View allAll Photos Tagged messier
Messier 82, or M82, is a galaxy that is oriented edge-on to Earth. Thisgives astronomers and their telescopes an interesting view of whathappens as this galaxy undergoes bursts of star formation. X-rays fromChandra (appearing as blue and pink) show gas in outflows about 20,000 light years long that has been heated to temperatures above ten million degrees by repeated supernova explosions. Optical light data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (red and orange) shows the galaxy.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC; Optical: NASA/STScI
#NASA #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #MSFC #Marshall #chandraxrayobservatory #ChandraXRay #cxo #chandra #astronomy #space #astrophysics #nasamarshallspaceflightcenter #solarsystemandbeyond #galaxy #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #GSFC #Hubble #HST #HubbleSpaceTelescope
Messier 61 (M61) + SN 2020jfo
The stellar stream is faintly visible in the image.
Supernova SN 2020jfo was discovered on May 6, 2020, by the Zwicky Transient Facility. It was the eighth supernova recorded in this galaxy since observations began in 1926. It was a type II event, meaning it resulted from the collapse of the core of a supergiant star.
Taken with ED127mm f/9 + Canon EOS 4000D. FoV cropped in the common area between sessions. 30-second shots at 3200 ISO.
M61 stack image
Sessions of 02-04-2020, 25-04-2020 and 23-5- 2020
This star-studded image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open star cluster in the southern constellation of Scutum (the Shield). Messier 11 is also known as the Wild Duck Cluster, as its brightest stars form a “V” shape that somewhat resembles a flock of ducks in flight.
Messier 11 is one of the richest and most compact open clusters currently known. By investigating the brightest, hottest main sequence stars in the cluster, astronomers estimate that it formed roughly 220 million years ago. Open clusters tend to contain fewer and younger stars than their more compact globular cousins, and Messier 11 is no exception: at its center lie many blue stars, the hottest and youngest of the cluster’s few thousand stellar residents.
The lifespans of open clusters are also relatively short compared to those of globular ones; stars in open clusters are spread farther apart and are thus not as strongly bound to each other by gravity, causing them to be more easily and quickly drawn away by stronger gravitational forces. As a result, Messier 11 is likely to disperse in a few million years as its members are ejected one by one, pulled away by other celestial objects in the vicinity.
Messier 11 is featured in Hubble’s Messier catalog, which includes some of the most fascinating objects that can be observed from Earth’s Northern Hemisphere. See the NASA-processed image and other Messier objects at: www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-s-messier-catalog.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Dobbie et al.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
Follow us on Twitter
Like us on Facebook
Find us on Instagram
Another successful session using the Starizona HyperStar (converts sluggish f/10 telescope into speedy f/2.2). Detailed capture with only 16 minutes of integration time.
Date: October 29, 2025
Bortle Class 5 backyard, SF Bay Area (East Bay)
Capture: 16 x 60-sec subframes, OSC
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 SCT
Accessory: Starizona HyperStar C9.25-v4 lens
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC
Antlia Triband RGB Ultra, 2"
Mount: iOptron GEM45
ZWO ASIAIR Plus Control and Capture
Calibrated with Darks, Flats and Dark Flats
Processed with PixInsight, Photoshop
***TOODLEDOO Easter Egg HUNT*** PICK UP THE GOLDEN EGG FOR CUTE ITEMS- HAPPY HUNTING
toddleedoo-secondlife.blogspot.com/2020/04/easter-egg-hun...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HAIR: TRUTH / Astra / OLD GROUP GIFT*EDITED*
BANGS: Stealthic - Bangs (Airy A)
HEAD: *TD* Bento Mesh Head #Opal *NEW* ♥
SKIN: *TD* Crispy Skin - Applier HUD + BOM *HUNT ITEM*
EARS: *TD* Bunny Pierced Ears *HUNT ITEM*
HEADBAND: -LpOca-Cute Bunny Ears 1L ON MARKETPLACE
WHISKERS: *TD* Easter Love - Applier HUD + BOM *HUNT ITEM*
MESSY FACE/ SPRINKLES: *TD* Face Mess - Applier HUD + BOM + Sugar *HUNT ITEM*
NAILS: PastelEaster CrazyNails (ToddleeDoo Applier) *HUNT ITEM*
OUTFIT: . tiptoes - Spring Bunny Overalls - White
SANDALS: ~Lazo - Sato Sandals / Dots - MEGA FATPACK *NEW* @ COLOR ME CUTE
It's messy eating moths...their scales end up all over you! This dragonfly flew around for a while clutching the moth, while a couple other dragonflies checked it out. It's hard to eat something this big in the air so it had to land.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows Messier 96, a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion). It is of about the same mass and size as the Milky Way. It was first discovered by astronomer Pierre Méchain in 1781, and added to Charles Messier’s famous catalogue of astronomical objects just four days later.
