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Messier 82
at distance of 12 Mio. Lj
Equipment:
TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton
1000mm f4
GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector
ZWO ASI585mc
Skywatcher EQ8
Guding:
Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider
PHD2
960x30s
total exposure time: 8 hours
Processing: PixInsight
From Messier 16 to Messier 17
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
Mosaic from images taken with Tair 3-S + Canon EOS 4000D array + DIY Custom 110mm f/2.2 Canon astrograph
Constelación en que se encuentra: Orion
Distancia: 1600 de años luz
De SkySafari:
Messier 78 (M78) es una nebulosa de reflexión descubierta en 1780, ubicada muy cerca del cinturón de Orión, en la constelación del mismo nombre. Está iluminada por dos estrellas vecinas que hacen que sea visible la nube de polvo.
Cerca de M78 se conocen unas 45 estrellas similares a nuestro sol, aún en proceso de formación, unas 4 a 5 veces más brillantes de lo esperado.
En el espectro infrarojo se han encontrado 192 estrellas jóvenes que se han formado en esta nebulosa.
Datos de la imagen:
Exposure: 21hr 12min LRGB (168 x 3min Luminance, 87 x 3 min Red, 85 x 3 min Green, 84 x 3 min Blue)
Telescope: #Celestron #EdgeHD #C925
Camera: #PlayerOne #Poseidon-M
Focal ratio: f10
Focal length: 2350 mm
Capturing software: NINA
Filter: #Optolong L, Optolong R, Optolong G, Optolong B
Mount: #iOptron #CEM60
Guiding: PlayerOne #Xena with PlayerOne #OAG Max and #PHD2
Dithering: Yes
Calibration: 30 darks, 30 flat darks, 50 flats
Processing: #PixInsight
Date: 24-nov-2024
Location: #Bogotá, #Colombia
This certainly was a busy bee flitting from flower to flower but then he had most of them to himself as bees are only just starting to reappear and out in the bush this was the only one I saw, fortunately for me I was actually walking past these yellow flowers when he landed. I do like the pollen looking like gold on its wings.
This shot was cropped.
Do view large:
M102, NGC 5866, The Spindle Galaxy... There seems to be some debate on the Messier designation, if this was the intended find or something else close by. Regardless, the edge on view and dark compact dust lane make for a distinct shape.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Celestron Edge 8
Imaging Cameras
QHYCCD 163C
Mounts
Vixen Great Polaris/DX
Accessories
Celestron Focus Motor for SCT · OnStep GoTo Controller · Celestron 0.7x Focal Reducer for EdgeHD 8
Software
PHD2 Guiding · Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Svbony 60mm guidescope
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI120MM
Acquisition details
Dates:
April 5, 2022
Frames:
136x120" (4h 32')
Integration:
4h 32'
Avg. Moon age:
4.01 days
Avg. Moon phase:
17.13%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 5657510
RA center: 15h06m27s.6
DEC center: +55°48′25″
Pixel scale: 0.515 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 183.573 degrees
Field radius: 0.407 degrees
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Resolution: 3443x4521
Data source: Backyard
Just over thirty minutes of 1min exposures at ISO800. 20 mins of darks, no flats. Stacked in DSS. Edited in Nebulosity and Lightroom.
L: 12x300s
RGB: (3, 3, 3)x300s
Image aquisition : Eric Recurt
Processing : Roberto Colombari
Astrograph: 350mm F3.3
CCD: FLI PL 16803-65 / FLI Atlas focuser
Mount: ASA
From Teide Observatory , Cosmos Tenerife , IAC/ TADer dome .
Tenerife , 2360m
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In astronomy, the Pleiades (/ˈplaɪ.ədiːz/ or /ˈpliː.ədiːz/), or Seven Sisters (Messier 45 or M45), is an open star cluster containing middle-aged hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky. The celestial entity has several meanings in different cultures and traditions.
The cluster is dominated by hot blue and extremely luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. Dust that forms a faint reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster (hence the alternative name Maia Nebula after the star Maia), but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium, through which the stars are currently passing. Computer simulations have shown that the Pleiades was probably formed from a compact configuration that resembled the Orion Nebula.[7] Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for about another 250 million years, after which it will disperse due to gravitational interactions with its galactic neighborhood.[8]
Source: Wikipedia
Watergate beach, Newquay, Cornwall
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There are at least 150 of these ball of stars orbiting our Milky Way. Messier 3 is in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Meade Starfinder 8
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI1600 cooled mono
Mounts
Losmandy GM-8
Filters
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter · Blue · Green · Red
Accessories
Baader MPCC coma corrector · OnStep GoTo Controller · Rigel Systems Focuser
Software
PHD2 Guiding · Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Svbony 60mm guidescope
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI120MM
Acquisition details
Dates:
March 9, 2022
Frames:
Blue: 30x120" (1h) bin 2x2
Green: 30x120" (1h) bin 2x2
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter: 76x120" (2h 32') f/6 -10°C bin 2x2
Red: 30x120" (1h) bin 2x2
Integration:
5h 32'
Darks:
100
Bias:
100
Avg. Moon age:
6.54 days
Avg. Moon phase:
41.08%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 5580070
RA center: 13h42m03s.8
DEC center: +28°22′44″
Pixel scale: 0.642 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 268.114 degrees
Field radius: 0.506 degrees
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Resolution: 3419x4540
Data source: Backyard
A slightly messY candid situation: the augmented (=tough) reality of being caught in the act ;) ))
I find it normal in street photography and face expressions are just a bonus.
