Technical data:

Lights:

L 25 x 600" RGB 15 x 600"

CMOS: ATIK APX60

Telescope: SW Esprit 150 f7

Mount: Paramount ME

Capture: 14 to 24 april 2023

NGC 3718 is a spiral galaxy located about 52 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It's a relatively small galaxy, with a diameter of only about 80,000 light-years.

One of the most striking features of NGC 3718 is its warped disk. The disk of the galaxy appears to be twisted or bent, with one side of the disk higher than the other. This is thought to be the result of a past gravitational interaction with another galaxy, which caused the disk to become distorted.

NGC 3718 also has an active galactic nucleus, which means that there's a supermassive black hole at its center that's actively accreting matter and emitting energy in the form of radiation. This can cause the galaxy to emit a lot of X-rays and other high-energy radiation.

Another interesting feature of NGC 3718 is its pair of faint, elongated outer arms. These arms are thought to be the result of a tidal interaction with a neighboring galaxy, which caused NGC 3718 to become elongated and stretched out.

Overall, NGC 3718 is a fascinating object to study for astronomers, as it provides a glimpse into the complex interactions and processes that shape the evolution of galaxies over billions of years.

And we can find Hickson 56 galaxy group is a small group of galaxies located about 400 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, near the galaxy NGC 3718. The group contains four main galaxies and several smaller ones, all of which are interacting with each other through their mutual gravity.

The largest galaxy in the group is NGC 3729, which is a spiral galaxy with a bright, compact nucleus and tightly-wound spiral arms. It is surrounded by a number of smaller, irregularly-shaped galaxies that are likely being gravitationally pulled in by NGC 3729.

Another notable member of the group is NGC 3726, which is a barred spiral galaxy with a bright, active nucleus. It is surrounded by a faint, diffuse halo of gas and dust, which is likely the result of recent star formation.

Overall, the Hickson 56 galaxy group is a fascinating object for astronomers to study because it provides insights into the complex interactions and processes that shape the structure and evolution of galaxies in groups and clusters.

Category B

Eurobricks Sci FI contest, home sweet home

a one nighter build I got round to photographing today, enjoy!

Especially you simon ;)

Haven't imaged this for years. Nice to revisit it with slightly newer gear and better image processing techniques.

This galaxy looks very similar to how our own Milky Way galaxy would look from the same distance, which is about 2.5 million light years away. Actually, this galaxy is naked-eye visible from darker skies, and if the human eye could detect it completely, it would appear 5-6 moon-lengths in size! Another interesting tidbit is that this galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way, expected to “touch” in about 4.5 billion years from now!

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Image Details:

- Imaging Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval

- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with UV/IR Blocking filter

- Guiding Scope: AstroTelescopes 80mm ED Refractor

- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider

- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap

- Guiding Software: PHD2

- Light Frames: mins @ 100 Gain, -25F

- Dark Frames: 24*5 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom

This is not the first time I have imaged the largest visible galaxy in our skies, the last time was with a DSLR Camera, so whilst I was trying out the ASI2400 Full Frame Camera I thought it would be a perfect target and I was not disappointed

Image Details: 172x90S at Gain 0

Darks: 101 Frames

Flats: 101 Frames

Bias: 201 Frames

Total Capture time: 4.3 hours

Equipment Details:

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI2400MC Pro 24mpx Full Frame OSC

Imaging Scope: SharpStar 15028HNT Hyperboloid Astrograph

Guide Camera: StarlightXpress Lodestar X2

Guide Scope: 365Astronomy 280mm Guide Scope

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro

Focuser: Primalucelab Sesto Senso V2

Filter: Optolong L-Pro

Power and USB Control: Pegasus Astro USB Ultimate Hub Pro

Acquisition Software: Main Sequence Software. Sequence Generator Pro 3.2

Calibration and Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor

Processing Software: PixInsight 1.8.6 and EZ Processing Suite for Star Reduction

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Galaxy NGC3718 & NGC3729

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"Shai-hulud Tooth" SW N254/1200

QHY174MM - 5889 x 3s + 9072 x 2s - bin1 - 1"/pixel

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Quick capture of the Milky Way tonight which is overhead right now. It's been a while since I've seen or captured it. Thought I'd better go outside tonight and snap a few shots before the rain settles in for the next few days.

