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NGC 5904
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)
One of the faintest Messier objects, M74 is a pretty face-on "Grand Design" spiral galaxy about 32 million light years distant.
We'll be teaching techniques used for this image in NYC's Amateur Astronomer's Association's Urban Astrophotography 102: Deep Sky course starting December 2 aaa.org/event/urban-astrophotography-102/2021-12-02/ The 6 2-hour Zoom sessions require a membership in the club (AAA.org) and a $60 enrollment fee. Classes are Thursday nights, NY time, with a couple of holiday breaks.
Tech Stuff: Borg 71FL/1.08x Borg Flattener/ZWO ASI 1600MC/IDAS LPS-D2 filter/iOptronCubePro. 3.2 hours of unguided 8 second exposures captured in SharpCap LiveStacks over 2 nights November 2021. Processed with PixInsight and finished in ACDSee. From my yard in Westchester 10 miles north of New York City.
Pinwheel Galaxy shot from France, with a William Optics Zenithstar 61 and a Nikon D5300
Around 6h integration time
Messier 27 - The Dumbbell Nebula in the constellation of Vulpecular, some 1350ly from Earth, give or take a cm.
Photographed this gorgeous object again, after weeks of rain, clouds and epic British summer weather. It's a popular target as it's bright and requires relatively little exposure time.
This is one of the first DSO's I saw through my scope, still in love with it to this day. This image represents the best I've taken of this object and I aim to add more data to it and add longer exposures to expose the faint outer detail of this object.
Technical info:
Telescope: Meade LX90 8" SCT
Additional Optics: Meade f/6.3 focal reducer.
Camera: ATIK 414ex mono
Filters: Baader H-alpha, OIII
Processing:
Stacked in DSS, 33x180s Ha, 16xOIIIx180s, processed in Photoshop CC.
Sometimes you realise just how untidy nature can be, especially when your photographing it. There are so many elements of this photo i would like to remove to make it a more photographically speaking pleasing shot, the foreground is a mess, the middle is distracting and the far side could do with a bit of an hoover. Having said that, this is how most people see that natural world, they see it with all its distractions and love it, so maybe as a photographer i should do the same and embrace messy nature.
This was taken in the Langsett woods, a very northerly part of the peak district.
The redpolls (genus Acanthis) in Great Britain also historically known as redpoles, are a group of small passerine birds in the finch family Fringillidae, which have characteristic red markings on their heads. They are placed in the genus Acanthis. The genus name Acanthis is from the Ancient Greek akanthis, a name for a small now-unidentifiable bird.
All redpolls are northern breeding woodland species, associated with birch trees (although there are introduced populations in the southern hemisphere, in New Zealand and nearby subantarctic islands). They are small birds, brown or grey-brown above and with a red forehead patch. The adult male's breast is washed in red, but in females and young birds the buff breast and white belly are streaked with brown. The bill is small and yellow. Some birds, particularly young ones, are difficult to assign to species.
They are primarily seed-eaters, and often feed acrobatically like a tit; their diet may include some insects in summer. They have a dry reeling song and a metallic call. They lay four to seven eggs in a nest in a tree or, in the case of the Arctic redpoll, a large bush. They can form large flocks outside the breeding season, sometimes mixed with other finches.
Messier 5
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello (Oria Amateur Astrophysical Observatory - OAAO)
2000 RA 15h 18m 33.22s Dec +02° 04′ 51.7″
M5 ( NGC 5904) is a globular cluster in Serpens. It was discovered by Gottfried Kirch in 1702.
M5 is just visible to the naked eye as a faint blurred star.
Spanning 165 light-years in diameter, M5 is one of the largest known globular clusters. It is 13 billion years old and also one of the eldest globular clusters in our Galaxy. Its distance is about 24,500 light-years, and it contains more than 100,000 stars.
(127ED@1140mm)
A great globular cluster in Canes Venatici. Easy to visual telescope with any diameter. For me, the best objects for DSO visual.
4,5h exp time with LRGB filters, combine L with subs 60" and 600" subs with RGB 300" each channel in bin2.
