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The Whirlpool Galaxy (also known as Messier 51 or NGC 5194) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici and is interacting with its companion (NGC 5195). These galaxies are approximately 26 million light years away and are pulling each other apart with their gravitational pull. This image was taken using an astromodified Canon EOS 1000D and Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN, consisting 16 x 45s exposures at ISO1600 and edited in Nebulosity 3 and Lightroom 4.
Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters (also known as Messier 45), is an open star cluster located in the constellation Taurus and is approximately 380 light years from Earth. This image was captured using an astro-modded Canon EOS 1000D attached to a Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN Pro. The image comprises 4 x 200s exposures, stacked and processed using Nebulosity 3 and Photoshop CS6.
Sept 11 2010
Nikon FM2N
50mm f/1.8 (I think)
Fujichrome Sensia 400
Single 2 minute (I think) shot with camera mounted on a manual "barndoor" equatorial tracking drive. I totally intended to frame Cassiopeia, but M31 was just a lucky catch!
Grand Mesa Observatory NASA Astronomy Picture Of The Day September 8th "Star Factory Messier 17
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230908.html
Over 4 nights back in June, July, and August we captured a nice RGB color dataset of the Omega Nebula from Grand Mesa Observatory. Listed as M17 in the Messier object catalog this nebula has quite a few nicknames, Swan Nebula, Checkmark Nebula, Lobster Nebula, and the Horseshoe Nebula although most call it by its more common Omega Nebula name.
This image was captured and processed by Terry Hancock
At about 5,000 – 6,000 light-years distant this area is listed as a bright H II region of space which is composed of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionized and contains a molecular cloud of other partially ionized gas and dust in an area where star formation has recently taken place. It is believed that the Omega Nebula’s geometry is like the Orion Nebula however our view of it is edge on rather than face on giving it a much different shape in our night sky. The Omega Nebula is considered one of the brightest and most massive star-forming regions of the Milky Way, our home galaxy. There are somewhere around 800 stars in the Omega Nebula which are responsible for much of the resulting illumination with 9 type O stars that are between 15 to 90 times the mass of the Sun and about 40,000 to 1,000,000 times as luminous. This area contains the open star cluster NGC 6618 which is thought to be one of the youngest clusters known with an age of around 1 million years.
Technical Info:
Captured over 4 nights in June, July and August 2023 for Total acquisition time of 14.3 hours.
RGB 858 min 143 x 360 sec
Camera: QHY294C one shot color CMOS
Filter Wheel: QHYCFW3 Medium
Gain 2850, Offset 76
Calibrated with dark, and dark Flat Frames
Optics: William Optics FLT 156mm F7.8 1228mm
Image Scale: 0.76 arcsec/pix
Field of View: 0.90 0.61
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software NINA Pre-Processing in PixInsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
September 2020 and my first attempt at photographing the Andromeda galaxy.
33 images, ISO1600 f/2.8 at 30 seconds each.
This is my first time photographing the Orion Nebula through my Skywatcher telescope. It has been such fun processing the photos to reach the final image.
It is composed of...
26 stacked photos - ISO800 20 seconds
63 stacked photos - ISO800 25 seconds
24 stacked photos - ISO1600 20 seconds
The photos were stacked using Sequator and then processed in Affinity. A final touch in DeNoise.
I cannot wait for some more clear skies.
A cropped version of my latest attempt at M13, using a Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MMN and a Tele Vue 2 x Powermate to increase magnification and detail. This is the result of 10 x 180s exposures using a QHY8L, captured using Nebulosity 3 and processed in Photoshop CS6.
The Wizard Nebula (also known as NGC 7380) surrounds a developing open star cluster in the constellation Cepheus and is located 7200 light years from Earth.
The image is the result of 15 x 600s exposures, captured using a QHY8L attached to an Altair Wave 115ED with 0.79x focal reducer.
A re-processed version of the Orion Nebula, incorporating 10 x 45s exposures in order to allow greater definition of the Trapezium in the centre. The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, or M42) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Sword of Orion. Located approximately 1,300 light years from Earth, it is estimated to be 24 light years across and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. This image was captured using a QHY8L camera, attached to a Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN Pro. The image consists of 10 x 200s and 10 x 45s exposures, stacked and processed using Nebulosity 3 and Photoshop CS6.
