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Come on friends I need help coming up with a new nickname for my kiddo
Messy doesn't fit anymore :)
isn't she beautiful?
Messy Jiverson made a return visit to KDHX Community Media studios after nearly a years absence. The live performance by Messy Jiverson was broadcast live on The Rhythm Section.
Messy Jiverson:
John Carpenter (bass)
Nate Carpenter (keyboards)
Cannon DeWeese (drums)
Gavin Duffy (guitar/keyboards)
Phil James (percussion)
Michael Wehling (guitar/keyboards)
Messier 29 taken using a 12.5 inch f/9 RCOS Ritchey-Chrétien telescope with an SBIG ST10XME and AO7. The image is a combination of 48 - 10 second exposures.
More information at SEDS.org
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. It lies in the constellation Canes Venatici, and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. Wikipedia
Age: 400.3 million years
Distance to Earth: 23.16 million light years
Radius: 30,000 light years
Coordinates: RA 13h 29m 53s | Dec +47° 11′ 43″
Stars: 100 billion
My studio is getting a little bit out of hand, though not as bad as it used to. This is the before picture. It's about half way cleaned up and I'm putting this up to motivate myself. I'll post the after photo tomorrow.
Messier 5 or M5 (also designated NGC 5904) is a globular cluster in the constellation Serpens. It was discovered by Gottfried Kirch in 1702.
Messy Jiverson made a return visit to KDHX Community Media studios after nearly a years absence. The live performance by Messy Jiverson was broadcast live on The Rhythm Section.
Messy Jiverson:
John Carpenter (bass)
Nate Carpenter (keyboards)
Cannon DeWeese (drums)
Gavin Duffy (guitar/keyboards)
Phil James (percussion)
Michael Wehling (guitar/keyboards)
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular cluster Messier 54, which orbits the nearby Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy. Inverted grayscale variant.
Original caption: The object shown in this beautiful Hubble image, dubbed Messier 54, could be just another globular cluster, but this dense and faint group of stars was in fact the first globular cluster found that is outside our galaxy. Discovered by the famous astronomer Charles Messier in 1778, Messier 54 belongs to a satellite of the Milky Way called the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy. Messier had no idea of the significance of his discovery at the time, and it wasn’t until over two centuries later, in 1994, that astronomers found Messier 54 to be part of the miniature galaxy and not our own. Current estimates indicate that the Sagittarius dwarf, and hence the cluster, is situated almost 90 000 light-years away — more than three times as far from the centre of our galaxy than the Solar System. Ironically, even though this globular cluster is now understood to lie outside the Milky Way, it will actually become part of it in the future. The strong gravitational pull of our galaxy is slowly engulfing the Sagittarius dwarf, which will eventually merge with the Milky Way creating one much larger galaxy. This picture is a composite created by combining images taken with the Wide Field Channel of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. Light that passed through a yellow-orange (F606W) was coloured blue and light passing through a near-infrared filter (F814W) was coloured red. The total exposure times were 3460 s and 3560 s, respectively and the field of view is approximately 3.4 by 3.4 arcminutes.
Charles Messier, an 18th-century Parisian astronomer who was the first to have success in systematically searching the sky for comets, built an observatory above the entrance of the Hôtel de Cluny (the small tower shown here. The observatory was removed from the tower in the early 19th century. The tower is now part of the Musée National du Moyen Ages, a museum of artifacts from the Middle Ages. Messier is credited with the discovery of 12 comets (and independently discovered several more), but is best known for the catalog of deep-sky objects frequently mistaken for comets that bears his name.
I was on my way to the gym this morning when I saw this Praying Mantis on my car tire. They're 15" tires and this was a big bug... easily the length of my hand so it was about 5-6 inches in length. There was a very large moth on the same tire, down a little lower, and he was every bit as long.
When it was time to go I started the car up and gave it a few seconds, then put it in gear, began backing up slowly to give them both time to fly away. Evidently Messier Mantis figured it out but Mister Moth didn't. He was skwoosified on the pavement as I pulled away.
Dumb bug.
Messy Jiverson made a return visit to KDHX Community Media studios after nearly a years absence. The live performance by Messy Jiverson was broadcast live on The Rhythm Section.
Messy Jiverson:
John Carpenter (bass)
Nate Carpenter (keyboards)
Cannon DeWeese (drums)
Gavin Duffy (guitar/keyboards)
Phil James (percussion)
Michael Wehling (guitar/keyboards)
Messier 55 globular cluster. 45x60" on an ASI1600MC at -10C. Skywatcher 120ED triplet. Guided. Corrected, stacked, and processed in PixInsight.
Captured 24 Oct 2019, Staunton River star Party, VA, Bortle 4, C8 f6.3, clouds clear, transparency good, seeing good, no filter, E5sec, HCG20. PS edits.
from Wikipedia
Messier 73 (M73, also known as NGC 6994) is an asterism of four stars in the constellation of Aquarius. An asterism is composed of physically unconnected stars that appear close to each other in the sky as seen from Earth.
M73 was discovered by Charles Messier on October 4, 1780, who originally described the object as a cluster of four stars with some nebulosity. Subsequent observations by John Herschel, however, failed to reveal any nebulosity. Moreover, Herschel noted that the designation of M73 as a cluster was questionable. Nonetheless, Herschel included M73 in his General Catalogue of clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, and John Dreyer included M73 when he compiled the New General Catalogue.
children make art dough, monster mud, bubbles, paints, and edible creations at the Purcell Public Library.
June 9, 16, 23 & 30 2011
Messier 95
Stack Size:20
Exposure: 180s
ISO: 6400
Lens: 8in SCT
Camera: Canon Rebel T7i with Astro Mod
Guider: Celeston Off Axis Guider
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI 290mm mini