with DSS and Photoshop CC
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Since the skies have been pretty smoky for the last month, I try to take advantage of the few clear nights we get. This time of year the milky way is hanging low in the southwest after sunset. Soon it will be gone for the winter, not returning until the spring.
Pinwheel galaxy M101 is a bright and large galaxy. It is larger than our Milky way galaxy 170,000 light years across. It’s distance from Earth is about 27 Million light years. The image also shows the newly discovered supernova SN2023ixf in the upoer arm. Gear setup: Celestron HD 8 @ f/7, iOptron GEM45 guided by OAG & ZWO174MM, ZWO 2600MC @ 0, Optolong L-Pro 2”. Light subs 25 x 300 sec, Flats 20, Darks 10, Bias 50. Total integration 2 hours. Captured by APT, Sharpcap pro, PHD2. Processed by PI & PS. Imaged from Bortle sky class 4.
Sunflower galaxy M63, is a spiral galaxy that lies 35 million light years from us in constellation of Canes Venatici. Gear setup: Celestron edge HD8 @ f/7, iOptron GEM45 guided by OAG + ZWO 174MM, ZWO 2600MC @ -5, Optolong L-Pro. Lights subs 180sec x 68, Darks 10, Flats 10, Bias 50, all Bin 2x2. Total exposure 3.4 hours. Captured by APT, Sharpcap pro, PHD2. Stacked in APP, Processed in PI & PS.
The Andromeda Galaxy, also called Messier 31 or M31, is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.
It is 2.5 million light years away from Earth and is the other major member of the Local Group, our local collection of galaxies.
Like the Milky Way, it is a barred spiral galaxy, so-called for the bar-like structure formed by the stars in its center.
Andromeda is about 260,000 light-years wide, according to NASA, making it the largest galaxy in the Local Group. However, its mass is roughly comparable to or even less than that of the Milky Way, according to NASA JPL
Scientists think the galaxy could be anywhere from 5 and 10 billion years old. However, it may not have existed in its current form until two or three billion years ago, when two smaller galaxies orbiting each other merged to form the current Andromeda Galaxy, according to a 2018 study.
Telescope: TMB-92
Camera: QSI-583ws
Mount: NEQ-6 with OAG
Exposures:
19x300s L
3x300s B
9x300s R,G
9x900s Ha ; 12x1200s Ha
Total: 9,6 hours