View allAll Photos Tagged GALAXIES
Very Faint tiny dwarf irregular Galaxy
Mag 12
Apparent square shape…
Distance 4.3 million light-years.
Size 5000 ly.
Please switch to the newer version uploaded on March 7.
It is compelling to see this very faint object coming up out of the background. I have left the background visible.
Bright yellow stars in the foreground are closer.
Telescope live, Chile.
4.3 hr total exposure LRGB
PI, LR
FLI ProLine PL9000 CCD.
Feb 2022
Planewave CDK24
Aperture: 610 mm (24 inches)
Focal Length: 3962 mm
F-ratio: 6.5
Mount: Mathis MI-1000/1250 with absolute encoders
Astrodon MonsterMOAG
El Sauce Observatory
Río Hurtado, Coquimbo Region, Chile
Coordinates: 30.4725° S, 70.7631° W
and IC4263 galaxy towards the bottom right.
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 27 x 5 minute exposures (2 hour 15 minutes ) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight Topaz denoise and Photoshop.
Collected between 0:06 and 2:25 on the 25th of March, 2022.
Famous Andromeda Galaxy
Quick shot I took yesterday after sunset, unfortunaly I was able to shoot just a while till moonrise. It is just 5x10min but I think the result is pretty good. What do u mean guys?:)
Taken on 24.2.2016, Slovakia
SW ED 120/900
HED 0,85 focal reducer
HEQ5-GoTo
Canon 1000Dmod
CLS-CCD filter
QHY5L-II with 9x50finderscope
Processed with Pixinsight
5x10min
"DO NOT CLIMB!" Says the mostly obscured sign to the left. I don't know if the artist doesn't want people climbing on his work, this is the name of sculpture, or both. Between the big bold sign and the razor wire, I think most people will get the message and NOT attempt to climb on this sculpture.
I shot this a couple weeks ago - on July 18, 2020 - while camping at Bombay Beach on the Salton Sea. Gear: Canon EOS R, Sigma 24mm f/1.4 DG HSM art lens. EXIF: 6 sec f/2.2 ISO 3200. Single exposure. There's a bright solar-powered floodlight (out of frame to the left) that shines on this star. I turned off the light by shining a flashlight on the photocell. The orange glow is from HPS street lights in the town behind me.
Bombay Beach is a census-designated place (CDP) in Imperial County, California, United States. It is located on the Salton Sea, 4 miles (6.4 km) west-southwest of Frink and is the lowest community in the United States, located 223 feet (68 m) below sea level. The population was 295 at the 2010 census, down from 366 in 2000. It is part of the El Centro, California Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The population declined for years and the buildings were rotting away, but by 2018, a number of people had moved into the settlement. An article in The Guardian stated that it was "enjoying a rebirth of sorts with an influx of artists, intellectuals and hipsters who have turned it into a bohemian playground". The Bombay Beach Biennale, an annual art festival, is held here. The population estimate for 2020 was 415 persons.
If you go to Bombay Beach, please note that many people still live here. There are more exhibits and sculptures in town, but please respect private property and don't wander through the yards of occupied homes/trailers.
Saudi Arabia desert photo by TARIQ-M "Tariq ALmutlaq"
صحاري المملكة العربية السعودية تصوير طارق المطلق
ART of sand \ instagram \ 500 PX \ Facebook \ Twitter
Rise of the galactic core taken from himatangi beach.
"A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way"
Carl Sagan
Rise of the galactic core taken from Himatangi beach in newzealand. It took some preparation and waiting for the correct day to get the image.
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 19 x 5 minute exposures (1 hour 35 minutes ) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight Topaz denoise and Photoshop.
Collected between 1:05 and 2:40 on the 17th of March, 2022.
Lots of thin cloud illuminated by a bright moon.
High-resolution imagery from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm which galaxy dove through its core.
LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. Hubble has confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth. Hubble and Keck also confirmed which galaxy dove through the Bullseye, creating these rings: the blue dwarf galaxy that sits to its immediate center-left. This relatively tiny interloper traveled like a dart through the core of the Bullseye about 50 million years ago, leaving rings in its wake like ripples in a pond. A thin trail of gas now links the pair, though they are currently separated by 130,000 light-years.
The team’s paper was published on 4 February 2025 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Credits: NASA, ESA, I. Pasha (Yale), P. van Dokkum (Yale); CC BY 4.0
Here is Galaxy Wataru, a resin recast of Wataru on a MH Slo Moe body. I really didn’t want to retread on a Galaxy doll custom I’ve already done so I approached it a bit differently this time and went with a different colour scheme and blushing.