This is the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and its two companion galaxies M32 and M110. Shot with an EOS 550D mounted to a Skywatcher 150/750 telescope. This time I used longer individual expsures and also a different stacking algorythm. Total exposure was 46 minutes with ISO 800.
The Ring Nebula (also known as Messier M57) is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Lyra and is approximately 2,300 light years from earth. It was formed when a shell of ionized gas was expelled by a giant red star, during its dying transformation into a white dwarf. The image comprises 10 x 300s RGB exposures and 3 x 1800s Ha added as luminosity, captured using a QHY8L and Tele Vue 2x Powermate attached to a Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN Pro.
This is the planetary nebula Messier 27, also known as Dumbbell Nebula. Shot with an EOS 550D mounted to a Skywatcher 150/750 telescope. Exposure was around 33 minutes and 55 seconds with ISO 800.
Venus in focus bright in the Night sky acompanied by M45 the pleiades star cluster also known as the "seven sisters" or "subaru" shine their ancient lights above while representing an astonomic union of Womanhood on Easter Sunday night 2012
shutter 1 second
aperture F1.8
manual exposure
50mm
spot metering
ISO 400
The Triangulum Galaxy (also known as Messier M33) is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy and about 30 other smaller galaxies. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye. This image is the result of 10 x 300s exposures, captured using a QHY8L attached to a Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN Pro and processed using Nebulosity 3 and Photoshop CS6.
Messier 31 (Andromeda Galaxy) with Messiers 32 and 110
2018-10-30 & 2018-11-02, Didcot, England
A fresh attempt at this target using two sessions of data. Unfortunately both nights were not ideal conditions (I suffered with dew and high level clouds). I also am still learning the best settings as ISO800 and 300s subs only give me ~40% peak histogram so I may be better off looking at ISO1600 or something. We shall see!
Either way, the addition of Astronomy Tools v1.6 to Photoshop has been a game changer! Additionally the walkthrough guide at www.myastronomyjournal.com/DSLR-AIP/C002-M31-Walkthrough/ proved invaluable to improving my overall processing techniques. I hope that this image has some modesty about the processing as I have previously always been tempted to over-process to squeeze out every last bit of detail at the cost of heavy noise and a somewhat unnatural look.
Gear:
Skywatcher 130-PDS with 0.9x coma corrector (585 mm, f/4.5)
Skywatcher NEQ6-Pro Synscan
Canon EOS 550D (unmodified) and Skywatcher 2" LP filter
ZWO ASI120-MC guide camera
Skywatcher Startravel 80 guide scope
Acquisition & Processing:
- AstrophotographyTools (APT) and PHD2 guiding with dithering
- 34 x 300s = total 170 minutes @ ISO 800
- 2x20 flats, 16 library darks, library bias
- Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and post-processed in Photoshop CC 2018 (with Gradient Xterminator + Astronomy Tools v1.6)
Messier 45 the Pleiades or the seven sisters, near to the constellation of Taurus it is an open star cluster that is dominated by young hot blue luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. Surrounded by reflection nebulae and lots and lots of dust, all illuminated by the stars, it is recorded as the closest messier catalogue object to Earth at a distance of 444 light years away.
Equipment
Altair Astro 72EDF f/6 (x1.0 Starwave flattener)
AA183C ProTEC
SkyTech LPRO-MAX filter
AA50mm Guider 130M GPCAM (PHD2 guiding)
SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6 GT mount
Captured with SharpCap Pro 4, using the software’s suggested smart histogram settings.
Exposure: 44.6sec
Gain: 389
BL: 24
TEC Temp: -1°C
162 Lights
50 Darks
50 Flats
50 Dk Flats
Integration with Astro Pixel Processor
Processed with PixInsight, RC Blur XTerminator - Noise XTerminator
Final tweaks with Adobe Photoshop
This is the galaxy Messier 109, also known as the Vacuum Cleaner Galaxy. It is located near the star Phecda in the constellation Ursa Major (Big Dipper). With a distance of 83.5 ± 24 million lightyears Messier 109 is the farthest of all Messier objects. You can also see its three fainter satellite galaxies: UGC 6923, UGC 6940 and UGC 6969. Shot with an EOS 550D mounted to a Skywatcher 150/750 telescope. Exposure was around 33 minutes and 48 seconds with ISO 800.
