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Also known as "Oswegatch", after the New York community
near the Oswegatchi River.
These farm buildings were built in 1880's . Located on M109 near Sleeping Bear National Park, near Traverse City, Michigan
With Pan Am graciously providing a pair of painted units for this military extra consisting of 39 cars loaded with 76 M109 self-propelled howitzers, I couldn't think of any reason not to shoot it. They're seen here gliding under the old tell-tale that's still standing on Oakland, with C40-8 7523 leading SD40-2 3401, on this "sunny" day.
The M109 R , the monster from Suzuki with its 1783 cc V Twin engine . Everything is big about this kool Boulevard machine .
Cars n Coffee
Joes Diner
Brisbane
Just playing around with new scope and luminance. Have to drop down the sub length to reduce the obvious gradients.
CSX D735-02 is coming around the corner at GTW Crossing with a SD40-2 on the point and a military unit on the head pin. After the recovery vehicles on the first couple flats there were 4 M109 Paladins and various other support vehicles. The regular freight trailed behind the military unit for an interesting "mixed train". Toledo, OH 7/2/2021
Comet C/2017 T2 makes quite the photo op as it passes by Galaxies Messier M81 and M82 in the night sky this past Sunday night, May 24, 2020, in this image taken at Grand Mesa Observatory, www.grandmesaobservatory.com. Captured and processed by Terry Hancock and Tom Masterson.
Discovered on Oct. 2, 2017 by the PanSTARRS sky survey, this comet has put on quite the show this year. Here it's seen passing about one and a half degrees away from Bode's Galaxy (M81) and the Cigar Galaxy (M82). At about 12 million light-years distant, these galaxies would take a bit longer to get to than the 13.79 light-minutes it would take you to get from Earth to C/2017 T2. Next month around June 16, C/2017 T2 will make another close rendezvous in our night sky with another Galaxy, M109, coming within a degree of it. Then, on June 23, it'll be less than one degree from Galaxy M106. It is now visible in small telescopes or decent binoculars, a nice treat to those with dark and clear skies in the Northern Hemisphere!
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Technical Info:
Captured from Grand Mesa Observatory in Western Colorado on the May 24 2020 using the QHY367 Pro C Full Frame One Shot color CMOS camera on one of the Twin Takahashi E-180 Astrographs “System 4a”
Total Integration time: 2.1 hours
Image details
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colo.
38.963365, -108.237225
Dates of capture: May 24, 10:49pm - May 25, 1:02am
Color RGGB 125 min, 25 x 300 sec
Camera: QHY367 Pro C Color CMOS
Gain 2850, Offset 76
Calibrated with flat, Dark & Bias
Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre Processed in Pixinsight and Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed in Photoshop CC
Japan Air Self-Defence Force / Mitsubishi F-4EJ Phantom II / Mumbo 23 / 87-8409 (cn M109) / Nagoya - Komaki (NKM/RJNA) / 03.Mar.2018.
M109 (NGC 3992) is a barred spiral galaxy that appears near the star Phecda - a star in the bowl of the Big Dipper. Recent measurements with the Tully-Fisher relation put it at a distance of 25 Mpc, or 82 million light years away. There are several other more distant galaxies in the same field shown here.
This image was built from the following stacks:
R channel - 84 1 min exposures
G channel - 68 1 min exposures
B channel - 66 1 min exposures
All images were taken with an Atik 414-EX monochrome camera with Optolong CCD filters from my backyard in Long Beach, CA on the night of 2023-02-15. The scope was a Celestron Edge HD 925 with Hyperstar, giving an image scale of 2.48"/pixel. Images were preprocessed in Nebulosity, then stacks were created and combined in PixInsight. After additional processing in PixInsight, final touches were made using Photoshop.
M 109 is the most distant object in the Messier catalogue at 85 million light years. The blazing star to the upper right is Phecda, a more familiar object than you might think -- it's the bottom corner of the Big Dipper's bowl, on the handle side. That makes it one of the very few stars which can be seen by naked eye from my suburban yard. You can find 3 faint companion galaxies in the image and the annotator in PixInsight shows me about 30 more, but they're indistinguishable from faint stars in this casual deep sky image.
Tech Stuff: Borg 71FL/Borg 1.08X flattener/IDAS LPS-D2 filter/ZWO ASI1600MC camera. 4 second unguided exposures captured in SharpCap Livestacks; total integration time 100 minutes. From my Bortle 7 yard 10 miles north of New York City, SQM-L 18.6.
