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Messier 109 (also known as NGC 3992) is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 83.5 ± 24 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. M109 can be seen southeast of the star Phecda (γ UMa).
History
Messier 109 was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. In 1783 Charles Messier catalogued NGC 3992 as his 109th object.
Between the 1920s through the 1950s, it was considered that Messier objects over 103 were not official, but in later years the additions became more widely accepted. David H. Levy mentions the modern 110 object catalog while Sir Patrick Moore gave the original to 104 but has M105-M109 listed as an addendum. By the late 1970s all 110 objects are commonly used among astronomers as they still are today.
In March 1956, supernova 1956A was observed in M109. SN 1956A was a type Ia supernova in the southeast part of the galaxy, glowing at magnitude 12.8 to 12.3 at its maximum. SN 1956A has been the only supernova observed in M109 since its discovery.
M109 has three satellite galaxies (UGC 6923, UGC 6940 and UGC 6969) and possibly might have more. Detailed hydrogen line observations have been obtained from M109 and its satellites. M109's H I distribution is regular with a low level radial extension outside the stellar disc, while at exactly the region of the bar, there is a central H I hole in the gas distribution. Possibly the gas has been transported inwards by the bar because of the emptiness of the hole no large accretion events can have happened in the recent past.
Environment
M109 is the brightest galaxy in the M109 Group, a large group of galaxies located in the constellation Ursa Major that may contain over 50 galaxies.
Description from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_109
This picture was photographed during April, 15-18, 2012 in Khlepcha observatory, Ukraine.
Equipment: reflector S&D 254 mm. f/4.7
Mount WhiteSwan-180, camera QSI-583wsg, Tevevue Paracorr-2. Off-axis guidecamera Orion SSAG.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L=14*300 sec. bin.1, RGB: 12*300 sec. bin2
Processed Pixinsight 1.7 and Photoshop CS5.
Super sexy blond model with amazing curves. She wanted to do something a little sexier and naughtier than in past shoots. One of her kinky fantasies was to tease with and pour milk on herself. I like the results...do you? Was a hard shoot to concentrate and she admitted a few times during the shoot that she was getting very turned on!!
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.
The graceful, winding arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 (NGC 5194) appear like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space. They are actually long lanes of stars and gas laced with dust. This sharpest-ever image, taken in January 2005 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, illustrates a spiral galaxy's grand design, from its curving spiral arms, where young stars reside, to its yellowish central core, a home of older stars. The galaxy is nicknamed the Whirlpool because of its swirling structure. The Whirlpool's most striking feature is its two curving arms, a hallmark of so-called grand-design spiral galaxies. Many spiral galaxies possess numerous, loosely shaped arms that make their spiral structure less pronounced. These arms serve an important purpose in spiral galaxies. They are star-formation factories, compressing hydrogen gas and creating clusters of new stars. In the Whirlpool, the assembly line begins with the dark clouds of gas on the inner edge, then moves to bright pink star-forming regions, and ends with the brilliant blue star clusters along the outer edge. Some astronomers believe that the Whirlpool's arms are so prominent because of the effects of a close encounter with NGC 5195, the small, yellowish galaxy at the outermost tip of one of the Whirlpool's arms. At first glance, the compact galaxy appears to be tugging on the arm. Hubble's clear view, however, shows that NGC 5195 is passing behind the Whirlpool. The small galaxy has been gliding past the Whirlpool for hundreds of millions of years. As NGC 5195 drifts by, its gravitational muscle pumps up waves within the Whirlpool's pancake-shaped disk. The waves are like ripples in a pond generated when a rock is thrown in the water. When the waves pass through orbiting gas clouds within the disk, they squeeze the gaseous material along each arm's inner edge. The dark dusty material looks like gathering storm clouds. These dense clouds collapse, creating a wake of star birth, as seen in the bright pink star-forming regions. The largest stars eventually sweep away the dusty cocoons with a torrent of radiation, hurricane-like stellar winds, and shock waves from supernova blasts. Bright blue star clusters emerge from the mayhem, illuminating the Whirlpool's arms like city streetlights. The Whirlpool is one of astronomy's galactic darlings. Located approximately 25 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs), the Whirlpool's beautiful face-on view and closeness to Earth allow astronomers to study a classic spiral galaxy's structure and star-forming processes.
snapshot of my messy painting corner in the art room. really need to organize.
started work on a new painting...you can see the beginnings in this photo.
blogged here: lucidrose.blogspot.com/2010/12/messy-art-room-new-screen-...
