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Taken w/ Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D7500.
65 lights x 60 s @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop
The whirlpool galaxy M51. About half the size of the Milky Way and 31 million light years away. Angular diameter is only 0.2 degrees of the sky. A reprocessing of data available using PixInsight and LR
Summenbild aus 3 Luminazaufnahmen mit je 300 sec Belichtungszeit. Aufgenommen mit T32 von iTelescope.net, D=413 mm, f=2912 mm, f/6.8
Nooo! That's just how I look after days of motorcycle riding!:)
I was trying to get some rest by watching the endless sea and letting myself be caressed by the wind.
This and several other photographs from that spot are very important for me, because my love used a digital camera for the very first time. If you had known how he refuses to use anything digital and his arguments for his refusal, you'd understand why I was immensely surprised when I saw him shooting me with my DSLR!
Messier 78
Can be found in the constellation of Orion & is 1600 light years from earth with a radius of 5 light years, This is my favourite deep sky object it reminds me of some kind of time warp.
Equipment Used;
Lacerta 200/800 photo newtonian
QHY9S CCD
Baader filters
Seafood Senso autofocuser
ZWOasi224 guide camera
Capture details;
34 x 600 Lum
19 x 600 red
17 x 600 green
17 x 600 blue
13 x 600 ha
Darks
Bias (super bias pixinsight)
Software used;
Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, Pixinsight & Photoshop
Messier 101
Taken May 13 - 16, 2021 near Seattle, Washington
Telescope: TEC 180FL @ f/5 using Astro-Physics Quad-TCC
Camera: QHY600
Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach2GTO
Capture Software: Sequence Generator Pro
Exposure:
Red: 3 hours (36 x 5 min, bin 1x1)
Green: 3 hours (36 x 5 min, bin 1x1)
Blue: 3 hours (36 x 5 min, bin 1x1)
Lum: 3 hours 25 minutes (41 x 5 min, bin 1x1)
Total Integration Time: 12 hours 25 minutes
Processed in PixInsight 1.8
Messier 41 Dss2 colorized
Credit: ESO/Dss2, Giuseppe Donatiello
Messier 41 ( M41) NGC 2287, is an open cluster in Canis Major at 2,300 light-years discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654.
It contains about 100 stars, including several red giants and some white dwarfs.
Female Goldfinch enjoying thistle seeds around our pond. The females also use the down for their nests :)
Canon 1DXII, F7.1, 1/2000, ISO 1250
This mess is actually tame compared to what it is now. I'm a messy cook too, but I hear that's a good thing. I don't like cleaning up, but I need to, so see you later. Hope your week is good. :)
Early 20th century glass beads for beadwork, probably 1920s. The diameter of the beads is between 1mm and 2mm.
Messier 51
I haven’t done much telescope stuff lately I don’t seem to have the enthusiasm for it at the moment but it’s good to step away sometimes. Here’s a pic from last year with some improvements made. ✨🌌
Some info from Wikipedia 👇👇👇
The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a, M51a, and NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus.[7][6][8] It lies in the constellation Canes Venatici, and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy.[9] Its distance is estimated to be 23 million light-years away from Earth.
Equipment used;
Celestron CGX Mount
QHY9S CCD
Lacerta photo Newtonian 200/800
Baader RGB filters
ZWOASI224MC guide cam
365astronomy deluxe 60mm guidescope
Capture details;
50x 300 seconds red
50 x 300 seconds green
60 x 300seconds blue
24 x 600 seconds Ha
21 x 600 seconds lum
31 x darks
Super bias (pixinsight)
Software used;
Phd2, SGP, Pixinsight & Photoshop
Shot using Skywatcher 80ED Pro, Celestron NexStar GoTo Mount 127 SLT, Nikon D3300, 85 lights x 20s, ~100 flats, ~100 bias, ISO 1600. Stacked in DSS and post processed in Photoshop
Messier 100
A beautiful galaxy in the Coma Berenices constellation, Taken at the L&A dark Sky Viewing Area May 7 2019.
This image also contains the supernova SN2019ehk
Tec
TS Photoline 130Apo f7
SW NEQ6 Pro
ZWO ASI 1600mm Pro
ZWO ASI 7p FW
ZWO ASI LRGB Filters
Orion Mini 50 guide scope
Orion SS Autoguider
Pegasus auto focuser
Field flattener
20x240s L
12x120s each RGB
Software
Sequence Generator Pro
PHD 2
DSS
Nebulosity
Photoshop
Para más info... celfoscastrofotografia.blogspot.com/2023/04/messier-106.html
El equipo empleado fue...
Telescopio: Esprit ED100 Sky Watcher
Montura: AZ-EQ6 Pro
Cámara: QHY16200A
Enfoque: RB Focus Myrddin v2.3
Guiado: MiniScope 50mm Orion, CámaraGuia/QHY5 L-II c
Adquisición: SGP (Sequence Generator Pro)
Apilado y procesado: PixInsight, Photoshop
Tomas
L: 24x300s 44x600s
RGB: 13x300s
Total Expo: 13h 5min
Temperatura sensor: -10°C
Distancia Focal: 550mm
F/ 5,5
Messier 33
Credit: Giuseppe Bianco, Giuseppe J. Donatiello, Alessandro Falesiedi, Mario Lovrencie, Tim Stone /Sezione Nazionale di Ricerca Profondo Cielo UAI
L-RGB-Ha-OIII data obtained from different telescopes from 4.5" to 17", combined with CCD and ColdCMOS cameras.