I'd spent the morning on UP at Cienega Creek and then moved on to Benson to check out where the San Pedro Valley kept their power (which was tied down and cold since it was a Sunday) with plans to take Claudia down to Tombstone and do touristy stuff, but I needed gas first. The gas in town was cheaper than where I was by SPVR's yard, so I drove a couple miles back north for the "cheap gas" and was waiting for the pump to fill up the car when I heard another UP train coming.
At first I thought it was just another intermodal with lots of power on the front but I immediately realized the single level containers on the head pin were all green or tan DODX boxes and had the immediate, helpless realization something "cool" was passing by. Sure enough, it was a military train and turned out to be one of the most interesting ones I've ever seen with bridging tanks, Abrams, Bradleys, Paladins and ammo tracks, plus all kinds of support tracks, trucks and other equipment.
I started snapping pictures from the gas station in frustration and once the car was full immediately set off to chase west as far as I needed to so I could get it again. That turned out to be not real far since it got slowed down by track work but the pictures at a non-descript (but very wide open!) grade crossing were kind of boring looking at the head end with most of the visible train just being containers. It did allow me to roster shoot the neat consist though. Looking back at the pictures, I actually liked how this came out with the UP mural along the former station wall and a M109 Paladin and M992 Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle passing by behind. Benson, AZ 4/13/2025
This is my first result from using Gain Zero with the 294mm. I live in Bortle 7/8 zone so I've been battling gradients using unity gain.
It might be the way to go but I need to do some changes in processing Unity Gain to be sure and get a one to one comparison.
RBG - ~1.5 hours each
L - 4 hours
Summary - I can obviously improve the detail by adding more luminance time which I will do. Maybe 10 total hours to see what it looks like.
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 294MM PRO Cool
Mount: Losmandy GM811G
Filters: Baader 36mm LRGB Filters
Software: ZWO ASIAIR PRO SOFTWARE
Dates:
Feb. 26, 2022 · Feb. 27, 2022
Frames:
Baader 36mm B: 57x90" (1h 25' 30") (gain: 0.00) -15C bin 2x2
Baader 36mm G: 57x90" (1h 25' 30") (gain: 0.00) -15C bin 2x2
Baader 36mm L: 464x30" (3h 52') (gain: 0.00) -15C bin 2x2
Baader 36mm R: 65x90" (1h 37' 30") (gain: 0.00) -15C bin 2x2
Integration: 8h 20' 30"
Darks: 30
Flats: 50
Flat darks: 30
Avg. Moon age: 25.47 days
Avg. Moon phase: 17.72%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00
Temperature: 5.00
Messier 109 (also known as NGC 3992) is a barred spiral galaxy exhibiting a weak inner ring structure around the central bar approximately 83.5 ± 24 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. M109 can be seen southeast of the star Phecda (γ UMa).
Messier 109 was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. In 1783 Charles Messier catalogued NGC 3992 as his 109th object.
Between the 1920s through the 1950s, it was considered that Messier objects over 103 were not official, but in later years the additions became more widely accepted. David H. Levy mentions the modern 110 object catalog while Sir Patrick Moore gave the original to 104 but has M105-M109 listed as an addendum. By the late 1970s all 110 objects are commonly used among astronomers as they still are today.
In March 1956, supernova 1956A was observed in M109. SN 1956A was a type Ia supernova in the southeast part of the galaxy, glowing at magnitude 12.8 to 12.3 at its maximum. SN 1956A has been the only supernova observed in M109 since its discovery. It is also by far the most distant object in the Messier Catalog, followed by M91. M109 has three satellite galaxies (UGC 6923, UGC 6940 and UGC 6969) and possibly might have more. Detailed hydrogen line observations have been obtained from M109 and its satellites. M109's H I distribution is regular with a low level radial extension outside the stellar disc, while at exactly the region of the bar, there is a central H I hole in the gas distribution. Possibly the gas has been transported inwards by the bar, and because of the emptiness of the hole no large accretion events can have happened in the recent past.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_109
Taken on May 12, 2017 at the Sugar Grove Nature Center in McLean, Illinois. USA.
Type: LRGB: 8:8:8:8 frames of 300, 180, 180, 180 secs each.
Hardware: AT8RC, SBIG ST8300M
Software: Nebulosity, CCDStack, Photoshop CS6
Messier 109 (NGC 3992) is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. This galaxy is about 84 million light years away from Earth.
