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NGC 4731 is a somewhat warped barred spiral galaxy about 65 million light-years away and is a member of the Virgo Cluster. It's angular size is quite small at only 6.7 x 4.1 arc minutes. There is a galaxy out of frame (NGC 4697) that has gravitationally distorted 4731. The small galaxy to the lower left is an irregular galaxy designated NGC 4731A
This image has been cropped from the full frame version which can be seen here: pbase.com/gailmarc/image/170666070/original
This is 920 minute (15.33 hour) LLsRGB image using 10 & 15 minute subs.
Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 arc minutes
FOV: 18.8 x 12.1 arc minutes @ 0.59 arc second/pixel
During data acquisition seeing was poor to good ranging from 2.6 to 1.7 arcsec FWHM
SBIG STXL 11002M, AO-X, FW8G, Officina Stellare ProRC 360
Data acquisition: CCDAutopilot and TheSkyX
Processing: CCDStack and Photoshop
Katydids are known for their shrill "katy-DID-katy-DIDN'T" songs.
Have a great day Flickr friends! ;-)
I'm still finding little hidden gems in my archives. I posted a shot of this building in Bristol about a year ago. I love the crazy angles on this and the contrast in blues. It looks like it could either a horizonal or vertical shot.
frosty corner of a field near magpie mine in the uk peak district - the acute angle of the corner with the barn slap bang in the middle, and the way the log was laid really caught my eye.
More abstract architecture from 55 Baker Street, London.
It's my daughter's Birthday this weekend, so it's off to Bristol for a bit of retail therapy and noodles for lunch!
One of the busiest weeks in a long time, so Alison Moyet in concert on Saturday, Paloma Faith in concert on Tuesday complete with a 42 piece orchestra/jazz band and finally saw the Vienna Festival Ballet perform Swan Lake on Thursday. Great fun, exhausting, but worth it! Will catch up with everyone as soon as I can....
Shapes and angles of the urban jungle.
Pentax SF1n, Pentax-M 50mm f/1.4
Lomography Babylon 13
FPP-110 (1+31)
PlusTek Opticfilm 8200i
This the largest photomosaic ever assembled from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away. It took over 10 years to make this vast and colorful portrait of the galaxy, requiring over 600 Hubble snapshots. The galaxy is so close to us, that in angular size it is six times the apparent diameter of the full Moon, and can be seen with the unaided eye. For Hubble’s pinpoint view, that’s a lot of celestial real estate to cover. This stunning, colorful mosaic captures the glow of 200 million stars. That’s still a fraction of Andromeda’s population. And the stars are spread across about 2.5 billion pixels. The detailed look at the resolved stars will help astronomers piece together the galaxy’s past history that includes mergers with smaller satellite galaxies.
[Image description: The Andromeda galaxy, a spiral galaxy, spreads across the image. It is tilted nearly edge-on to our line of sight so that it appears very oval. The borders of the galaxy are jagged because the image is a mosaic of smaller, square images against a black background. The outer edges of the galaxy are blue, while the inner two-thirds is yellowish with a bright, central core. Dark, dusty filamentary clouds wrap around the outer half of the galaxy’s disk. At 10 o’clock, a smaller dwarf elliptical galaxy forms a fuzzy, yellow blob. Hubble’s sharp vision distinguishes about 200 million stars within the image.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, B. Williams (University of Washington); CC BY 4.0
Going Abstract 2016 - Week 2
The fact of seeing something I think I can place or recognize, yet seeing it in a totally different way or context.
The colour blue feels dreamy and the shapes of the white areas definitely feel 'floaty'. The emotions I feel are: astonishment, enthusiasm and joy.. I'm in a totally different world transported by this image.
Am I moving? Is it moving? Where am I?
Awesome Aventador I saw a few weeks back. This shot has a good before / after edit that I will post the link to soon. LINK - www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=330564050400088&set=a...
All comments welcome!
I was hoping to capitalise on the abundance of fluffy clouds and blue sky today....................,unfortunately by the time I'd got out things had changed somewhat.............. :(
Still managed a couple of LE shots with the welding glass and ND8 combo,this is one of them,Taken at Mann Island in Liverpool.
Thanks for looking,
Chris.
An abstract detail from the Life Sciences Building at Bristol University. This section was quite a stark contrast to the smooth, shiny, metal facade and hidden away on the roof.
A beautiful end-of-the world kind of day in Maryland. Just past the middle of February and it is 70 Deg F (21.1 C). Still not that inspired, I decided to go visit my favorite herd of Goats at a friends place. We hung out together for about 1-1/2 hrs which made my day. I took 574 shots. This time I used my Macro lens in addition to the 100-400mm zoom. I liked the look from being above the goats. The diagonal shadow helps enhance the angular approach. Just a few more to go, Lucky you.
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