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I hope by posting my untidy studio corner, that it will motivate me to clean up a bit. Maybe. It is not so much messy as in need of an update and things put in their proper place.
Took this, my first Orion in quite some time...
Different approach, HA/HB/OIII 240s x 20 per channel, combined in Maxim DL, Photoshop CS5..
Just the central part of the cluster, I guess, since I didn't use a focal reducer. Celestron Evolution 9.25 with ZWO ASI224MC camera.
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Self portrait, in mirror - Charcoal & pastel
Good thing I was wearing my apron, for all the extra smudges!
#selfportraitsunday
Warm fall rains have led to a profusion of mushrooms in Durham, NC (USA). I found turtles enjoying the bounty at two locations on the same day.
Eastern Box Turtle - Terrapene carolina carolina (female, I believe)
Took this photo of my friend's daughter while we were having picnic at the beach (this is how you dress up when going to the beach in Ireland :P)
Too lazy to do anything except take pics of an old desk set-up. It had gotten messy with lots of stuff taken for other set-ups. Took final pic before putting everything away.
QHY128C & Astrotech AT65EDQ
QHY268C & WO Redcat 51
Resolution ............... 3.100 arcsec/px
Rotation ................. -3.266 deg
Focal distance ........... 250.20 mm
Pixel size ............... 3.76 um
Field of view ............ 4d 42' 17.2" x 3d 9' 48.6"
This artist's impression shows one of the three newly discovered planets in the star cluster Messier 67. In this cluster the stars are all about the same age and composition as the Sun. This makes it a perfect laboratory to study how many planets form in such a crowded environment. Very few planets in clusters are known and this one has the additional distinction of orbiting a solar twin — a star that is almost identical to the Sun in all respects.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/eso1402a/
Credit:
ESO/L. Calçada
Messier 51
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello, Alessandro Falesiedi, Mario Lovrencie, Tim Stone / Unione Astrofili Italiani (UAI)
RA center: 202.481° DEC center: 47.225°
Messier 51 also called The Whirlpool Galaxy (NGC 5194) is an interacting spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was the first to be classified as a spiral galaxy. It is estimated to be 23 ± 4 million light-years from us.
Messy stuff. I caught a drop of blood below the fish.
Bald eagle eating a fish at Lock and Dam 14 -- Le Claire, Iowa
BigRMa 02-29-20-170 800_6241-1 f
Messier 32 Shells
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
A few years ago I clearly highlighted the presence of a large spiral structure around the core of Messier 32 (also visible here), recognizable as a sort of very nuanced inverted S. In 2014, on the other hand, I sensed the presence of very weak shell structures without obtaining a convincing image.
I have reprocessed that data, using new techniques, and it seems to me that there is no longer any doubt about their reality. M32 would be nothing more than the core of an old small spiral galaxy, stripped of the more massive Andromeda.
Its been a long time since I have set up my 6" SCT on a goto mount to do some astrophotography. I have been using my Nikkor lenses a lot recently. Last night I decided to put my C6 on my new Vixen GPD2 mount and see how it performed. The Skysensor 2000 found M82 and I did a short-ish 6 mins of stacked exposure on it with my Nikon D750. I'll do this again another night and use my D500 and a lot more time!
A Nebulosa Trífida está a 5 mil anos luz de distância de nós, ou seja, a luz com a sua velocidade demorou 5 mil anos para sair de lá e chegar até aqui, então, vemos a nebulosa da forma que estava a 5 mil anos atrás.
Assim como existem as cobras bífidas, pois suas línguas são divididas em duas partes, a Trífida recebeu esse nome por aparentar ser dividida em três partes. Fácil de observar na foto, essa divisão é feita pelas nuvens escuras na região avermelhada (pode-se dizer até que é dividida em quatro partes).
Nota-se também estrelas fortes em regiões centrais, tanto no lado azul como no vermelho. As da região vermelha estão “coladas” em uma parte curva, como uma concavidade, das nuvens escuras. Pesquisas propõem que isso é consequência da colisão entre duas dessas nuvens. Uma menor com alta velocidade colidiu e curvou a maior, e, no ponto de choque, o resultado foi um enorme aumento de temperatura e concentração de gás ocasionando na formação das estrelas fortes vistas na imagem.
Tanto as estrelas centrais da região vermelha, talvez geradas pela forma descrita, como a central da região azul, são as responsáveis por toda a coloração da nebulosa.
