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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
Autumn - 3 (of 5) - Samsung Galaxy S10 - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
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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!
Sculptor Galaxy,
NGC 253
I had the opportunity to test image with an Orion 10" Astrograph at a recent star party . The OTA/Mount was provided by Neil from www.telescopeshop.co.za whilst my Canon60Da and Mac did the other share of the hard work.
The image:
47x 120sec Light frames; 94 Minutes
10x Dark Frames & 100x Bias frames
Orion10" Astrograph F/3,9
Canon 60Da
Celestron CgemDX
SSAG & PHD guiding
Acquired via Nebulosity
Processed: PixInsight and PhotoshopCC
The setup was completely new to me and I had problems most of the night keeping the PHD graph to resemble something reasonable. Despite some guiding errors, a slight breeze and the lack of flat frames I am still impressed with the results from the Astrograph. Fitted with the Baader MPCC (coma corrector) The Crayford focuser was solid and smooth, with a fine focus and the ability to lock down focus.
All round I was impressed, showing that the gap between entry-level equipment and high price tag items can (to a degree) be closed with good editing techniques.
4 August 2013 / Magalies Mountain Sanctuary, South Africa
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
North America
Processed entirely in PixInsight
M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy
The Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457 is a face-on spiral galaxy 21 million light-years away from earth in the constellation Ursa Major.
M101 is a large galaxy, with a diameter of 170.000 light-years. By comparison, the Milky Way has a diameter of 100.000 light-years. It consits about a trillion stars, it has a disk mass of the order of 100 billion solar masses.
M101 has a high population of HII regions. Its estimated that M101 has about 150 globular clusters.
Detail about equipment:
TS PHOTON 8" 1000mm f5
EQ6 PRO belt modded
ZWO ASI 1600MM PRO
ZWO ASI 120mini
ZWO EFW
Ts 80mm Guidescope 600mm
PegasusAstro Ultimate Powerbox V2
Image details:
300 x 180 seconds Gain 139
50 x ZWO luminance
50 x ZWO Red
50 x ZWO Blue
50 x ZWO Green
100 x ZWO Ha
The “Draco Trio” of galaxies or “Draco Group” (in the constellation Draco, the dragon), are all at around the same distance from Earth, some 130 million light years or so. NGC 5985 at the top is a typical spiral galaxy seen almost face on. NGC 5981, at the bottom of the trio, is also a spiral galaxy seen edge-on.
Perhaps the most interesting from an astrophysical perspective is the galaxy seen at the center. Despite its’ seemingly featureless appearance, NGC 5982 has more to it than meets the eye at first glance!
NGC 5982 is an elliptical galaxy. These are galaxies characterized by a smooth relatively featureless ellipsoidal shape, almost like an egg in space. Typically it’s an egg-shaped blob. Fairly boring. But in this case, look closely toward the center and you may be able to detect a few concentric “shells”. These shells of gas, dust and stellar remnants form circular arcs and are the result of prior galaxy mergers, most likely involvng other, perhaps smaller, elliptical galaxies.
Studies of NGC 5982 have revealed more than 20 such shells in its envelope!
Capture info:
Location: SkyPi Remote Observatory, Pie Town NM US
Telescope: Orion Optics UK AG14 (F3.8)
Camera: QHY 268M
Mount: 10 Micron GM3000
Data: LRGB 30 hours approximately.
Processing: Pixinsight
It's Neo-Classic Space time! This, is the "Galaxy Tzar"
When asked to make a modular armed exploration craft, General Galaxy turned to what many consider to be the greatest multi-role modular spacecraft of all time... The "Galaxy Commander".
Thirty years later, when Earth Alliance command asked for an new starship to fill the role originally defined by the Galaxy Commander, General Galaxy looked back upon it's original design and after two years of development, released the Galaxy Tzar.
Centaurus A - NGC 5128 a galaxy in the southern constellation of Centaurus.
Imaged on a very moonlit night using a Planewave 27" (0.7m) f/6.6 CDK700WF and FLI PLO09000 CCD at SSO
30 minutes Luminance, 5 minutes R,G,B
Messier 58 (M58 or NGC 4579) is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo and is about 68 million light years away from Earth. In the Messier Catalog, this galaxy is the most distant object.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro, Antares Focal Reducer, 63 x 60 second at -10C, 30 darks and 30 flats, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using Sequence Generator Pro and processed using PixInsight. Image date: March 20, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Bright barred spiral galaxy.
Long exposure.
M83
CHI-1, 24 inch CDK telescope.
Telescope live, Chile.
PI, LR
12 hours 30 minutes total LRGB exposure.
This striking barred intermediate spiral Galaxy shows interesting detail in this long exposure gathered over two years.
“NGC 6744 (also known as Caldwell 101) is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Pavo (Peacock). It is considered as a Milky Way mimic in our immediate vicinity, displaying flocculent (fluffy) arms and an elongated core. It also has at least one distorted companion galaxy (NGC 6744A) superficially similar to one of the Magellanic Clouds…
NGC 6744 lies within the Virgo Supercluster.” Wikipedia
24 hours LRGB exposure.
Planewave CDK24, 0.6 m telescope.
FLI ProLine PL9000
Focal Length: 3962 mm, f6.5
Pixinsight, Lightroom
El Sauce Observatory
Río Hurtado, Coquimbo Region, Chile
Credits: Eric Ganz / Telescope Live
2021 and 2022
This weeks Macro Mondays theme is Staying Healthy.
In my attempt to stay healthy, I Consume the Galaxy daily.
Some of you who have seen my earlier submissions know that I take a ‘mature’ multivitamin everyday in hopes of delaying my demise. This is that multivitamin.
