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During our techie weekend retreat at the westcoast of Denmark, we defenitely needed to get outside, get some fresh air and process our hangovers - so we walk to the beach and followed the sea south until we reached the iconic Lyngvig Lighthouse.

 

The roundtrip was a 7.2 km walk and was very good for my back problems. It also gave me the opportunity to capture this photo

 

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location: Lyngvig Fyr

44/ 365 The Kidnapped

 

A continuation to day 42. This is slowly turning into a small series within the 365. Let's see where this goes.. :)

 

Techie info:

SB800 camera left with snoot and hamper as gobo. :)

 

*hand a little OOF coz i focused on the chair.

 

Gulf Fritillary, Los Angeles County Arboretum. Some techie camera stuff: At the first of 2019, I decided to try a Sony A9 body with my life-long investment in Canon gear. It worked great with all my lenses, and of note here, is I'm actually used to the close-focus 3 feet and change of the 100-400. Moving on, I've picked up the new Sony 200-600. The only con, if you could call it that, was the close-focus distance of 7.87 feet. Shooting bugs and butterflies was likely not going to be very effective I thought. So, needless to say, I'm just tickled with my Fritillary here, shot with my Sony FE 200-600 G OSS lens. With some cropping.

HBM

 

Our car broke down yesterday on our way to a fancy hotel :-(

 

Luckily, Mr Mercedes Specialist Techie bloke fixed it this morning but said we had to go for a long drive to recharge the battery which had conked out when the alternator (is that what it's called?) went ping and died. James drove and drove but wouldn't stop anywhere but we eventually fetched up here and I had to get out because my legs were seizing up and I figured I might not get out of the car ever if we left it much longer.

Referred to as Bode's Nebula, it is however, a spiral galaxy located close to the Big Dipper or Plough asterism in Ursa Major. It has a close companion galaxy M82 the Cigar galaxy, so close together, they are often imaged as a pair.

 

Lying about 12 million light years from Earth and about 90,000 light years across. Binoculars will pick up M81 as a faint fuzzy patch of light under reasonable sky conditions.

First discovered by a German astronomer by the name of Johann Elert Bode in 1774, hence Bode's Nebula. At the time no one had any clue it was a whole other galaxy.

 

Johann Elert Bode is the person responsible for all the butt jokes we astronomers have to endure. He's the person that gave the planet Uranus it's name. After William Herschel discovered Uranus, he originally named it Georgium Sidus (George's star), has it was first thought by Herschel to be a star or comet.

 

Right, now for the usual boring techie bit for those still reading or interested:

Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector

Skywatcher EQ6-R pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup

Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.

Only got six useable 6 minute exposures before the clouds rolled over at the end of the night.

Stacked with calibration frames and all processing done with StarTools.

It was a crowded evening at Mono Lake on this August night, in spite of the clouds and threat of rain. We made the best of it, eeked out a couple of different spots in between the clouds clearing and returning. Thought for sure it was going to be a bust. Techie stuff: two small LED light panels with the warm color filter; it occurred to me the tufa is quite grey/white, so I cooled the foreground down in Lightroom. Learning never ends.

James was already dead, or ‘permanently infrathinned’ as Marcel and he preferred to call it. I mean Duh! Dolly was cloned on the 5th of July in 1996, and James sloughed off this mortal coil in 1941, and anyone keeping with the programme now recognises that we are knee-deep in ‘Infrathin’, or A.I. as the techie bozos like to call it.

 

So here we find ourselves floating in infinity. When, can you tell me, has it ever been any different?

 

I guess, that somehow, I will have to make this clearer. Stating one’s intentions is, perhaps, a good place to start.

 

I suspect that when you find yourself heading rather rapidly towards infinity, it's probably a good exercise to try and describe it, or at least it is something to do that could ease the transition.

Onomatopoeia was stolen from heavily inspired by randompanda_0611's Onomatopoeia. I was also inspired by Adeel Zubair's and HMD BrickCustoms' respective Onomatopoeias as well.

 

Blue Beetle I just threw together, and he came out like that.

 

I had originally set aside the torso here for Agent Carter, but I changed my mind and I thought it suited Amanda Waller well, particularly on seeing it used so awesomely on Andew Cookston's file, aptly entitled Amanda Waller.

This shot is a pano from 5 RAW images shot on my tripod at Northbeach in Wollongong.

 

It’s shot through three Singh-Ray filters.. in order: Ciruclar polarizer (warming), three stop reverse Grad ND, and two stop hard edged Grad ND.