The galaxy resembles a giant maelstrom of glowing gas, rippled with dark dust that swirls inwards towards the nucleus. Messier 96 is a very asymmetric galaxy; its dust and gas are unevenly spread throughout its weak spiral arms, and its core is not exactly at the galactic center. Its arms are also asymmetrical, thought to have been influenced by the gravitational pull of other galaxies within the same group as Messier 96.
This group, named the M96 Group, also includes the bright galaxies Messier 105 and Messier 95, as well as a number of smaller and fainter galaxies. It is the nearest group containing both bright spirals and a bright elliptical galaxy (Messier 105).
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and the LEGUS Team, Acknowledgement: R. Gendler
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
Follow us on Twitter
Like us on Facebook
Find us on Instagram
Taken w/ Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D3300. Cropped from a larger wide field image.
275 lights x 90 s @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop.
© Andy Short. All Rights Reserved.
Unauthorized use or reproduction for any reason is strictly prohibited.
All my shown images are of my exclusive property, and are protected under International Copyright laws. These images may not be reproduced, copied, transmitted or, in any way manipulated, without my written permission and use license.
If you wish to use any of my images, please contact me via e-mail or using Flickr mail.
A quick stack ( 10 X 5 mints ) and pixinsight processed image of M81 and M82 galaxies. Need to take better calibration frames next time.
This was a tough image to process – there were a bunch of tiny dark gaps and hot pixels scattered throughout the image. The image file sizes were also quite big, so processing took a long time. Nevertheless, I got a result that I am proud of! The data is just too good to process badly. I have to give so much credit to the HLSP team – they really did a phenomenal job creating this mosaic.
These towering tendrils of cosmic dust and gas sit at the heart of M16, or the Eagle Nebula. The aptly named Pillars of Creation, featured in this stunning Hubble image, are part of an active star-forming region within the nebula and hide newborn stars in their wispy columns.
Although this is not Hubble’s first image of this iconic feature of the Eagle Nebula, it is the most detailed. The blue colors in the image represent oxygen, red is sulfur, and green represents both nitrogen and hydrogen. The pillars are bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young stars located just outside the frame. The winds from these stars are slowly eroding the towers of gas and dust.
You can view my full write-up here: theastroenthusiast.com/hubbles-pillars-of-creation-m16/
Website: theastroenthusiast.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_astronomy_enthusiast/
Messier 98, also known as M98 or NGC 4192, is an intermediate spiral galaxy located about 44 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, about 6° to the east of the bright star Denebola.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro, Antares Focal Reducer, 54 x 60 second at -10C, 30 darks and 30 flats, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using Sequence Generator Pro and processed using PixInsight. Image date: March 2, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
This is a favorite among astrophotographers, due to the brightness of this galaxy pair, their size and brightness, and their accessibility. For Mid-latitude Northerners, this galaxy is well-placed in the sky for much of the year.
M81 & M82 are members of the M81 galaxy group, which at 11 million light years away, is pretty much next door on a galactic scale. The galaxy to the right is NGC 3077, which is also a member of the same cluster.
I created this image from 23 3-minute exposures, which I processed rather intensively in Images Plus.. the proginal stacked images was very noisy, requiring lot of smoothing techniques.
Messier 58 (M58 or NGC 4579) is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo and is about 68 million light years away from Earth. In the Messier Catalog, this galaxy is the most distant object.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro, Antares Focal Reducer, 63 x 60 second at -10C, 30 darks and 30 flats, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using Sequence Generator Pro and processed using PixInsight. Image date: March 20, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Known as the Large Narcissus Fly or Narcissus Bulb Fly, this hairy bumblebee mimic has many colour forms, allowing it to resemble several species of bumblebee.
It is found from April to September, peaking in late May and June
Messier 45
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
I obtained this image by compacting data collected during technical tests performed exclusively with 135 and 200 mm telephoto lenses.
RA 3h 47m Dec +24° 07′
The Pleiades or Seven Sisters (Messier 45 or M45), is an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky.
The distance to the Pleiades can be used as an important first step to calibrate the cosmic distance ladder.
More recent results using the Gaia satellite (September 2016), determine distances of 134 ±6 pc.