Tech Specs: Meade 12" LX90, Canon 6D, 60 x 60 seconds at ISO 3200 (includes darks, bias and flats), guided. Image Date: March 26, 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Comet C/2017 T2 makes quite the photo op as it passes by Galaxies Messier M81 and M82 in the night sky this past Sunday night, May 24, 2020, in this image taken at Grand Mesa Observatory, www.grandmesaobservatory.com. Captured and processed by Terry Hancock and Tom Masterson.
Discovered on Oct. 2, 2017 by the PanSTARRS sky survey, this comet has put on quite the show this year. Here it's seen passing about one and a half degrees away from Bode's Galaxy (M81) and the Cigar Galaxy (M82). At about 12 million light-years distant, these galaxies would take a bit longer to get to than the 13.79 light-minutes it would take you to get from Earth to C/2017 T2. Next month around June 16, C/2017 T2 will make another close rendezvous in our night sky with another Galaxy, M109, coming within a degree of it. Then, on June 23, it'll be less than one degree from Galaxy M106. It is now visible in small telescopes or decent binoculars, a nice treat to those with dark and clear skies in the Northern Hemisphere!
A great write-up on Comet C/2017 T2 can be found on Universe Today at www.universetoday.com/144774/catch-comet-t2-panstarrs-thi...
A real time tracker of Comet C/2017 T2 can be found here: theskylive.com/c2017t2-info
Technical Info:
Captured from Grand Mesa Observatory in Western Colorado on the May 24 2020 using the QHY367 Pro C Full Frame One Shot color CMOS camera on one of the Twin Takahashi E-180 Astrographs “System 4a”
Total Integration time: 2.1 hours
Image details
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colo.
38.963365, -108.237225
Dates of capture: May 24, 10:49pm - May 25, 1:02am
Color RGGB 125 min, 25 x 300 sec
Camera: QHY367 Pro C Color CMOS
Gain 2850, Offset 76
Calibrated with flat, Dark & Bias
Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre Processed in Pixinsight and Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed in Photoshop
camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro with EFW 7x2"
filters: Optolong LRGB and Chroma 3-nm Ha/O3
telescope: TEC 140 f/7
mount: 10Micron GM2000 QCI
guider: ZWO ASI120 mini on 50-mm f/4 guidescope
exposure: L 30x10min (1x1) + RGB 20x5min (2x2)
location: Les Granges, 900 m (Hautes Alpes, France)
software: TheSkyX Pro, CCD Commander, Pixinsight, PS CC
date: 28 Apr - 2 Jul 2022
Happy labor day everyone, i was able to crank this one out in a few hours last night so its going to be my last build before school. i hope you guys like it, it's 100 percent my design, and as of now i dont know of any other ones? ENJOY
Die Re4/4 II 11259 unterwegs mit einem Panzerzug aus Thun nach Gampel-Steg, beladen mit 8 Panzerhaubitze M109 sowie weiteren Militärfahrzeugen (Frutigen, 31.10.2016).
Foto © Roger Lüthi.
A barred spiral galaxy often called the Vacuum galaxy.
Found in the constellation of Ursa Major some 60 million light years away, it's estimated to contain around 1 trillion stars.
Several other galaxies are also visible.
Boring Techie bit:
Telescope: Skywatcher Quattro 8"
Mount: EQ6r pro
Camera: ZWO 533mc pro
Filter: Optolong UV/IR.
Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+ using Altair 60mm guide scope & ZWO 585mc.
88 light frames 180 seconds each.
Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats & bias using WBPP in PixInsight.
Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
Messier 109 (NGC 3992) is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. You can see the star Phecda in the upper left shining with a magnitude of 2.4. Closer examination of the area around M109 shows three possible satellite galaxies, UGC 6923, UGC 6940 and UGC 6969.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, Canon 6D stock camera, 39 x 60 seconds with dark and bias frames, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Image date: March 11, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.
Obama Prayer TV, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA
01/20/2008
20x24 Digital C-Print
Edition of 5 - $500
This print is included in So Help Me, an exhibition of photography, audio and video from the 2008 Presidential Campaign at Opal Gallery in Atlanta, GA, in Nov. 2008.
side view.
For a barn lover like myself, it's hard to top the D. H. Day barn. This old structure is appealing on so many levels. I like its architectural design, superb craftsmanship and I think it's atheistically beautiful. I have several barns in my photostream, but as far as these old structures go, this one is my favorite.
