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Messier 7 / Cúmulo de Ptolomeo, en Scorpius. Apilado de 120x30 segs (1h 0min). f:400mm @ F/5.7, ISO 800. Canon 450D +Celestron 70/400, montura CG4. 06-07-2013
Messy stuff. I caught a drop of blood below the fish.
Bald eagle eating a fish at Lock and Dam 14 -- Le Claire, Iowa
BigRMa 02-29-20-170 800_6241-1 f
Its been a long time since I have set up my 6" SCT on a goto mount to do some astrophotography. I have been using my Nikkor lenses a lot recently. Last night I decided to put my C6 on my new Vixen GPD2 mount and see how it performed. The Skysensor 2000 found M82 and I did a short-ish 6 mins of stacked exposure on it with my Nikon D750. I'll do this again another night and use my D500 and a lot more time!
This cluster of stars is known as Messier 15, and is located some 35 000 light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus (The Winged Horse). It is one of the oldest globular clusters known, with an age of around 12 billion years. Both very hot blue stars and cooler golden stars can be seen swarming together in the image, becoming more concentrated towards the cluster's bright centre. Messier 15 is one of the densest globular clusters known, with most of its mass concentrated at its core. As well as stars, Messier 15 was the first cluster known to host a planetary nebula, and it has been found to have a rare type of black hole at its centre. This new image is made up of observations from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys in the ultraviolet, infrared, and optical parts of the spectrum.
More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1321a/
Credit:
ESA & NASA
Here is a lovely, dust-laden spiral galaxy with some large patches of star formation going on in its arms. I had previously processed this galaxy but I used a different set of data and I was still relatively new to processing. As such, looking at it again I decided to try a new take on it and this is the result. I still think the old one has its merit despite the odd colors. It's easier to see the H-alpha structures in the old one because the H-alpha channel is not competing with as many datasets but this version is far easier for a human to understand, which one might call more natural, at least by human standards.
You may have also seen my friend André van der Hoeven's version of this galaxy. He won second place in Hubble's Hidden Treasures contest with it. Another version has also been featured at ESA's Hubble website and at APOD.
Here, I've used all of my processing skills to make yet another version, this time utilizing available WFPC2 data to help the bluer stars really stand out, which was something I did not know how to do the first time I attempted it and was unsure if it was something I even should do.
The blue channel especially is challenging because two separate, somewhat different but close enough filters were combined for it. At F336W and F450W, the two peak wavelengths are over 100 nm apart from one another and the F336W dataset is considerably more noisy. Still, by fiddling with Photoshop's curves adjustment a bit, it is possible to make them match nearly seamlessly against one another.
In some places, not all data was overlapping all three channels. In those places, pseudo color was generated with what data were available. There is a small patch of totally missing data at the upper right corner which I have filled in with dark gray.
These data were acquired during three separate proposals, namely:
Proposal 11128, Time Scales Of Bulge Formation In Nearby Galaxies
Proposal 9788, A Narrow-band Snapshot Survey of Nearby Galaxies
and Proposal 5754, Imaging and Spectrophotometry of Seyfert Nuclei (FOS 14): - Part II Cycle 4 Observations
Red: HST_9788_02_ACS_WFC_F658N_sci + HST_9788_02_ACS_WFC_F814W_sci
Green: HST_9788_02_ACS_WFC_F658N_sci + hst_08597_88_wfpc2_f606w_wf_sci
Blue: hst_08597_88_wfpc2_f606w_wf_sci + hst_11128_30_wfpc2_f450w_wf_sci
North is up.
Voici M63 "Galaxie du tournesol" ou NGC 5055 dans la constellation du chien de chasse.
Galaxie spirale de type Sb située à environ 26 années-lumière de la Terre et fait partie du groupe local, comprenant notre galaxie notamment.
Elle dispose d'un moyeu centrale de grande taille et entouré de bras spiraux très enroulés étendues sur 100 000 AL.
Ses larges bras striés de poussières et de gaz sont propice à la formation d'étoiles.
J'ai capturé cette Galaxie sur une période de 6 nuits consécutives avec au total 12h30 de poses.
C'est la photo qui m'aura demandé le plus de temps d'exposition car je voulais mettre en avant également le gigantesque nuage de poussières qui l'entoure accessible uniquement avec de longs temps de pose.