I also based his eyes on 70s Anime artwork but not Takahashi’s since I want to try different things with each Wataru.
This multi-telescope composite combines X-ray, infrared and optical data of the galaxy cluster XDCPJ0044.0-2033.
The purple/pink in the image corresponds to infrared emission measured by Herschel and X-ray emission detected with NASA's Chandra telescope.
Infrared data from ESA's Herschel telescope has revealed where interstellar dust in the cluster's core is being heated by young, hot, stars. This is the first time that star formation has been found in the core of a cluster of this size and age.
The X-ray data were used to map the mass of this giant cluster.
These data have been combined with optical and near-infrared images of the cluster captured by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's Subaru telescope and the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope, the data from which are coloured red, green and blue in this image.
XDCPJ0044.0-2033 is a massive galaxy cluster with an estimated mass of about four hundred thousand billion times that of our Sun. It lies at a redshift of almost 1.6, meaning that we see it as it was 9.6 billion years ago.
Read more: sci.esa.int/herschel/55150-herschel-view-of-the-early-uni...
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/INAF/P.Tozzi, et al; Optical: NAOJ/Subaru and ESO/VLT; Infrared: ESA/Herschel/J. Santos, et al.
*EXPLORED*
I’m convinced that looking through a macro lens changes one’s perspective. Perfect example is the little bell we have hanging in our kitchen ceiling. It has always been a bell but when I looked up & saw it through the lens, it became a galaxy full of possibilities :) This is my 2nd post for Macro Mondays & the theme, of course, is “looking up”.
The Sunflower Galaxy (also known as M 63 or NGC 5055) is a spiral galaxy visible in the northern constellation of Hunting Dogs; it was discovered in 1779 by Pierre Méchain, a colleague and friend of Messier and who collaborated in the writing of the famous catalogue.
The Sunflower galaxy is a spiral of the Sb or Sc type, showing an irregular spiral pattern; it appears to form a physical group with the Girandola Galaxy, the Vortex Galaxy and many other minor galaxies; it may belong to the M101 Group (subgroup of M51) . The name sunflower is due to the very large number of spiral segments that surround the nucleus, well wrapped around it and pervaded by a large number of interstellar dust clouds; the total mass of the galaxy would be between 80 and 140 billion solar masses, with a diameter of 90,000 light years, that is similar to that of our own Milky Way. The distance is estimated at 37 million light years and is moving away from us at a speed of 580 km/s.
In May 1971, a Type Ia supernova was observed in its arms, reaching an apparent magnitude of 11.8.
Constellation: Hunting Dogs
Distance from Earth: 37.000.000 light years
This shot of this magnificent galaxy was captured with two telescopes of different diameters:
TS Ritchey - Chrétien 12"
TS Apochromatic Triplet 152
For a total of 15 hours of shots.
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 @ f/5 and TMB130SS @ f/5.6
Reducer: Stellarvue 0.72x reducer/flattener and AT130RED (0.8x reducer)
Camera: QSI690-wsg8 (Ha) and QSI683-wsg8 (LRGB)
Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Ultrastar
Mount: AP1100 GTO and Mach1 GTO
Lum: 23x10min
RGB: 13x5min each
Ha: 10x15min
Software: SGP, Voyager, PHD2, APCC, Pixinsight
9.6 hrs total exposure
I took over 300 pictures of the Andromeda Galaxy using my Canon EOS Ra camera and Rokinon 135mm lens to create this picture.
Each exposure was 60 seconds long on the Star Adventurer 2i star tracker.
NGC4565 is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 30 to 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.
This image was taken in March last year, from North Herts with a 10" reflector and a Canon DSLR.
Here's a pretty field of galaxies. In the middle is M100, about 166,000 light-years in diameter. Yes, going at the speed of light, it would take you 166,000 years to cross it. And, the light that came from that galaxy, which then hit my camera's sensor last week left that galaxy 55 million years ago.
Esprit 80mm, Player One Poseidon M camera, Sky-Watcher EQ6Rpro mount. About 18hr of integration time.
M101 Pinwheel Galaxy, HaLRGB
L 74 * 90s, 110 * 120s
R 39 * 180s, 28 * 300s
G 35 * 300s
B 44 * 300s
Ha 21 * 600s
William Optics Z61
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
iOptron CEM60
Antlia LRGB filter set, Antila Ha 3.5nm filter
William Optics 50mm Guiding Scope
ZWO ASI120M
ZWO EAF, EFW
Nina, PixInsight, Topaz DeNoise AI
This image from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) shows a group of galaxies, including a large distorted ring-shaped galaxy known as the Cartwheel. The Cartwheel Galaxy, located 500 million light-years away in the Sculptor constellation, is composed of a bright inner ring and an active outer ring. While this outer ring has a lot of star formation, the dusty area in between reveals many stars and star clusters.
