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ODC2 - Breakfast
20/09/12
Yay finally this challenge gave me a reason to use some of these soon 2-year old fruit loops.hahaha I bought them as a prop thinking maybe I'll just let the kids eat the leftovers as a treat ( I don't let them eat stuff like this normally) But they didn't like them, which I'm very happy about. But that also meant they have been sitting in my pantry for almost 2 years I think. I kept them thinking maybe I'll get some photo use out of them, and today was the day!! lol
I'm not sure about the processing of this, I wanted to do something a little bit different for me, but not sure I like it. I might have to leave it for a bit, come back and maybe I've changed my mind about it.
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The galaxies of the Virgo cluster in Messier's catalogue are among the outstanding Messier objects on my Messier imaging marathon. I have found these galaxies to be challenging objects to observe. The spring weather is usually contrary and the rapidly brightening evening skies give little time for imaging. I was very pleased, therefore, to image both M59 and M60 in the field of view of my 8-inch RC. I have found this image to be fascinating to examine as it contains many faint galaxies including the compact dwarf galaxies associated with M59 and M60.
Capturing the image data proved to be quite challenging as there are few bright stars in this part of the sky and my off-axis guide camera had to use a mag 12 star as a guide star, needing constant monitoring of the image capture process.
Messiers 59 and 60 in Virgo were discovered by Johann Kohler on 11th April 1799 whilst observing a comet. Messier himself discovered them, independently, days later and noted them in his list. Messier 60 (lower left) is interacting with NGC 4647, discovered by William Herschel and was given the designation of Arp 116 by Harlton Arp.
The image comprises 20 x five-minutes luminance and 10 x 5-minutes each of RGB, binned 2 x 2.
Equipment:
Telescope: 8-inch Ritchey-Chretien
Camera: QSI 683
Mount: Skywatcher EQ8
Location: Cambridge, UK
This new image of the reflection nebula Messier 78 was captured using the Wide Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. This colour picture was created from many monochrome exposures taken through blue, yellow/green and red filters, supplemented by exposures through a filter that isolates light from glowing hydrogen gas. The total exposure times were 9, 9, 17.5 and 15.5 minutes per filter, respectively. #L
Messy Piglet
Looking through a magazine I came across a photo of a piglet looking rather pleased with itself and thought it was a perfect subject to try and catch on canvas. I started out with a very rough sketch and then continued with roughly breaking the white of the canvas with some bright colours, not particularly characteristic for a pig. Contemplating on how to continue I paused for a short coffee break during which the little fellow kept staring out at me, seemingly quite pleased with its messy state. It rather appealed to me and I didn't want to lose that effect, so I decided to just leave it as it is for now and perhaps just start on a new one. Acrylic on canvas (30 x 40 cm).
The Messier Catalog is a collection of 110 star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies that Charles Messier found while he was looking for comets in the 1700's. Because of the small telescopes at the time, these objects are some of the biggest/brightest ones visible in the sky, and are popular targets for amateur astronomers to observe and photograph. Though it is possible to observe them all in one night (Messier Marathon), I opted to sink anywhere from 30 mins to 19 hours into each one in order to produce the best images possible with my equipment. I technically started on this catalog the first night I did astrophotography (I did M101), but it wasn't until last spring that I started photographing star clusters and really pushing to photograph all 110 objects. The majority of these were shot from the roof of my light polluted apartment in downtown Athens, GA (bortle 7), but I also traveled to dark sites for some of them.
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Equipment:
Telescopes/Lenses
TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian
Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8
Meade ETX125-EC
Agena 50mm Deluxe Guide Scope (autoguiding telescope)
Tracking Mount:
Orion Sirius EQ-G
Cameras:
ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
Canon T3i (Astro-modified)
ZWO ASI120MC (Autoguiding camera)
Filters:
Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm
Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm
Starguy 2" CLS-CCD
Accessories:
ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm
Moonlite Autofocuser
DeepSkyDad Autofocuser
Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector
Baader MPCC
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Processing:
(This is an extremely generalized processing workflow in PixInsight.)
Calibrate with dark and flat frames (bias frames also used for DSLR images)
Stack individual frames together to create a single image with high SNR. (This combines many images each with a few minutes of exposure into images which effectively have several hours of exposure, and rejects out any satellites that flew in front of the camera)
Crop (removes stacking artifacts)
Background extraction
Deconvolution sharpening and noise reduction
Color calibration (not necessary for false color images:)
Stretch to nonlinear state (this brightens the picture. The images straight off the camera are very close to black)
More noise reduction
Final tweaks of contrast, luminance, color balance, and saturation curves
Crop/resample to 1000x1000 for mosaic image, which was then assembled in Photoshop
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Some highlights/superlatives:
M16: The famous 'Pillars of Creation' are located at the center of this nebula
M31: The Andromeda Galaxy, which is naked eye visible under dark skies
M40: The sexiest Messier object.