~WARNING! ~! Don't use these on expensive dolls, this is for either making dolls from scratch or customizing the cheaper ones.
So this... is the messiness of my little "creative" area.
Um, so let me explain what's what, and WHY I use it.
1. Super Sculpey & LaDoll... are my best friends.
Especially for making a doll from scratch. I like to age my super sculpey and give it a lot of air. This makes it firm. he best par tis Super Sculpey you can sand when you bake it...
That's right! You can carve and SAND the little buggers. Any cracks, creases, or mistakes I use LaDoll over the hardened sculpty clay and sand, sand, sand. I then use Mr. White Surface over the entire thing.
I JUST ordered SIX packs of Premier LaDoll I can't WAIT for that!
2. Mr. Super Clear UV, Mr. White Surfacer.
Surfacer you need for dolls from scratch. Super clear is for resin(you can correct me)/ABS dolls, it makes paint and pastels adhere to the doll. It's a must!
3. Acetone, Turpentine, Brush cleaner.
Okay... Turpentine is my LAST resort. I find that a Q-tip and acetone work best on acrylic mess, and brush cleaner works great on clearing the pastel mistakes. So if you've SCRUBBED the life out of your head to remove that stingy spot, use acetone. End of story.
4. That is NOT Neutrogena face wipes.... That is where I hold my water for thinning paints, and cleaning things. I recommend sealing your water in something that won't spill over.
5. Sanding Sponge, fake brillo, sponge, nail sander/buffer block.
These are thinks you'll need only with super sculptley and LaDoll. For get about using it on your resin doll. I'll feature what you use to sand your resin later.
6. Tool galore.... I have a lot of tools for clay work... I'll explain them later.
7. Mask. Wear anytime you sand or use pastels really. Protect your lungs.
8. Tweezers. For handling lashes.
9. Eyes, and eye fixates.
10: Styrofoam balls, and wooden balls. I use wooden balls in the place of ball bearings when I make sculpty dolls. If I am using strictly LaDoll only, I use styrofoam. OH and for the main head use aluminum foil, not a wooden ball, that is just there for a size guide for my aluminum ball making.
11. Extra little paint cups. Paint cups for whatever pastels you mix, or paints, or plasters, I use one for a very wet LaDoll mix that I use for filling in mistakes.
Distance: ca.45 Mio. Lj
total exposure time: 4 hours
ZWO ASI1600mmc
Luminanz 40x180s
Moravian g2-8300
red 4x600s
green 4x600s
blue 4x600s
April 2015
May 2019
10" /f4 TS ONTC Carbon Tube Newtonian
ASI1600mmPro
Astrodon LRGB Filter
Skywatcher EQ8
Guiding TS9 OAG Lodestar
Processing: PixInsight/Affinity Photo
This is my first serious attempt at a Globular Cluster.
Messier 3 (M3 or NGC 5272) is a globular cluster of stars in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici.
