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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 image combines Hubble observations of M 106 with additional information captured by amateur astronomers Robert Gendler and Jay GaBany. Gendler combined Hubble data with his own observations to produce this stunning colour image. M 106 is a relatively nearby spiral galaxy, a little over 20 million light-years away.
Located in the constellation Andromeda can be found M31, the famous Andromeda Galaxy. This spectacular object is a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way. At a distance of only 2 million light years, it is one of the closest galaxies to our own. Its enormous diameter of 200,000 light years gives it a visual magnitude of 3.4, making it the brightest galaxy in the sky and the only galaxy visible to the naked eye. It can easily be seen with binoculars, and telescopes will bring out some of the galaxy's detail.
Projections indicate that the Andromeda Galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way (our own galaxy if you didn't know that), approaching at a speed of about 140 kilometres per second. Impact is predicted in about 3 billion years; the two galaxies will probably merge to form a giant elliptical.
LRGB 4x5min, SBIG STL-1100 & Pentax 105 SDP. Slightly cropped.
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Messier 3 (NGC 5272/GCL 25)
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello (Oria Amateur Astrophysical Observatory - OAAO)
M3 (NGC 5272/GCL 25) is a globular cluster discovered by Charles Messier in 1764 in the constellation Canes Venatici.
This cluster is one of the largest and brightest, being formed by about 500,000 stars. It is located at a distance of about 33,900 light-years.
(127ED@1140mm)
My first attempt at imaging the Lagoon Nebula. I did a 30 min exposure on it with 10 darks right after the light frame. Think I can get it a little better than this though if I do a longer exposure and format it a little better with GIMP. I barely got this one as right when I finished taking my subs the clouds rolled in.
Almost looks like an alien with his hands folded across the top of his knees
New bench at a new parking area at the new commuter station in Tungelsta. I like the design but I don't think anyone has ever tried the bench. The building in the background was a brewery back in the days before I was born.
Globular cluster M13 in Hercules with 300mm telephoto lens
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
J2000 RA 16h 41m 41.24s Dec +36° 27′ 35.5″
Messier 13 (M13), or NGC 6205, is a globular cluster of about 300,000 stars in Hercules, discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714, and catalogued by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764.
M13 is about 145 light-years in diameter and at 25,100 light-years away from Earth.
The Arecibo message of 1974, which contained encoded information about the human race, DNA, atomic numbers, Earth's position and other information, was beamed from the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope towards M13 as an experiment in contacting potential extraterrestrial civilizations in the cluster.
messy bun! i haven't been able to do one of these baby's since I was 14...I'm almost 19, hahah.
Hooray!
This Picture of the Week stars Messier 90, a beautiful spiral galaxy located roughly 60 million light-years from the Milky Way in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin). The galaxy is part of the Virgo Cluster, a gathering of galaxies that is over 1200 strong. This image combines infrared, ultraviolet, and visible light gathered by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This camera was operational between 1994 and 2010, producing images with an unusual staircase-like shape as seen here. This is because the camera was made up of four light detectors with overlapping fields of view, one of which gave a higher magnification than the other three. When the four images are combined together in one picture, the high magnification image needs to be reduced in size in order for the image to align properly. This produces an image with a layout that looks like three steps. Messier 90 is remarkable; it is one of the few galaxies seen to be traveling toward the Milky Way, not away from it. The galaxy’s light reveals this incoming motion in that it is blueshifted. In simple terms, the galaxy is compressing the wavelength of its light as it moves towards us, like a slinky being squashed when you push on one end. This increases the frequency of the light and shifts it towards the blue end of the spectrum. As our Universe is expanding, almost all of the galaxies we see in the Universe are moving away from us, and we therefore see their light as redshifted, but Messier 90 appears to be a rare exception. Astronomers think that this blueshift is likely caused by the cluster’s colossal mass accelerating its members to high velocities on bizarre and peculiar orbits, sending them whirling around on odd paths that take them both towards and away from us over time. While the cluster itself is moving away from us, some of its constituent galaxies, such as Messier 90, are moving faster than the cluster as a whole, making it so that from Earth we see the galaxy heading towards us. However, some are also moving in the opposite direction within the cluster, and thus seem to be streaking away from us at very high velocity.
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Text credit: ESA (European Space Agency)
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Sargent et al.
Located near the top of the Teapot in Sagittarius, Messier 22 is a huge globular that is big enough to be prominent in wide-field images, suspended near the rich edge of Sagittarius Milky Way. Compare its size to the tiny M-28 to the lower right of the frame. Messier 22 is plainly visible to the unaided eye, even when low on the horizon on a clear dark night.
Pentax Spotmatic II & 300mm SMC Takumar 15 minutes @ f/4 Kodak ED200
Messier 71 (also known as M71 or NGC 6838) is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagitta. It was discovered by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux in 1746 and included by Charles Messier in his catalog of comet-like objects in 1780. It was also noted by Koehler at Dresden around 1775. (source Wiki)
Telescope: Newton 203/1200mm
Mount: NEQ6Pro
Camera: Canon 550D
Exposure: 27x35s at ISO 6400
This was the busiest of the busy busy bees. This little worker buzzed all over gathering pollen and in the meantime, got themselves absolutely covered in pollen. Just zoom into the photo to see his messy fur!
Messier 35 with NGC 2158 about 45° above the western horizon (right).
Left, the HII bubble LBN 189.02+00.91 (crop)
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello (Oria Amateur Astrophysical Observatory - OAAO)
110/250mm f/2.2 astrograph + UHC filter