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It gets really messy (very quickly) when Penelope decides to cover everything in chocolate!
ADAD February
Be Still 52 - Make a messy
edit based on Kim's preset 'pastelhaze'
Friday Finds ... at kimklassen.com
Violets from our garden ...
Iris (eyewrisz) wrote this little poem for it:
"so much pollen all over his face
looks like a buzzing bee disgrace
should have some nectar to wash it down
but seeing how he is he might defintely drown"
I think it describes the shot far better than any of my own words!
Thank you Iris!!
Sway's @ FLF
chair : Sway's [Liz] Beanbag
*12 single animation. 6 texture change by touch
lamp : Sway's [Button] Table Lamp . heart/blue
*light on / off by touch lightbulb
*available 4 color.
* lampshade color change by touch for 4 color.
Bed : Sassy Messy Bed (Adult) CHEZ MOI
*Color change by touch on board
Dresser : Dresser Lily by **Mistique Mainstore** @ Sixty weekend item
book stack on dresser : Sway's [Tyler] Books stack
bottle vase : *Bottle Vase* Roses A by **Dreamscapes Art Gallery**
book and coffee : [CIRCA] - "Modus" Books & Coffee Cup
This picture shows Messier 28, a globular cluster in the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer), in jewel-bright detail. It is about 18,000 light-years away from Earth.
As its name suggests, this cluster belongs to the Messier catalog of objects — however, when astronomer Charles Messier first added Messier 28 to his list in 1764, he cataloged it incorrectly, referring to it as a “[round] nebula containing no star.” While today we know nebulas to be vast, often glowing clouds of interstellar dust and ionized gases, until the early 20th century a nebula represented any astronomical object that was not clearly localized and isolated. Any unidentified hazy light source could be called a nebula. In fact, all 110 of the astronomical objects identified by Messier were combined under the title of the Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters. He classified many objects as diverse as star clusters and supernova remnants as nebulas. This includes Messier 28, pictured here — which, ironically, is actually a star cluster.
Messier’s mistake is understandable. While Messier 28 is easily recognizable as a globular stellar cluster in this image, it is far less recognizable from Earth. Even with binoculars it is only visible very faintly, as the distorting effects of Earth’s atmosphere reduce this luminous ancient cluster to a barely visible smudge in the sky. One would need larger telescopes to resolve single stars in Messier 28. Fortunately, from space Hubble allows Messier 28 to be seen in all its beauty — far more than a faint, shapeless, nebulous cloud.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J.E. Grindlay et al.
Messier 33
Credit: DESI LIS/Giuseppe Donatiello
(J2000) RA: 01h 33m 50.02s Dec: +30° 39′ 36.7″
Messier 33 is a low-luminosity flocculent spiral galaxy at 3 million light-years in Triangulum. It is catalogued also as NGC 598 and known as Triangulum Galaxy. The galaxy is the smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group and it is believed to be a big satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy.
M33 has two asymmetric faint arms, and an interstellar medium rich in gaseous filaments that extends for about 7 kpc. Although the inner disk is relatively undisturbed, the northern arm is less regular in shape than the southern one. M33, is a bulge-free galaxy with only two optically luminous dwarf galaxies believed to be its satellites: AndXXII (McConnachie et al., 2009; Martin et al., 2016) and Pisces VII (Martínez-Delgado et al., 2022) m discovered by me in 2020. However, given its mass, ΛCDM cosmological simulations predict that M33 should host a larger number of satellites, at least 10.
The neutral hydrogen (HI) disk is three times larger than the star-forming disk and is clearly warped. The outer disk has the same inclination as the inner one with respect to our line of sight but the position angle of the major axis changes by about 30 degrees compared to the inner disk and is more aligned with the M31 direction. While M33's undisturbed inner disk indicates that no major collisions between M31 and M33 or between M33 and a satellite have occurred in the past, the distortion could be the result of a flyby about 9 billion years ago. Timing assessments make this scenario unlikely and favor the hypothesis of a first fall of M33 in the region of influence of M31.
M33 in Triangulum, a spiral galaxy in our Local Group and only 2.7 million light years away.
This image is a stack of HαRGB data captured on a QHY163M camera with a William Optics FLT110 telescope.
Taken w/ Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D3300.
77 lights x 30 s @ ISO 1600, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop
Messier 82, or M82, is a galaxy that is oriented edge-on to Earth. Thisgives astronomers and their telescopes an interesting view of whathappens as this galaxy undergoes bursts of star formation. X-rays fromChandra (appearing as blue and pink) show gas in outflows about 20,000 light years long that has been heated to temperatures above ten million degrees by repeated supernova explosions. Optical light data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (red and orange) shows the galaxy.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC; Optical: NASA/STScI
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Lost my 16 GB memory card. $60 that I'll never get back. Photographic memories that I'll never get back.
Just a piece of my bokeh series.
Watching Death Race only because of Jason Statham.
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Another successful session using the Starizona HyperStar (converts sluggish f/10 telescope into speedy f/2.2). Detailed capture with only 16 minutes of integration time.