The D.H. Day Farm (circa 1890) is a Michigan landmark, which sits just outside Glen Haven. The structure is 116-foot-long, and it dominates the landscape along historic route M-109. The Society of Architectural Historians chose the D.H. Day farm as one of the 50 Most Significant Structures in Michigan. A well deserved distinction, in my opinion !
At the main entrance to National Defense Headquarters (NDHQ) they have a RCAF Sea-King Helicopter, Army M109 Artillery piece and RCN 3-70mm gun turret on display.
The 435 Sqadron was originally formed in 1942 during WWII and disbanded several time to be reformed in it’s current role of anti-submarine in 1974. It is based in Shearwater NS.
/// Setup
- Camera: Moravian G2-8300 + OAG
- Telescope: Omegon 126/880 Triplet Apo
- Corrector: TS 2.5" Fullframe Corrector
- Mount: Losmandy G11 on Pier
- Guiding Camera: Lodestar X2
/// Software
- Capturing Software: Sequence Generator Pro
- Processing Software: DeepSkyStacker / Fitswork / PixInsight
/// Image Integration
- Date: 07.04.18
-6x450" R / bin 1x1 / -25°C
-6x450" G / bin 1x1 / -25°C
-6x450" B / bin 1x1 / -25°C
-22x450" L / bin 1x1 / -25°C
(2h15min RGB + 2h45min Luminance)
Takahashi Epsilon 160 ED
Montura CGE PRO - DIY ONSTEP
Cámara QHY268C con filtro L genérico
Guiado con Astromania 60/240mm y ASI 178MM
105x300s, -20°, Gain 0, Offset 30, photographic mode
Darks, flats, bias flats
Procesada en PI y Darktable
Ahuacatepec, Jalisco, México, Marzo del 2023
Instagram: @fdopc
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2022-04-19 23:00-04:00
Clear, little wind, rising moon, 75% humidity, 9 degrees C
65x60s R
74x60s G
70x60s B
2022-04-21 23:00-04:00
Clear, little wind, no moon, 65% humidity, 8 degrees C
225x60s L
Camera: ASI1600MM-COOL+ZWO EFWmini, Baader R,G,B,Ha,SII,OIII, IDAS LPS-D1, gain 200, offset 50, -20C
Lens: TS-Optics 8" f/4 UNC Newtonian with GPU Superflat 2" Coma Corrector
Mount: EQ6-R Pro
QHY 5L-II-M OAG auto guider
Software: N.I.N.A., PixInsight, Photoshop
Location: Borås, Sweden
Galaxia M109 y otras 186 galaxias en la constelación de Ursa Major, desde Las Inviernas (Guadalajara).
Fecha: 06-02-2022, de 01h40m a 03h25m U.T.
Lugar: Las Inviernas, Guadalajara
Temperatura ambiente: de -03.0ºC a -05.5ºC
Cámara: ZWO ASI071MC Pro
Óptica:
Telescopio Newtoniano TS, 200mm de diámetro f/4.
Corrector de coma Baader MPCC Mark III.
Filtro: Omegon Light Pollution Filter.
Montura: Skywatcher EQ6 Pro Synscan v.3.25
Guiado: Automático con QHY-5 mono y PHD Guiding v.1.14.0, utilizando un telescopio refractor Orion 80mm de diámetro a f/5.
Exposiciones:
18 imágenes de 300s cada una, a -05ºC y 100 de ganancia
en total, 1h30min.
30 darks de 300s, a -05ºC y 100 de ganancia
30 flats de 2s, a -05ºC y 300 de ganancia
30 bias de 0.001s, a -05ºC y 100 de ganancia
Software: DeepSkyStacker v.4.2.0
PixInsight LE 1.0
Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
Astronomy Tools v.1.6
Observaciones:
Además de M109, se pueden observar otras 186 galaxias lejanas en la fotografía de hasta magnitud 20.
La estrella brillante de la fotografia es Gamma UMa, que se encuentra a una distancia de 83,17 años-luz de la Tierra.
M109 a 83,5 millones de años-luz.
This is the barred-spiral galaxy Messier 109 (M109 or NGC 3992) found in the constellation Ursa Major. M109 is about 83 million light years away from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 10.6. M109 has several satellite galaxies all visible in this image. Estimates indicate that this galaxy contains about 1 trillion stars!