New edit: August 23, 2024
(J2000) RA: 01h 33m 50.02s Dec: +30° 39′ 36.7″
The gas-rich low-mass dwarf spiral galaxy Triangulum (Messier 33) at 3 million light-years. It is catalogued also as NGC 598 and known as Triangulum Galaxy. The galaxy is the smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group and it is believed to be a big satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy.
M33 has two asymmetric faint arms, and an interstellar medium rich in gaseous filaments that extends for about 7 kpc. Although the inner disk is relatively undisturbed, the northern arm is less regular in shape than the southern one. M33, is a bulge-free galaxy with only two optically luminous dwarf galaxies believed to be its satellites: AndXXII (McConnachie et al., 2009; Martin et al., 2016) and Pisces VII (Martínez-Delgado et al. 2022; MLM Collins et al. 2024) discovered by me in 2020. The possible discovery of a third satellite called Triangulum IV was recently announced, but its nature is still uncertain (Ogami et al. 2024). However, given its mass, ΛCDM cosmological simulations predict that M33 should host a larger number of satellites, at least 10.
The neutral hydrogen (HI) disk is three times larger than the star-forming disk and is clearly warped. The outer disk has the same inclination as the inner one with respect to our line of sight but the position angle of the major axis changes by about 30 degrees compared to the inner disk and is more aligned with the M31 direction. While M33's undisturbed inner disk indicates that no major collisions between M31 and M33 or between M33 and a satellite have occurred in the past, the distortion could be the result of a flyby about 9 billion years ago. Timing assessments make this scenario unlikely and favor the hypothesis of a first fall of M33 in the region of influence of M31.
The Pinwheel (Messier 101) is a large spiral galaxy that appears in the constellation Ursa Major (a.k.a. "The Big Dipper"). Physically, it is significantly larger than our own Milky Way galaxy while its apparent visual diameter is about the same size as the full moon. This wide-field image covers nearly two and one-half degrees on the diagonal and includes many smaller background galaxies (most notably NGC 5474 on the lower right and the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 5422 on the upper left).
Image capture was done over three evenings in January 2015 using an unmodified Sony NEX-5R digital camera (ISO 800, 99 seconds x 329, producing a total exposure integration time of just over 9 hours). The imaging telescope was a 5” refractor working at an effective focal length of 528mm at f/4.2. The setup also included the use of a light-pollution filter that causes about a two-thirds f-stop loss in broadband light transmission (a necessary "evil" given my significantly light-polluted, red-zone skies).
Image processing was done with PixInsight v1.8, Photoshop and Lightroom CC2014.
This photo is best viewed against a dark background and at full size (1920 x 1280 pixels, press the "L" key to enter the Flickr light box and then click to enlarge the image).
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Messier 27, NGC 6853 – Dumbbell Nebula
The first planetary nebula ever discovered, discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. Names a “Planetary Nebula” by William Herschel for this class of objects around 1784, because he found they resembled his newly discovered planet Uranus.
M 27 is an impressive object, the second brightest planetary nebula, with an impressive amount of detail. The central star is just visible at mag 13.5 The distance is not well known and an adopted value of 12000 LY is generally accepted, the nebula is about 100 times the luminosity of our sun.
The central star is the collapsed core of a once sun like star, now a white dwarf, it now emits most of its energy in the non visible spectrum, the hi energy radiation from the whit dwarf is the power behind the visible nebula, the nebula absorbs the hi energy ultra violet and re-emits it as visible light.
The central star is 60% of our suns mass and only 5% of its diameter, making it the larges white dwarf known, most of the light emitted from the nebula is at one wavelength, that of doubly ionized oxygen, this accounts for the greenish/ turquoise colour.
TEC
TS130 APO f7
ZWO 1600mm mono Pro
ZWO 7p FW
SS 50mm auto guider
SW NEQ6 pro
18x180s each RGB
Sequence Generator Pro
DSS, Star tools Nebulosity & Photoshopcc
North Frontenac Dark Sky Preserve
June 2018
Messier 81 in Ursa Major.
ASI1600mmp through a TS 130/910 Photoline triplet apo.
36 x 300s gain 139 Ha
18 x 300s gain 0 red
18 x 300s gain 0 green
16 x 300s gain 0 blue
American Bullfrog relaxing in the duckweed-infesterd canal, Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvanias
it was definitely a messy day when had jet lag after long time fly.
I was very untidy in appearance and looked ugly bcuz I had a serious cold at that time.
but never mind! I was still shooting everywhere.
hullo there! cheer up and never stop bring your cameras everywhere!!
(↑especially to my mate AraiGordai, he just lost his laptop...)
I don't know what s up with my Stop Shot Module.....its not behaving. I cannot for the life of me get it to do what i want it to do.........the timings that i have written down over the months don't seem to work.......this is the outcome......messy but i like it.
Took a little stroll up a hill with Rob & Mr Messy of WFC
What can i say about this amzing place my first sunset here that meant getting home around 11.40 pm after climbing up to the lake ( thanks Mr Messy then climbing up to Corn Dhu the hard way ) but what a view !!! My knees are so gonna hate me today .
Taken w/ Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D3300.
85 lights x 20 s @ ISO 1600 (1/2 total hours), ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop.
Here a new narrow composition with frames collected during the last 10 days here from my terrace with FAST and my usual equipment (see below for the details).
- Ha Astronomik 6nm: 80·270s gain 139
- SII Astronomik 6nm: 40·270s gain 139
- OIII Astronomik 6nm: 40·270s gain 139
Takahashi FS60c
ASI1600MM Pro
7 Position FW, 36mm
Feather Touch Starlight
Pegasus Astro
EQ6
FAST
Pixinsight / PSCS5