Date: October 29, 2025
Bortle Class 5 backyard, SF Bay Area (East Bay)
Capture: 16 x 60-sec subframes, OSC
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 SCT
Accessory: Starizona HyperStar C9.25-v4 lens
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC
Antlia Triband RGB Ultra, 2"
Mount: iOptron GEM45
ZWO ASIAIR Plus Control and Capture
Calibrated with Darks, Flats and Dark Flats
Processed with PixInsight, Photoshop
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It's messy eating moths...their scales end up all over you! This dragonfly flew around for a while clutching the moth, while a couple other dragonflies checked it out. It's hard to eat something this big in the air so it had to land.
Another photo taken at Fishers Green (my favourite swan place).
Slightly cropped
Best viewed large please xx
Explored. Thank you xx
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows Messier 96, a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion). It is of about the same mass and size as the Milky Way. It was first discovered by astronomer Pierre Méchain in 1781, and added to Charles Messier’s famous catalogue of astronomical objects just four days later.
The galaxy resembles a giant maelstrom of glowing gas, rippled with dark dust that swirls inwards towards the nucleus. Messier 96 is a very asymmetric galaxy; its dust and gas are unevenly spread throughout its weak spiral arms, and its core is not exactly at the galactic center. Its arms are also asymmetrical, thought to have been influenced by the gravitational pull of other galaxies within the same group as Messier 96.
This group, named the M96 Group, also includes the bright galaxies Messier 105 and Messier 95, as well as a number of smaller and fainter galaxies. It is the nearest group containing both bright spirals and a bright elliptical galaxy (Messier 105).
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and the LEGUS Team, Acknowledgement: R. Gendler
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Taken w/ Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D3300. Cropped from a larger wide field image.
275 lights x 90 s @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop.
A quick stack ( 10 X 5 mints ) and pixinsight processed image of M81 and M82 galaxies. Need to take better calibration frames next time.
This is a favorite among astrophotographers, due to the brightness of this galaxy pair, their size and brightness, and their accessibility. For Mid-latitude Northerners, this galaxy is well-placed in the sky for much of the year.
M81 & M82 are members of the M81 galaxy group, which at 11 million light years away, is pretty much next door on a galactic scale. The galaxy to the right is NGC 3077, which is also a member of the same cluster.
I created this image from 23 3-minute exposures, which I processed rather intensively in Images Plus.. the proginal stacked images was very noisy, requiring lot of smoothing techniques.
Messier 58 (M58 or NGC 4579) is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo and is about 68 million light years away from Earth. In the Messier Catalog, this galaxy is the most distant object.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro, Antares Focal Reducer, 63 x 60 second at -10C, 30 darks and 30 flats, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using Sequence Generator Pro and processed using PixInsight. Image date: March 20, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Known as the Large Narcissus Fly or Narcissus Bulb Fly, this hairy bumblebee mimic has many colour forms, allowing it to resemble several species of bumblebee.
It is found from April to September, peaking in late May and June
Messier 45
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
I obtained this image by compacting data collected during technical tests performed exclusively with 135 and 200 mm telephoto lenses.
RA 3h 47m Dec +24° 07′
The Pleiades or Seven Sisters (Messier 45 or M45), is an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky.
The distance to the Pleiades can be used as an important first step to calibrate the cosmic distance ladder.
More recent results using the Gaia satellite (September 2016), determine distances of 134 ±6 pc.
Dust that forms a faint reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster, but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium, through which the stars are currently passing.
The Dumbbell (or Apple Core) Nebula
Planetary nebula Messier 27 - a shell of fluorescing ionised hydrogen (red) and ionised oxygen ( green/blue) surrounds the remnants of a once active star - probably not unlike our own Sun. The white dwarf remnant star can be seen at the centre of the nebula.
The hard UV light from the white dwarf makes the surrounding ionised gases fluoresce in characteristic colours. The clouds of gas were probably shrugged off the star in the final phases of its life.
Deeper images show further shells of gas which are just hinted at here.
Size is 8.0 x 5.6 arcminutes
This is a combination of 2 sessions; one from 2020 with a modified Canon 80d and one from 2021 with a ZWO ASI2600 MC pro CMOS cooled camera. Both sessions were under full Moon.
Interestingly, both cameras have the same pixel size at 3.76 um and both have APS-C size chips.
Canon 80D: 13 x 5 minute subs at ISO 400
ASI2600MC 20 x 3 minute subs at gain 100, offset 50 at 0c.
Equinox ED 900mm f/7.5 scope x0.85 focal reducer.
IDAS P3 LPS 2"filter in focal reducer.
ZWO ASI2600MC Pro; Gain:100, Offset:50 @0c (2021).
SkyWatcher EQ6 pro mount with Rowan belt drives.
Guided by PHD2 via PrimaLuce 240mm f/4 guidescope.
50 flats (EL panel at 1/4 second)
50 darks at 0c
50 bias at 0c and 1/16000s
Polar Alignment:
QHY Polemaster alignment -
Error measured by PHD2= 1.8 arc minute.
RA drift + 2.07 arcsec/min
Dec drift +0.47 arcsec/min
Guiding:
PHD2 guiding with ZWO ASI290mm/PrimaLuce Lab 240/60mm guide scope.