This is a rescued image from February 2022. I was still finding my way with CMOS imaging back then and I think I badly underexposed the subexposures here.
PixInsight didn’t give me anything useable but I ran the 90 x 3 minute subs through ASI deep stack tonight and came out with something.
My most successful run at this target was taken remotely with a very fast scope in Colorado here:
Certainly the background stars are a great colour and not over-exposed but I’m not sure if 3 minutes exposure (gain 100, offset 50) is the right option for a f/6-7 system - it's commonly mentioned on imaging fora but people tend not to specify their f-stop!
Update - I'm using 5 minutes, Gain 100, Offset 25 as a standard now.
My DSO Test target.
A planetary nebulae in Vulpecula.
CAPTURE:
RGB 12 _300s BIN 2 each filter
Luminance 12_600s BIN 1
Halpha 20_900s BIN1
OIII 20_900s BIN 1
15h total time.
Telescope FSQ106 ED
Paramount ME
ATIK 460 EX MONO
1,78" Resolution
Process: Pixinsight/ Photoshop
Selection of globular star clusters. The Messier 22,55 and 79. All taken from Chile and using the 60 cm Planewave CDK24 the ThelescopeLive is running. Processing in Pixinsight and PS/L
Attempt to capture M83. Too bad the telescope was decollimated and the field flattener didn't work properly. The electronic filter wheel didn't want to work either. So I couldn't make a color image.
QHY21
35x300s
Sky-Watcher 200/1000 reflector
Sky-Watcher NEQ6-Pro
Butterfly Cluster (Messier 6) region
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
RA 17h 40.1m Dec −32° 13′[
The Butterfly Cluster (NGC 6405) is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation Scorpius, discovered by Giovanni Battista Hodierna in 1654.
It's distance is 1,590 light-years for an age estimated to be 94.2 million years old. Its name derives from the vague resemblance of its shape to a butterfly.
Messier 6 - The Butterfly Cluster
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
RADEC 17 40 20.000 -32 15 12.0
Messier 6 (NGC 6405) is an open cluster in Scorpius. The first astronomer to report the Butterfly Cluster's existence was the Italian Giovanni Battista Hodierna in 1654.
Wu et al. (2009) found a distance estimate of 1,590 light-years and real spatial dimension of some 12 light years.
127ED f/9
The color version of this image.
Captured last autumn on campus with iPhone and one of the Olloclip Macro lenses.
Edited on the iPad in Snapseed.
These are very small and messy in construction. I am keeping an eye out for their flowers this year.
I always seem to miss them.
If you care to compare the black and white version posted in the autumn, it can be viewed here: www.flickr.com/photos/firerybroome/21648700896/
Messier 3, M3, is a globular star cluster consisting of around 500,000 stars.
I captured this from my back garden on 19th April 2022.
Messier 22 globular cluster
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
J2000 RA 18h 36m 23.94s Dec –23° 54′ 17.1″
Messier 22 (NGC 6656) is an elliptical globular cluster in Sagittarius, near the Galactic bulge region. It is one of the brightest globulars visible in the night sky and one of the nearer to Earth at a distance of about 10,600 light-years. It spans 32' on the sky which translates to a spatial real diameter of 99 ± 9 light-years.
It was one of the first globular clusters to be carefully studied first by Harlow Shapley in 1930.
M22 is very unusual in that it is one of only four globulars (the others being M15, NGC 6441 and Palomar 6) that are known to contain a planetary nebula.
Reprocess of data I took in January.
Canon 200D + Canon 55-250mm lens on a Star Adventurer Pro (no guiding).
67x90s Lights, 80 Darks and 25 Flats.
90s exposures, f/5.6, ISO-800, 250mm
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and edited in Photoshop 2020.
Messier 53 is a globular cluster in the constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair), it is one of the outmost globular clusters from the galactic center and it is 60,000 light years from Earth with a magnitude of 8.5 and an angular size of 12 arcminutes. It was discovered by Bode in 1775. I like the contrast between the globular cluster and the red and blue stars at about 10:00 in this image. North is right at about 4:00.