Technique :
>Telescope Type Newton 200/1000
> Camera ZWO ASi 1600 mmc Pro
> Capture Sequence generator pro
>Filtre Luminance = 86 x 300 secondes = 7h
>Filtre Luminance = 28 x 600 secondes = 4h
>Filtre Rouge = 30 x 60 secondes 30 min
>Filtre vert= 30 x 60 secondes 30 min
>Filtre bleu= 30 x 60 secondes 30 min
> 12h30 de temps d'exposition total
> Pas d'Offset, Darks, Flats
> Traitement Pixinsight
> Finition Photoshop
I never really noticed until recently how there's a bunch of goo and guts on this little guy's face.
Description:
Messier 109 (also known as NGC 3992) is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 83.5 ± 24 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. M109 can be seen southeast of the star Phecda (γ UMa).
History
Messier 109 was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. In 1783 Charles Messier catalogued NGC 3992 as his 109th object.
Between the 1920s through the 1950s, it was considered that Messier objects over 103 were not official, but in later years the additions became more widely accepted. David H. Levy mentions the modern 110 object catalog while Sir Patrick Moore gave the original to 104 but has M105-M109 listed as an addendum. By the late 1970s all 110 objects are commonly used among astronomers as they still are today.
In March 1956, supernova 1956A was observed in M109. SN 1956A was a type Ia supernova in the southeast part of the galaxy, glowing at magnitude 12.8 to 12.3 at its maximum. SN 1956A has been the only supernova observed in M109 since its discovery.
M109 has three satellite galaxies (UGC 6923, UGC 6940 and UGC 6969) and possibly might have more. Detailed hydrogen line observations have been obtained from M109 and its satellites. M109's H I distribution is regular with a low level radial extension outside the stellar disc, while at exactly the region of the bar, there is a central H I hole in the gas distribution. Possibly the gas has been transported inwards by the bar because of the emptiness of the hole no large accretion events can have happened in the recent past.
Environment
M109 is the brightest galaxy in the M109 Group, a large group of galaxies located in the constellation Ursa Major that may contain over 50 galaxies.
Description from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_109
This picture was photographed during April, 15-18, 2012 in Khlepcha observatory, Ukraine.
Equipment: reflector S&D 254 mm. f/4.7
Mount WhiteSwan-180, camera QSI-583wsg, Tevevue Paracorr-2. Off-axis guidecamera Orion SSAG.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L=14*300 sec. bin.1, RGB: 12*300 sec. bin2
Processed Pixinsight 1.7 and Photoshop CS5.
Super sexy blond model with amazing curves. She wanted to do something a little sexier and naughtier than in past shoots. One of her kinky fantasies was to tease with and pour milk on herself. I like the results...do you? Was a hard shoot to concentrate and she admitted a few times during the shoot that she was getting very turned on!!
The Messier Catalog, sometimes known as the Messier Album or list of Messier objects, is one of the most useful tools in the astronomy hobby. In the middle of the 18th century, the return of Halley's comet helped to prove the Newtonian theory, and helped to spark a new interest in astronomy. During this time, a French astronomer named Charles Messier began a life-long search for comets. He would eventually discover 15 of them. On August 28, 1758, while searching for comets, Messier found a small cloudy object in the constellation Taurus. He began keeping a journal of these nebulous (cloudy) objects so that they would not be confused with comets. This journal is known today as the Messier Catalog, or Messier Album. The deep sky objects in this catalog are commonly referred to as Messier objects.