If you are viewing this on Facebook, I've also included an annotated image.
Distance to Earth: 83 million light years
Apparent Magnitude: 10.6
Right ascension: 11h 57m 36.0s
Declination: +53° 22′ 28″
Apparent dimensions: 7.6 × 4.7 arc minutes
Tech Specs: Orion 8" f/8 Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph Telescope, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI290MC and ASI071MC-Pro, ZWO AAPlus, ZWO EAF, 135 x 60 seconds at -10C plus darks and flats, processed using PixInsight and DSS. Image Date: January 3, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
When Pennsylvania and Southern No. 17 had the majority of the paint work completed, I got the call to come down and get some shots in the sun to send along to the boss. After coordinating the shoot with the Letterkenny Army Depot, the SW1200 was parked at the main gate next to a row of the equipment that is serviced and refurbished there, including a MIM-104 Patriot missile TEL (the tan apparatus on the left) and a M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery (right.) I cloned out the mess of power lines that fill the sky here in case the shot was needed promotionally; I'll do it again when I can return here with the completed work.
It was decided that the silver trucks, which were likely last panted when the SW7 was rebuilt into an SW1200, should be painted black. The pup went back into the shop for more paint and rolled out last month in it's current look (check my album for more photos.)
In addition to the commercial customers outside the gates, the Pennsylvania and Southern handles the rail service inside the depot. The shortline operates out of the former US Army engine house which is located outside the depot, on the grounds of what is now the Cumberland Valley Business Park. There are two USAX General Electric 80Tonners there as well, which are used by the P&S as needed.
Japan Air Self-Defence Force / Mitsubishi F-4EJ Phantom II / Mumbo 23 / 87-8409 (cn M109) / Nagoya - Komaki (NKM/RJNA) / 03.Mar.2018.
BLOG: darksideobservatory.com/messier-109-a-barred-spiral-galax...
Here is some combined data from 2019 and 2020 totaling 131 minutes on the barred-spiral galaxy Messier 109 (M109 or NGC 3992) found in the constellation Ursa Major. M109 is about 83 million light years away from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 10.6. M109 has three satellite galaxies (UGC 6923, UGC 6940 and UGC 6969), all visible in this image, and possibly might have more (ref: Wikipedia). Estimates indicate that this galaxy contains about 1 trillion stars!
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, Canon 6D (unmod), 131 x 60 second exposures, ISO3200, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using BYE and processed using PixInsight. Image date: February 19, 2020 and data from 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Towns with Military history,
The M109 155mm Self-Propelled Howitzer on display was in B Battery, 1 RCHA from 1968 to 2005. This particular gun fired Canada’s first M109 round in 1968 and took part in the final regimental shoot in 2005.
Japan Air Self-Defence Force / Mitsubishi F-4EJ Phantom II
/ Mumbo Skyer / 87-8409 (cn M109) / Gifu (RJNG) / 19.Nov.2017.
Messier 109 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major, it is about 84 million light-years away it has a magnitude of 10.6.
Tech Specs: This image is composed of 50 x 60 second images at ISO 3,200 with 5 x 60 second darks and 5 x 1/4000 second bias frames using a using a Meade LX90 12” telescope and Canon 6D camera mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount (ASI290MC and Canon 400mm lens for guiding). Imaging was done on March 23, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
M109 (NGC 3992) est une vaste galaxie spirale barrée située dans la constellation de la Grande Ourse à près de 67 M a.l.
Instrument de prise de vue: Sky-watcher T250/1000 Newton F4
Caméra d'imagerie: QHY5-III-462c
Monture: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Pro Goto USB
Instrument de guidage: Lunette TS 80/328 F4,1
Caméra de guidage: ZWO 120 mini
Chercheur : Obj. 56 mm + ZWO ASI294 MC-Cool+ FireCapture
Logiciels acquisition: Stellarium - ScharpCap - PHD2 Guiding
Logiciels traitement :Siril - Gimp - Darktable - FastStone Images Viewer
Filtres:IR-Cut / IR-Block ZWO
Accessoire: GPU coma-correcteur Sky-watcher
Dates: 04 Mars 2023 - 01h58 TU
Images unitaires: 1473 x 15"
Intégration: 6h 08 min.
Gain :249
Échantillonnage: 0.6 "/px
Seeing: 1.63 "Arc
Bortle: 5
Phase de la Lune (moyenne): 92 %