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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
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• EQ6-R Pro
• ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
• ZWO L: 178x90s
• ZWO R, G, B: 75x90s bin2
(total integration 6.3h)
• -20° sensor temp., Gain 0 (HDR)
• TS GPU coma corrector
• 60x240 guide scope, ZWO ASI290Mini guide cam
Captured with ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF, ZWO ASIAIR Pro
Saint Petersburg, Russia, home balcony.
Bortle 8-9 with SQM ~17.6
Captured in three nights in february 2022
processed with DSS & Pixinsight
How can you look at galaxy and not feel insignificant?
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Its my first edit with two pics, hope you like it!
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Photo by me: Vittoria Busi
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.
NGC 253 - the Sculptor Galaxy - is one of the brightest (and dustiest) spiral galaxies beyond our Milky Way. It is suggested that there is the presence of a supermassive black hole in the centre with a mass estimated to be five million times that of our Sun!
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Image Information
Telescope: Planewave 20" CDK | f4.5
Camera: FLI-PL6303E CCD
Mount: Planewave Ascension 200HR
Camera Sensitivity: L Bin 1x1, RGB Bin 1x1
Exposure Details: L 16 x 300 sec, RGB 21 x 300 sec
Observatory: iTelescope.net at Siding Spring Observatory, NSW, Australia
Date Taken: October/November 2018
Post-Processing: AstroPixelProcessor, PS
Androdema Galaxy (M31) and its sisters galaxies (M32 & M110)
Nikon D5100 + Zenithstar 73
SVBony CLS Filter
90 x 60sec -- ISO 1600
AstroM1
(r2b.2b)
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I was lucky to capture the core of the Milky Way directly behind this windmill during a recent trip to Kansas. It served as a learning experience - I found out 15 seconds is too long of an exposure for a shot at 70 mm.
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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.
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Located in the constellation of Hercules, about 230 million light-years away, NGC 6052 is a pair of colliding galaxies. They were first discovered in 1784 by William Herschel and were originally classified as a single irregular galaxy because of their odd shape. However, we now know that NGC 6052 actually consists of two galaxies that are in the process of colliding. This particular image of NGC 6052 was taken using the Wide Field Camera 3 on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
A long time ago gravity drew the two galaxies together into the chaotic state we now observe. Stars from within both of the original galaxies now follow new trajectories caused by the new gravitational effects. However, actual collisions between stars themselves are very rare as stars are very small relative to the distances between them (most of a galaxy is empty space). Eventually things will settle down and one day the two galaxies will have fully merged to form a single, stable galaxy.
Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, will undergo a similar collision in the future with our nearest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy. Although this is not expected to happen for around 4 billion years so there is nothing to worry about just yet.
This object was previously observed by Hubble with its old WFPC2 camera. That image was released in 2015.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Adamo et al.; CC BY 4.0
NGC 4631 (also known as the Whale Galaxy or Caldwell 32) is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. This galaxy's slightly distorted wedge shape gives it the appearance of a herring or a whale, hence its nickname. Because this nearby galaxy is seen edge-on from Earth, professional astronomers observe this galaxy to better understand the gas and stars located outside the plane of the galaxy. This galaxy lies 31 million light years away.
The Crowbar Galaxy (NGC 4656/57) is a highly warped barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici and is sometimes informally called the Hockey Stick Galaxies or the Crowbar Galaxy. Its unusual shape is thought to be due to an interaction between several other galaxies (NGC 4656, NGC 4631, and NGC 4627). It is about 30 million light years away.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm ZenithStar II Doublet
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with UV/IR Blocking filter
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval
- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Capture Software: SharpCap Pro (LiveStack mode with dithering)
- Light Frames: 20*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -20C
- Dark Frames: 20*4 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise AI
This is galaxy NGC 4725 in the constellation Coma Berenices. What is interesting with this galaxy is that it only has one large spiral arm. Most spiral galaxies, including our Milky Way, have two or more arms.
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).
This is my first attempt at taking this galaxy for my Messier catalogue. I decided to attempt with the 120 Esprit in preparation for my next Tenerife trip is a few weeks time. I would like to take this through the 12" at some point also.
You can see NGC 5474 the small round galaxy in the top left and NGC 5477 above which is part of the outermost spiral arm.
The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs)away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781 and was communicated that year to Charles Messier, who verified its position for inclusion in the Messier Catalogue as one of its final entries.
Telescope - Skywatcher 120 ED Esprit
Gain - 7
Offset - 20
Camera - QHY168C
Guiding - PHD2
Image Capture - EzCap on Mac
Mount - MyT
File - M101 120 Esprit Int Crop BN DBE SCNR Solve ColCal Hist TGV Hist Curves Curves Curves ET Curves x2 Curves.JPG
Exposure - 43 x 300s Total Exp 3.5 hours
IMT5 Observatory in Hampshire
Date Taken - 28th May 2022
Time Taken - 00:35
141m
All processing in PixInsight
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).
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Located between the constellations of Ursa Major and Canes Venatici lies the Whirlpool Galaxy. What you are looking at however is actually two galaxies. The “upper” part – is actually a companion galaxy (NGC 5195). Although they appear to be connected they are not. NGC 5195 is actually floating behind M51 and has been for hundreds of millions of years. This smaller galaxy has a profound effect on M51 using its gravitational muscle to create waves of gaseous material which eventually turns into star forming regions evident by the colorful magenta areas between the two galaxies.
The Whirlpool galaxy is 60 thousand light years across. Distance estimates vary between 15 and 35 million light years from earth. It was discovered in 1773 by Charles Messier while its companion galaxy was discovered in 1781 by Pierre Mechain.
