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360° panorama of a messy scene, repeating over most of Hokkaido right now as the snow from the previous blizzard yesterday and the day before is melting quickly in the early March heat wave (our temperatures are almost at April levels right now). Someone plowed in front of our house last night meaning I got some extra snow shoveling duties to clean up the snow and ice in front of our house but it was worth it as driving was a lot easier.
My time aboard the Rhum Runner is always fun. I often take the opportunity to add some beautiful images to my collection. This year was no exception. I managed to pull this one out from what was a quite messy scene.
I am really enjoying life with my this new camera.
This is a stack of 3 individual 30-second images of globular star cluster, Messier Object M22 taken at ISO 1600 from Malibu, California on August 6, 2005. The individual images were manually aligned in Photoshop CS. I was using an "Alt-Az" fork-mounted 10" Meade LX200 GPS on its regular field tripod, and a Canon 10D was coupled in prime focus configuration to an Orion Short-Tube 80mm (ST-80) telescope mounted with a Losmandy bracket on top of the LX200. In prime focus photography, the camera lens is removed, and in this image, the ST-80 was the actual 400mm "lens". The final images were cropped from the 3 single, unguided exposures. Because I was not polar aligned on a wedge, or using a German Equatorial Mount such as a Losmandy G-11, I ended up with some field rotation. This required slightly rotating each image to eliminate the field rotation and align all the stars.
M22 is 9,600 light years from Earth.
Image processing was done in Photoshop, and the star diffraction spikes and frame were added using Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools plug-in for Photoshop. This software is available at www.ProDigitalSoftware.com.
My image of Messier 67 I took last night. Put a little extra effort into this one. I took 65 frames @ 60 secs exposure on each frame. Also did 40 dark frames right after with the same settings as the light frames. Took 50 flat frames this morning with a T-Shirt over the aperature of my scope and the scope up against my laptop which I had Notepad open. Then I did 70 bias frames, which you just set the fastest exposure your camera can shoot at and snap pics with the dust cover on the camera. I'm guessing that's why this one has a smoother looking background than my other pics. Then load them all into Deep Sky Stacker and let it stack them. Then bring the stacked pic into PixInsight and adjusted the curves and color saturation and used a noise reduction filter on it.
This one is located just below and a little south of the Beehive Cluster which I imaged the other night.
This is a globular cluster of stars in the constellation of Hercules. M13, also known as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, is made up of about 300,000 stars. M13 was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714, and catalogued by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764.
I shot this thru a Vixen ED103S (4")Apochromatic Refractor Telescope.
May 12, 2011
Scope: Vixen ED103S (4") ED Apochromatic Refractor
Camera Canon EOS 50D
Exposure 60 sec
Aperture f/7.7
Focal Length 795 mm
ISO Speed 800
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Hokkaido, Japan
I really don't know how to take landscape, what I do is just capture everything in the frame..... It looks quite messy indeed..
A deal with the devil or an urbaine partnership: An old, finely crafted, free-stading church on its own lot with its own parking gave away its land and is now an appendix to a commercial building. Its parking is now underground (as it should, downtown), its office and community hall are in the office building, as they could.
With a dwidling congregation and facing eventual demoliton, commerce became its saviour.
The finest mix of urbanism: Commerce, community and communion. Urban design takes second place unless "design" means the best deal for the city's richness, choice and vitality.
Messier 35 and NGC2158 (the small one upper left corner) in constellation Gemini.
Camera: Canon 550D + Synta Coma Corrector.
Exposure: 5x105s, ISO 3200
Telescope: Newton 130/650mm
Mount: NEQ6 Pro
Messier 106 (also known as NGC 4258) is a transiting spiral galaxy in the constellation of the Hunting Dogs. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. M106 is about 22 to 25 million light years away from Earth. M106 contains an active core classified as a Seyfert type 2, and the presence of a central supermassive black hole has been demonstrated from radio wave observations of the rotation of a disk of molecular gas orbiting in an inner light-year diameter region around the black hole.
NGC 4217 is a possible companion galaxy to Messier 106.
Equipment: SkyWatcher NEQ6Pro, GSO Newton astrograph 200/800, GSO 2" coma corrector, QHY 8L-C, SVbony UV/IR cut, Optolong L-eNhance filter, FocusDream focuser, guiding QHY5L-II-C, SVbony guidescope 240mm.
Software: NINA, Astro pixel processor, GraXpert, Siril, Pixinsight, Adobe photoshop
169x180 sec. Lights gain15, offset113 at -10°C, 94x360 sec. Lights gain15, offset113 at -10°C via Optolong L-eNhance, master bias, 180 flats, master darks, master darkflats
20.4. until 30.4.2024
Reworked version
Belá nad Cirochou, Slovakia, bortle 4
M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy
Constellation Ursa Major
Right ascension 14h 03m 12s
Declination +54° 20′ 57″
The image also contains the discovered supernova inside M101.
Details
R-Filter - 86x120s @ -10°C Gain 100 HCG
G-Filter - 86x120s @ -10°C Gain 100 HCG
B-Filter - 86x120s @ -10°C Gain 100 HCG
Flats - 10x
Bias - 100x0.2s
Equipment
Mount - Pegasus Nyx-101
Telescope - TS-Optics CF-APO 90 mm
Camera - Touptek 26000m
Motorfocus - Pegasus FocusCube v2
Filter Wheel - Starlight Xpress 7x 36mm
Filters - Chroma Set 36mm: L,R,G,B,Ha (5nm),SII (3nm),OIII (3nm)
GuideCam - PlayerOne Mars-C
GuideScope - TSOptics 50mm ED
Flatbox - DeepSkyDad Flap Panel
Software
N.I.N.A. - Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy
PHD2
Pixinsight
Preprocessing
Flat Calibration
Flat ImageIntegration
Light Calibration
SubframeSelector to select best set of images
StarAlignment
Light ImageIntegration
Drizzle Integration
Processing
Dynamic Crop
Dynamic Background Extraction
Channel Combination
BlurXTerminator IntegerResample
NoiseXTerminator
Non-Linear
Curve Adjustments
This isn't even my room in the background lol my room is way messier.. sequins,beads,jewelry,stilettos,dresses,& makeup would be everywhere =o no joke
Edited Hubble Space Telescope of a section of the galaxy NGC 428 (only 50 million light years away and considered to be in the local universe) showing a very busy area - lots of nebula and the like.
Original caption: Bursts of pink and red, dark lanes of mottled cosmic dust, and a bright scattering of stars â this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows part of a messy barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 428. It lies approximately 48 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Although a spiral shape is still just about visible in this close-up shot, overall NGC 428âs spiral structure appears to be quite distorted and warped, thought to be a result of a collision between two galaxies. There also appears to be a substantial amount of star formation occurring within NGC 428 â another telltale sign of a merger. When galaxies collide their clouds of gas can merge, creating intense shocks and hot pockets of gas and often triggering new waves of star formation. NGC 428 was discovered by William Herschel in December 1786. More recently a type Ia supernova designated SN2013ct was discovered within the galaxy by Stuart Parker of the BOSS (Backyard Observatory Supernova Search) project in Australia and New Zealand, although it is unfortunately not visible in this image. This image was captured by Hubbleâs Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). A version of this image was entered into the Hubbleâs Hidden Treasures Image Processing competition by contestants Nick Rose and the Flickr user penninecloud. Links: Nick Roseâs image on Flickr Penninecloudâs image on Flickr