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S869 HCG (8601)
Volvo Olympian Alexander R
New to Dublinbus as RV440. Registered as 98-D-20440.
Captured at SRO, Sep-Nov, 2017
Scope: Ceravolo C300 @ f/4.9 = 1470mm FL
Mount: AP1100
Camera: FLI PL16803
Focuser: Atlas
Filters: Astrodon
Guiding: Lodestar II / Tak guide scope
Image scale: 1.26 arcsec/pixel (Drizzled to double res)
Exposures: 27x1200s R, 28x1200s G, 31x1200s B, 51x600s L (37.16 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8.5
Processing credit: Rick Stevenson
Acquisition credit: Scott Johnson, Augusto Hernandez, John Kasianowicz, Daniele Malleo, Jose Mtanous and Rick Stevenson
There are still over 15,000 Minors on the road in the UK, I think that's incredible considering that production ceased in 1971.
Car: Morris Minor 1000.
Year of manufacture: 1966.
Date of first registration in the UK: 1st January 1967.
Place of registration: Hampshire.
Date of last MOT: 15th July 2017.
Mileage at last MOT: 94,987.
Date of last change of keeper: 29th March 2022.
Number of previous keepers: 14.
Date taken: 26th April 2023.
Album: Carspotting 2023
Scottish Ambulance Service Mitsubishi Shogun SORT seen parked up in Aberdeen.
6th November 2018.
© Calum's 999 & Transport Photography. All rights reserved.
Hickson Compact Group 63 consists of four galaxies in Centaurus:
ESO 443-37 (HCG 63a, PGC 44984 and others) – the galaxy at the left (east)
ESO 381-50 (HCG 63b, PGC 44965 and others) – the spiral with the wild arm
PGC 44979 (HCG 63c and others) – the galaxy between ESO 443-37 and ESO 381-50
PGC 44959 (HCG 63d and others) – the galaxy to the right of PGC 44979
See the annotated image for the locations of these and various other galaxies.
Luminance – 18x300s – 90 minutes – binned 2x2
RGB – 18:15:15x300s – 90:75:75 minutes each – binned 2x2
330 minutes total exposure – 5 hours 30 minutes
Imaged over nine nights in April, May and June, 2023 at the El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile) with a QHY 600M on a PlaneWave CDK24 at f/6.5 3974 mm.
These are Telescope Live (telescope.live/) “One-Click Observations.” Gold level members and above can suggestion these. This is one of my suggestions.
Go-Coach, S869 HCG is seen turning into Glebe Road from Morleys Road, Sevenoaks Weald whilst working route 421. Wednesday 25th May 2011
This picture was taken during the short period in which route 421 ran from Dartford to Sevenoaks Weald. This part of route 421 would later in the year be cut back to Sevenoaks (following the reinstatement of the Sevenoaks short route 402 which ran via the Weald) along with the northern section which was cut back from Dartford to Swanley with that section being replaced by route 429.
Volvo Olympian - Alexander R (Ex-Dublinbus RV440 Registered 98-D-20440)
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Stagecoach South 27619. AD Enviro 300. Previously a Park and Ride vehicle,now unbranded,and seen here at the Stagecoach garage in Winchester - 17.7.16.
Go-Coach S869 HCG is seen in St Mary's Road, Swanley whilst working route 421. Wednesday 25th May 2011.
Volvo Olympian - Alexander R (Ex-Dublinbus RV440 Registered 98-D-20440)
IMG_4556
Hickson 51 consists of seven galaxies located in Leo:
NGC 3651 (HCG 51a, UGC 6388, PGC 34898 and others). This one is located approximately 360 million light-years away.
IC 2759 (HCG 51b, PGC 34882 and others)
NGC 3653 (HCG 51c, PGC 34905 and others)
MCG+04-27-030 (HCG 51d, PGC 34907 and others)
MCG+04-27-027 (HCG 51e, PGC 34881 and others)
PGC 34899 (HCG 51f and others)
PGC 34901 (HCG 51g and others)
See the annotated image for the locations of these.