ISO 4000 | 20 sec | f/2.8 | 7mm

My triumphant return! No, I do not plan to post anything regularly. I just wanted to get these photos out there. This is probably the best thing I've ever designed - Picard's Galaxy Class U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D.

This represents a few years of trial and error. Almost all of those previous versions are archived on this flickr. In fact, one of the earliest versions is the reason for the "Picardsbricks" moniker.

This image highlights the location of the galaxy JADES-GS-z6 in a portion of an area of the sky known as GOODS-South, which was observed as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES.

More + high resolution image: www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_s...

This galaxy, along with others in this region, were part of a Webb study by an international team of astronomers, who observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains at redshift ~7. This is roughly equivalent to one billion years after the birth of the Universe. Similar observational signatures have been observed in the much more recent Universe, attributed to complex, carbon-based molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). It is not thought likely, however, that PAHs would have developed within the first billion years of cosmic time. Therefore, this observation suggests the exciting possibility that Webb may have observed a different species of carbon-based molecule: possibly minuscule graphite- or diamond-like grains produced by the earliest stars or supernovae. This observation suggests exciting avenues of investigation into both the production of cosmic dust and the earliest stellar populations in our Universe, and was made possible by Webb’s unprecedented sensitivity.

The team’s research indicates that this particular galaxy showed significant dust obscuration and has undergone substantial metal enrichment relative to galaxies with similar mass at the same redshift. The team also believes the galaxy's visible colour gradient may indicate a peculiar geometrical alignment of stars and dust.

In this image, blue, green, and red were assigned to Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) data at 0.9, 1.15, and 1.5 microns; 2.0, 2.77, and 3.55 microns; and 3.56, 4.1, and 4.44 microns (F090W, F115W, and F150W; F200W, F277W, and F335M; and F356W, F410M, and F444W), respectively.

The galaxy is shown zoomed in on a region measuring roughly 1x1 arcseconds, which is a measure of angular distance on the sky. One arcsecond is equal to 1/3600 of one degree of arc (the full Moon has an angular diameter of about 0.5 degrees). The actual size of an object that covers one arcsecond on the sky depends on its distance from the telescope.

Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, ESA, CSA, B. Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), B. Johnson (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian), S. Tacchella (University of Cambridge, M. Rieke (Univ. of Arizona), D. Eisenstein (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian), A. Pagan (STScI)

[Image description: The image shows a deep galaxy field, featuring thousands of galaxies of various shapes and sizes. A cutout indicates a particular galaxy, known as JADES-GS-z6, which was a research target for this result. It appears as a blurry smudge of blue, red and green.]

Very Faint tiny dwarf irregular Galaxy

Mag 12

Apparent square shape…

Distance 4.3 million light-years.

Size 5000 ly.

Please switch to the newer version uploaded on March 7.

It is compelling to see this very faint object coming up out of the background. I have left the background visible.

Bright yellow stars in the foreground are closer.

Telescope live, Chile.

4.3 hr total exposure LRGB

PI, LR

FLI ProLine PL9000 CCD.

Feb 2022

Planewave CDK24

Aperture: 610 mm (24 inches)

Focal Length: 3962 mm

F-ratio: 6.5

Mount: Mathis MI-1000/1250 with absolute encoders

Astrodon MonsterMOAG

El Sauce Observatory

Río Hurtado, Coquimbo Region, Chile

Coordinates: 30.4725° S, 70.7631° W

and IC4263 galaxy towards the bottom right.

Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 27 x 5 minute exposures (2 hour 15 minutes ) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.