M45: The closest Messier object (430ly). In japanese the cluster is called 'Subaru' and is the logo for the car company. The stars are naked eye visible even under moderate light pollution
M65/66: These are the oldest photos in the composite (photographed March 22nd, 2018). I had previously done some of the other objects but I reshot them at later dates. These galaxies are also part of the Leo Triplet.
M70: The newest photo in the composite (photographed June 25th, 2020)
M87: The small blue splotch in this galaxy is the relativistic jet of material shot out by the black hole that was photographed last year. Coincidentally I took this photo on the same night that the photo was released
M101: This was the first space object I ever photographed, and I ended up reshooting it twice to track my improvement. (Don't plan on reshooting it this year, though)
M109: The most distant Messier object (~83 Million ly), though some sources say that M58 is further away.
89 were photographed from my apartment roof in downtown Athens, GA
10 were photographed from dark sites (Bortle 3/4) (M6, M7, M33, M41, M44, M69, M70, M78, M79, M101
7 are false color images (M8, M16, M17 M18, M43, M52, and M76)
He kept getting a drink then throw his head up, slinging water out his beak.
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
Garland, Texas
My photos can also be found at kapturedbykala.com
This is a slightly controversial object within the Messier catalogue. The Spindle Galaxy was discovered by Pierre Méchain on 27th March 1781. Méchain described the object as a “nebula between the stars Omicron Boötis & Iota Draconis,” adding that “it is very faint; near it is a star of the sixth magnitude.” Méchain probably meant Theta Boötis, not Omicron, which contributed to the subsequent confusion around the identity of M 102. Omicron Boötis is more than 40 degrees away from Iota Draconis, which makes the possibility of an error very likely. Méchain reported the discovery to Messier, who added the object to his catalogue.
The confusion about the object started two years later, in May 1783, when Méchain wrote to Bernoulli in Berlin saying that the listing of M 102 was a mistake and that the object referred to was a duplicate observation of M 101. One can imagine that M 102 could not be found due to the error in the original observation notes. It was the French astronomer Camille Flammarion who identified NGC 5866 as M 102 in his “List of the Messier Objects,” published in L’Astronomie in November 1917, arguing that the Greek letter Omicron (ο), written down by Messier, was in fact a lowercase Theta (θ). This was probably correct because the object found at this location corresponds to Messier’s description of M 102.
The Spindle Galaxy was independently discovered by William Herschel in 1788. Herschel determined the position of the object on May 5, 1788.
M 102 is a spindle-type galaxy, seen edge-on and around 41 million light years distant. It is magnitude 10.7 and 6 x 3 arc minutes in extent.
Data for this image were captured between 27th May and 17th June - yes on the shortest nights and with a waxing Moon. The data comprises 23 x five-minutes luminance and seven each of five-minutes RGB subs, all binned 1 x 1.
Telescope: 8" Ritchey-Chretien at 1660mm focal length
Camera: QSI 583 with Astrodon filters
Mount: Skywatcher EQ8
Location: Cambridge, UK
Technikai adatok:
Canon EOS 1100D fullspectrum
Astronomik UV/IR block filter
Skywatcher 72ED
x0,85 reductor
AZ-EQ6 GT
38*180s / ISO 1600
2024 07 31
The small smattering of bright blue stars upper left of centre in this huge 615 megapixel ESO image is the perfect cosmic laboratory in which to study the life and death of stars. Known as Messier 18 this open star cluster contains stars that formed together from the same massive cloud of gas and dust. This image was captured by the OmegaCAM camera attached to the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) located at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/eso1628a/
Credit:
ESO
#messy @ebody reborn event on the virtual world of #secondlife.
Go see it! maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/eBody/64/251/24
Oops you woke up late after a wild weekend and rushed to the office, but that's okay you still look hot. The perfect ensemble for being a big time producer at the hottest porn studio or walking into the lecture hall as the professor's favorite TA. Go forth ladies and get the next snack onto your casting couch.
The Hefner Outfit comes in ebody, legacy, and maitreya. It comes with an exclusive hud with texture change for the top and bottom. We recommend rocking it with these cute heels by Muse x Moon Elixir called "All Eyes on Me" that are seen in the ad.
Outfit is full mod to allow for editing at your discretion.
a pile of mess i made this weekend. the messiness of life is journalled, but the magic of it is celebrated :)
the whole thing can be viewed on my stream :)
A Cliff Swallow working on a mud nest under an eve of a building in Yellowstone National Park U.S.A.
One year later and i've finally pushed myself to start the 365 day project! I have no idea where this journey will lead me but i am full of inspiration and ready to go.