 

Despite all the techie stuff and playing in Photoshop I love the colour and atmosphere of this new day dawning – I hope you do too ;-)

 

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Apple 'Think Different' for Flickr Friday theme 'Fruit', Juneau, Alaska.

And have brought me with them.

We have our own place now. :-)

I have an apt. in a pretty cul de sac complex. Multiple buildings with 4 apts. in each. I have a bottom one which gives me a nice patio outside.

Toward the end of moving day, my upstairs neighbor comes down to intoduce herself with some biscuits she made. A sweet little Hispanic woman who lives with her husband, and whose son also lives in another unit in the complex.

"You need anything ...... ANYTHEENG ..... you call, they come."

So, I'm living with boxes, and minions.

Not much furniture......yet.

I had no dining table or chairs, but the day after the move my friend calls and says there's a sidewalk furniture sale in our town and there's a table, with a leaf, and 6 chairs.

A beatiful set. heavy, solid sandy wood with inlaid satiny sheen tiles. For an insanely absurdly low price.

I bought it, asked if they delivered......yes.

When?

Now, if you want. I did, they did.

And a night stand for the bedroom (Lane.....very simple) for $25.00

So far so good. Really going good.

I'm still at my friend's house till I get the bed set up and locate the sheets and blankets.

Rent includes cable and high speed wi-fi internet.

Which of course didn't work in spite of my brother spending one hour on line with Time Warner.

So, the techie is coming on Tuesday.

I'm sure this is all enormously fascinating to you.

I'm pretty busy, and feel like the white rabbit......no time to say hello, goodbye......so this is a quick hello.

Forgive me if I can't get out to see too many of your well worth seeing photos.

I'll catch up soon as I can.

I thought I would hijack the "aerial" category, but ... ;)

 

This picture is mostly about the new lenght blog post I just finished writing. It is about our third trip in Uyuni (mostly a techie post). Check this out :D

ericpare.com/photographing-the-salt-flats-of-uyuni-light-...

Fireflies. (Zoom in to 100% for the show.)

 

Even for a hardened calculating techie like me, this was one task that ended up enchanting me nearly every step of the way. I had to figure out how to do this with the post-processing software (Affinity Photo handled this in its stride) and the technique (success on 3rd attempt) as I did not find any special recipes with a casual search online. I'm choosing sharpness over visibility for the fireflies (exposure is not too high and no blur/ halo effect used).

 

The color casting for the background is added to help distinguish the critters from night lighting in the vicinity. Bicubic resampling and a high quality for the JPG format export was also necessary to keep the luminescence visibility.

Lowenstark’s Information Files: 01-08-XX

 

Rith Valiant (only recently have I learned her last name) has taken role of a sponsor, essentially, to the League of Engineers. Thusly, she has delivered to us a state of the art establishment unlike any other – cutting edge technology brims from the place, and ultimately it’s run by a central computer core.

 

This computer core, and most of the subsequent technology, was designed by a girl (woman?) named Arson (presumably not her real name.)

 

Arson is a… panda, or something? Hybrid. What she is, is a foul mouthed, bloody brilliant techie… very assured of herself, as any employee of Rith is bound to be, and very thick. Thick as in right. You know what I mean.

 

I’m actually interested to see where this particular odd camaraderie will take me. She’s a tech head, but she considers this bunker something of her baby… but it’s also my home. I’ll make special note to change the locks. And not walk around naked. In fact, I’d better check the shower for cameras.

 

A couch close-up capturing 11mm of colourful cloth.

 

Techie details: Min focus distance on the 1:1 macro lens with added 25mm extension tube, plus a 2x teleconverter. The result is about 3x magnification (at the sensor).

Another lazy afternoon down by the river at Dillon Falls, although this is the first time since we've called Oregon home that I barely made it down the dirt road because of all the snow. But I made it, and had this serene view all to myself.

 

Techie Stuff: shot at f/22 to create the sunburst effect. A Nik Fujifilm filter was used to create the Velvia ISO 400 grain effect.

 

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Hunting juvenile male Kestrel, just about to disappear from view in the long grass.......

 

Techie stuff.....

Nikon d500.....300mm f4 pf.....1.4x tele.....1/1250th sec....f 5.6.....iso 400.

The whirlpool galaxy is actually two galaxies interacting with each other. The quite obvious spiral galaxy that is M51 and the much smaller galaxy catalogued as NGC 5195.

First discovered by Charles Messier in 1773, M51 is located 31 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici.

Data gathered at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/ on the 18/03/2025.

 

Boring Techie bit:

Telescope: Skywatcher Quattro 8"

Mount: EQ6r pro

Camera: ZWO 533mc pro

Filter: Optolong UV/IR.

Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+ using Altair Starwave 50mm & ZWO 120mm mini.

248 light frames 60 seconds each.

Stacked with darks using WBPP in PixInsight.

Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

Taken last night at Edlingham Castle. This fence irritates me as its too close to the castle and the only way to get the best views is to climb over the fence and trespass onto the farmer's land. I know land is valuable, I just wish it was about 20m further back in all directions. Mini rant over.

 

For those who like the techie stuff, this is four landscape photos merged in Elements. It's a funny format now but I decided against cropping further to keep as many stars in as I could.

 

Oh and HFF!!

The Juno Beach Pier at sunrise this morning. Juno Beach, Florida.

 

Techie Stuff: 30-second exposure. I used a magenta digital filter and generously saturdated the image to highlight some of the subtle colors that were naturally present.

 

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A Brown Hare with a bit of BL....and for the non techie I don't mean bacon and lettuce lol, I mean back light :-)

Explore #234, Sept 3, 2008... go figure!...

 

Our dearly departed hard drive left us on August 25, 2008, and the replacement just arrived today, September 3, 2008, after a long Labor Day vacation... our techie's vacation, not ours. I don't begrudge him the vacation but... My Amazon Kindle had to be recharged every night.

 

He was able to save all our data (I think), but we need to reload all our software and get organized again. We're looking forward to getting back to our Flickr routine and checking in with all our dear Flickr friends! See you soon!

 

Rita and John

1st time out with my Askar FRA400 telescope.

Wouldn't quite fit the entire galaxy in to the field of view, so I went for a 2 panel mosaic.

 

M31 lies 2.5 million light years away from us and has two visible dwarf galaxies for companions. They are M32, just above and left of centre and M110, an elliptical galaxy to the bottom centre of the image.

 

Captured at www.astronomycentre.org.uk

 

Boring Techie bit:

Telescope: Askar FRA400

Mount: EQ6r pro

Camera: ZWO 533mc pro

Filter: Optolong L'eNhance.

Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+

 

The 2 panels each consisted of 60 lights frames at 120 seconds exposure each. Plus darks, flats, dark flats & bias calibration frames.

All stacked together in DeepSkyStacker and the resulting 2 images were then stitched together and processed further in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

I love that I can travel light years and stay in my backyard.

This is an emission nebula IC410, also known as the Tadpole Nebula. There is an open cluster in the center of the nebula, NGC 1893. Stellar winds from these young stars sculpts some of the nebula's gas and dust into two tadpoles near the center of the gas cloud.

 

Techie Stuff:

Explore Scientific ED102 Scope, Skywatcher EQ6R-pro Mount, ZWO ASI1600MMPro-Cool, Nightcrawler focus/rotator.

 

Data: 8 hours over 2 nights in January 2019. Average exposure was 5 minutes. Combination of RGB, HA & Oiii (I took Sii but did not see any detail) Edit with PixInsight, Photoshop, OnOne2017

IC410 is an emission nebula in the constellation of Auriga. Often called the Tadpole Nebula in reference to the two tadpole shaped clumps in the upper left of the nebula.

NGC1893 is the open cluster of stars in the middle of IC410. It's these stars that are ionizing and shaping the surrounding nebula. The tadpoles themselves could be collapsing in to new stars.

The nebula is around 12 to 12,500 light years away and 100 light years across.

The open star cluster is believed to have been formed 2 to 4 million years ago.

Captured from my back garden in Rochdale, UK. Bortle 6.

 

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8"S with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Backyard Universe primary mask and Backyard Universe secondary spider. Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.

120s exposures.

Best 80% of 40 light frames.

Darks, Flats, Dark Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

This little spider really is teeny, maybe not as big as my pinky fingernail. It has built a solid home base here between two dried flower stalks in one of my sea lavender plants. The stalks are maybe 7-8 inches (20 cm?) apart, and she (maybe) has it well anchored so it barely shimmers in a breeze. Day 2 of my bugging her with a light squirt of a water spray bottle. Pisses her off I'm sure, sends her into defend/attack mode. I just spent a few minutes with her then let her be. She snuggles up under that housing she's built and guards her sea lavender domain I guess. The plant is covered really well in webs. I'd love to see her with a fresh catch. The yellow background, by the way, is the flowering lantana.

 

A couple of techie notes: I did use a ring light here - a tradeoff - throws more light into her abode, but did seem to wash out the strands of webbing. The other is I used Denoise with mixed feelings; it had some trouble around the spider footsies and web strands. Be sure and check her LARGE.

L-R:

 

William Owen - Medic/Techie.

