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Messier 51
43x 4min subs ISO 800
40 darks no flats
AT8IN MPCC CLS
CGEM 50mm guidescope PHD guiding
Nikon D300 unmod.
DSS
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the elliptical galaxy M89. Processing variant.
Original caption: This huge ball of stars — around 100 billion in total — is an elliptical galaxy located some 55 million light-years away from us. Known as Messier 89, this galaxy appears to be perfectly spherical; this is unusual for elliptical galaxies, which tend to be elongated ellipsoids. The apparently spherical nature of Messier 89 could, however, be a trick of perspective, and be caused by its orientation relative to the Earth. Messier 89 is slightly smaller than the Milky Way, but has a few interesting features that stretch far out into the surrounding space. One structure of gas and dust extends up to 150 000 light-years out from the galaxy’s centre, which is known to house a supermassive black hole. Jets of heated particles reach out to 100 000 light-years from the galaxy, suggesting that Messier 89 may have once been far more active — perhaps an active quasar or radio galaxy — than it is now. It is also surrounded by an extensive system of shells and plumes, which may have been caused by past mergers with smaller galaxies — and implies that Messier 89 as we know it may have formed in the relatively recent past. Messier 89 was discovered by astronomer Charles Messier in 1781, when Messier had been cataloguing astronomical objects for 23 years — ever since he mistook a faint object in the sky for Halley’s Comet. Upon closer inspection, he realised the object was actually the Crab Nebula. To prevent other astronomers from making the same error, he decided to catalogue all the bright, deep-sky objects that could potentially be mistaken for comets. His methodical observations of the night sky led to the first comprehensive catalogue of astronomical objects: the Messier catalogue! Messier 89 holds the record for being the last ever giant elliptical to be found by Messier, and the most perfectly spherical galaxy in the entire catalogue of 110 objects.
Camera: Olympus 35 RC (big thank you to Aware of the Void who gave me a loan of it, I'd never used a rangefinder before!)
Film: Fujifilm Neopan 400
Developed with R09
Sloppy Or Messy
This is behind our t.v. and stereo. It's messy alright.
Thanks for your kind comments/faves, I do appreciate them all. Have a Marvelous Messy Monday.
Jo :)
Ive been making jewelry these days, so i had to have alot of beads infront of me :) this is just some of them :P hoho !!
i ordered some beads and jewelry stuff yesterday ! ;D
I generated this image from Hubble data at the HLA and at three filter wavelengths of F469, F502 and F658. I used F658 for the red channel as this seems to be the rendition used in the NASA/STScl/AURA version of the image up on Wiki
I have more images on my website here
La Nebulosa Trífida (también conocida como M20 y NGC 6514) es una región H II en ascensión recta 18h 02.3m y declinación -23° 02', situada en Sagitario. El nombre de la nebulosa significa "dividido en tres lóbulos".
Messier 45 - The Pleiades Cluster
Date taken: 5th December 2012
Location: Wiltshire
215 mins total exposure (43 x 5mins)
Camera: Atik 314L+, set point cooling -10°C Astronomik CLS filter
Scope: Canon 200mm L F2.8 II USM @F4
Mount: Losmandy G11 w/Ovision worm, Gemini controlled
Guidescope: Skywatcher ST80
Guide camera: QHY5 mono
Cartes du Ciel, PHD guiding, Artemis, ImagesPlus, PS CS3
M101, a face on spiral galaxy near the big dipper. Single crop of a 80 sec exposure with Canon Rebel and Takahashi e130. Taken near Powassan Ontario.
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy Messier 59.
Original caption: This luminous orb is the galaxy NGC 4621, better known as Messier 59. As this latter moniker indicates, the galaxy was listed in the famous catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by French comet-hunter Charles Messier in 1779. However, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Koehler is credited with discovering the galaxy just days before Messier added it to his collection. Modern observations show that Messier 59 is an elliptical galaxy, one of the three main kinds of galaxies along with spirals and irregulars. Ellipticals tend to be the most evolved of the trio, full of old, red stars and exhibiting little or no new star formation. Messier 59, however, bucks this trend somewhat; the galaxy does show signs of star formation, with some newborn stars residing within a disc near the core. Located in the 2000-strong Virgo Cluster of galaxies within the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin), Messier 59 lies approximately 50 million light-years away from us. This image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys.
Edited European Southern Observatory image of the galaxy Messier 61. Color/processing variant.
Original caption: Nuzzled in the chest of the constellation Virgo (the Virgin) lies a beautiful cosmic gem — the galaxy Messier 61. This glittering spiral galaxy is aligned face-on towards Earth, thus presenting us with a breathtaking view of its structure. The gas and dust of the intricate spiral arms are studded with billions of stars. This galaxy is a bustling hub of activity with a rapid rate of star formation, and both a massive nuclear star cluster and a supermassive black hole buried at its heart. Messier 61 is one of the largest members of the Virgo Cluster, which is made up of more than a thousand galaxies, and is itself at the centre of the Virgo Supercluster — to which our Milky Way also belongs. This dazzling beauty was first discovered in 1779, and it has been capturing astronomers’ interest ever since. Set against a dark sky littered with galaxies, this image shows the awe-inspiring M61 in its full glory — even at its distance of over 50 million light-years. This image was taken as part of ESO’s Cosmic Gems Programme, an outreach initiative to produce images of interesting, intriguing or visually attractive objects using ESO telescopes, for the purposes of education and public outreach. The programme makes use of telescope time that cannot be used for science observations. In case the data collected could be useful for future scientific purposes, these observations are saved and made available to astronomers through ESO’s Science Archive.
Messier 82 (The Cigar Galaxy)
Constellation: Ursa Major
Distance: 11.42 million light years
Live stack 6x10 light
gain: 134
Date: 2020-06-16
Time: 23:19:37 EDT
Location: Glen Major Forest (ON)
Scope: Explore Scientific ED80 CF
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: ZWO ASI224MC
Software: ASILive, GIMP, Topaz Denoise AI
For the dogwood 52 week 19 challenge had to do messy portrait. So got some holi powered paint and had lots of fun with the family.