Processed in Pixinsight Topaz denoise and Photoshop.

Collected between 0:06 and 2:25 on the 25th of March, 2022.

Galaxy, milky way view with reflection

Famous Andromeda Galaxy

Quick shot I took yesterday after sunset, unfortunaly I was able to shoot just a while till moonrise. It is just 5x10min but I think the result is pretty good. What do u mean guys?:)

Taken on 24.2.2016, Slovakia

SW ED 120/900

HED 0,85 focal reducer

HEQ5-GoTo

Canon 1000Dmod

CLS-CCD filter

QHY5L-II with 9x50finderscope

Processed with Pixinsight

5x10min

The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth. It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way and was often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts. It received its name from the area of the sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which was named after the mythological princess Andromeda.

Andromeda is approximately 220,000 light years across, and it is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way, the Triangulum Galaxy, and other smaller galaxies. Despite earlier findings that suggested that the Milky Way contains more dark matter and could be the largest in the grouping, the 2006 observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that Andromeda contains one trillion (1012) stars: at least twice the number of stars in the Milky Way, which is estimated to be 200–400 billion. The mass of the Andromeda Galaxy is estimated to be 1.5×1012 solar masses, while the Milky Way is estimated to be 8.5×1011 solar masses.

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are expected to collide in 4.5 billion years, eventually merging to form a giant elliptical galaxy or perhaps a large disc galaxy. The apparent magnitude of the Andromeda Galaxy, at 3.4, is among the brightest of the Messier objects, making it visible to the naked eye on moonless nights, even when viewed from areas with moderate light pollution. [text from wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy]

Takahashi FSQ-106 with reducer f 3,6

Mosaic 2 X 1.

CCD Moravian G2-8300

Filters: Astronomik H alpha - LRGB

Date: october-december 2016

Italy - Long 7°41'40"E, Lat 45°28'18"N. Sky 20,9-21,4

L: 19 X 600 s; RGB: 6 X 600 s; H alfa: 17 X 900 s

Maxim DL 5

Processing: CCDStack, Photoshop, Pixinsight

Rise of the galactic core taken from himatangi beach.

"A still more glorious dawn awaits

Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise

A morning filled with 400 billion suns

The rising of the milky way"

Carl Sagan

Rise of the galactic core taken from Himatangi beach in newzealand. It took some preparation and waiting for the correct day to get the image.

Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 19 x 5 minute exposures (1 hour 35 minutes ) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.

Processed in Pixinsight Topaz denoise and Photoshop.

Collected between 1:05 and 2:40 on the 17th of March, 2022.

Lots of thin cloud illuminated by a bright moon.

Here is Galaxy Wataru, a resin recast of Wataru on a MH Slo Moe body. I really didn’t want to retread on a Galaxy doll custom I’ve already done so I approached it a bit differently this time and went with a different colour scheme and blushing.

I also based his eyes on 70s Anime artwork but not Takahashi’s since I want to try different things with each Wataru.

This multi-telescope composite combines X-ray, infrared and optical data of the galaxy cluster XDCPJ0044.0-2033.

The purple/pink in the image corresponds to infrared emission measured by Herschel and X-ray emission detected with NASA's Chandra telescope.

Infrared data from ESA's Herschel telescope has revealed where interstellar dust in the cluster's core is being heated by young, hot, stars. This is the first time that star formation has been found in the core of a cluster of this size and age.

The X-ray data were used to map the mass of this giant cluster.

These data have been combined with optical and near-infrared images of the cluster captured by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's Subaru telescope and the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope, the data from which are coloured red, green and blue in this image.

XDCPJ0044.0-2033 is a massive galaxy cluster with an estimated mass of about four hundred thousand billion times that of our Sun. It lies at a redshift of almost 1.6, meaning that we see it as it was 9.6 billion years ago.

Read more: sci.esa.int/herschel/55150-herschel-view-of-the-early-uni...