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Local e data:
-Munhoz/SP - Brasil
-Bortle aproximado: 4
-04/maio/2019
-Fase da lua: 0.3% iluminada
Equipamentos:
-Telescópio: ES127mm f/7.5
-Câmera: NIKON D5300 não modificada
-Guiagem: ASI120mc + 9x50mm Guider
-Montagem: Heq5 Pro
Dados da captura:
-ISO 400
-24x5min lights
-darks bias e flats aplicados
-Resolução: 0.84 arcsec/px
-Campo da imagem: 1.31 x 0.89º (um pouco mais que 2 luas cheias)
Softwares:
-EQMOD
-Astro Photography Tool
-PHD Guiding 2
-SkytechX
-Deep Sky Stacker
-Photoshop CS5
Obs:
-sem filtro
-sem flattener
This cluster of stars is known as Messier 15, and is located some 35 000 light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus (The Winged Horse). It is one of the oldest globular clusters known, with an age of around 12 billion years. Both very hot blue stars and cooler golden stars can be seen swarming together in the image, becoming more concentrated towards the cluster's bright centre. Messier 15 is one of the densest globular clusters known, with most of its mass concentrated at its core. As well as stars, Messier 15 was the first cluster known to host a planetary nebula, and it has been found to have a rare type of black hole at its centre. This new image is made up of observations from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys in the ultraviolet, infrared, and optical parts of the spectrum.
More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1321a/
Credit:
ESA & NASA
Here is a lovely, dust-laden spiral galaxy with some large patches of star formation going on in its arms. I had previously processed this galaxy but I used a different set of data and I was still relatively new to processing. As such, looking at it again I decided to try a new take on it and this is the result. I still think the old one has its merit despite the odd colors. It's easier to see the H-alpha structures in the old one because the H-alpha channel is not competing with as many datasets but this version is far easier for a human to understand, which one might call more natural, at least by human standards.
You may have also seen my friend André van der Hoeven's version of this galaxy. He won second place in Hubble's Hidden Treasures contest with it. Another version has also been featured at ESA's Hubble website and at APOD.
Here, I've used all of my processing skills to make yet another version, this time utilizing available WFPC2 data to help the bluer stars really stand out, which was something I did not know how to do the first time I attempted it and was unsure if it was something I even should do.
The blue channel especially is challenging because two separate, somewhat different but close enough filters were combined for it. At F336W and F450W, the two peak wavelengths are over 100 nm apart from one another and the F336W dataset is considerably more noisy. Still, by fiddling with Photoshop's curves adjustment a bit, it is possible to make them match nearly seamlessly against one another.
In some places, not all data was overlapping all three channels. In those places, pseudo color was generated with what data were available. There is a small patch of totally missing data at the upper right corner which I have filled in with dark gray.
These data were acquired during three separate proposals, namely:
Proposal 11128, Time Scales Of Bulge Formation In Nearby Galaxies
Proposal 9788, A Narrow-band Snapshot Survey of Nearby Galaxies
and Proposal 5754, Imaging and Spectrophotometry of Seyfert Nuclei (FOS 14): - Part II Cycle 4 Observations
Red: HST_9788_02_ACS_WFC_F658N_sci + HST_9788_02_ACS_WFC_F814W_sci
Green: HST_9788_02_ACS_WFC_F658N_sci + hst_08597_88_wfpc2_f606w_wf_sci
Blue: hst_08597_88_wfpc2_f606w_wf_sci + hst_11128_30_wfpc2_f450w_wf_sci
North is up.
This cluster of stars is known as Messier 15, and is located some 35 000 light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus (The Winged Horse). It is one of the oldest globular clusters known, with an age of around 12 billion years. Both very hot blue stars and cooler golden stars can be seen swarming together in the image, becoming more concentrated towards the cluster's bright centre. Messier 15 is one of the densest globular clusters known, with most of its mass concentrated at its core. As well as stars, Messier 15 was the first cluster known to host a planetary nebula, and it has been found to have a rare type of black hole at its centre. This new image is made up of observations from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys in the ultraviolet, infrared, and optical parts of the spectrum.
Voici M63 "Galaxie du tournesol" ou NGC 5055 dans la constellation du chien de chasse.
Galaxie spirale de type Sb située à environ 26 années-lumière de la Terre et fait partie du groupe local, comprenant notre galaxie notamment.
Elle dispose d'un moyeu centrale de grande taille et entouré de bras spiraux très enroulés étendues sur 100 000 AL.
Ses larges bras striés de poussières et de gaz sont propice à la formation d'étoiles.
J'ai capturé cette Galaxie sur une période de 6 nuits consécutives avec au total 12h30 de poses.
C'est la photo qui m'aura demandé le plus de temps d'exposition car je voulais mettre en avant également le gigantesque nuage de poussières qui l'entoure accessible uniquement avec de longs temps de pose.
Technique :
>Telescope Type Newton 200/1000
> Camera ZWO ASi 1600 mmc Pro
> Capture Sequence generator pro
>Filtre Luminance = 86 x 300 secondes = 7h
>Filtre Luminance = 28 x 600 secondes = 4h
>Filtre Rouge = 30 x 60 secondes 30 min
>Filtre vert= 30 x 60 secondes 30 min
>Filtre bleu= 30 x 60 secondes 30 min
> 12h30 de temps d'exposition total
> Pas d'Offset, Darks, Flats
> Traitement Pixinsight
> Finition Photoshop
My version of Messier 106.
Made with FIT's data from Hubble Space Telescope.
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