'Bert' Dunlop - Rusher/Cameraman

Sgt. Maxwell Harrison - Tactics

John Manley - Sniper

Edward "Bones" Cunningham - Veteran Member.

 

Kinda' ODST inspired.

 

Auch, I haz Oreos, U jelly?

Hi folks.

Well the fractal bug has bitten and what I've discovered is that this isn't as easy as you would think. It looks like my first one was beginners luck because I've had to work really hard to get one that matches up to my first let alone betters it.

 

I also think I'm going to need a much, much bigger hard drive cos' these things eat memory!!! And on the same note if I don't cut down my computer time at home I'm going to be in big trouble with my better half.

 

Anyway hope you like it and for those who have an interest in the techie bits this was done on Tierazon software - cos' it's free and I'm a beginner.:-)

 

Cluke

[Reposting one of my favorite textured shots, for contacts who haven't seen it yet.]

 

The Pavillon de Flore is the only remaining part of the former Tuileries Palace that used to extend all along the east border of the Jardin des Tuileries. It's now part of the Louvre, where studios for renovation of paintings and sculpture are housed. The actual historic Palais des Tuileries was destroyed by the Communards during the Paris Commune, in 1871. I took this picture from the Promenade du Bord de L'eau (waterfront promenade) on a cold winter evening at the last light of day. Paris was beginning to turn on its lights, as you can see in the picture. [History of the Palais des Tuileries and the Louvre below in my comments.]

 

TECHIE TEXTURE NOTES: This is one of those shots from my archives, taken with my Fuji Finepix on my first trip to Paris 5 years ago that just didn't speak to me the way the camera recorded it. Too blue (typical of the way Fuji Finepix S7000 records colors in my experience), too flat, no spark somehow, and didn't relay the atmosphere that was there. So I decided to try adding textures!!

 

Adding textures in a very delicate way has brought out the rich tones of the architecture. I used a rosy but very soft texture from LaBrume and a texture with warm yellow and ochre tones that had a golden glow in the center from Borealnz. 1. Made adjustments to each texture first, altering the rosy to more magenta in Color Balance, then by using the blending mode Multiply. 2. Lightened the Borealnz texture by using the blending mode Overlay. 3. Adjusted my own photo which was the background layer after adding the textures to it, with Curves to add depth, and additional Color Balancing after i saw how the photo interacted with the textured layers.

 

Thanks to both Borealnz and LaBrume for their textures!

The area south of Market street in San Francisco is undergoing a Renaissance of sorts. The older buildings remain, but they are rapidly being populated by techie software firms that remodel the innards but keep the outer look the same. You can tell by the newer windows that this is the case here. They almost look out of place next to the Gallo Salame ghost sign.

 

Louis Gabiati brought his salame making skills from Italy to SF in 1910. The salame is no longer made at this site, but it's still a West Coast thing. Grab a package on your next trip to the market. Your heart will thank you for it.

  

San Francisco CA

I study nuclear science

I love my classes

I got a crazy teacher

He wears dark glasses

Things are going great, and they're only getting better

I'm doing alright, getting good grades

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

I've got a job waiting for my graduation

Fifty thou a year'll buy a lot of beer

Things are going great, and they're only getting better

I'm doing alright, getting good grades

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

Well I'm heavenly blessed and worldly wise

I'm a peeping-tom techie with x-ray eyes

Things are going great, and they're only getting better

I'm doing alright, getting good grades

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

 

Timbuk3.

My favorite ride of the trip was where we rode above Lake Atitlan and ended with an urban downhill in the town you can see below. Colleen about to drop in a little techie descent.

A re-process of some data gathered in August 2024.

Having improved a little with PixInsight, I feel I've improved a little on my older version of this.

 

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.

180s exposures.

Best 90% of 44 light frames.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo

Shot using three extension tubes on my macro lens ;-)

 

When I shoot macros I am in the habit of always shooting 3 or 4 shots of each "frame" at different fstops: f2.8, f4, f7.1, f10 often I opt for the larger f number but in this case I have merged two together, the f2.8 and the f7.1 to give slightly more detail than a normal f2.8. This is all techie stuff and normally I don't talk about it so I will shut up and let you enjoy the photo ;-)))

 

HBW all. :-)

 

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Explore #95

 

It has one or two other names that we won't mention here.

Roughly about 6,000 light years from us, it can be found in the constellation of Cassiopeia.

A huge star forming region, basically a stellar nursery, where new stars are forming. Some barely a few million years old. Their winds and radiation blasting away at the gas and dust clouds that formed them, creating the shapes and structures that you see in the image. Also causing other regions of the cloud to condense and compact allowing other stars to begin forming.