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/INAF/P.Tozzi, et al; Optical: NAOJ/Subaru and ESO/VLT; Infrared: ESA/Herschel/J. Santos, et al.

Samsung Galaxy S4

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 @ f/5 and TMB130SS @ f/5.6

Reducer: Stellarvue 0.72x reducer/flattener and AT130RED (0.8x reducer)

Camera: QSI690-wsg8 (Ha) and QSI683-wsg8 (LRGB)

Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Ultrastar

Mount: AP1100 GTO and Mach1 GTO

Lum: 23x10min

RGB: 13x5min each

Ha: 10x15min

Software: SGP, Voyager, PHD2, APCC, Pixinsight

9.6 hrs total exposure

the cobrasnake

NGC4565 is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 30 to 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.

This image was taken in March last year, from North Herts with a 10" reflector and a Canon DSLR.

Here's a pretty field of galaxies. In the middle is M100, about 166,000 light-years in diameter. Yes, going at the speed of light, it would take you 166,000 years to cross it. And, the light that came from that galaxy, which then hit my camera's sensor last week left that galaxy 55 million years ago.

Esprit 80mm, Player One Poseidon M camera, Sky-Watcher EQ6Rpro mount. About 18hr of integration time.

The Andromeda Galaxy also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth. It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.

M101 Pinwheel Galaxy, HaLRGB

L 74 * 90s, 110 * 120s

R 39 * 180s, 28 * 300s

G 35 * 300s

B 44 * 300s

Ha 21 * 600s

William Optics Z61

ZWO ASI2600MM Pro

iOptron CEM60

Antlia LRGB filter set, Antila Ha 3.5nm filter

William Optics 50mm Guiding Scope

ZWO ASI120M

ZWO EAF, EFW

Nina, PixInsight, Topaz DeNoise AI

This image from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) shows a group of galaxies, including a large distorted ring-shaped galaxy known as the Cartwheel. The Cartwheel Galaxy, located 500 million light-years away in the Sculptor constellation, is composed of a bright inner ring and an active outer ring. While this outer ring has a lot of star formation, the dusty area in between reveals many stars and star clusters.

The mid-infrared light captured by MIRI reveals fine details about these dusty regions and young stars within the Cartwheel Galaxy, which are rich in hydrocarbons and other chemical compounds, as well as silicate dust, like much of the dust on Earth.

Young stars, many of which are present in the bottom right of the outer ring, energize surrounding hydrocarbon dust, causing it to glow orange. On the other hand, the clearly defined dust between the core and the outer ring, which forms the “spokes” that inspire the galaxy’s name, is mostly silicate dust.

The smaller spiral galaxy to the upper left of Cartwheel displays much of the same behavior, showing a large amount of star formation.

Image credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team

Image description:

A large galaxy on the right, with two smaller companion galaxies to the left 10 o’clock & 9 o’clock. The large galaxy dominates the frame. It resembles a ghostly wheel with spindly blue-white spokes revolving around a glowing core. The outer edges of the wheel are faint dots of yellow, pink and blue, with some gaps in between. The bottom right edge is marked by a large 8-pointed star. The smaller galaxies on the left look very different from each other. The top galaxy appears to be constructed of the same yellow, pink, & blue speckles as the larger galaxy’s outer ring, with a similar light blue core. Its shape is less recognizable as a spiral; it looks like a chaotic oval smattering of dots. The galaxy below it glows as one large point of blue light. It starts almost white at its core and fades outward to darker and darker blue until the color dissipates into the black behind it. Sprinkled in the black background are specks of pink, blue, yellow & orange, which are distant galaxies.