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Pants: .: Tori Torricelli :. Uptown :
Shoes: [ VERSOV ] BALLOV_SNEAKERS_BLACK&GREY
Shirt: CHUCK'S SHIRT BRUCE BLACK
Accessories: [ kunst ] - Sloan beacelet #1 / (Left and Right worn)
Earless, one of the grandsons of King Notch, is seen all messy with blood all over his face after feasting.
Having just gotten up from his wildebeest meal, he was still licking himself, after which he went and sat under a tree for a thorough grooming session to get cleaned up.
Photographed in the wild in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
This colourful star cluster mixing older yellow stars with younger blue ones was the second object to find its way onto Charles Messier's list of targets to be avoided being mistaken for comets by comet hunters such as himself and was published in his original 1764 catalogue of just 45 entries, of which 41 were objects located for the first time by Messier himself.
This is a close-up LRGB image taken through my 356mm/14imch f/10 SCT using a mono CCD.
Luminance = 23x60seconds
Red = 10x30seconds
Green = 10x30seconds
Blue = 10x30seconds
Peter
From Wikipedia:
The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598, and is sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy, a nickname it shares with Messier 101. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy and about 44 other smaller galaxies. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.
Details:
18 x 900s, ISO 800
10 Darks, 300 Bias, 100 Flats
Equipment: Explore Scientific ES80ED APO Triplet, Canon 450D, Hutech LPS D1, Televue 0.8x Reducer/Flattener, Orion Atlas EQ-G
Acquisition: Backyard EOS, PHD2, EQMOD, Cartes du Ciel, Astrotortilla
Calibration/Post-Processing: Pixinsight
This globular cluster is older than I am! The experts estimate that it was formed about 12 billion years ago.
I finally got a "clear sky" night, at least by N. Florida summertime standards. We had severe thunderstorms during the mid-afternoon. It slowly cleared by about 10 p.m., though there was a high layer of thin cirrus remaining. An additional unfortunate factor was a waning, nearly full moon scheduled to rise about the same time as astronomical twilight was to end. In such cases, I figure it's a good time to do some maintenance activities and decided to tweak my SCT C8's collimation with a star.
Arcturus was in a good position, so I focused on it. Seeing was relatively good though the passing cirrus affected transparency. I defocused the star and used some collimation circle software to give me better visual clues as to the quality of my collimation efforts. I got the "donut" circles as close to concentric as I could.
Satisfied with my work, I decided to do some quick imaging of something. M5 was close by so I slewed to it. The moon had risen lighting up the layer of cirrus. Between my Bortle 7 suburban light pollution lighting the clouds from below and the moon from above, I could practically read a newspaper without additional light.
This image is composed of a stack of 30 10-second light frames at a gain of about 80. I used Siril to process the stack with some tweaking of the final image in Photoshop. The stack was calibrated with darks, flats, and biases. I took the light frames with an old Celestron C8 (circa 1988,) 0.63 focal reducer, IR/UV cut filter, and an ASI585MC (uncooled} camera. Given the environmental conditions, I think it came out OK. To see a fabulous rendition from Hubble, check out this NASA webpage:
science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/explore-the-night...
250711_M5_Glob_Clust
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a magnificent face-on view of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77. The image does justice to the galaxy’s beauty, showcasing its glittering arms criss-crossed with dust lanes — but it fails to betray Messier 77’s turbulent nature.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/eso1720a/
Credit:
ESO
Messier 106 (also known as NGC 4258) is spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. M106 is at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from Earth.
Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 81 Refractor
Mount: Losmandy GM811G
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro
Filter: Optolong L-Pro Filter
Site: Elk Grove, California, USA
Calibration Files: None
Guiding: None
Integration Time: 3h 36m
No of Frames: 216
Sub Exposure Time: 60 seconds
Bortle Zone: Class 6
Date Taken: February 25, 2021
M109 (NGC 3992) est une galaxie spirale barrée située dans la constellation de la Grande Ourse à environ 48 millions d'années-lumière.
