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My current USB hub is just not working as the power cable is not long enough to make it to the upper tier of my desk.
Process of crop from original stacked image. Canon EOS 450D prime focus Skywatcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. 20 lights (20s ISO1600), 10 darks, 20 flats, 20 bias. DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight, Photoshop CS5
About 20 minutes processing time. I still need to stack it with a few more images to tease out more details.
Located in the constellation Andromeda can be found M31, the famous Andromeda Galaxy. This spectacular object is a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way. At a distance of only 2 million light years, it is one of the closest galaxies to our own. Its enormous diameter of 200,000 light years gives it a visual magnitude of 3.4, making it the brightest galaxy in the sky and the only galaxy visible to the naked eye. It can easily be seen with binoculars, and telescopes will bring out some of the galaxy's detail.
Projections indicate that the Andromeda Galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way (our own galaxy if you didn't know that), approaching at a speed of about 140 kilometres per second. Impact is predicted in about 3 billion years; the two galaxies will probably merge to form a giant elliptical.
This mosaic image of the magnificent starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (M82) is the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained of M82. It is a galaxy remarkable for its webs of shredded clouds and flame-like plumes of glowing hydrogen blasting out from its central regions where young stars are being born 10 times faster than they are inside in our Milky Way Galaxy.
Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI) and P. Puxley (NSF).
Sacred Heart University hosted An Evening with Mark Messier, former NHL hockey player and current Kingsbridge National Ice Center CEO. The event was part of the Student Affairs Lecture Series. Photo by Mark F. Conrad 1/17/18
MrMV made cuttlefish ink pasta for lunch - twas good.
It wasn't as messy as I'd hoped (!) but as the children loved it their may well be a next time for my camera!
Me being messy in my room! Ok I know it's disgusting and everything but you need to understand that I do clean it up often. I found it funny to post it up ;) CAN YOU DO BETTER tag is messy...
Along the Fox River
Jon Duerr Forest Preserve
South Elgin, Illinois
April 17, 2015
41.970154, -88.296741
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Messy, chaotic, tangled and without organization ... this is the usual state of my ear buds when they are not in use. Though I much prefer them in a nice, wrapped circle, they appear to have 'mind of their own'! I've given up on trying to control them as long as they are cooperative when being used (which is also sometimes questionable!). ;)
My natural learning preference is much more sequential than unordered, more linear than hyperlinked...and yet, I understand and embrace the nonlinear and seemingly disconnected pathways to learning, the preferred style of many high school-aged students. In fact, I've even learned to applaud this 'chaos' in the classroom and in my own studies. Taking the time to see anothers' perspective can lead to a tangled mess - but one that offers even more opportunities! Naples, FL
Sacred Heart University hosted An Evening with Mark Messier, former NHL hockey player and current Kingsbridge National Ice Center CEO. The event was part of the Student Affairs Lecture Series. Photo by Mark F. Conrad 1/17/18
Single Exposure of Messier 8 region taken with a Pentax 4/400 EDIF and Pentax 67 on medium format Kodak E200 pushed one stop. Exposure was around one hour if I remember well.
The image were taken at Roque de los Muchachos (Canary Island) in 2007. Scanned with Nikon 9000 ED medium format scanner.
it'll be messy again by next week, I can almost guarantee it
*sigh*
damn chaotic preparation methods
Messier 19 or M19 (also designated NGC 6273) is a globular cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764 and added to his catalogue of comet-like objects that same year. It was resolved into individual stars by William Herschel in 1784. His son, John Herschel, described it as "a superb cluster resolvable into countless stars".
The cluster is located 4.5° WSW of Theta Ophiuchi and is just visible as a fuzzy point of light using 50 mm (2.0 in) binoculars. Using a telescope with a 25.4 cm (10.0 in) aperture, the cluster shows an oval appearance with a 3′ × 4′ core and a 5′ × 7′ halo.
M19 is one of the most oblate of the known globular clusters. This flattening may not accurately reflect the physical shape of the cluster because the emitted light is being strongly absorbed along the eastern edge. This is the result of extinction caused by intervening gas and dust. When viewed in the infrared, the cluster shows almost no flattening. It lies at a distance of about 28.7 kly (8.8 kpc) from the Solar System, and is quite near to the Galactic Center at only about 6.5 kly (2.0 kpc) away.