Dust that forms a faint reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster, but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium, through which the stars are currently passing.
The Dumbbell (or Apple Core) Nebula
Planetary nebula Messier 27 - a shell of fluorescing ionised hydrogen (red) and ionised oxygen ( green/blue) surrounds the remnants of a once active star - probably not unlike our own Sun. The white dwarf remnant star can be seen at the centre of the nebula.
The hard UV light from the white dwarf makes the surrounding ionised gases fluoresce in characteristic colours. The clouds of gas were probably shrugged off the star in the final phases of its life.
Deeper images show further shells of gas which are just hinted at here.
Size is 8.0 x 5.6 arcminutes
This is a combination of 2 sessions; one from 2020 with a modified Canon 80d and one from 2021 with a ZWO ASI2600 MC pro CMOS cooled camera. Both sessions were under full Moon.
Interestingly, both cameras have the same pixel size at 3.76 um and both have APS-C size chips.
Canon 80D: 13 x 5 minute subs at ISO 400
ASI2600MC 20 x 3 minute subs at gain 100, offset 50 at 0c.
Equinox ED 900mm f/7.5 scope x0.85 focal reducer.
IDAS P3 LPS 2"filter in focal reducer.
ZWO ASI2600MC Pro; Gain:100, Offset:50 @0c (2021).
SkyWatcher EQ6 pro mount with Rowan belt drives.
Guided by PHD2 via PrimaLuce 240mm f/4 guidescope.
50 flats (EL panel at 1/4 second)
50 darks at 0c
50 bias at 0c and 1/16000s
Polar Alignment:
QHY Polemaster alignment -
Error measured by PHD2= 1.8 arc minute.
RA drift + 2.07 arcsec/min
Dec drift +0.47 arcsec/min
Guiding:
PHD2 guiding with ZWO ASI290mm/PrimaLuce Lab 240/60mm guide scope.
RA RMS error 0.76 arcsec.
Dec RMS error 0.83 arcsec.
Astrometry:
Resolution ............... 0.986 arcsec/px
Focal distance ........... 786.27 mm
Pixel size ............... 3.76 um
Field of view ............ 36' 15.0" x 28' 53.1"
Image center ............. RA: 19 59 35.670 Dec: +22 43 59.87
messy house, messy hair-these are the days I set my timer and take photos...
hmm....almost everyday now?
Messier 33
OTA: Celestron Edge 11 F/2 Hyperstar
Mount: Celestron CGX
Camera: Canon T2i, modified by Hap Griffin, IDAS D1 filter
Guided by: Stellarvue SV60EDS and Starshoot Autoguider, PHD2.6
34 frames of 240 Sec at ISO800
11 frames of 360 Sec at ISO400
Captured with Images Plus Camera Control 6.0
Processed with Images Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6.1
Taken at Draycote Water this evening in the boat yard , hence the unusual colours in the background.
Loved the way he is just covered in seeds :0)
Beginning to get the hang of the 1D
Camera Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Exposure 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture f/6.3
Focal Length 600 mm
ISO Speed 800
Exposure Bias +4/3 EV ( error ,error ,error ,error ,error ,error ,error ,error ,error ,error ,error, always shoot in RAW )
Constelación en que se encuentra: Cetus
Distancia: 45 millones de años luz (NASA)
De SkySafari Plus: Messier 77 es una galaxia espiral barrada ubicada en la constelación Cetus. La descubrió Pierre Méchain en 1780 y fue incluida por Charles Messier en su catálogo como M77.
El disco es alargado y el núcleo es muy grande y luminoso; tiene líneas oscuras y fragmentos luminosos de los brazos espirales.
M77 se aleja de la vía láctea a unos 1100 km/s, dato conocido al medir el corrimiento hacia el rojo de su espectro (red shift) en 1914. Se sabe que su población de estrellas es joven hacia el centro y de estrellas más viejas, amarillas, hacia las regiones externas.
Es una de las galaxias más grandes del catálogo de Messier, con unos 120.000 años luz de diámetro en la parte brillante y 170.000 años luz al incluir las regiones tenues. Como referencia, según la NASA, la vía láctea tiene unos 100.000 años luz de diámetro.
En el centro de la galaxia existe un agujero negro super masivo de cerca de 10 millones de masas solares y 12 años luz de diámetro. A su alrededor existen regiones de formación de estrellas en una zona de aproximadamente 5 años luz de diámetro.
Es la galaxia Seyfert más cercana a la vía láctea, clase que se caracteriza por tener potentes emisiones de radio.