On distingue également trois de ses galaxies satellites, plus petites : UGC 6923, UGC 6940 et UGC 6969.
Le rayon lumineux à droite de la galaxie est issu de l'étoile Gamma de la grande ourse, très brillante et très proche.
Newton SkyWatcher 200/1000
Monture EQ6-r pro
Canon 1000D défiltré partiel
Correcteur de coma Baader MPCC Mk III
Autoguidage OAG + ZWO ASI 290mm mini
ZWO EAF
ASIAIR Pro
Traitement PixInsight + Photoshop CC
Prise le 03/02/2021 :
57*300" => 4h45'
ISO 800
DOF
M106 est accompagnée sur cette photo de NGC 4248, NGC 4231, NGC 4232, NGC 4217 et à 391 M.al. NGC 4226.
M106 (NGC 4258) est une galaxie spirale intermédiaire située dans la constellation des Chiens de chasse à 23,5 ± 1,0 millions d'années-lumière. M106 a été découvert par l'astronome français Pierre Méchain en 1781. Apparemment, Charles Messier n'a ni observé ni enregistré cette galaxie dans son catalogue. C'est l'astronome américano-canadienne Helen Sawyer Hogg qui a ajouté NGC 3379, NGC 4258 et l'amas globulaire NGC 6171 au catalogue Messier sous les désignations M105, M106 et M107 (Wikipédia)
Instrument de prise de vue: Sky-watcher T250/1000 Newton F4
Caméra d'imagerie: ZWO ASI294 MC-Cool
Monture: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Pro Goto USB
Instrument de guidage: Diviseur optique OAG - ZWO
Caméra de guidage: ZWO ASI120 mini
Logiciels: Stellarium - ScharpCap - PHD2 Guiding - Siril - Darktable - FastStone Images Viewer
Filtres: IR-Cut / IR-Block ZWO (M48)
Accessoire: GPU coma-correcteur Sky-watcher
Dates: 27 Mars 2022- 03h56
Images unitaires: (832x22") + Darks + Flats - Gain 121
Intégration: 5 h.05'
Échantillonnage: 0.955 arcsec/pixel
Seeing: 0.89"Arc
Phase de la Lune (moyenne): --
M3 (ou NGC 5272) est un amas globulaire situé dans la constellation des Chiens de chasse à environ 33 300 a.l. de la Terre.
M3 est l'un des plus gros et des plus brillants amas globulaires découverts à ce jour. Il contient environ un demi-million d'étoiles.
Instrument de prise de vue: Sky-watcher T250/1000 Newton F4
Caméra d'imagerie: QHY5-III-462c
Monture: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Pro Goto USB
Instrument de guidage: Lunette TS 80/328 F4,1
Caméra de guidage: ZWO 120 mini
Chercheur : Obj. 56 mm + ZWO ASI294 MC-Cool+ FireCapture
Logiciels acquisition: Stellarium - ScharpCap - PHD2 Guiding
Logiciels traitement :Siril - Gimp - Darktable - FastStone Images Viewer
Filtres:IR-Cut / IR-Block ZWO
Accessoire: GPU coma-correcteur Sky-watcher
Dates: 04 Fév. 2023 - 00h59 TU
Images unitaires: 1806 x 8"
Intégration: 4h 00 min.
Gain :102
Échantillonnage: 0.6 "/px
Seeing: 0.81 "Arc
Bortle: 5
Phase de la Lune (moyenne): 97 %
Messier 106 is an spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is at a distance of about 25 million light-years away from Earth.
There are dozens of other faint galaxies in this image, up to 3 billion light years distant.
This image was made on 16th May 2023 under the hazy Bortle 5 skies of Warwickshire.
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Messier 1 - Crab Nebula Supernova Remnant
Photographed from my home in Bortle 6 North West England
18/3/22 and 20/3/22
My first deep sky image from home for a while and I am really pleased with it!
Nearly 1000 years ago in 1054 AD, Chinese astronomers witnessed the sudden appearance of a bright "guest" star in the constellation of Taurus. The star was about 4 times brighter than Venus and was visible in daylight for 23 days.