Luminance – 55x600s – 550 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 12x300s – 60 minutes each – binned 2x2
730 minutes total exposure – 12 hours 10 minutes
Imaged February 16th and March 23rd, 24th and 25th, 2023 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.
LRGB annotated www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/52859861529/sizes/l/
DSC_2149 - PE13 HCG - Volvo B12B/Jonckheere SHV - The Travellers Choice - Victoria, Buckingham Palace Road 10/09/16
Volvo B9R Sunsundegui Sideral 2000 d'Autocars Solè Grau de Guissona (Lleida)
Matriculat el 14/03/2011
VIN: YV3S5P724BA147253
El veiem el 2 Juliol 2017 sortín de l'Estació d'Autobusos de Barcelona Nord a Barcelona
Fleet No: 6551
Registration: YN05 HCG
Chassis: Scania N94UB
Bodywork: Scania OmniCity
Livery: Metrobus Older Standard
Route: Unknown
Notes: New to the operator in 2005 as 551.
Here is a group of galaxies known as Hickson Compact Group 87 (HCG 87) in near-infrared and visible light. I combined datasets from Hubble's WFPC2 and Gemini South's GMOS to create a more complete picture of the group. The upper right corner and top and right edges, which you may notice are slightly fuzzier in appearance, come from Gemini, while the larger part of the image in the lower left comes from Hubble. The filter sets were not quite the same, but I found they blended together quite well regardless.
Despite the galaxies being apparently close together, interaction between them seems rather subtle to me, with the most obvious sign including a perturbation in the dust of the edge-on galaxy at the lower left of the image, which is called HCG 87a. This edge-on spiral is quite picturesque with its contrasting dust lane, prominent X-shaped nucleus, and blue streak of star formation.
Another member of the group, HCG 87b, is a large, bright elliptical galaxy seen to the right of HGC 87a. Striking to me about this elliptical are the numerous pinpoints surrounding it, which I assume to be a halo of globular clusters or something similar, like the cores of smaller galaxies that have long since merged with the elliptical. This leads me to conclude that HCG 87b is huge in size compared to the others, but must be more distant. Some faint, partial shells are visible in the upper right quadrant of the galaxy, hinting at some kind of interaction, perhaps an older one. Simulations have shown that shell features could form after ellipticals have taken in some smaller galaxy.
Hubble colors:
Red: WFPC2 F814W + WFPC2 F675W
Green: WFPC2 F555W
Blue: WFPC2 F450W
Gemini colors:
Red: i (780 nm)
Green: r (630 nm)
Blue: g (475 nm)
North is NOT up. It is 45.1° counter-clockwise from up.
Lit by the gibbous moon. This is for the minimalist theme so I will say nothing more.
Oh, except that Rosie came along with me for a late night excursion and we had a most interesting conversation. As we looked out at the inky stillness she quietly asked me, "Would you kill me for 8 million dollars?" I said, "oh my god of course not!...Wait, how much money?" She repeated the amount. I said, "I'm just kidding, I would NOT kill you for any amount of money in the world. What made you even think of such a thing?" My little girl replied, "I don't know, just popped into my head, what about Dad, would you kill him for 8 million?" ....Well,....let me think about that one :)
For ODC ~ minimalism
More minimal viewed on black
Nikon D7000 ~ Nikkor 50mm 1.4 Ais ~ Exposure 0.8 sec. ~ Aperture f/1.4 ~ ISO Speed 500
Stephan’s Quintet is a visual grouping of five galaxies located in the constellation Pegasus. Together, they are also known as the Hickson Compact Group 92 (HCG 92). Although called a “quintet,” only four of the galaxies are truly close together and caught up in a cosmic dance. The fifth and leftmost galaxy, called NGC 7320, is well in the foreground compared with the other four.
Tight groups like this may have been more common in the early universe when their superheated, infalling material may have fueled very energetic black holes called quasars. Even today, the topmost galaxy in the group – NGC 7319 – harbours an active galactic nucleus, a supermassive black hole 24 million times the mass of the Sun. It is actively pulling in material and puts out light energy equivalent to 40 billion Suns.