Date:May 30, 2014 and March 11, 2015
Telescope:Vixen VC200L
Mount:AP Mach 1
Camera:Atik 460ex mono
Filters:Astrodon L,R,G,B Gen2
Exposure:L:R:G:B = 70m:60m:60m:60m (RGB bin2x2)
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
Clear skies during the night of the 15th to 16th April allowed me to image the beautiful Needle Galaxy NGC 4565 in Coma Berenices.
This edge-on spiral galaxy is located between 30 and 50 million light-years from us. The galaxy's bright core of stars bulges out on each side of the comparatively thin galactic disk with its prominent dust lanes. The effect is somewhat akin to the analogy of two fried eggs laid back to back!
I have tried to name some of the fainter systems within the wide view. One of these NGC4562 is about 75 million light-years from us. A dwarf galaxy IC3571 is also visible near the Needle Galaxy.
Imaged with a Skywatcher Esprit 120ED and a ZWO 2600MC camera.
82x120s Subs
Flats, Dark Flats and Temp. matched Darks.
Processed using Astro Pixel Processor and Photoshop 2021.
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."
M51 is a pair of interacting galaxies, sometimes referred to as M51a and M51b (they also have NGC numbers), located about 31 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy.
This is a small target for my telescope's focal length, so I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of detail I managed to get. There are at least five additional galaxies in the image.
Rio Rancho NM Bortle 5 zone,
April 14-17, 2023
William Optics Redcat 51
ZWO 183MM pro
ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini
ZWO ASI Air Pro
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
72 x 300s Red
87 x 300s Blue
72 x 300s Green
Darks Flats Dithering
Gain 111 at -10C
Processed in DSS, GraXpert, and PS
Sombrero Galaxy
This is a really interesting object that everyone seems to remember. The Sombrero Galaxy, also known as M104 or NGC 4594 is located in the constellation Virgo. It’s smaller than our galaxy, measuring 50,000 light years across. It has a very large central bulge and an incredible dust lane in its inclined disk. This is where it gets its name from as it has an appearance of a sombrero. This galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole. In fact it is one of the most massive black holes measured in any nearby galaxies. The speed of revolution of the stars within the centre of the galaxy could not be maintained unless a mass of 1 billion times the mass of our Sun is present in the centre.
This is a full frame image. The galaxy’s orientation is dictated by the only guide star I could use, so it may look a bit off. After all, there really is no right or wrong way up. Cropping the image would allow for a more tradition presentation, but I really wanted to show as much of the field as possible. It’s full of galaxies. That’s so cool.
Equipment Used:
Telescope: 10 inch RCOS, F9 Ritchey-Chrétien configuration
Mount: Astro-Physics AP-900 Mount
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 CCD (-20 C)
Image scale: 0.83"/pix
Processing: CCDStack and Photoshop
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Galaxy bridge on the LuGu lake in china,Waiting for a night, at 4:00 am, the Galaxy from the east came up, how beautiful!Still lake reflecting the sky galaxy, willing every night can indulge in this piece of the stars of the sea.Northern Hemisphere in March.
Date:March 22 2015
EXIF:F2.8,ISO6400,10X30S for this
This is a strange and damaged galaxy, presumably the result of a Galactic encounter.
Barred spiral galaxy, bar is visible in the center.
I have emphasized the dusty background.
Processed in pixinsight and Lightroom.
Sb galaxy, 5 hours Total exposure LRGB 2:1.2:1.3:0.6 hr on CHI-2
0.5 m telescope, telescope live.
0.5 m ASA Imaging Newtonian. Chile.
Difficult data set required substantial editing.
The Triangulum Galaxy, M33, is the most distant object visible to the naked eye from under a dark sky. This spiral galaxy lies some 3 million light years away in the constellation Triangulum. It is part of the local group, of which the Milky Way, nearby Andromeda galaxy and some other 40 or so smaller galaxies are members.
The diameter of M33 is around 60000 light years and contains about 1/10th as many stars as our own Milky Way. Red emission nebulae are clearly visible in some of the spiral arms, four of which are so large, their own NGC designation are given. These regions also have intense rates star formation. The brightest of them, NGC604, is 40 times larger and over 6000 times more luminous than the Orion Nebula. If it were in place of the Orion Nebula in our galaxy, it would be the third brightest object in the sky, outshining Venus.
Details:
Scope: TMB130SS
Camera: QSI683-wsg8
Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Ultrastar
Mount: Mach1 GTO
L: 23x10min
RGB: 13x5min each
7.1 hrs total exposure
Interesting trio of galaxies.
Spiral galaxy on left, and shell elliptical in center.
“NGC 5982 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Draco. It is located at a distance of circa 130 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 5982 is about 100,000 light years across. It was discovered by William Herschel on May 25, 1788.
NGC 5982 has a kinematically decoupled nucleus, with its major axis being nearly perpendicular to the rotation of the galaxy.NGC 5982 features many shells in its envelope, nearly 26. The shells form circular arcs, with the further being located at a radius of 150 arcseconds along the major axis of the galaxy, while the innermost one lies 8 arcseconds off the nucleus. The shells and the kinematically decoupled nucleus are the result of the merger of the elliptical galaxy with a small elliptical galaxy.” Wikipedia
Total 7.6 hours total exposure LRGB. May – June 2022
Telescope live Spain
SPA-2, 0.7 m RC telescope.
Officina Stellare ProRC 700, F8
FLI PL16803
Credit: Eric Ganz telescope live
“In the centre of NGC 5982 lies a supermassive black hole whose mass is estimated to be 8.3×10^8 M☉. …NGC 5981, a spiral galaxy seen edge-on, lies at a separation of 6.3 arcminutes from NGC 5982 and NGC 5985, a spiral galaxy seen face-on, lies at a separation of 7.7 arcminutes.The three galaxies are known as the Draco Trio or the Draco Group, although there is no evidence that they form a compact group.” Wikipedia