I know what you are thinking. You’re thinking ‘Edd, this isn’t a vitamin pill, you’ve lost your marbles. Those supplements you take didn’t work. Time to put you in a home.’
You would be mistaken. This is a pic of my mature multivitamin dissolved under hot water and lit with ultraviolet light. The colors that you see are caused by the various minerals fluorescing under the ultraviolet light. The purple outline around the pill is the ultraviolet light being reflected off of the white china plate that is containing the water. If you look closely at the pile of ingredients in the center, you can see a few air bubbles rising from the bottom. I thought the whole thing had a very cosmic, or ’galaxy like’ look to it. Hence the title. Huh. Maybe it is time to put me in a home.
HMM
The width of this image is about 4 centimeters.
Best viewed large.
Androdema Galaxy (M31) and its sisters galaxies (M32 & M110)
Nikon D5100 + Zenithstar 73
SVBony CLS Filter
90 x 60sec -- ISO 1600
AstroM1
(r2b.2b)
The murky water of the tidal pool contained a variety of small but interesting debris. Vigorously processed for clarity and interest. HSS!
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Sunflower galaxy M63 is a spiral galaxy located about 37 million years from Earth in Canes Venatici. It’s resemble sunflower with compacted dust lanes, yellow core and Blue spiral arms. Gear setup: Celestron HD8 @ f/7, iOptron GEM45 guided by Celestron OAG with ZWO 174, light subs from last year with ZWO 2600MC -5C, Optolong L-Pro 12/05/2023 - 27x180sec, 13/05/2023 42x180sec, Darks 20, Flats 10, Bias 50. Celestron HD11 @f/7, iOptron CEM70, light subs 04/05/2024 235x30sec, 11/05/2024 31x180sec , Antlia Tri RGB ultra Filter. Total exposure 7 hours. Captured by APT, Sharpcap pro, PHD2. Stacking by APP and processed by PI & PS.
NGC 4618 was discovered on 9 April 1787 by the German-British astronomer, Wilhelm Herschel, who also discovered Uranus in 1781. Only a year before discovering NGC 4618, Herschel theorised that the “foggy” objects astronomers were seeing in the night sky were likely to be large star clusters located much further away then the individual stars he could easily discern.
Since Herschel proposed his theory, astronomers have come to understand that what he was seeing was a galaxy. NGC 4618, classified as a barred spiral galaxy, has the special distinction amongst other spiral galaxies of only having one arm rotating around the centre of the galaxy.
Located about 21 million light-years from our galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, NGC 4618 has a diameter of about one third that of the Milky Way. Together with its neighbour, NGC 4625, it forms an interacting galaxy pair, which means that the two galaxies are close enough to influence each other gravitationally. These interactions may result in the two (or more) galaxies merging together to form a new formation, such as a ring galaxy.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Karachentsev; CC BY 4.0
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Andromeda is the closest spiral galaxy to our galaxy, the Milky Way. It is approaching us and will collide with the Milky Way in about 2 billion years.
Takahashi FSQ-106ED with Focal Reducer (f/3.6)
FLI PL16803
L: 27x10m
R: 31x10m
G: 29x10m
B: 25x10m
Total Integration = 18.7h
Pixinsight
RGB: CC / LN / Drizzle / MMT / DBE / RGB Combo / ArcSin / StarXterminator to Rescreen non-ArcSin Stars
L: CC / LN / Drizzle / MMT / DC / HT / HDR / CT / LRGB
Photoshop
ColorEfex DetailExtractor / Curves / Sponge / Dodge / Vibrance
Data from Telescope.Live
Messier 96 (also known as M96 or NGC 3368) is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 31 million light-years away in the constellation Leo.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro, Antares Focal Reducer, 108 x 60 second at -10C, 30 darks and 30 flats, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using Sequence Generator Pro and processed using PixInsight. Image date: March 20, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
neon nebula flower.:-
This photo means a great deal to me as it was the first stage where I experimented significantly with my Adobe photoshop.
I love the sky at night and all it holds from galaxies to clusters and Nebula to planets. I regularly go out with my telescope on clear nights to check out what I can see.
So one afternoon whilst scouting over some photo's I came across this one I took and the name 'Neon Nebula flower popped into my head, from there I checked out adobe to see if they had the correct filters within the programme to match closely with what i wanted, and it did. So with the magic wand in adobe I highlighted the flower alone and transformed it into what you see. Depth of field in the photo is great , and the focal point is in one of the thirds of the photo. I have also done some other editing and cropping to achieve what you see. With substantial vision loss like I have , I think it has turned out well.
The Triangulum Galaxy (M33)
Scope: Skywatcher Esprit ED 120 Pro
Main camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro - Cooled
Mount: Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro
Guide Scope: Skywatcher EvoGuide ED50
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI290MM mini
Controller: ZWO ASIAIR Pro
Filter : ZWO EFW::Red, Blue, Green, Hydrogen Alpha, Luminescence.
Processed using APP and a touch of Photoshop.
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
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.
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.
I like the wide view of Andromeda. Despite it size, in context with the vastness of space and its place in the universe it is but a dot.
The closest galaxy to us at 2.5 million light years. the most distant thing most of us humans can see with the unaided eye in the northern hemisphere, so no wonder we can capture so much detail with all those one trillion stars! Andromeda has two satellite galaxies, M32 (smaller fuzzy) and M110 (larger fuzzy).
Technical details:
telescope: Ceravolo300 at f/4.9
Camera: Apogee U16M
Filters: Astrodon LRGB
1.5 hours
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."