“Emotions are messy.”
Stack of 28, 1 minute shots at ISO 400. Haven't had chance to edit it properly and subtract dark frames. 19th April 2014
Fenris: "Luke Skywalker has turned into a werewolf and Princess Leia is green with envy!"
Ratatosk: "This native chef is going to cook the nerdy cook!"
Fenris and Ratatosk have made a mess of my Lego minifigures...
(ADAD 2015 February - 5: Messy)
M10 is a globular cluster with a diameter of 83 light-years. It is estimated to be 14,300 light-years away from Earth. The core region contains stars which formed 2–5 billion years ago.
The cluster is currently located about 16,000 light years from our galactic centre which it orbits every 140 million years.
Taken from Warwick, UK with a Skywatcher 200P reflecting telescope and an ASI2600MC camera. This image represents 30 minutes of exposure, stacked and processed using Pixinsight.
Messier 13, Hercules Globular Cluster
Getting used to the equipment - a quick test run.
Setup:
* Shot through the haze of fireworks
* 55 30-second exposures (lights only)
Equipment/Tech:
* Nikon D5300
* William Optics Zenithstar 73
* Skywatcher HEQ5 Mount
* KStars
Processing:
* Stacked and adjusted in Affinity Photo - levels, colors, background removal
Male of Megachile (Chalicodoma) parietina.
Technique: After I photographed this little guy I turned him loose on a flower and while I was eating lunch he must have woken up and foraged. Later in the afternoon this is how I found him, all covered in pollen and passed out at the edge of a petal like he was in a coma after eating a heavy meal.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (under 3x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on the Canon flash mount, E-TTL metering). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. I used an artificial flower to keep the background from being black.
Last shot after a good session at "Hard Bass Music" show In Angers, France.
Everybody on the stage, standing up on a chair to catch this messy moment.
Shot with my funny combo Alpha6000 & 8mm Samyang
(Really quick process in Lightroom)
6/365
It feels so good to be home to my messy room, and my boyfriend that smells like soap and cologne, and my floor that is as disorganized as ever, and my bed that I fall fast asleep on.
M57, the Ring Nebula, flanked by Sheliak and Sulafat, in the constellation Lyra.
2020-06-25
Olympus Pen-F Digital
M.Zuiko 40-150 f2.8 PRO
44 exposures @ISO 1600, ranging from 15s to 30s, stacked using SiriL
Taken using my homemade barndoor mount, from my balcony in the centre of light-polluted Montreal.
The first of my 104 Things to Photograph Project. The prompt was messy hair and I have been waiting for the right morning where the sun is shining through our deck door blinds.
Messy party to celebrate graduating from 8th grade
Messy lottery: Ziva gets to sit in the bowl of cereal.
Messier 35
Open star cluster Messier 35 ( NGC 2168) is consisted of several hundred stars scattered over the area covered by the full Moon (30')
the Sky Catalogue 2000.0 and the first edition of Uranometria 2000.0 give 200 members,
the second edition of Uranometria 2000.0 gives 434,
while Cudworth (1971) counted 513 probable member stars
Nice Cluster to take....
Again StarCluster aren`t really me thing but this one turned out OK.....
8" Newt Astrograph @f/3.6
EQ5 Mount EOS 1000D
20x1min @ISO 400
Taken w/ William Optics Redcat 51, QHYCCD Polemaster, Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D7500.
215 x 90s lights @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~80 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop
Elephants often leave a mess behind as they forage for the 150 kg of food they ingest each day. Pilanesberg National Park
Messier 81
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
J2000 09h 55m 33.2s +69° 3′ 55″
Messier 81 (NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy at 12 million light-years in Ursa Major and it is the largest galaxy in the M81 Group, a group of 34 galaxies . M81 was discovered by Johann Elert Bode in 1774.
Messier 3 (also known as M3 or NGC 5272) is a globular cluster in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici.
This cluster is one of the largest and brightest, and is made up of around 500,000 stars. It is estimated to be 8 billion years old. It is located at a distance of about 33,900 light-years away from Earth.
NEQ6 PRO
TS 10inch RC CF
SW 190mm MN
Canon 550D modified
Astronomik cls clip filter
ISO 800
Guiding: SW 80mmST, SX Lodestar x2, PHD v1 software
140mins 190mm MN
100mins 10inch RC
Processed using RegiStar & Photoshop.
This new Hubble image shows the scatterings of bright stars and thick dust that make up spiral galaxy Messier 83, otherwise known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. One of the largest and closest barred spirals to us, this galaxy is dramatic and mysterious; it has hosted a large number of supernova explosions, and appears to have a double nucleus lurking at its core.
More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1403a/
Credit:
NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Acknowledgement: William Blair (Johns Hopkins University)