Taken at Lee, IL on 20150423 at 2130
Image Type: LRGB
L 2 x 300 1x1
RGB 6 x 180 2x2
Hardware:
AstroTech RC 8” with 0.8 reducer/flattener
Orion 400m Short Tube piggy back for guiding
Orion Star-Shooter Auto-guider
QHY9M with filter wheel with Astrodom filters
Software:
EQMOD with Starry Night Pro 7
Nebulosity 3.0.2
CCD Stack
Photoshop CS3
Conditions:
Cold spring night with good conditions and average transparency with a crescent Moon. Low temp 31F.
But you've got too much to wear on your sleeves
It has too much to do with me
And secretly I want to bury in the yard
The grey remains of a friendship scarred
Kissing the Lipless by The Shins
--
Explore #105! Omg, you won't believe my set-up here. I should've taken a photo.
Messier 3 a beautiful globular cluster in Canes Venatici.
This was captured from my garden on 3rd April 2023 with a bright 95% lunar phase. This made the sky very bright making most deep sky targets washed out.
Globular clusters are bright in terms of deep sky targets and are still possible to image despite the bright moon.
This was captured using my monochrome camera and red, green and blue filters to create a full colour final image.
242 total minutes captures
Red 80 x 60s
Blue 77 x 60s
Green 85 x 60s
- ZWO 533MM
- Antlia RGB 36mm
- Skywatcher 8” newtonian
- ZWO EAF, EFW, OAG
NINA for capture, APP for stacking, Siril and Photoshop CC for processing.
Globular cluster M13 in Hercules with 300mm telephoto lens
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
J2000 RA 16h 41m 41.24s Dec +36° 27′ 35.5″
Messier 13 (M13), or NGC 6205, is a globular cluster of about 300,000 stars in Hercules, discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714, and catalogued by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764.
M13 is about 145 light-years in diameter and at 25,100 light-years away from Earth.
The Arecibo message of 1974, which contained encoded information about the human race, DNA, atomic numbers, Earth's position and other information, was beamed from the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope towards M13 as an experiment in contacting potential extraterrestrial civilizations in the cluster.
Messier 22
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
J2000 RA 18h 36m 23.94s Dec –23° 54′ 17.1″
Messier 22 (NGC 6656) is an elliptical globular cluster in Sagittarius, near the Galactic bulge region. It is one of the brightest globulars visible in the night sky and one of the nearer at a distance of about 10,600 light-years. It spans 32' on the sky which translates to a spatial real diameter of 99 ± 9 light-years.
It was one of the first globular clusters to be carefully studied first by Harlow Shapley in 1930.
M22 is very unusual in that it is one of only four globulars (the others being M15, NGC 6441 and Palomar 6) that are known to contain a planetary nebula.
CDK24 dataset
Messier 51
OTA: Celestron Edge 9.25 F/2.3 Hyperstar
Mount: CGX
Camera: Canon T2i, modified by Hap Griffin
Guided by: Astro-Tech AT60EDT and Starshoot Autoguider, PHD2.6
40 frames of 240 Sec at ISO1600
Captured with Images Plus Camera Control 6.0
Processed with Images Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6.0
Constelación en que se encuentra: Canes Venatici
Distancia: 25 millones de años luz
De SkySafari:
Messier 106 es una galaxia descubierta por Pierre Méchain en 1781 y posteriormente agregada al catálogo de Messier. Tiene forma de espiral y en los bordes tiene cúmulos de estrellas jóvenes muy brillantes, que le dan su color azulado. El centro amarillo está conformado por estrellas mucho más antiguas.
M106 se aleja de la Vía Láctea a unos 540 km/s. Desde la década del 50 se conoce que emite señales de radio y se cree que tiene un agujero negro super masivo en el centro con una masa de 40 millones de soles.
Datos de la imagen:
Exposure: 9hr 57min (199 x 3min)
Telescope: #Celestron #C925 #EdgeHD#
Camera: Camera: #ZWO #ASI2600MC Pro
Focal ratio: f10
Capturing software: #NINA
Filter: UV/IR
Mount: #iOptron #CEM60
Guiding: #ASI462MC with PHD2 and Stellarvue F60M3
Dithering: Yes
Calibration: 50 darks, 50 flat darks, 50 flats
Processing: #PixInsight
Date: 7-abr-2024 y 9-abr-2024,
Location: #Bogotá, #Colombia
Messier 67
Credit: ESO/Dss2, Giuseppe Donatiello
(Colorized Dss2 plates)
RA 08 51 23.040 DEC +11 48 50.40
M67 is on open cluster in Cancer. It is at about 2,800 light-years away, and it is also very old with an average age of 5 billion years. Open clusters usually disperse within a billion years, so M67's longevity can be traced to its relative remoteness from the galactic plane.
To observe it we need at least a small binocular.