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This huge ball of stars — around 100 billion in total — is an elliptical galaxy located some 55 million light-years away from us. Known as Messier 89, this galaxy appears to be perfectly spherical; this is unusual for elliptical galaxies, which tend to be elongated ellipsoids. The apparently spherical nature of Messier 89 could, however, be a trick of perspective, and be caused by its orientation relative to the Earth.
More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1902a/
Credit:
ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Faber et al.
American Goldfinch
Troy Meadows
Parsippany, New Jersey
Very slight crop. Unknowingly, I walked within very close range of this vivid character. Spotted him in his "disguise" and fired off a few hundred shots ;)
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I think soy looks really realistic when you give it a little texture. In that Messy-on-purpose kind of way.
Really love this girl <3
Messier 42 N.G.C. 1976 n. d. Ori
Pentax sdhf + Canon m. Baader+ filtro UHC - E
4 esp. per totali 30 min.+ master dark + flat + offset.
Deep sky stacker + photoshop.
tint. Messy Gloss ( Mystery Collection )
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Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Olympus E410 at prime focus. EQ6 Syntrek Mount.
30 light frames of 50s at 800 ISO. Also 10 dark frames.
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker and final levels adjusted with G.I.M.P.
A globular cluster of approximately half a million stars located 34,000 light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici.
Total exposure time: 31 mins
Telescope: Tele Vue-60 APO refractor
Mount: Vixen Super Polaris
Can't really blame Grandpa for this mess since as of now it does not exist anymore (the mess). At least, I must give him credit in that this was a very pleasant mess to look at.
Bambi always seems to get hay stuck on her face. She also just pooped, and Luna is sniffing it in the background.
A messy squirrel.
Crumbs on her whiskers, crumbs on her nose.
There are lots of crumbs at the bottom of a bag of walnuts.
I was sure it isn't an empty nest.
When this Acadian Flycatcher's nest was first pointed out to me my first thought was messy nest.
Empidonax virescens
Curiously, no information exists on the ability of the Acadian Flycatcher to walk or hop. It is an excellent flier, though, extremely maneuverable and able to hover and even fly backward. It has been observed bathing not by standing in water, but rather by diving into water from above, hitting the water with its chest, and then returning to a perch to preen and shake.
Nest is a shallow, thin cup of fine materials held together with spider and insect silk, usually dangling streamers of material on silk below nest. Slung hammock-like in fork of small branch in tree, usually over water.
source - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Going through my shots from 2017 and tidying up (read: throwing away hundreds of them) and seeing some I've not really seen. I quite like the chaotic messy reflections in this one, and the way it appears as if the guy in the coffee shop is looking at a shadow, rather the person he was with.
Messier 6 imaged from a Bortle 6 suburban backyard
One and a half hours of integration- 5 minute subs
Gain 111 offset 5
Equipment:
Redcat51/ZWO ASI 183MC/Optolong L pro/EQ6
Software
NINA/AstroPixel Processor/ Photoshop CS6/NoiseXterminator
TS Optics 121SDQ + Zwo ASI 6200MM Pro + NEQ 6 Pro + LRGB Astronomik filters + HAlpha Baader CCD Filter.
Luminance : 43x240s
RGB : 15x240s each
HAlpha : 6x240s (the night was too short...)
Processed with Pixinsight
Images taken by Roger and Laia, students fourteen years-old.
Images taken by Roger and Laia, students of fourteen years-old, the Astronomical Observatory of the Institute of Alcarràs (blocs.xtec.cat/oaia)
Messier 95 is a barred spiral galaxy located 33 million light years away in the constellation Leo. The galaxy is a barred spiral, with an inner ring surrounding the bar.
Details:
Lum: 120 x 180s
RGB: 40 x 180s per channel
Gear:
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
Optic: AT6RC Ritchey-Chretien
Filters: Astronomik LRGB
Capture Software: EQMOD, Sequence Generator Pro
Processed in Pixinsight
A Triangulum-galaxis (M33, NGC 598) mintegy hárommillió fényévre levő spirálgalaxis az Északi Háromszög (Triangulum) csillagképben.
Seestar s50 teleszkóp
17,5 óra expó
Bortle 5
Siril
Photoshop
Messier 33, taken on 26th March 2022. Taken with a SkyWatcher Explorer 300PDS on a SkyWatcher EQ6-R mount, ZWO ASI294MC Pro with Optolong L-Pro filter, 50 x 240s exposures in NINA, darks, dark flats and flats, stacked in APP and processed using StarTools and GIMP.
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.
127ED dataset
The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier in his Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles (Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters
Messier 45
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
Mix Data
RA 3h 47m Dec +24° 07′
The Pleiades 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 distance to the Pleiades can be used as an important first step to calibrate the cosmic distance ladder.
More recent results using the Gaia satellite (September 2016), determine distances of 134 ±6 pc.
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, but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium, through which the stars are currently passing.
The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a massive star that ended its life in a supernova explosion.
Almost a thousand years ago, the explosion was recorded in the constellation Taurus by Chinese astronomers in the year 1054…
The spectacular Crab Nebula, the first object in the Messier Catalog According to the records of these Chinese astronomers, the supernova explosion was visible to broad daylight for 23 days, shining six times brighter than Venus. At night, it remained visible for 653 days (almost two years) with the naked eye. Japanese, Arab, and Native American astronomers also noted observations of it (and, interestingly, no one in Europe).
In 1731, the British astronomer John Bevis observed a kind of cloudy droplet in the sky and included it in his star atlases, although it was Charles Messier (who observed it himself) who added it to his catalog 27 years later. .
For a time, Messier himself took credit for the discovery of the nebula, until he was contacted by the British, who corrected him. Messier 1 is a plerion (or pulsar wind nebula), that is, the nebula is made up of material ejected by a pulsar interacting with interstellar gas and the pulsar's own magnetic field. Charles Messier The Crab Nebula expands at a rate of 1,500 kilometers per second and contains two faint stars in the center, one of which is the pulsar, and is well known for its complex structure, full of dusty filaments that can be seen in the visible spectrum. It contains enough dust, made up of carbons and silicates, to create 30,000 to 40,000 earths. Furthermore, it is the most powerful persistent source of X-rays and gamma rays known. The pulsar in the center is called the Crab Pulsar, and it is about 30 kilometers across. It rotates on itself in just 33 milliseconds (that is, it makes about 30 revolutions per second) and is tremendously useful for studying objects that pass in front of the nebula and block its radiation, such as the Sun, the moons and the stars. planets of the Solar System. Without going any further, in 2003, scientists used it to measure the thickness of the atmosphere of Titan (moon of Saturn), and in the middle of the last century it was used to map the Sun's corona. Messier 1 has an apparent magnitude of 8, 4 and cannot be seen with the naked eye. If you want to see it with binoculars, you will need the conditions to be unbeatable (and nothing to be close to a city). In a 4-inch telescope, you will be able to see some trace of the nebula's shape in its central region, and in smaller telescopes it will look like a comet with a tail. The filaments and details of the nebula are only visible in telescopes 16 inches or larger, and in very good viewing conditions.
This star cluster apears in Charles Messier's original list of 45 'fuzzy objects' compiled in 1764. The final Messier list in 1781 had 103 entries, although later additions have made that 110.
Messier was a famous comet hunter in 18th century France, but these objects were often mistaken for comets with the limited ability of telescopes in his day, so he started keeping a list to avoid mistaking them for real comets. Ironically Messier had no interest in such objects, although more than 200 years later we still use his list to identify them.
This image is a stack of 54x120seconds using a deep sky colour camera through my 356mm f/10 SCT.
Peter