This cluster contains an estimated 1,100,000 times the mass of the Sun and it is around 11.9 billion years old. The stellar population includes four Cepheids and RV Tauri variables, plus at least one RR Lyrae variable for which a period is known. Observations made during the ROSAT mission failed to reveal any low-intensity X-ray sources.
More Information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_1
Credit: NASA/STScI/WikiSky
Taken with EOS350D (37mm f3.5 800 iso) on Astrotrac light mount : 15*120 seconds without autoguiding.
In France this area of the Galaxy is low in the sky (around 25 deg in summer), this factor added to some light pollution explains the yellow background.
Black areas on the picture are space dust clouds masking lightness of underlying bright objects, and bright areas are provided by density of stars and stars clusters.
The labels beginning with "m" on the picture are those of Messier catalog.
The very last deep sky image on the 2012-2013 astrophotography season. The M13 is a large globular cluster in Hercules. The image is stacked from six 5 minute exposures with LRGB filters.
Sacred Heart University hosted An Evening with Mark Messier, former NHL hockey player and current Kingsbridge National Ice Center CEO. The event was part of the Student Affairs Lecture Series. Photo by Mark F. Conrad 1/17/18
Charles Messier (26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer most notable for publishing an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the Messier Catalog. The purpose of the catalogue was to help astronomical observers, in particular comet hunters such as himself, distinguish between permanent and transient visually diffuse objects in the sky.
Messier's occupation as a comet hunter led him to continually come across fixed diffuse objects in the night sky which could be mistaken for comets (they are known today to be galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters). He compiled a list of them, in collaboration with his friend and assistant Pierre Méchain (who may have found at least 20 of the objects), to avoid wasting time sorting them out from the comets they were looking for. Messier did his observing with 100 mm (four inch) refracting telescope from Hôtel de Cluny (now the Musée national du Moyen Âge), in Paris, France. The list he compiled contains only objects found in the sky area he could observe: from the north celestial pole to a celestial latitude of about −35.7° and are not organized scientifically by object type, or even by location.
The first version of Messier's catalogue contained 45 objects and was published in 1774 in the journal of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris. The final version of the catalogue was published in 1781, in Connoissance des Temps for 1784.[4] The final list of Messier objects had grown to 103.
On several occasions between 1921 and 1966, astronomers and historians discovered evidence of another seven objects that were observed either by Messier or by Méchain, shortly after the final version was published. These seven objects, M104 through M110, are accepted by astronomers as "official" Messier objects.
The objects' Messier designations, from M1 to M110, still are in use by professional and amateur astronomers today and their relative brightness makes them popular objects in the amateur astronomical community.
In his honor, the LOSSC has put together a set devoted entirely to the 110 objects of the Messier Catalog.
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the elliptical galaxy (or lenticular) M85. Inverted grayscale variant.
Original caption: This atmospheric image shows a galaxy named Messier 85, captured in all its delicate, hazy glory by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Messier 85 slants through the constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair), and lies around 50 million light-years from Earth. It was first discovered by Charles Messier’s colleague Pierre Méchain in 1781, and is included in the Messier catalogue of celestial objects.. Messier 85 is intriguing — its properties lie somewhere between those of a lenticular and an elliptical galaxy, and it appears to be interacting with two of its neighbours: the beautiful spiral NGC 4394, located out of frame to the upper left, and the small elliptical MCG 3-32-38, located out of frame to the centre bottom. . The galaxy contains some 400 billion stars, most of which are very old. However, the central region hosts a population of relatively young stars of just a few billion years in age; these stars are thought to have formed in a late burst of star formation, likely triggered as Messier 85 merged with another galaxy over four billion years ago. Messier 85 has a further potentially strange quality. Almost every galaxy is thought to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, but from measurements of the velocities of stars in this galaxy, it is unclear whether Messier 85 contains such a black hole. . This image combines infrared, visible and ultraviolet observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3.