The mid-infrared light captured by MIRI reveals fine details about these dusty regions and young stars within the Cartwheel Galaxy, which are rich in hydrocarbons and other chemical compounds, as well as silicate dust, like much of the dust on Earth.
Young stars, many of which are present in the bottom right of the outer ring, energize surrounding hydrocarbon dust, causing it to glow orange. On the other hand, the clearly defined dust between the core and the outer ring, which forms the “spokes” that inspire the galaxy’s name, is mostly silicate dust.
The smaller spiral galaxy to the upper left of Cartwheel displays much of the same behavior, showing a large amount of star formation.
Image credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team
Image description:
A large galaxy on the right, with two smaller companion galaxies to the left 10 o’clock & 9 o’clock. The large galaxy dominates the frame. It resembles a ghostly wheel with spindly blue-white spokes revolving around a glowing core. The outer edges of the wheel are faint dots of yellow, pink and blue, with some gaps in between. The bottom right edge is marked by a large 8-pointed star. The smaller galaxies on the left look very different from each other. The top galaxy appears to be constructed of the same yellow, pink, & blue speckles as the larger galaxy’s outer ring, with a similar light blue core. Its shape is less recognizable as a spiral; it looks like a chaotic oval smattering of dots. The galaxy below it glows as one large point of blue light. It starts almost white at its core and fades outward to darker and darker blue until the color dissipates into the black behind it. Sprinkled in the black background are specks of pink, blue, yellow & orange, which are distant galaxies.
The distinctive Sombero galaxy sits at a distance of 29 millionLight years away from us.
This is an image taken as a 'test' in my backyard , It consists of 120sec X26 frames shot through the luminance filter of a highly sensitive CCD camera. The final picture was integrated and processed in Pixinsight.
Capture Software was Sequence Generator Pro, guided with PHD 2.6.1DEV.
Note this is a cropped version of the original (approx 25% of frame)
Wikipedia link here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sombrero_Galaxy
My Location: In Bortle class 8
Image acquisition details: 184x300s for a total integration time of 15.3 hours
Dates: Sep 21-23 and Oct 8-12, 2022
Equipment:
Scope: WO Zenith Star 81mm f/6.9 with WO 6AIII flattener/focal reducer x0.8
Cooled camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro
Mount: iOptron GEM28-EC mount
Guide scope: WO 50mm Uniguide scope
Guide camera: ZWO ASI 290MM
Focuser: ZWO EAF
Light pollution filter: Chroma LoGlow Broadband Light Pollution Reduction Filter - 2"
Software: Pixinsight
...
"The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a barred spiral galaxy with diameter of about 46.56 kiloparsecs (152,000 light-years) approximately 2.5 million light-years (765 kiloparsecs) from Earth and the nearest large galaxy to 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."
The Andromeda galaxy next to the Milky Way galaxy, over a "galaxy" of lily pads. This is a single exposure. I lit the foreground with a powerful LED flashlight.
The Leo Triplet (also known as the M66 Group) is a small group of galaxies about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy group consists of the spiral galaxies M65, M66, and NGC 3628.
I must say, the new William Optics 61mm ZenithStar refractor is very capable and seems to work nicely with the ZWO ASI183MC Pro camera.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm ZenithStar II Doublet
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with UV/IR Blocking filter
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval
- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Capture Software: SharpCap Pro (LiveStack mode with dithering)
- Light Frames: 40*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -16C
- Dark Frames: 40*4 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise AI
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the best ever image of the Antennae Galaxies. Hubble has released images of these stunning galaxies twice before, once using observations from its Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) in 1997, and again in 2006 from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). Each of Hubble’s images of the Antennae Galaxies has been better than the last, due to upgrades made during the famous servicing missions, the last of which took place in 2009. The galaxies — also known as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 — are locked in a deadly embrace. Once normal, sedate spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, the pair have spent the past few hundred million years sparring with one another. This clash is so violent that stars have been ripped from their host galaxies to form a streaming arc between the two. In wide-field images of the pair the reason for their name becomes clear — far-flung stars and streamers of gas stretch out into space, creating long tidal tails reminiscent of antennae. This new image of the Antennae Galaxies shows obvious signs of chaos. Clouds of gas are seen in bright pink and red, surrounding the bright flashes of blue star-forming regions — some of which are partially obscured by dark patches of dust. The rate of star formation is so high that the Antennae Galaxies are said to be in a state of starburst, a period in which all of the gas within the galaxies is being used to form stars. This cannot last forever and neither can the separate galaxies; eventually the nuclei will coalesce, and the galaxies will begin their retirement together as one large elliptical galaxy. This image uses visible and near-infrared observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), along with some of the previously-released observations from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
M101 pinwheel Galaxy
The magnificent Messier 101 Galaxy.