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 Edge HD
Camera: ZWO ASI071 Pro
Focal ratio: f10
Focuser: MicroTouch Focuser
Exposure: 3hr 30 min in total at unity gain
(42 x 5 min) RGB IDAS filter
Capturing software: NINA
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Guiding: ASI462MC with PHD2 and Stellarvue F60M3
Dithering: Yes
Calibration: 30 flats, 30 darks, 30 flat darks
Processing: PixInsight
Date: 30-nov-2021
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Messier 78 or NGC 2068, is a reflection nebula situated in the constellation of Orion and lies around 1.350 light years distant. Imaged over 3 nights.
NEQ6
Vixen R200SS with dedicated PH Reducer/corrector to give f/3.8
QHY294C Gain 1600 for STC multispectra filter Gain 2900 for Optolong L-eNhance filter
52 x 300sec subs STC multispectra
13 x 600sec Optolong L-eNhance
Processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop.
Galàxia del "Sombrero"
NGC 4594
LX200 GPS 8" f10
CCD Sbig ST9
5 imatges de 30 segons (2,5 minuts)
Observatori Astronòmic de l'Institut d'Alcarràs (Alcarràs, Lleida, Catalunya)
© Dr. Sandricious | Alexander Dumbadze | www.instagram.com/docsandricious/
coroflot.com/sandricious
dr.sandricious@gmail.com
Messier 3 is a globular cluster made up of around half a million stars found in the constellation Canes Venatici. This type of cluster acts like a satellite to its parent galaxy, orbiting above the galactic plane rather than being located in the galaxy's disk like the less dense open clusters. Clusters like this are common, M3 is one of about 150 globular clusters that belong to the Milky Way galaxy, not many compared to the amount that belong to some galaxies, there are over 13,000 globular clusters orbiting the supergiant elliptical galaxy M87 for example. Messier 3 is thought to be around 8 billion years old, but like all globs, how they form exactly is still unknown.
Exposure Details:
126*300sec, f7, ISO 800
Total Exposure: 10.5 hours
Imaged over 2 nights: 20th, 21st April
Scope: Altair Astro 115EDT
Camera: Canon 600Da
Mount: NEQ6
Messier 33
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
(J2000) RA: 01h 33m 50.02s Dec: +30° 39′ 36.7″
Messier 33 is a spiral galaxy at 3 million light-years in Triangulum. 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.
From And450 survey
LRGB composition with frames recorded by Eric Recurt in Tenerife with his 350mm F3.3 and FLI16803.
L: 21x300s
RGB: (5, 5, 5)x300s
Copyright: R. Colombari / E. Recurt
___________________________
The Lagoon Nebula (catalogued as Messier 8 or M8, NGC 6523, Sharpless 25, RCW 146, and Gum 72) is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. It is classified as an emission nebula and as an H II region.
The Lagoon Nebula was discovered by Giovanni Hodierna before 1654[4] and is one of only two star-forming nebulae faintly visible to the naked eye from mid-northern latitudes. Seen with binoculars, it appears as a distinct oval cloudlike patch with a definite core. In the foreground is the open cluster NGC 6530.
Source: Wikipedia
Technique: Sometimes when I bait a subject they get the sweet stuff all over, and that's what's happened here. I'm holding on to the Lavender stem that the bee is perched on with my left hand, and resting the lens on that same hanf to help keep the scene steady. I also used an artificial flower to keep the background from being black.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 200 with highlight tone priority) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 4x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on the Canon flash mount, E-TTL metering with -1 2/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
Messier 83 or the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, is a barred spiral galaxy about 15 million light-years away in the constellation borders of Hydra and Centaurus. It was discovered by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in 1752.
This little guy was busy eating kelp with his mom near Hudson Bay in Wapusk National Park, Canada. He was so fun to watch...and I love that messy kelp face!
The Triangulum Galaxy, Messier 33 or NGC 598, is a spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years distant and located in the constellation of Triangulum. It is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye. This was one I wasn't going to post because it had the biggest donut which stuck out a mile but it was a heck of a lot of data to dump. Hopefully I have picked up a way of removing donuts in Pixinsight. Imaged over 2 nights the 7th and 21st September 2019.
EQ6-R-PRO
190mm MN DS-PRO
QHY183M Gain11 Offset76 -20C
Baader 2" LRGB filter set
Luminance: 90 x 180sec subs
RGB: 12 x 240sec subs each channel
Total acquisition time 6hrs54mins
Processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop.