Optics/mount : 12″ACF 2.7m AP-Reduzer Alt-5 Camera/filters: Atik 11002 Astrodon LRGB Exposure: 17×600 Lum, 7×600 RGB all 1bin 29 March 2012 Messier 99 (also known as M99 or NGC 4254) is an unbarred spiral galaxy approximately 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy has a normal […]
Category: Galaxies
Revision of NGC 3718
Optics/mount : 12″ACF 2.7m AP-Reduzer Alt-5Camera/filters: Atik 11002 Astrodon LRGBExposure: 37×600 Lum, 12×600 RGB all 1bin23-24 March 2012 I did some changes with the processing to make the background less noisy Discovered by W. Herschel in April 1789 NGC 3718 is located in the constellation of the big dipper and […]
NGC 4216
Optics/mount : 12″ACF 2.7m AP-Reduzer Alt-5Camera/filters: Atik 11002 Astrodon LRGBExposure: 49×600 Lum, 9×600 RGB all 1bin26 March 2012 NGC 4216 is a metal-rich intermediate spiral galaxy located not far from the center of the Virgo Cluster] of galaxies, roughly 40 million light-years away.
NGC3718
Optics/mount : 12″ACF 2.7m AP-Reduzer Alt-5 Camera/filters: Atik 11002 Astrodon LRGB Exposure: 37×600 Lum, 12×600 RGB all 1bin 23-24 March 2012 Discovered by W. Herschel in April 1789 NGC 3718 is located in the constellation of the big dipper and is to be categorized as a Seyfert galaxy. It holds […]
M 100 Galaxy
Optics/mount : 12″ACF 2.7m AP-Reduzer Alt-5Camera/filters: Atik 11002 Astrodon LRGBExposure: 49×600 Lum, 9×600 RGB all 1bin16 March 2012 Messier 100 (also known as NGC 4321) is an example of a grand design spiral galaxy located within the southern part of constellation Coma Berenices. It is one of the brightest galaxies […]
Hickson 44
Optics/mount : 12″ACF 2.7m AP-Reduzer Alt-5 Camera/filters: Atik 11002 Astrodon LRGB Exposure: 49×600 Lum, 9×600 RGB all 1bin Hickson 44 is a cluster of four gravitationally bound galaxies that lie relatively nearby to our own Milky Way. Each of these galaxies shows signs of interaction, such warped disks or a […]
Black Eye Galaxy
Optics/mount : 12″ACF 2.7m AP-Reduzer Alt-5 Camera/filters: Atik 11002 Astrodon LRGB Exposure: 10×600 Lum, 5×600 RGB all 1bin 02 March 2012 The Black Eye Galaxy (also called Sleeping Beauty Galaxy; designated Messier 64, M64, or NGC 4826) was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and independently by Johann Elert […]
NGC 891
Optics/mount : 12″ACF 2.7m AP-Reduzer Alt-5 Camera/filters: Atik 11002 Astrodon LRGB HA5nm Exposure: 4*12×600 Lum,RGB all 1bin NGC 891 (also known as Caldwell 23) is an edge-on unbarred spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by William Herschel on October 6 1784. The […]
M33 Triangulum Galaxy
Optics/mount: 180 Epsilon f2,8 Takahashi Mount CI700 Clestron Camera/filters:QHY 12 exposure: 20×600 sec The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598, and is sometimes informally referred to as the […]
M51 Whirlpool Galaxy
The Whirlpool Galaxy (also known as Messier 51a, M51a, or NGC 5194) is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy that is estimated to be 23 ± 4 million light-years from the Milky Way Galaxy. in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is one of the most famous galaxies in the sky. The […]