RA RMS error 0.76 arcsec.
Dec RMS error 0.83 arcsec.
Astrometry:
Resolution ............... 0.986 arcsec/px
Focal distance ........... 786.27 mm
Pixel size ............... 3.76 um
Field of view ............ 36' 15.0" x 28' 53.1"
Image center ............. RA: 19 59 35.670 Dec: +22 43 59.87
Messier 33
OTA: Celestron Edge 11 F/2 Hyperstar
Mount: Celestron CGX
Camera: Canon T2i, modified by Hap Griffin, IDAS D1 filter
Guided by: Stellarvue SV60EDS and Starshoot Autoguider, PHD2.6
34 frames of 240 Sec at ISO800
11 frames of 360 Sec at ISO400
Captured with Images Plus Camera Control 6.0
Processed with Images Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6.1
Taken at Draycote Water this evening in the boat yard , hence the unusual colours in the background.
Loved the way he is just covered in seeds :0)
Beginning to get the hang of the 1D
Camera Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Exposure 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture f/6.3
Focal Length 600 mm
ISO Speed 800
Exposure Bias +4/3 EV ( error ,error ,error ,error ,error ,error ,error ,error ,error ,error ,error, always shoot in RAW )
Messier 82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy, is located in the famous Ursa Major constellation - well known as the Big Dipper.
I captured this photo in January 2022 from my garden telescope in England, UK.
This target is relatively small and even with a field of view of 0.68 degrees, it still requires some heavy cropping. Due to my setup having a 9mp camera sensor, I can’t crop all that much - so I’ve really pushed this file to the max.
Constelación en que se encuentra: Cetus
Distancia: 45 millones de años luz (NASA)
De SkySafari Plus: Messier 77 es una galaxia espiral barrada ubicada en la constelación Cetus. La descubrió Pierre Méchain en 1780 y fue incluida por Charles Messier en su catálogo como M77.
El disco es alargado y el núcleo es muy grande y luminoso; tiene líneas oscuras y fragmentos luminosos de los brazos espirales.
M77 se aleja de la vía láctea a unos 1100 km/s, dato conocido al medir el corrimiento hacia el rojo de su espectro (red shift) en 1914. Se sabe que su población de estrellas es joven hacia el centro y de estrellas más viejas, amarillas, hacia las regiones externas.
Es una de las galaxias más grandes del catálogo de Messier, con unos 120.000 años luz de diámetro en la parte brillante y 170.000 años luz al incluir las regiones tenues. Como referencia, según la NASA, la vía láctea tiene unos 100.000 años luz de diámetro.
En el centro de la galaxia existe un agujero negro super masivo de cerca de 10 millones de masas solares y 12 años luz de diámetro. A su alrededor existen regiones de formación de estrellas en una zona de aproximadamente 5 años luz de diámetro.
Es la galaxia Seyfert más cercana a la vía láctea, clase que se caracteriza por tener potentes emisiones de radio.
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 Edge HD
Camera: ZWO ASI071 Pro
Focal ratio: f10
Focuser: MicroTouch Focuser
Exposure: 3hr 30 min in total at unity gain
(42 x 5 min) RGB IDAS filter
Capturing software: NINA
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Guiding: ASI462MC with PHD2 and Stellarvue F60M3
Dithering: Yes
Calibration: 30 flats, 30 darks, 30 flat darks
Processing: PixInsight
Date: 30-nov-2021
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
The Great Orion Nebula shot in 2021 and cropped. Preprocessed in Pixinsight and post processed in Adobe Lightroom. Shot in Arnaia, Greece.
Equipment:
- Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED at f/7.5 and 600mm focal length
- HEQ5 pro GoTo mount
- Canon Rebel t6i (unmod)
No autoguiding was used.
Frames:
- 12 light frames,
- 9 dark frames,
- 15 flat & 15 bias frames.
Exposure time of lights and darks was set to 360 sec and ISO was set to 800.
Galàxia del "Sombrero"
NGC 4594
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)
Leo-Triplett
Equipment:
GSO RC8 + CCDT67 Reducer
1100mm f5,5
Moravian CCD G2-8300FW10
Astrodon LRGB Filter
Losmandy G11 LFE Photo
Guiding:
Starlight Lodestar an Celestron OAG + PHD
Date:
7. April 2013
Taken w/ Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D3300.
25 lights x 90 s @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop
Messier 3 is a globular cluster made up of around half a million stars found in the constellation Canes Venatici. This type of cluster acts like a satellite to its parent galaxy, orbiting above the galactic plane rather than being located in the galaxy's disk like the less dense open clusters. Clusters like this are common, M3 is one of about 150 globular clusters that belong to the Milky Way galaxy, not many compared to the amount that belong to some galaxies, there are over 13,000 globular clusters orbiting the supergiant elliptical galaxy M87 for example. Messier 3 is thought to be around 8 billion years old, but like all globs, how they form exactly is still unknown.
Exposure Details:
126*300sec, f7, ISO 800
Total Exposure: 10.5 hours
Imaged over 2 nights: 20th, 21st April
Scope: Altair Astro 115EDT
Camera: Canon 600Da
Mount: NEQ6