Orion is the sky's brightest emission nebula at magnitude 3.8, and it is our galaxy's closest star forming region at 1,600 light years away. You can even see it from most cities - it is the middle "star" in the sword. This is probably the most rewarding object to photograph up there - so large, bright and colorful.
I took about a dozen shots at ISO 200 and ISO 800 at prime focus on a Celestron 9.25" tube with a focal reducer, varying the exposure lengths between about 10-360 seconds, and using manual guiding. No dark frames were used. Stacking the varied exposures helps reduce the wide dynamic range.
The Whirlpool Galaxy (also known as Messier 51 or NGC 5194) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici and is interacting with its companion (NGC 5195). These galaxies are approximately 26 million light years away and are pulling each other apart with their gravitational pull. This image is my second attempt at capturing this object and was taken using a QHY8L and Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN, consisting 30 x 45s exposures, 10 x 200s exposures and 6 x 600s H-alpha exposures (luminosity), stacked in Nebulosity 3 and processed using Photoshop CS6.
Messier 74 is a face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. At a distance of about 32 million light-years away from Earth, its low surface brightness makes it the most difficult Messier object for amateur astronomers to observe. The galaxy contains two clearly defined spiral arms and it is estimated to be home to about 100 billion stars. This is my first attempt at M74, which at Mag 9.8 (according to AstroPlanner) is one of the dimmer objects in the Messier Catalogue. It is the result of 15 x 300s exposures, taken from my garden in Somerset using my QHY8L (with a clear nose piece - no IR cut) and Hutech IDAS P2 LPS filter, attached to my Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN Pro and mounted on a NEQ6 Pro. Guiding was done with a Starlight XPress Lodestar and PHD. Images were captured using QHY's bundled EZCAP software. Pre-processing and stacking was done in Nebulosity 3, with final processing done in Photoshop CS6.
Messier 67 (M67), also known as NGC 2682 or more commonly nicknamed the King Cobra Cluster, is an open cluster located in the northern constellation Cancer. The cluster has an apparent magnitude of 6.1 and lies at an approximate distance of 2,610 to 2,930 light years from Earth. It is one of the oldest known open clusters and the single oldest open cluster listed by Messier in his catalogue, with an estimated age of 3.2 to 5 billion years.
This image is the result of 14 x 180s exposures, captured using a QHY8L and Altair Wave 115ED with 0.79x reducer and field flattener. The images were captured using Sequence Generator Pro 3, preprocessing was done using PixInsight with final processing done in Photoshop CC.
M31 Andromeda Galaxy
The Images were taken from my backyard in Montreal (bortle 9). I have combined images taken in 2019 with images taken in October and November 2022 for a total of 117.2 h of exposure time.
This time around, I decided to push the limits on exposure time to see what kind of results I could get. Imaging a galaxy from a heavy light pollution area is not an easy task and for this image it wasn't easy in deed. There is a satisfying amount of detail but the colours were very difficult to manage, even though I took 63h of RGB.
The Andromeda galaxy (M31 or NGC 224) is 2.5 million light-years from earth and has a diameter of about 152 000 light-year. It is the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way and it can be seen with the naked eye (in dark skies) in the constellation of Andromeda. In 4 to 5 billion years the Andromeda galaxy is expected to collide with the Milky Way.
Technical details:
Exposure times
L: 926 x 2 min
Ha: 278 x 5 min
R: 423 x 2 min
G: 392 x 2 min
B: 480 x 2 min
Canon T3i : 600 x 2 min (taken in 2019)
Total exposure: 117.2 h
Equipment
Telescope: WO Star 71
Mount: Paramount MyT
Cameras: ASI 1600MM and Canon T3i
Filters: Optolong Ha, L,R,G,B (for the ASI 1600) and IDAS LPS (for the Canon T3i)
This is M45, the pleiades. You can achive nice deepsky-photos even with a relatively low end lens. Shot with a Canon EOS 550D and a EF 35-135mm pump-zoom-lens.