We now know that this “guest star” was actually a supernova explosion 6,500 light-years distant, which gave rise to the Crab Nebula, an expanding six-light-year-wide remnant of this incredible event.
At the centre of the Crab Nebula is a rapidly rotating neutron star, or pulsar. The neutron star, like a lighthouse, ejects twin beams of radiation that make it appear to pulse 30 times per second as it rotates.
Equipment:
- Skywatcher EQ6-R pro
- Skywatcher 10 inch f4 Quattro
- Skywatcher Aplanatic coma corrector
- Skywatcher Evoguide 50ED + ZWO ASI 120MM-mini
- ZWO ASI 294MC pro
- ZWO EAF
- Optolong L-eXtreme
- Pegasus Powerbox advance
Acquisition:
- Lights: 55 x 240s at gain 125, offset 30, cooled to -15c
- Darks: 30
- Flats: 30 + 30
- Darkflats: 30+30
Processing:
- APP, PS, StarXterminator, Topaz
Canon EOS 250D
18-55mm IS STM
Dátum / idő: 2020-09-20 23:44:18
Expoziciós idő: 240.5 sec
F-szám: F 5.66
Érzékenység ISO-ban: ISO 1600
Fókusztávolság: 55 mm
5x light
10x dark
10x offset
DSS, PS
Skywatcher Star Adventurer mechanika (Pro Pack)
Cullmann Mundo állvány
The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598, and is sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy, a nickname it shares with Messier 101. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy and about 44 other smaller galaxies. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.
The galaxy is the smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group and it is believed to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy due to their interactions, velocities and proximity to one another in the night sky.(Wikipedia)
The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, and the most parodied work of art in the world". The painting's novel qualities include the subject's enigmatic expression, monumentality of the composition, the subtle modelling of forms, and the atmospheric illusionism.
The painting has been traditionally considered to depict the Italian noblewoman Lisa del Giocondo. It is painted in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel. Leonardo never gave the painting to the Giocondo family. It was believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506; however, Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517. It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic. It has normally been on display at the Louvre in Paris since 1797.
The painting's global fame and popularity partly stem from its 1911 theft by Vincenzo Peruggia, who attributed his actions to Italian patriotism—a belief it should belong to Italy. The theft and subsequent recovery in 1914 generated unprecedented publicity for an art theft, and led to the publication of many cultural depictions such as the 1915 opera Mona Lisa, two early 1930s films (The Theft of the Mona Lisa and Arsène Lupin) and the song "Mona Lisa" recorded by Nat King Cole—one of the most successful songs of the 1950s.
The Mona Lisa is one of the most valuable paintings in the world. It holds the Guinness World Record for the highest known painting insurance valuation in history at US$100 million in 1962, equivalent to $1 billion as of 2023.
This was taken with the Stone Edge Observatory 20 inch telescope near Sonoma California. This is a bicolor image with h-alpha and oiii data. There is a total exposure of 3hr57m in h-alpha and 1hr29m40s total in oiii. The exposure is probably a little overkill... but I had the time to do it.
A globular cluster in Aquarius
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Image exposure: 35 minutes
Image size: 24 x 20 arcmin
Image date: 2022-07-29
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The Messier Catalog, sometimes known as the Messier Album or list of Messier objects, is one of the most useful tools in the astronomy hobby. In the middle of the 18th century, the return of Halley's comet helped to prove the Newtonian theory, and helped to spark a new interest in astronomy. During this time, a French astronomer named Charles Messier began a life-long search for comets. He would eventually discover 15 of them. On August 28, 1758, while searching for comets, Messier found a small cloudy object in the constellation Taurus. He began keeping a journal of these nebulous (cloudy) objects so that they would not be confused with comets. This journal is known today as the Messier Catalog, or Messier Album. The deep sky objects in this catalog are commonly referred to as Messier objects.
This new Hubble image reveals the gigantic Pinwheel galaxy, one of the best known examples of "grand design spirals", and its supergiant star-forming regions in unprecedented detail. The image is the largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy ever taken with Hubble.