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope studied the active galactic nucleus in great detail with the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec). The instrument’s integral field units (IFUs) – a combination of a camera and spectrograph – provided the Webb team with a “data cube,” or collection of images of the galactic core’s spectral features. Using IFUs, scientists can measure spatial structures, determine the velocity of those structures, and get a full range of spectral data. Much like medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the IFUs allow scientists to “slice and dice” the information into many images for detailed study.
NIRSpec’s IFUs pierced through the shroud of dust to measure the bright emission from outflows of hot gas near the active black hole. The instrument saw the gas near the supermassive black hole in wavelengths never detected before, and it was able to determine its composition.
Some of the key emission lines seen by NIRSpec are shown in this image and represent different phases of gas. Atomic hydrogen, in blue and yellow, allows scientists to discover the structure of the outflow. Iron ions, in teal, trace the places where the hot gas is located. Molecular hydrogen, in red, is very cold and dense, and traces both outflowing gas and the reservoir of fuel for the black hole. The bright, active nucleus itself has been removed from these images to better show the structure of the surrounding gas.
By using NIRSpec, scientists have gained unprecedented information about the black hole and its outflow. Studying these relatively nearby galaxies helps scientists better understand galaxy evolution in the much more distant universe.
NIRSpec was built for the European Space Agency (ESA) by a consortium of European companies led by Airbus Defence and Space (ADS) with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center providing its detector and micro-shutter subsystems.
Get the full array of Webb’s first images and spectra, including downloadable files, here.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
Stephan’s Quintet is a visual grouping of five galaxies located in the constellation Pegasus. Together, they are also known as the Hickson Compact Group 92 (HCG 92). Although called a “quintet,” only four of the galaxies are truly close together and caught up in a cosmic dance. The fifth and leftmost galaxy, called NGC 7320, is well in the foreground compared with the other four.
Tight groups like this may have been more common in the early universe when their superheated, infalling material may have fueled very energetic black holes called quasars. Even today, the topmost galaxy in the group – NGC 7319 – harbours an active galactic nucleus, a supermassive black hole 24 million times the mass of the Sun. It is actively pulling in material and puts out light energy equivalent to 40 billion Suns.
Scientists using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope studied the active galactic nucleus in great detail with the Medium-Resolution Spectrometer (MRS) that is part of the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). The spectrometer features integral field units (IFUs) – a combination of a camera and spectrograph. These IFUs provided the Webb team with a “data cube,” or collection of images of the galactic core’s spectral features.
Using IFUs, scientists can measure spatial structures, determine the velocity of those structures, and get a full range of spectral data. Much like medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the IFUs allow scientists to “slice and dice” the information into many images for detailed study.
MIRI’s MRS pierced through the shroud of dust near the active galactic nucleus to measure the bright emission from nearby hot gas that is being ionised by powerful winds and radiation from the black hole. The instrument saw the gas near the supermassive black hole at a level of detail never seen before, and it was able to determine its composition.
When a supermassive black hole feeds, some of the infalling material becomes very hot and is pushed away from the black hole in the form of winds and jets. MIRI probed many different regions, including the black hole’s outflowing wind – indicated by the smaller circle – and the area immediately around the black hole itself – indicated by the larger circle. It showed that the black hole is enshrouded in silicate dust similar to beach sand, but with much smaller grains.
The top spectrum, from the black hole’s outflow, shows a region filled with hot, ionised gases, including iron, argon, neon, sulphur and oxygen as denoted by the peaks at given wavelengths. The presence of multiple emission lines from the same element with different degrees of ionisation is valuable for understanding the properties and origins of the outflow.
The bottom spectrum reveals that the supermassive black hole has a reservoir of colder, denser gas with large quantities of molecular hydrogen and silicate dust that absorb the light from the central regions of the galaxy.
MIRI was contributed by ESA and NASA, with the instrument designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (The MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with JPL and the University of Arizona.
Get the full array of Webb’s first images and spectra, including downloadable files, here.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
This Hubble Space Telescope image captures an unusual close-knit collection of five galaxies, called the Hickson Compact Group 40.