M106 is a beautiful spiral
galaxy close to the Big Dipper in Ursa Major, though it is actually located in the constellation Canes Venatici. Even at a distance of 22 million lightyears it is a fairly bright object, easily observed through a small telescope. This image is 2h 50m of exposure time through an Ritchey Chretien astrograph. A number of fainter, more distant, galaxies can also be spotted in this image.
Galaxy M101 (Pinwheel galaxy). Picture taken from my backyard in Montreal with my new Rising Cam (IMX571)
Galaxie M101 (Galaxie du Moulinet). Image prise de ma cours arrière à Montréal avec ma nouvelle caméra Rising Cam (IMX571)
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The Eagle Nebula (also known as Messier M16) is an open star cluster and diffuse emission nebula in the constellation Serpens and is approximately 7,000 light years from Earth. Within it are several star forming gas and dust regions, including the famous 'Pillars of Creation'. The image was captured using an astro-modded Canon EOS 1000D attached to a Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN Pro. The image comprises 9 x 200s images, stacked and processed using Nebulosity 3 and Photoshop CS6.
The Great Cluster in the constellation Hercules – also known as Messier 13, or M13 – is considered to be the finest globular cluster in the northern hemesphere. It conatins more than 300,000 stars and is 25,100 light-years from Earth. This image is the result of 14 x 180s exposures, captured using a QHY8L and Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN. The images were captured and stacked using Nebulosity 3, with final processing done in Photoshop CS6.
In this photo of Orions Belt and Orions Sword you can nicely see the Flame Nebula, the Horsehead Nebula, the Running Man Nebula and the Great Orion Nebula. Shot with a Canon EOS 550D and a EF 35-135mm pump-zoom-lens.
This is the Galaxy Messier 74. This is a 3 times drizzled, cropped section of a previous photo. Shot with an EOS 550D mounted to a Skywatcher 150/750 telescope. Exposure was around 49 minutes with ISO 800.
The Lagoon Nebula (also known as Messier 8 or NGC 6523) is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. Classed as an emission nebula, it is estimated to be between 4,000-6,000 light years from the Earth.
This is a combination of narrowband and broadband data combined for an HOO palette. The Oxygen-III signal is very weak, so the blue doesn't show very well on this integration. I also ran into some technical difficulties with my RGB data, and the quality of the stars has suffered slightly. Still, this marks my first full narrowband project, and I am pleased with the results, but much more room for improvement!
This image was captured under challenging Bortle 8 light conditions, with a plump moon very close to my field of view. The filters really allow a lot of light pollution to be suppressed, and the resulting image is fairly clean. This was captured with a series of 30s, 300s, and 360s subexposures, around 30 for each filter.
The Great Cluster in the constellation Hercules – also known as Messier 13, or M13 – is considered to be the finest globular cluster in the northern hemesphere. It conatins more than 300,000 stars and is 25,100 light-years from Earth. This image is the result of 10 x 180s exposures. Captured using Nebulosity 3, the colour data is missing from this image for some reason, but clearly shows lots of fine detail in the cluster.
First attempt at a stacked image, it's only 3x5s subs with 3x5s blacks so didn't expect much but got more than I expected. Gives a bit of hope for longer and more subs.
Dumbell Nebula with a Nikon D7000 and Celestron NexStar 5se, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker.
The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 27 or M27) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula and is approximately 1,360 light years from earth. This image is the result of a mere 6 x 200 second exposures, captured using a QHY8L cooled CCD camera attached to a Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN Pro. The images were stacked and pre-processed in Nebulosity 3, with final processing completed in Photoshop CS6.
The Cigar Galaxy (M82) is a starburst galaxy approximately 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major and is five times more luminous than the whole Milky Way. The starburst activity is thought to be triggered by interaction with neighboring galaxy M81. Embedded within the galaxy is SN 2014J; an apparent type Ia supernova, it was observed in the galaxy on 21 January 2014 and is one of the closest supernovae seen for decades.
This image is the result of 15 x 120s exposures, captured using a QHY8L mounted to a Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN Pro. The image was stacked in Nebulosity 3 and processed in Photoshop CS6.
First time I've been able to get this, usually it's straight up and there's not enough clearance between the visual back and the mount to fit the D7000 on but the mount EQ aligned and the wedge in place it fits just fine. Only a singe RAW exposure thanks to problems with the scope power supply