This grand spiral galaxy has a diameter of 170,000 ly, and is located 21 million ly away.
The mass is approximately 100 billion solar masses. It contains 1 trillion stars.
M101 has five companion galaxies including NGC 5204, NGC 5474, NGC 5477, and NGC 5585.
Total 29 hours total exposure
New data 2022 from Telescope live.
Seven hours LRGB
SPA-2, 0.7 m RC telescope.
Officina Stellare ProRC 700, F8
FLI PL16803
And
Deep Sky West - Rowe New Mexico, using RCOS 14.5” Ritchey–Chrétien telescope f/9. 3340 mm focal length.
L 8.3 hours exposure.
RGB 5:4.6:4.3 hours
22 hours total exposure.
Transparency and Seeing very good to excellent.
March-June 2017
Processed in Pixinsight, Lightroom, Photoshop. With further processing to enhance colors.
SBIG 16803 CCD,AO-X
[9/365]
this tiny green gentleman.
this creature.
this alien.
came to our round earth in his flying saucer one day.
upon his arrival all the scientists clamoured about him.
incased him in a tank.
put wires on his brain.
his heart.
the creature.
the alien,
he says.
I've studied your planet.
you keep your loved ones inside squares inside squares.
you work inside squares.
you move yourself about the streets lined with manmade stars inside squares.
answer my question, human.
your round head,
is it also filled with a square?
--
i had to see what the bokeh rage was all about.
D:
First attempt at this galaxy for me. Great skies last night until about 2:30am when clouds rolled in. Not bad for an 80mm ED scope on this considering it's distance and relative size.
The Black Eye Galaxy is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million light-years away in the mildly northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier the next year. It contains around 100 billion stars, about the same as our own Milky Way.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: Astrotelescopes ED 80mm Refractor
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with UV/IR Blocking filter
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval
- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Light Frames: 30*4 minss @ 40 Gain, Temp -20C
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom
my online shop: www.worldoflatex.com
my Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/AnastasiaVolodina
my facebook: www.facebook.com/MissAnastasiaVolodina/
my Instagram: www.instagram.com/violet_spider/
The Triangulum Galaxy (M33)
A spiral galaxy that's part of our local group of galaxies (Milky Way, Andromeda and this one). This is my first attempt to image this amazing galaxy.
Tonight at work was a bit of an experiment, can you successfully pull pints, shake cocktails and photograph a galaxy 3 million light years way all from the same spot.
The answer is yes, but wooden decking is a nightmare for stability.
Experimenting and practicing before I do my star parties for "real" next week. Despite purposefully not advertising tonight, I still managed a crowd of people around me, quizzing me about space, it was rather fun!
This is a little rough, due to a lack of data 6x480s exposures in RGB, so noisy, and lacking the polish I plan to give this objects.
8/52
“She wasn't a constellation. She was a galaxy.”
― Nitya Prakash
There are galaxies inside my mind. I have many ideas and concepts. When someone enters into my world, I feel like they are crossing through different worlds to get to me. You have to go through different galaxies to get here and there. Those swirling cosmos inside. Could they be real? I chose a light bulb to project what galaxies look like in the real-world inside of it. Almost as if it were like a crystal ball.
Here is the first process of my LRGB data. I added just over 4 hours of RGB to the 5 hours of luminance shot earlier.
The RGB filters were stacked with an IDAS LP2 light pollution filter which I think has made a remarkable difference. I will be either replacing or adding to the current luminance data with the IDAS, which will give me more signal in the data.
Altair Astro 6" RC & Atik 314l+. Processed in Pixinsight & CS5
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, CCD-CLS filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 24 x 5 minute exposures (2 hours ) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in APP, Pixinsight Topaz denoise and Photoshop.
Collected between 0:45 and 2:44 on the 6th of March, 2022.
and IC4263 galaxy towards the bottom right.
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 20 x 5 minute exposures (1 hour 40 minutes ) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight Topaz denoise and Photoshop.
Collected between 2:34 and 4:06 on the 25th of March, 2022.