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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.
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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.
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 2" x 7 (RGB)
Tele Vue NP101is/LCF (4" f/5.4)
Losmandy G11
Capture in NINA (RGB: 20 subs x 30s each filter for 30 minutes total integration time)
Processed in PixInsight
Messier 53 (also known as M53 or NGC 5024) is a globular cluster in the Coma Berenices constellation and is one of the more outlying globular clusters. It is roughly 60,000 light-years away from our solar system.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Class: V
Constellation: Coma Berenices
Right ascension: 13h 12m 55.25s
Declination: +18° 10′ 05.4″
Distance: 58,000 ly
Apparent magnitude (V): 7.6
Apparent dimensions (V): 13’
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, 135x60 seconds guided exposures, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: May 15, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
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
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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 )
Messier 82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy, is located in the famous Ursa Major constellation - well known as the Big Dipper.
I captured this photo in January 2022 from my garden telescope in England, UK.
This target is relatively small and even with a field of view of 0.68 degrees, it still requires some heavy cropping. Due to my setup having a 9mp camera sensor, I can’t crop all that much - so I’ve really pushed this file to the max.
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
The Great Orion Nebula shot in 2021 and cropped. Preprocessed in Pixinsight and post processed in Adobe Lightroom. Shot in Arnaia, Greece.
Equipment:
- Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED at f/7.5 and 600mm focal length
- HEQ5 pro GoTo mount
- Canon Rebel t6i (unmod)
No autoguiding was used.
Frames:
- 12 light frames,
- 9 dark frames,
- 15 flat & 15 bias frames.
Exposure time of lights and darks was set to 360 sec and ISO was set to 800.
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Taken w/ Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D3300.
25 lights x 90 s @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop
My first galaxy, and considering that I barely know what I am doing, I think that looks pretty good. Much to learn so I will keep shooting more galaxies, and read a lot.
The image is quite grainy on close inspection. A probable reason is that stars started showing elongation if I went longer than about 300 seconds, so I had to push the ISO up to 3200.
I will use guiding for my next attempt at a galaxy, which will permit me to use a lower ISO. Also, I need to include several hours of total exposure time.
Meade LX850 (12" f/8), Canon EOS (9 unguided frames, Tv 250 seconds, ISO 6400)
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
M-O (Microbe Obliterator) joins WALL-E in a recreation of their encounter on the Axiom ship.
Work still in progress. I know M-O is a little big in relation to WALL-E. Something I need to address in the future.
Messier 96 (also known as M96 or NGC 3368) is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 31 million light-years away in the constellation Leo.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro, Antares Focal Reducer, 108 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).
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.
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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.
Taken at Cannon hall, near the village of Cawthorne.
Took a few photos of the smaller waterfall a few weeks back, decided to capture a few shots of this slightly bigger one.
Date: 19. - 22. February 2025.
Telescope: SW 200P
Camera: Touptek IMX571mm
Mount: SW EQ6R-Pro
Filters: Antlia V-Pro LRGB 36 mm
Lights:
L: 195x90, 79x120
R: 104x120
G: 91x120
B: 88x120
Total: 16h56'30"
Calibration frames: flats, dark flats
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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.
Messier 46
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
Messier 46 (M46) or NGC 2437, is an open cluster of stars in Puppis constellation at about 5,000 light-years.
The planetary nebula NGC 2438 appears on its northern edge, but it is unrelated with the cluster.
Very different from the ones I usually see from M78.
This image contains Hydrogen Halpha, in the molecular field of Orion. M78 is a reflection nebula and therefore no broadband signal appears. So I wanted to show both parts. Halpha and LRGB
It has been a very hard process and a total of 17h of integration
Equipment:
Takahashi FSQ106 f5
Atik 460EXm
Paramount ME
Software:
SGPro4, TheSkyX, Pixnsight, Photoshop
Image Details:
L: 20x600
RGB: 40x300 each channel
Ha: 15x900
Total exposure time: 17h
January and February 21 from Àger. Catalonia, Spain.
Not sure what this Caterpillar will turn into. Seems to like to eat the stamen in my flowers.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT (E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
A photo from the camping trip in August. Me and my mate turned up on the Friday evening but my other friends had been camping since Tuesday with the kids! The kids made the camping area a mess and it had just rained so random objects were strewn everywhere! I'd just been explaining "light painting" to one of the lads camping with us and even though i was a few beers into the night i thought i'd give him a demo using a smartphone. And this "masterpiece" was born haha!
Messier 5
Taken April 11 - 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:1.5 hours (30 x 3 min, bin 1x1)
Green: 1 hour (20 x 3 min, bin 1x1)
Blue: 1.5 hours (30 x 3 min, bin 1x1)
Lum: 2 hours 24 minutes (72 x 2 min, bin 1x1)
Total Integration Time: 6 hours 24 minutes
Processed in PixInsight 1.8