My Location: In Bortle class 8

Image acquisition details: 184x300s for a total integration time of 15.3 hours

Dates: Sep 21-23 and Oct 8-12, 2022

Equipment:

Scope: WO Zenith Star 81mm f/6.9 with WO 6AIII flattener/focal reducer x0.8

Cooled camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro

Mount: iOptron GEM28-EC mount

Guide scope: WO 50mm Uniguide scope

Guide camera: ZWO ASI 290MM

Focuser: ZWO EAF

Light pollution filter: Chroma LoGlow Broadband Light Pollution Reduction Filter - 2"

Software: Pixinsight

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"The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a barred spiral galaxy with diameter of about 46.56 kiloparsecs (152,000 light-years) approximately 2.5 million light-years (765 kiloparsecs) from Earth and the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way. [...] The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are expected to collide in around 4–5 billion years, merging to form a giant elliptical galaxy or a large lenticular galaxy."

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy)

High-resolution imagery from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm which galaxy dove through its core.

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. Hubble has confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth. Hubble and Keck also confirmed which galaxy dove through the Bullseye, creating these rings: the blue dwarf galaxy that sits to its immediate center-left. This relatively tiny interloper traveled like a dart through the core of the Bullseye about 50 million years ago, leaving rings in its wake like ripples in a pond. A thin trail of gas now links the pair, though they are currently separated by 130,000 light-years.

The team’s paper was published on 4 February 2025 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Credits: NASA, ESA, I. Pasha (Yale), P. van Dokkum (Yale); CC BY 4.0

M101 pinwheel Galaxy

The magnificent Messier 101 Galaxy.

This grand spiral galaxy has a diameter of 170,000 ly, and is located 21 million ly away.

The mass is approximately 100 billion solar masses. It contains 1 trillion stars.

M101 has five companion galaxies including NGC 5204, NGC 5474, NGC 5477, and NGC 5585.

Total 29 hours total exposure

New data 2022 from Telescope live.

Seven hours LRGB

SPA-2, 0.7 m RC telescope.

Officina Stellare ProRC 700, F8

FLI PL16803

And

Deep Sky West - Rowe New Mexico, using RCOS 14.5” Ritchey–Chrétien telescope f/9. 3340 mm focal length.

L 8.3 hours exposure.

RGB 5:4.6:4.3 hours

22 hours total exposure.

Transparency and Seeing very good to excellent.

March-June 2017

Processed in Pixinsight, Lightroom, Photoshop. With further processing to enhance colors.

SBIG 16803 CCD,AO-X

The distinctive Sombero galaxy sits at a distance of 29 millionLight years away from us.

This is an image taken as a 'test' in my backyard , It consists of 120sec X26 frames shot through the luminance filter of a highly sensitive CCD camera. The final picture was integrated and processed in Pixinsight.

Capture Software was Sequence Generator Pro, guided with PHD 2.6.1DEV.

Note this is a cropped version of the original (approx 25% of frame)

Wikipedia link here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sombrero_Galaxy

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Any way you slice it, the Cartwheel Galaxy is magnificent to behold. The top half of this image shows the galaxy as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in visible light, while the lower half of this image shows the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared view. Hubble and Webb will continue to work together to provide complementary views of the universe.

Good news: more images from Webb are on their way! But first, scientists will need time to analyze data and make sure they understand what they’re seeing. Science is a collaborative process, and you may have seen some preliminary findings from Webb data already. Before NASA can publicize news results, we have to wait for findings to be peer-reviewed — meaning that scientists have checked each other’s work.

Where can you find Webb images? What’s Webb looking at right now? Our latest blog post has it all: go.nasa.gov/3d0aGOq

Image description:

A labeled image, divided horizontally, that shows a Hubble view and Webb view of the same target. Together, the split views show a large galaxy on the right and two much smaller spiral galaxies on the left, one above the other. The top half of the image is labeled as Hubble’s view, and features the upper half of the large galaxy and one of the small galaxies. The upper half of the large galaxy looks like a bright blue ring with wispy light blue shimmers in a pattern like wheel spokes. Near the right edge of the large galaxy is a bright yellow star with four spikes. On the left, the first of the small galaxies is a similar blue as the top half of the large galaxy. The lower half of the image is labeled as Webb’s view, and features the lower half of the large galaxy and the other small galaxy. The lower half of the large galaxy looks like a pink speckled wheel, with detailed pink plumes as wheel spokes and dusty blue in between each spoke. The second of the small galaxies on the left is bluish white. While both the Hubble and Webb views feature a black background, many more distant orange-red specks, or galaxies, can be seen in the lower half of the image.