The graceful, winding arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 (NGC 5194) appear like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space. They are actually long lanes of stars and gas laced with dust. This sharpest-ever image, taken in January 2005 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, illustrates a spiral galaxy's grand design, from its curving spiral arms, where young stars reside, to its yellowish central core, a home of older stars. The galaxy is nicknamed the Whirlpool because of its swirling structure. The Whirlpool's most striking feature is its two curving arms, a hallmark of so-called grand-design spiral galaxies. Many spiral galaxies possess numerous, loosely shaped arms that make their spiral structure less pronounced. These arms serve an important purpose in spiral galaxies. They are star-formation factories, compressing hydrogen gas and creating clusters of new stars. In the Whirlpool, the assembly line begins with the dark clouds of gas on the inner edge, then moves to bright pink star-forming regions, and ends with the brilliant blue star clusters along the outer edge. Some astronomers believe that the Whirlpool's arms are so prominent because of the effects of a close encounter with NGC 5195, the small, yellowish galaxy at the outermost tip of one of the Whirlpool's arms. At first glance, the compact galaxy appears to be tugging on the arm. Hubble's clear view, however, shows that NGC 5195 is passing behind the Whirlpool. The small galaxy has been gliding past the Whirlpool for hundreds of millions of years. As NGC 5195 drifts by, its gravitational muscle pumps up waves within the Whirlpool's pancake-shaped disk. The waves are like ripples in a pond generated when a rock is thrown in the water. When the waves pass through orbiting gas clouds within the disk, they squeeze the gaseous material along each arm's inner edge. The dark dusty material looks like gathering storm clouds. These dense clouds collapse, creating a wake of star birth, as seen in the bright pink star-forming regions. The largest stars eventually sweep away the dusty cocoons with a torrent of radiation, hurricane-like stellar winds, and shock waves from supernova blasts. Bright blue star clusters emerge from the mayhem, illuminating the Whirlpool's arms like city streetlights. The Whirlpool is one of astronomy's galactic darlings. Located approximately 25 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs), the Whirlpool's beautiful face-on view and closeness to Earth allow astronomers to study a classic spiral galaxy's structure and star-forming processes.
snapshot of my messy painting corner in the art room. really need to organize.
started work on a new painting...you can see the beginnings in this photo.
blogged here: lucidrose.blogspot.com/2010/12/messy-art-room-new-screen-...
~WARNING! ~! Don't use these on expensive dolls, this is for either making dolls from scratch or customizing the cheaper ones.
So this... is the messiness of my little "creative" area.
Um, so let me explain what's what, and WHY I use it.
1. Super Sculpey & LaDoll... are my best friends.
Especially for making a doll from scratch. I like to age my super sculpey and give it a lot of air. This makes it firm. he best par tis Super Sculpey you can sand when you bake it...
That's right! You can carve and SAND the little buggers. Any cracks, creases, or mistakes I use LaDoll over the hardened sculpty clay and sand, sand, sand. I then use Mr. White Surface over the entire thing.
I JUST ordered SIX packs of Premier LaDoll I can't WAIT for that!
2. Mr. Super Clear UV, Mr. White Surfacer.
Surfacer you need for dolls from scratch. Super clear is for resin(you can correct me)/ABS dolls, it makes paint and pastels adhere to the doll. It's a must!
3. Acetone, Turpentine, Brush cleaner.
Okay... Turpentine is my LAST resort. I find that a Q-tip and acetone work best on acrylic mess, and brush cleaner works great on clearing the pastel mistakes. So if you've SCRUBBED the life out of your head to remove that stingy spot, use acetone. End of story.
4. That is NOT Neutrogena face wipes.... That is where I hold my water for thinning paints, and cleaning things. I recommend sealing your water in something that won't spill over.
5. Sanding Sponge, fake brillo, sponge, nail sander/buffer block.
These are thinks you'll need only with super sculptley and LaDoll. For get about using it on your resin doll. I'll feature what you use to sand your resin later.
6. Tool galore.... I have a lot of tools for clay work... I'll explain them later.
7. Mask. Wear anytime you sand or use pastels really. Protect your lungs.
8. Tweezers. For handling lashes.
9. Eyes, and eye fixates.
10: Styrofoam balls, and wooden balls. I use wooden balls in the place of ball bearings when I make sculpty dolls. If I am using strictly LaDoll only, I use styrofoam. OH and for the main head use aluminum foil, not a wooden ball, that is just there for a size guide for my aluminum ball making.
11. Extra little paint cups. Paint cups for whatever pastels you mix, or paints, or plasters, I use one for a very wet LaDoll mix that I use for filling in mistakes.
A short visit to a painter's studio resulted in a quick series of excellent images!
Images from the Painting Studio of Deann Hebert of Franklin, TN.
You can visit her gallery at the Franklin Factory and see her wonderful paintings at www.deanndesigns.com/
Definitely an artist with her own style and a voice of color!!