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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
my messy bedroom desk i love clutter wouldnt have it any other way :D
please dont take this without my permission xo
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 )
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
Messier 78 or NGC 2068, is a reflection nebula situated in the constellation of Orion and lies around 1.350 light years distant. Imaged over 3 nights.
NEQ6
Vixen R200SS with dedicated PH Reducer/corrector to give f/3.8
QHY294C Gain 1600 for STC multispectra filter Gain 2900 for Optolong L-eNhance filter
52 x 300sec subs STC multispectra
13 x 600sec Optolong L-eNhance
Processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop.
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.
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
Messier 33
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
(J2000) RA: 01h 33m 50.02s Dec: +30° 39′ 36.7″
Messier 33 is a 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.
From And450 survey
M-O (Microbe Obliterator) joins WALL-E in a recreation of their encounter on the Axiom ship.
Work still in progress. I know M-O is a little big in relation to WALL-E. Something I need to address in the future.
Messier 96 (also known as M96 or NGC 3368) is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 31 million light-years away in the constellation Leo.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro, Antares Focal Reducer, 108 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).
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messy peace
there are dishes in the sink.
the floor needs a vacuum.
there are people you need to talk to.
you were late taking your meds
and the weather is not perfect.
but your spirit is calm.
your world is ok.
your cat is awesome.
you have plenty of wine left
and most of your bills are paid.
peace does not have to be perfect.
for now, it just has to be... peace.
learn to be ok with that
and you will make it to another day.
Taken at Cannon hall, near the village of Cawthorne.
Took a few photos of the smaller waterfall a few weeks back, decided to capture a few shots of this slightly bigger one.
Messier 83 or the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, is a barred spiral galaxy about 15 million light-years away in the constellation borders of Hydra and Centaurus. It was discovered by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in 1752.
This little guy was busy eating kelp with his mom near Hudson Bay in Wapusk National Park, Canada. He was so fun to watch...and I love that messy kelp face!
The Triangulum Galaxy, Messier 33 or NGC 598, is a spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years distant and located in the constellation of Triangulum. It is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye. This was one I wasn't going to post because it had the biggest donut which stuck out a mile but it was a heck of a lot of data to dump. Hopefully I have picked up a way of removing donuts in Pixinsight. Imaged over 2 nights the 7th and 21st September 2019.
EQ6-R-PRO
190mm MN DS-PRO
QHY183M Gain11 Offset76 -20C
Baader 2" LRGB filter set
Luminance: 90 x 180sec subs
RGB: 12 x 240sec subs each channel
Total acquisition time 6hrs54mins
Processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop.
Messier 46
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
Messier 46 (M46) or NGC 2437, is an open cluster of stars in Puppis constellation at about 5,000 light-years.
The planetary nebula NGC 2438 appears on its northern edge, but it is unrelated with the cluster.
Open star cluster Messier 35 in the constellation of Gemeni. The smaller and tight cluster NGC 2158 lies approximately 9000 light years away from M35. With their color contrast, the two clusters make a nice pair.
Taken on March 4th 2022 in rural Upper Austria with a QHY600C-PH and a Skywatcher Espirt 100 at 550mm focal length. Stack of 45 exposures of 2 minutes each.
Tracking with Skywatcher EQ6-R, autoguiding with MGEN-3. Processed with Astro Pixel Processor and Photoshop.
Very different from the ones I usually see from M78.
This image contains Hydrogen Halpha, in the molecular field of Orion. M78 is a reflection nebula and therefore no broadband signal appears. So I wanted to show both parts. Halpha and LRGB
It has been a very hard process and a total of 17h of integration
Equipment:
Takahashi FSQ106 f5
Atik 460EXm
Paramount ME
Software:
SGPro4, TheSkyX, Pixnsight, Photoshop
Image Details:
L: 20x600
RGB: 40x300 each channel
Ha: 15x900
Total exposure time: 17h
January and February 21 from Àger. Catalonia, Spain.
Not sure what this Caterpillar will turn into. Seems to like to eat the stamen in my flowers.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT (E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
Messier 5
Taken April 11 - 16, 2021 near Seattle, Washington
Telescope: TEC 180FL @ f/5 using Astro-Physics Quad-TCC
Camera: QHY600
Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach2GTO
Capture Software: Sequence Generator Pro
Exposure:
Red:1.5 hours (30 x 3 min, bin 1x1)
Green: 1 hour (20 x 3 min, bin 1x1)
Blue: 1.5 hours (30 x 3 min, bin 1x1)
Lum: 2 hours 24 minutes (72 x 2 min, bin 1x1)
Total Integration Time: 6 hours 24 minutes
Processed in PixInsight 1.8
This huge ball of stars — around 100 billion in total — is an elliptical galaxy located some 55 million light-years away from us. Known as Messier 89, this galaxy appears to be perfectly spherical; this is unusual for elliptical galaxies, which tend to be elongated ellipsoids. The apparently spherical nature of Messier 89 could, however, be a trick of perspective, and be caused by its orientation relative to the Earth.
Messier 89 is slightly smaller than the Milky Way, but has a few interesting features that stretch far out into the surrounding space. One structure of gas and dust extends up to 150 000 light-years out from the galaxy’s centre, which is known to house a supermassive black hole. Jets of heated particles reach out to 100 000 light-years from the galaxy, suggesting that Messier 89 may have once been far more active — perhaps an active quasar or radio galaxy — than it is now. It is also surrounded by an extensive system of shells and plumes, which may have been caused by past mergers with smaller galaxies — and implies that Messier 89 as we know it may have formed in the relatively recent past.
