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Messier 17
Stack Size:27
Exposure: 45s
ISO: 6400
Lens: 8in SCT with focal reducer
Camera: Canon Rebel T7i with astro mod
NGC 5866 is a reasonably bright Lenticular Galaxy in the constellation of the Dragon. I became very familiar with this galaxy when I was living in Texas in the 1980s. The local astronomy club would participate in the Messier Marathon each year during March around the time of the New Moon. The goal was to find and see all 110 Messier Objects in a single night. It was theoretically possible, but the best I ever did was 108 out of the 110 objects. Messier’s object 102 was at the time a bit of a mystery and no one really knew what it really represented. When we conducted our March Marathon, we used NGC 5866 as Messier’s missing 102. So, each spring NGC 5866 would come to life in my eyepiece just long enough to check it off my list before moving on to the next Messier Object.
NGC 5866 deserves better respect than I give it during the Messier marathons. The galaxy has a bright core that makes finding it easy, but with a small telescope the subtle disk can only be teased out with some effort at the eyepiece. Given that its light took 50 million years to reach my eyepiece, spending a few minutes observing it is easily justified.
It is now believed that Messier 102 is Messier 101. Messier accidently recorded the same object twice. But to me NGC 5866 still makes a great substitute for Messier 102 whether running an all night marathon or just taking one’s time enjoying the Dragon galaxy’s distant glow.
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Dogwood 52 Week Photography Challenge - Week 19 Portrait - Messy. The week 19 challenge was a bit of a strange one. The brief was (Portrait: Messy) Take an amazing portrait of someone, make a mess while you are doing it.
I was really struggling to come up with an idea and subject for this week. I was considering using a stuffed toy, a boiled egg with a face on it or some form of selfie.
But when all seemed lost and I had almost thrown in the towel, my son saved the day by presenting himself after school covered in dust and dirt. So before sending him off for a shower and a change of clothes, I grabbed the camera.
I'm not sure it's actually messy but he is dirty and his uniform is a complete mess. His only concern is that his hair is not perfect. Teenagers....what can you say.
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Goal: To create a series package for december having to do with the messy side of the christmas season.
Audience: General church audience.
Direction: Decided to go with an image of a store display that was in NYC a couple years ago. Not completely set on anything quite yet. Deadlines are coming up though!
Project: Will include bulletin cover, series title, etc
Other Info: Some texture isn't showing up that is actually in the file, but this is generally what it is. Don't know why that happened.
Messier 3 (NGC 5272) is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful Northern globular clusters. Located around 32,000 light-years away in Canes Venatici, it is estimated to be 11.4 billion years old and is one of the largest and brightest globular clusters in the Milky Way, made up of around 500,000 stars.
M3 is also renowned for containing the largest population of variable stars known to date in a globular cluster, as well as a relatively high number of blue stragglers. These stars are young, hotter and brighter than the others, in stark contrast to the old stars of a globular cluster. How they formed remains a subject of research.
Acquisitions: 13h04 from June 1 to 6, 2023 in Amiens (France) with :
TOA 130 - FL645 telescope
Eq6-R mount
ASI 2600mm camera & LRVB Antlia filters
Pixinsight & Photoshop processing
L: 261 x 120s
RGB: 40 /50 /41 x120s
Melting boots by the back door. The little man's feet are nearly as big as mine already, and he's only six!
Spiral galaxies are usually very aesthetically appealing objects, and never more so than when they appear face-on. And this image is a particularly splendid example: it is the grand design spiral galaxy Messier 100, located in the southern part of the constellation of Coma Berenices, and lying about 55 million light-years from Earth. While Messier 100 shows very well defined spiral arms, it also displays the faintest of bar-like structures in the centre, which classifies this as type SAB. Although it is not easily spotted in the image, scientists have been able to confirm the bar’s existence by observing it in other wavelengths. This very detailed image shows the main features expected in a galaxy of this type: huge clouds of hydrogen gas, glowing in red patches when they re-emit the energy absorbed from newly born, massive stars; the uniform brightness of older, yellowish stars near the centre; and black shreds of dust weaving through the arms of the galaxy. Messier 100 is one of the brightest members of the Virgo Cluster, which is the closest cluster of galaxies to our galaxy, the Milky Way, containing over 2000 galaxies, including spirals, ellipticals, and irregulars. This picture is a combination of images from the FORS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile, taken with red (R), green (V) and blue (B) filters. Links Photos of the VLT
Another shot of the new room. It's still messy right now, but it will be clean by tomorrow, I promise!
Messier 48. Apilado de 80x30 (40min) f:400mm @ F/5.7, ISO 800. Canon 450D +Celestron 70/400, montura CG4. 03-03-2013
Messier 46
Stack Size:27
Exposure: 45s
ISO: 6400
Lens: 8in SCT with f6.3 Focal Reducer
Camera: Canon Rebel T7i with Astro Mod
Messy first ever attempt at Nail Polish Marbling..
Little finger not included as yet because it failed. nailsandnonsense.blogspot.com/
Messier 20 & 21. Apilado de 140x16segs (37min), f:400mm @ F/5.7, ISO 1600. Canon 1000D +Celestron 70/400. 10-07-2012
This is the Galaxy Messier 74. Shot with an EOS 550D mounted to a Skywatcher 150/750 telescope. Exposure was around 49 minutes with ISO 800.