Right ascension 13h 42m 11.62s
Declination+28° 22′ 38.2″
Distance33.9 kly (10.4 kpc)
Apparent magnitude (V)+6.2
Apparent dimensions (V)18′.0
Taken with a 1930s Voigtlander Bessa 1 6x9 medium format folding camera, Prontor II shutter, 105mm f4.5 Voigtar lens. Ilford FP4+ 125 film
Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. The soaring tower is 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometres high, about twice the distance from our Sun to the next nearest star. Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen gas that reside in chaotic neighbourhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas. The tower may be a giant incubator for those newborn stars. A torrent of ultraviolet light from a band of massive, hot, young stars [off the top of the image] is eroding the pillar. The starlight also is responsible for illuminating the tower's rough surface. Ghostly streamers of gas can be seen boiling off this surface, creating the haze around the structure and highlighting its three-dimensional shape. The column is silhouetted against the background glow of more distant gas. The edge of the dark hydrogen cloud at the top of the tower is resisting erosion, in a manner similar to that of brush among a field of prairie grass that is being swept up by fire. The fire quickly burns the grass but slows down when it encounters the dense brush. In this celestial case, thick clouds of hydrogen gas and dust have survived longer than their surroundings in the face of a blast of ultraviolet light from the hot, young stars. Inside the gaseous tower, stars may be forming. Some of those stars may have been created by dense gas collapsing under gravity. Other stars may be forming due to pressure from gas that has been heated by the neighbouring hot stars. The first wave of stars may have started forming before the massive star cluster began venting its scorching light. The star birth may have begun when denser regions of cold gas within the tower started collapsing under their own weight to make stars. The bumps and fingers of material in the centre of the tower are examples of these stellar birthing areas. These regions may look small but they are roughly the size of our solar system. The fledgling stars continued to grow as they fed off the surrounding gas cloud. They abruptly stopped growing when light from the star cluster uncovered their gaseous cradles, separating them from their gas supply. Ironically, the young cluster's intense starlight may be inducing star formation in some regions of the tower. Examples can be seen in the large, glowing clumps and finger-shaped protrusions at the top of the structure. The stars may be heating the gas at the top of the tower and creating a shock front, as seen by the bright rim of material tracing the edge of the nebula at top, left. As the heated gas expands, it acts like a battering ram, pushing against the darker cold gas. The intense pressure compresses the gas, making it easier for stars to form. This scenario may continue as the shock front moves slowly down the tower. The dominant colours in the image were produced by gas energized by the star cluster's powerful ultraviolet light. The blue colour at the top is from glowing oxygen. The red colon in the lower region is from glowing hydrogen. The Eagle Nebula image was taken in November 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a grand design spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.
Picture data: Celestron 8 Telescope at F/7, ZWO ASI533 MMPro camera.
Total exposure: 18hours through narrowband and RVB filters
A nicely placed target at this time of the year. Imaged while I was waitng for Saturn to rise high enough to observe.
Peter
Messier 39 open cluster in Cygnus
About 1,010 light-years
SkyWatcher 100ED
Canon 700d
20x120s (40 mins)
Rotation ................. -89.447 deg
Observation start time ... 2024-05-18 23:33:04 UTC
Observation end time ..... 2024-05-19 00:31:19 UTC
Pixel size ............... 3.23 um
Image center ............. RA: 21 31 33.297 Dec: +48 16 21.61 ex: +0.000342 px ey: -0.001866 px
On my last visit to Birnie Loch the birds were almost lining up to get their photos taken as they were enjoying the bird food I had taken along so much. This robin was eating the fat, seeds and fruit so quickly that the food was flying everywhere.
Messy eater: I was fortunate to be able to borrow the remarkable Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM recently. It is called by some the ultimate wildlife lens, and I cannot disagree. This is a bird feeder in the backyard, about 5 meters from my easy chair. via 500px bit.ly/25uOihw
Technical Details:
- Telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 150
- Camera: ZWO ASI 1600 MM Pro
- Narrowband and RGB Filters by Baader Planetarium
- Mount: SkyWatcher EQ-8
- Frames: L= 9hours 50min / R = 2hours 30min / G = 2hours 30min / B = 2hours 45min / Ha = 5hours 5min
- Total acquisition time of 22hours 40min
- Image Acquisition software Sequence Generator Pro
- Pre Processing in Pixinsight
- Post Processed in Photoshop CC
- Location: Germany / Gelenau
Next to a busy Norwegian motorway is this small restaurant building left to decay. The inside witness of quite a lot of vandalism and chairs and tables are all over the place. Don't know much about it's history or when it was abandoned.
Oh if you haven't noticed, I'm going crazy with fish-eye these days... hm
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2018 data, reprocessed in SIRIL.
Total exposure time: 42 mins
Telescope: Tele Vue-60 APO refractor
Mount: Vixen Super Polaris