Messier 89 was discovered by astronomer Charles Messier in 1781, when Messier had been cataloguing astronomical objects for 23 years — ever since he mistook a faint object in the sky for Halley’s Comet. Upon closer inspection, he realised the object was actually the Crab Nebula. To prevent other astronomers from making the same error, he decided to catalogue all the bright, deep-sky objects that could potentially be mistaken for comets. His methodical observations of the night sky led to the first comprehensive catalogue of astronomical objects: the Messier catalogue! Messier 89 holds the record for being the last ever giant elliptical to be found by Messier, and the most perfectly spherical galaxy in the entire catalogue of 110 objects.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Faber et al.; CC BY 4.0
Messier 82
at distance of 12 Mio. Lj
Equipment:
TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton
1000mm f4
GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector
ZWO ASI585mc
Skywatcher EQ8
Guding:
Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider
PHD2
960x30s
total exposure time: 8 hours
Processing: PixInsight
From Messier 16 to Messier 17
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
Mosaic from images taken with Tair 3-S + Canon EOS 4000D array + DIY Custom 110mm f/2.2 Canon astrograph
Constelación en que se encuentra: Orion
Distancia: 1600 de años luz
De SkySafari:
Messier 78 (M78) es una nebulosa de reflexión descubierta en 1780, ubicada muy cerca del cinturón de Orión, en la constelación del mismo nombre. Está iluminada por dos estrellas vecinas que hacen que sea visible la nube de polvo.
Cerca de M78 se conocen unas 45 estrellas similares a nuestro sol, aún en proceso de formación, unas 4 a 5 veces más brillantes de lo esperado.
En el espectro infrarojo se han encontrado 192 estrellas jóvenes que se han formado en esta nebulosa.
Datos de la imagen:
Exposure: 21hr 12min LRGB (168 x 3min Luminance, 87 x 3 min Red, 85 x 3 min Green, 84 x 3 min Blue)
Telescope: #Celestron #EdgeHD #C925
Camera: #PlayerOne #Poseidon-M
Focal ratio: f10
Focal length: 2350 mm
Capturing software: NINA
Filter: #Optolong L, Optolong R, Optolong G, Optolong B
Mount: #iOptron #CEM60
Guiding: PlayerOne #Xena with PlayerOne #OAG Max and #PHD2
Dithering: Yes
Calibration: 30 darks, 30 flat darks, 50 flats
Processing: #PixInsight
Date: 24-nov-2024
Location: #Bogotá, #Colombia
This certainly was a busy bee flitting from flower to flower but then he had most of them to himself as bees are only just starting to reappear and out in the bush this was the only one I saw, fortunately for me I was actually walking past these yellow flowers when he landed. I do like the pollen looking like gold on its wings.
This shot was cropped.
Do view large:
M102, NGC 5866, The Spindle Galaxy... There seems to be some debate on the Messier designation, if this was the intended find or something else close by. Regardless, the edge on view and dark compact dust lane make for a distinct shape.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Celestron Edge 8
Imaging Cameras
QHYCCD 163C
Mounts
Vixen Great Polaris/DX
Accessories
Celestron Focus Motor for SCT · OnStep GoTo Controller · Celestron 0.7x Focal Reducer for EdgeHD 8
Software
PHD2 Guiding · Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Svbony 60mm guidescope
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI120MM
Acquisition details
Dates:
April 5, 2022
Frames:
136x120" (4h 32')
Integration:
4h 32'
Avg. Moon age:
4.01 days
Avg. Moon phase:
17.13%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 5657510
RA center: 15h06m27s.6
DEC center: +55°48′25″
Pixel scale: 0.515 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 183.573 degrees
Field radius: 0.407 degrees
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Resolution: 3443x4521
Data source: Backyard
Messier 7 imaged from a Bortle 6 suburban backyard
One and a half hours of integration- 5 minute subs
Gain 111 offset 5
Equipment:
Redcat51/ZWO ASI 183MC/Optolong L pro/EQ6
Software
NINA/AstroPixel Processor/ Photoshop CS6/NoiseXterminator
Watergate beach, Newquay, Cornwall
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There are at least 150 of these ball of stars orbiting our Milky Way. Messier 3 is in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Meade Starfinder 8
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI1600 cooled mono
Mounts
Losmandy GM-8
Filters
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter · Blue · Green · Red
Accessories
Baader MPCC coma corrector · OnStep GoTo Controller · Rigel Systems Focuser
Software
PHD2 Guiding · Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Svbony 60mm guidescope
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI120MM
Acquisition details
Dates:
March 9, 2022
Frames:
Blue: 30x120" (1h) bin 2x2
Green: 30x120" (1h) bin 2x2
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter: 76x120" (2h 32') f/6 -10°C bin 2x2
Red: 30x120" (1h) bin 2x2
Integration:
5h 32'
Darks:
100
Bias:
100
Avg. Moon age:
6.54 days
Avg. Moon phase:
41.08%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 5580070
RA center: 13h42m03s.8
DEC center: +28°22′44″
Pixel scale: 0.642 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 268.114 degrees
Field radius: 0.506 degrees
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Resolution: 3419x4540
Data source: Backyard