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M 106 (also known as NGC 4258) is a spiral galaxy visible in the constellation Canis Venatici; its interior appears to host a supermassive black hole.
M106 is an example of a Seyfert galaxy; the detection of unusual radio and X-ray emissions observed by the Very Large Baseline Array radio telescope indicates that it is probably part of.
12 "Truss RC telescope reduced to 1790
Moravian off-axis guider and Moravian G0300 guide camera
Celestron 80/600 guide tube with Asi Zwo 224
Moravian G2 8300 camera with internal wheel
Ioptron Cem120 mount
Moonlite focuser and 3.5 "electronic rotator
Electronic temperature control and anti-condensation bands
Cls ccd, R, G, B, Ha 6nm filters, all Astronomik
Shooting data:
61x240s Cls CCD
25x600s Ha
19x240s R
19x240s G
19x240s B
Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop, star spikes, astronomy tools
The Milky Way galaxy rises vividly above a lone tree in Nebraska’s Wildcat Hills. Thanks to an unusually cool and dry May evening, this was one of the clearest night skies I’ve ever experienced, anywhere.
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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.
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
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!
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.
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
Hunting continues !! This month we tried some shots at Xyliatos Dam. It is a fairly dark point but again we did not avoid the light pollution.
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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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As well as the Fishhook Galaxy (NGC4657) and NGC4627
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 13 x 5 minute exposures (1 hour 5 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 22:53 and 0:12 on the 21st and 22nd of March, 2022.
Bright moon and passing thin clouds.
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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.
Located 31 million light years away, this is one of the furthest targets I’ve attempted for quite some time.
I shot this during an 87% moon, which is very far from ideal conditions for broadband imaging on a galaxy.
However, I managed to get 177 x 60s images to stack.
Equipment used below
- ZWO 533
- EQ6R Pro
- ZWO 290MM
- Skywatcher 8” newtonian
- NINA for capturing
- APP for stacking and pre-processing
- Photoshop for processing
September 16. 2017.
Telescope: Sky-Watcher MN190 on AZ-EQ6 GT
Camera: Canon450D mod
Frames: 36x420s (4.2 hours of cumulative exposure)
Software: BackyardEOS & PHD2 for capture; Pixinsight & Photoshop for post processing.
The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs from Earth. It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way and was often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts... (from Wikipedia)
Being a very large object in our sky, my telescope's 1000mm focal length and 1.25º x 0.83º field of view wasn't nearly enough to capture whole galaxy in one shoot so my choice was "left" part of the galaxy including it's bright core which contains supermassive black whole. In spiral arms there are lots of dust lanes and big blueish star cloud known as NGC 206 along with some of the Ha regions visible. There is also small but bright satellite galaxy M32 near upper edge of the Andromeda Galaxy
You're so hypnotizing
Could you be the devil?
Could you be an angel?
Your touch magnetizing
Feels like I am floating
Leaves my body glowing
They say, be afraid
You're not like the others
Futuristic lover
Different DNA
They don't understand you
You're from a whole 'nother world
A different dimension
You open my eyes
And I'm ready to go
Lead me into the light
~Katy Perry~
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".
Continuing my adventure, and learning curve, into deep sky photography, M33 The Triangulum Galaxy shot from my back garden in Worcester. Still amazed at what you can do without leaving home.
Skywatcher 72ED
Skywatcher EQM35 tracker
Canon 700D
36x 120 second lights and 10x darks, stacked in DSS processed in lightroom, photoshop and NIK
Bortle 5
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.
You're actually looking at two galaxies that have collided and are not doing a very good job of social distancing. The bottom lobe is NGC 4038 and the top one is NGC 4039.
System details
Telescope: AG Optical Systems 0.3 meter iDK,
Focal length 2121 mm
Camera: mono FLI ML16200 with a Loadstar X2 on an Astrodon MOAG off-axis guider.
Adaptive Optics: SXV-AO-LF
Observatory: Scopedome
Acquisition software: Voyager
Plate size: 44' x 35' but cropped by about 10%
Lum 72 x 4 minutes
Red 36 x 4 minutes
Green 39 x 4 minutes
Blue 44 x 4 minutes
Rubber Duckie, you're the one,
You make bathtime lots of fun,
Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fond of you;
My purple rubber duckie.
Messing with my cheap screw-in macro lens for my Galaxy S5.
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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This shot shows some dying fireworks at the Stadium of Fire in Provo, Utah. I liked perspective because it reminds me of a telescope picture of distant galaxies.
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A look at the forecast and a quick decision was made to journey upto Ribblehead to try and photograph the milkyway. It's been so long, since I did any astro, I forgot to get a shot of the viaduct in focus!
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
Moon rising around 4:00 brighten up the sky as blue hours starting and Milky Way slowly fade away into the morning lights. Here’s a shot when the crescent moon meet the horizon. With Mercury on it’s right just above the mountain range.
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It's taken the light photons from this galaxy 2.5 million years to reach my back garden – I'm just glad I was there to catch them.
I finally had a (relatively) clear sky on Sunday after weeks of endless cloud. Seeing conditions were pretty poor with high cloud and the occasional aeroplane!! I've found a solution to my laptop power issue and so I've been able to take many more photos than previously – until the clouds rolled in. My alignment is much better than my previous effort at this amazing galaxy but I still need to find the optimal distance of the camera sensor/field flattener in relation to the focal plane. A few more clear nights would help me fine tune this.
40 x 120s exposures (of which 32 were usable) with Darks. No Flats or Bias frames.
Untracked
Teleskop Service 80/480 APO Triplet Telescope
Canon 1000D modded camera with Astronomik CLS Filter
Stacked using Nebulosity
Processed using Photoshop CC
Messier 81, also known as Bode’s Galaxy is a grand design spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. M81 is one of the brightest galaxies in our night sky, as seen here on Earth.
I recently photographed this galaxy from my backyard. This image includes 80 x 3-minute exposures. (4 hours total)
Video: youtu.be/VxRTTmQKj4g