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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303. The galaxy, located only 55 million light-years away from Earth, is roughly the size of the Milky Way, with a diameter of around 100 000 light-years. The galaxy is notable for one particular reason — six supernovae have been observed within Messier 61, a total that places it in the top handful of galaxies alongside Messier 83, also with six, and NGC 6946, with a grand total of nine observed supernovae. In this Hubble image the galaxy is seen face-on as if posing for a photograph, allowing us to study its structure closely. The spiral arms can be seen in stunning detail, swirling inwards to the very centre of the galaxy, where they form a smaller, intensely bright spiral. In the outer regions, these vast arms are sprinkled with bright blue regions where new stars are being formed from hot, dense clouds of gas. Messier 61 is part of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, a massive group of galaxies in the constellation of Virgo (the Virgin). Galaxy clusters, or groups of galaxies, are among the biggest structures in the Universe to be held together by gravity alone. The Virgo Cluster contains more than 1300 galaxies and forms the central region of the Local Supercluster, an even bigger gathering of galaxies. The image was taken using data from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 2. Different versions of this image were submitted to the Hubble’s Hidden Treasures image processing competition by contestants Gilles Chapdelaine, Luca Limatola, and Robert Gendler. Links Hubble’s Hidden Treasures
Messier 39 open cluster in Cygnus
About 1,010 light-years
SkyWatcher 100ED
Canon 700d
20x120s (40 mins)
Rotation ................. -89.447 deg
Observation start time ... 2024-05-18 23:33:04 UTC
Observation end time ..... 2024-05-19 00:31:19 UTC
Pixel size ............... 3.23 um
Image center ............. RA: 21 31 33.297 Dec: +48 16 21.61 ex: +0.000342 px ey: -0.001866 px
On my last visit to Birnie Loch the birds were almost lining up to get their photos taken as they were enjoying the bird food I had taken along so much. This robin was eating the fat, seeds and fruit so quickly that the food was flying everywhere.
Messy eater: I was fortunate to be able to borrow the remarkable Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM recently. It is called by some the ultimate wildlife lens, and I cannot disagree. This is a bird feeder in the backyard, about 5 meters from my easy chair. via 500px bit.ly/25uOihw
Next to a busy Norwegian motorway is this small restaurant building left to decay. The inside witness of quite a lot of vandalism and chairs and tables are all over the place. Don't know much about it's history or when it was abandoned.
Oh if you haven't noticed, I'm going crazy with fish-eye these days... hm
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The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.
With a diameter of about 60,000 light-years, the Triangulum galaxy is the third largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, roughly 40% the size of the Milky Way. It may be a gravitationally bound companion of the Andromeda Galaxy. Triangulum may be home to 40 billion stars, compared to 400 billion for the Milky Way, and 1 trillion stars for Andromeda Galaxy.
Technical Data:
OTA: SkyWatcher Newton 200mm F/5
Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6-Pro
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600 MM-C, cooled at -20C
Guide Camera: QHY-5LII Mono
Guide Scope: ArteSky 60mm F/4
Filters: Optolong LRGB
Baader Coma Corrector MPCIII
Software: Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, Deep Sky Stacker, PS
98 frames in total, Gain 300 - Offset 50
Lum 30x15s + 30x30s + 5x60s (27m 30s)
RGB 11x30s each (5m 30s each)
Total Integration Time: 44 minutes
NO Darks, Flats, Bias
Captured during the short darkness of 28th July as part of testing the imaging software N.I.N.A. It comprises just 10 x two-minute subs of red, green and blue sub-frames.
The short exposures have ensured that the core is not over-exposed and the planetary nebula Pease1 can be discerned just north of the centre.
Also, I have processed this to show the core.
Telescope: 8" Ritchey-Chretien with x0.7 reducer
Camera: QSI 683
Mount: Skywatcher EQ8
Location: Cambridge, UK
Messier 31 - Andromeda
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello / DAGAS-2
Ultra-deep field inverted
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Well, I suppose it was rather warm and sunny when Jackson had this rather large ice cream!! It might also been a little cold!
I want to apologise for the lack of my being able to comment over the past weeks and this may continue for the next three weeks ~ we are moving home and have been very busy organising everything ... busy times!! However, when I get a moment I will do my best to comment
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... Thanks to you all.
In 1054AD, Chinese skywatchers saw an impressive sight. That year, a star in the constellation Taurus decided to go supernova, and the supernova was so bright, it was visible in broad daylight for approximately one year after the light from the initial explosion reached Earth.
Today, the remnants of that explosion is known as Messier 1, AKA the Crab Nebula.
This is a reprocessed shot of one grabbed a couple nights ago - a 50-minute total exposure integration.
Captured with a Nikon D5100 coupled to a Meade LX200 f/6.3 Wide-Field Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope.
85 30-second exposures stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, with final processing in Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 5.5.
First light with the Meade LX200. I decided to test it out on its first night - which incidentally was also the day the LX200 fork mount arrived via FedEx!
I am very pleased!
:)
Spiral galaxy Messier 101 from 14 images x 30s (eq. to 7 min. exposure time) @300mm/f3.2, using the O-GPS1 unit and a standard tripod
No equatorial mount !!!!
No dark, no flat field, no offset ! just lens corrections with Lightroom and fine tuning of the tonal curve
Images stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Clear skies are amazing when they happen here in the Pacific Northwest. The last two have been no exception!
Over the course of the last two nights I have been re-shooting this gem from January - Messier 51.
I also decided to add it to data I shot in January - for a total of four hours integration.
Imaging gear:
Nikon D5100
Meade LX200 10-inch f/6.3
Software:
BackyardNIKON
Deep Sky Stacker
Adobe Photoshop CS3
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated south[b] of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 light years away!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula
My first proper go at stacking a number of images whilst attending the Winchester Science Centre Stargazing evening.
Taken with the EOS 5d mk3, with the 70-200 f2.8 lens fitted with both the 2x and 1.4x extenders. No tracking was used for this.
Although the camera shoots ok although I do think doubling the extenders softens the overall image..
Stacked 18 shots of 1 second and processed and stacked with deep sky stacker.
Will keep trying with this, its quite addictive!
Will now try stacking all 170 images :)
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.
Clear skies are amazing when they happen here in the Pacific Northwest. The last two have been no exception!
This was the first time I've shot this little critter. A good friend gave the suggestion, and for that I'm happy he did! Messier 63 is an amazing target!
Imaging gear:
Nikon D5100
Meade LX200 10-inch f/6.3
Software:
BackyardNIKON
Deep Sky Stacker
Adobe Photoshop CS3