 

Boring Techie bit:

Telescope: Askar FRA400

Mount: EQ6r pro

Camera: ZWO 533mc pro

Filter: Optolong L'eNhance.

Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+

Best 55 light frames, 180 seconds each.

Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats and processed using PixInsight, Graxpert, StarNet2 & Affinity Photo.

We took a delightful little cruise around Else Cove - the Nature collective. you will love the prettiness here.

 

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Else/2/2/0

  

First discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714. It was 50 years later when Charles Messier added the cluster to his list of objects that he was not interested in, giving it the designation M13.

 

The cluster is 25,000 light years away from us and can be found in the Constellation Hercules. Giving it it's more prestigious title of 'The Great Cluster in Hercules'.

 

M13 is one of the brightest globular clusters visible to us, especially from the Northern hemisphere. Containing over 100,000 stars it is quite easy to detect with a modest pair of binoculars and a dark sky.

Leave a comment below if you find it with some binoculars.

  

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.

I study nuclear science

I love my classes

I got a crazy teacher

He wears dark glasses

Things are going great, and they're only getting better

I'm doing alright, getting good grades

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

I've got a job waiting for my graduation

Fifty thou a year'll buy a lot of beer

Things are going great, and they're only getting better

I'm doing alright, getting good grades

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

Well I'm heavenly blessed and worldly wise

I'm a peeping-tom techie with x-ray eyes

Things are going great, and they're only getting better

I'm doing alright, getting good grades

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

 

Timbuk3.

civic center plaza - san francisco, california

For years I resisted my son's pleas to get a computer. "I don't want all that technology in my life" I kept saying. Today I remember those words. Am driven mad with frustration trying to figure out how the vista 64bit system works on this new quad core ( whatever that means! ) computer. Absolutely nothing is familiar. Have stepped into an alien world & my techno-challenged brain is being severely tested. It was suggested I convert back to XP but the techie at the store (who looked to be about 17 !!) said "Bad advice. You don't want to do that. Soon XP will be obsolete & there will be no support systems available" Thanks a lot, Vista. As confucius says " Life is simple... but "you" insist on making it complicated" :)

Image : kathy adams of empowerment international is in the Toronto area, presenting a photo exhibit with jonathan hung. I went to the opening yesterday. Seeing Kathy again drove me back to my Nicaragua files...to find something simple !! This young boy was playing under the pier of Lake Nicaragua, on the shores of which the city of Granada sits.

 

explore #1.......many thanks to all....your incredible response is what took it there.

 

Thanks so much, everyone, for your very generous compliments on my last post :)

And for your support & advice here. All will be well. One day at a time. I'll get there..

Also known has the Cocoon Nebula. Lying close to the constellation Cygnus the cocoon nebula is about 15 light years across and roughly 3,300 light years from us.

Inside this nebulous cloud is a group of young stars blasting out so much radiation that they create this wonderful floral looking emission nebula.

 

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.

180s exposures.

Best 90% of 44 light frames.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

This video is literally me just having a bit of fun flirting with the camera which I filmed in slow motion on my phone, a wee experiment! I was so delighted to be dressed as a woman once more I simply could not resist having a bit of fun as I felt truly delighted and was loving it being Helene again.

 

Techie note: The video quality is not great on the phone when using slow motion capture and due to the ambient lighting being so low the image quality is quite degraded. It was though all about enjoying myself so this took priority.

Captured at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/ 02/01/2025.

Located over 2,500 light years away in the constellation of Cepheus new stars are being born in this stellar nursery.

 

Boring Techie bit:

Telescope: Askar FRA400 with .7 reducer

Mount: EQ6r pro

Camera: ZWO 533mc pro

Filter: Optolong L'eNhance.

Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+

Best 85% of 61 light frames 180 seconds each.

Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats & bias with DSS.

Processed using Graxpert, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

The little pinwheel galaxy in Ursa Major. A face on unbarred spiral galaxy some 40 million light years away.

First discovered on the 18th of March 1787 by William Herschel. It's 2 main spiral arms are predominantly blue, which suggests mostly young hot stars inhabit them.

Many fainter more distant galaxies can be spotted in the background.

All data gathered at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/

 

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 60mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong UV/IR 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.

180s exposures.

21 light frames.

Darks, Flats, Dark Flats.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in Graxpert, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

 

The group shot of all the cake plowers...

Me, Trevor, Alli, Lisa, Courtney,Mr. Fab,Ted Murphy, VCDan, Techie, Michael.

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