First attempt at this galaxy for me. Great skies last night until about 2:30am when clouds rolled in. Not bad for an 80mm ED scope on this considering it's distance and relative size.

The Black Eye Galaxy is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million light-years away in the mildly northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier the next year. It contains around 100 billion stars, about the same as our own Milky Way.

Image Details:

- Imaging Scope: Astrotelescopes ED 80mm Refractor

- 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

- Light Frames: 30*4 minss @ 40 Gain, Temp -20C

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom

Andromeda galaxy

Andromeda Galaxy , Sony α6600 , Askar FMA 180mm f/4.5 , Kenko STARRY NIGHT Filter , Vixen POLARIE U , MGEN-3 , K-ASTEC PTP-C22

夜半過ぎには秋の星座が見え始めました。

今回は「夏」で攻めようと思っていたのですが、これが見え始めるとついついレンズを向けてしまいます。

この日はなんだか透明度も良く星像も小さかったです。

この写真は元々横構図で撮影していたのですが、銀河が小さく面白くなかったので大きくトリミングしています。

Askar FMA180は各収差も少なく変な色付きもないので、今後も積極的に使っていきたい望遠鏡ですね。

この望遠鏡のために小さなセンサーのカメラの導入も良いかもしれません。

ポラリエUとの組合せだと、かなりコンパクトなシステムが組めそうです。

山にも良いかも(^o^)

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in an hour and a half with a bright Moon

The Triangulum Galaxy (M33)

A spiral galaxy that's part of our local group of galaxies (Milky Way, Andromeda and this one). This is my first attempt to image this amazing galaxy.

Tonight at work was a bit of an experiment, can you successfully pull pints, shake cocktails and photograph a galaxy 3 million light years way all from the same spot.

The answer is yes, but wooden decking is a nightmare for stability.

Experimenting and practicing before I do my star parties for "real" next week. Despite purposefully not advertising tonight, I still managed a crowd of people around me, quizzing me about space, it was rather fun!

This is a little rough, due to a lack of data 6x480s exposures in RGB, so noisy, and lacking the polish I plan to give this objects.

The Galaxy (NGC224) in Andromeda: This Galaxy is 220,000 light-years across and is located some 2.3 million light-years away. Looking similar to our Milky Way galaxy that we live in, Andromeda is one of our closest galactic neighbors and a member of the Local Group of galaxies. All the stars you see in this photo are actually in the foreground (in our own galaxy), while the dust-like material you see is actually the combined light of billions of individual stars and nebula within Andromeda. The light that recorded this film image left Andromeda when the first humans called Homo Erectus evolved on earth over 2 million years ago!

This is a single 45 minute exposure using conventional slide film (Kodak E200). I used an old Olympus OM1 35mm film camera attached to a Meade LXD75 8" Schmidt Newtonian Telescope for a focal length of 812mm at f/4. While the mount automatically tracked the object, I hand guided corrections (to fix tracking errors) using another telescope attached to the main scope. For details on how you can capture the universe in brilliant color visit my website at Petes Astrophotography

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“She wasn't a constellation. She was a galaxy.”

― Nitya Prakash

There are galaxies inside my mind. I have many ideas and concepts. When someone enters into my world, I feel like they are crossing through different worlds to get to me. You have to go through different galaxies to get here and there. Those swirling cosmos inside. Could they be real? I chose a light bulb to project what galaxies look like in the real-world inside of it. Almost as if it were like a crystal ball.