This menagerie includes three spiral-shaped galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy. Somehow, these different galaxies crossed paths in their evolution to create an exceptionally crowded and eclectic galaxy sampler.
Caught in a leisurely gravitational dance, the whole group is so crowded that it could fit within a region of space that is less than twice the diameter of our Milky Way’s stellar disk.
Though such cozy galaxy groupings can be found in the heart of huge galaxy clusters, these galaxies are notably isolated in their own small patch of the universe, in the direction of the constellation Hydra.
One possibility is that there’s a lot of dark matter (an unknown and invisible form of matter) associated with these galaxies. If they come close together, then the dark matter can form a big cloud within which the galaxies are orbiting. As the galaxies plow through the dark matter they feel a frictional force due to its gravitational effects. This slows their motion and makes the galaxies lose energy so they fall together.
Therefore, this snapshot catches the galaxies at a very special moment in their lifetimes. In about 1 billion years they will eventually collide and merge to form a giant elliptical galaxy.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI
Image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
For more information, visit: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-012
The first two buses to enter the Go-Coach fleet back in 2009 have been retained and will be on display at the 10th Anniversary Gala on Sunday 27th May 2018.
Specially arranged to feature as the cover image on the programme for the event, the first double deck vehicle to enter the fleet, S869 HCD is seen alongside the first single deck bus in the fleet S519 KFL in the overflow yard at Vestry Road, Otford. Friday 20th April 2018.
The 28-page programme features an introduction by the company director, Austin Blackburn, 14 page history, fleet list, entry list for the event and timetables and maps of the free services. It's priced at £3 and is available from the travel shop in Sevenoaks or on the day. All proceeds from the event are going to Breast Cancer Care.
S869 HCD - Volvo Olympian - Alexander R (Ex-Dublinbus RV440 Registered 98-D-20440)
S519 KFL - Dennis Dart SLF 9.3m - Marshall Capital (Ex-Metroline DMS19)
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the Hickson Compact Group 31 (HCG 31) of galaxies highlights streams of star-formation as four dwarf galaxies interact. The bright, distorted clump of young blue-white stars (top-right of center) is NGC 1741. Although it appears to be a single galaxy, NGC 1741 is actually a pair of colliding dwarf galaxies. Another dwarf, cigar-shaped galaxy to the pair’s right joins their dance with a thin, blue stream of stars that connects the trio. HGC 31’s fourth member is revealed by a stream of young blue stars that point to the galaxy (bottom-left of center) and indicate its interaction with the other three. The bright object in the center of the image is a star situated between Earth and HCG 31.
Dwarf galaxy encounters are normally seen billions of light-years away, and therefore occurred billions of years ago, but HCG 31 is located some 166 million light-years from Earth, relatively close by cosmic standards. This image emphasizes star-forming regions spurred by the quartet’s gravitational dance. The color blue represents visible blue light and showcases young, hot, blue stars, while the color red represents near-infrared light.
To view an earlier version of this image, see hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2010/news-2010-08.html
Image credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Charlton (Pennsylvania State University); Image processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America)
Visit Hubble's Galaxies at www.nasa.gov/content/discoveries-hubbles-galaxies
Hickson 51 consists of seven galaxies located in Leo:
NGC 3651 (HCG 51a, UGC 6388, PGC 34898 and others). This one is located approximately 360 million light-years away.
IC 2759 (HCG 51b, PGC 34882 and others)
NGC 3653 (HCG 51c, PGC 34905 and others)
MCG+04-27-030 (HCG 51d, PGC 34907 and others)
MCG+04-27-027 (HCG 51e, PGC 34881 and others)
PGC 34899 (HCG 51f and others)
PGC 34901 (HCG 51g and others)
See the annotated image for the locations of these.
Luminance – 55x600s – 550 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 12x300s – 60 minutes each – binned 2x2
730 minutes total exposure – 12 hours 10 minutes
Imaged February 16th and March 23rd, 24th and 25th, 2023 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.