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Messier 52 & the Bubble Nebula
Equipment:
Guided 80mm APO Refractor Triplet.
Photo data:
10 x 60sec ISO 800
5 x 180sec ISO 800
Added darks only.
Processed and stacked in PixInsight and post processed in Faststone ImageViewer.
Messier 3 is a globular star cluster located in the constellation of Canes Venatici
Optics: Celestron C-11 @ f/7.5 (2030mm), Starizona SCT Corrector
Camera: SBIG ST-10XME
Mount: Astro-Physics 900GTO
Processing: CCDStack 2, Photoshop CS5
"An open cluster in the constellation Cygnus. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. M39 is at a distance of about 800 light-years away from Earth. Its age is estimated to be from 200 to 300 million years."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_39
Exposure: iso640, 10 darks, 10 bias, 5 flats, 50x30sec lightframes
Gear: camera + skywatcher 10" + paralactic platform by mr. Leszek Jedrzejewski
Conditions: good seeing, clear air, lunar lightpolution.
Stacking: DSS
Postprocess: PS, LR
Out of focus.
Somma di pose 6 x 300 sec con Dss, Canon 350D modificata, telescopio 80ED Skywatcher F6.7, ISO 800, focale 600mm, inseguitore Astrotrac, filtro Idas LPS 2
Località: La Salute di Livenza
Temperatura: 10°
Dark:21
Flat: 15
Dark Flat: 15
Bias: 21
Note: serata limpida
messy double exposure of a borrowed dog running in tall grass with clouds as the other shot.
Agilux Agifold.
Overnight heavy rains, after months of snow, created a pretty messy situation this morning. Unfortunately, the wind was also blowing and the umbrella kept getting in the way. I finally gave up, deciding I didn't want to be an hour late for work, and tried working one handed with the umbrella - with mixed results - as I waited for my morning bus.
Will be interesting to see what this'll look like tomorrow after the temps have returned to seasonal values - below freezing.
By the afternoon, the weather wasn't much better, but I've never seen so many people smiling on such a dreary day. We are a hockey nation.
Messier 24 / Barnard 92 & 93. Apilado de 105x24 segs (42min) f:400mm @ F/5.7, ISO 1600. Canon 1000D +Celestron 70/400, montura CG4. 03-09-2012
I was trying to figure out how to be minimally messy, and my husband suggested liquid on a solid surface. This is the result. (And then I cleaned it up...)
A discussion with a friend inspired me to create this. Using Photoshop, I was able to create a rough approximation of what one might see when looking at the Great Orion Nebula (aka Messier 42/NGC 1976), through a 10-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain.
On the left, is what one would see using a 26mm eyepiece, without filters, in a dark sky site. You'll notice there isn't much color. One of the great oddities of astronomy, is that visually, space is rather bland and color doesn't present itself well to the human eye. When looking at M42 through the eyepiece, the predominant color that shows up is a muted mix of grays and blues, with ever the lightest hints of pink.
On the right, is what the camera sees (via a 1.5 hour combined exposure). It's much like the northern lights. Visually, there is no color to the northern lights - the eye sees the aurora borealis as nothing more than shimmering curtains of light in a very muted grayish-green color. However, on camera, the colors (due to the sensor picking up spectra of ions not visible to the eye) really pop. The same holds true with the camera - which picks up the various reds and pinks of hydrogen gas, as well as the various blues and grays of oxygen and nitrogen that the eye doesn't catch.
That being said, the ability to look at and admire deep sky objects - even without color - is still very much impressive when viewed through a high powered telescope!
Messier 41. Apilado de 24x20 segs (8min), f:400mm @ F/5.7, ISO 1600. Canon 1000D +Celestron 70/400, montura CG4. 09-11-2012
Messier 5 or M5 (also designated NGC 5904) is a globular cluster in the constellation Serpens. It was discovered by Gottfried Kirch in 1702. It should not be confused with the much fainter and more distant globular cluster Palomar 5, which is situated nearby in the sky.
Spanning 165 light-years in diameter, M5 is one of the larger globular clusters known. The gravitational sphere of influence of M5, (i.e. the volume of space in which stars are gravitationally bound to it rather than being torn away by the Milky Way's gravitational pull) has a radius of some 200 light-years.
At 13 billion years old, M5 is also one of the older globulars associated with the Milky Way Galaxy. Its distance is about 24,500 light-years from Earth and the cluster contains more than 100,000 stars, as many as 500,000 according to some estimates.
M5 is, under extremely good conditions, just visible to the naked eye as a faint "star" near the star 5 Serpentis. Binoculars or small telescopes will identify the object as non-stellar while larger telescopes will show some individual stars, of which the brightest are of apparent magnitude 12.2.
M5 was discovered by the German astronomer Gottfried Kirch in 1702 when he was observing a comet. Charles Messier also noted it in 1764, but thought it a nebula without any stars associated with it. William Herschel was the first to resolve individual stars in the cluster in 1791, counting roughly 200.
Credit: NASA/STScI/WikiSky
For the Messy Desk Contest www.flickr.com/groups/565582@N21/
I'm embarrassed to say this IS my desk... so much clutter, it's driving me nuts.
M53 - NGC5024 - a globular cluster in Coma Berenices constellation.
Telescope: Celestron C8 Schmidt-Cassegrain
Mount: NEQ6Pro
Camera: Canon 550D
Exposure: 12x35s at ISO6400
I had to take a photo before I cleaned up, I couldn't help myself. This is what I've been working in over Spring Break.
Photograph of the open star cluster Messier 35 (M35). Naturally, other objects are also visible: NGC 2158 as a brown spot above M35, the nebula NGC 2175 in the upper right corner, and the nebula IC 443 as a faint pink arc between two golden stars. Photographed with a Pentax K-5, 100mm lens, f/4.5, ISO 800. The photograph is the result of 81 individual exposures of 45 seconds each.
02/03/2025, Hotnja
Our Daily Challenge
Theme: Opposite
Whenever I do an art project or cook I am one of the messiest people that you will ever meet. What is the fun in being clean when you do a project? Might as well get down and dirty with it. People that know me see me with blue hands and usually shake their head and laugh. They know me. So the opposite of clean is MESSY and that is how I roll.