Astronomy

[Jimmy Quinn]

Fantastic photo Fuzzy…it looks like you’ve captured an alien😁

[fuzzy]

A few years ago, Mrs Fuzzy and I had a belated honeymoon (30 years after the wedding) and went to Hawaii (Big Island- stayed in Hilo).

Whilst there, we did a sunset visit to the Mauna Kea observatory- several research telescopes atop a 14,000 foot volcano.





One of the telescopes up there is the Subaru Telescope. They have a webcam set up with a 24/7 live feed-

https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/usa/hawaii/maunakea-subaru-telescope-cam.html

Cloudy as fuck at the moment but, I frequently check in during the day here when it is full dark in Hawaii- the sky is amazing and, I reckon on at least one meteor during a 5 minute visit every other session.

[Batch]

That looks awesome fuzzy

[fuzzy]

Yes Batch, it was a brilliant excursion and we finished with a sky tour by the driver pointing out various constellations and targets. The moon was up and bright but the dark sky was still much better than you would normally see from town.

[fuzzy]

Was out till stupid o'clock this morning grabbing data.
Here is a capture of M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy which is busy swallowing up another, smaller galaxy. It is 31 million light years away from us so, god knows how far the devouring process has advanced now.

30 x 60 second frames with darks and flats to remove garbage. Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and tweaked in SIRIL and GIMP.

[4D]

Fantastic 

[Ginginho]

Brilliant stuff

[Pericardinho]

31 million light years... the human brain can't even comprehend such distance. It blows my mind.

For context; the Voyager probes left 47 years ago travelling approx 38,000 MPH

They have not even reached 1 light DAY yet.

It would take approx 18,000 years for it to do 1 light year.

Then it just needs to do that distance another 31 million times and it will be there.

Just the 555 billion years travel time in total.

The universe has only been going for around 14 billion.

And yet you can see this thing on your telescope. How fucking weird is that.

[fuzzy]

I regulalrly get to the stage wher I think my brain is going to

[fuzzy]

M109 barred spiral galaxy in Ursa Major, about 70 million light years away.

Stupid o'clock this morning.

RVO Horizon 72ED, ZWO ASI533MC PRO cooled to 10o below ambient, HEQ5PRO

30 x 120 sec unguided subs. 15x 120 sec darks, 10 x 0.001 sec bias, 30 x 0.1 sec flats using my LED tracing panel and white microfibre cloth method.

Stacked in DSS, Histogram stretch, colour calibration and green noise reduction in SIRIL, levels tweaked in GIMP.

[Legends-Lounge]

Was out till stupid o'clock this morning grabbing data.
Here is a capture of M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy which is busy swallowing up another, smaller galaxy. It is 31 million light years away from us so, god knows how far the devouring process has advanced now.

30 x 60 second frames with darks and flats to remove garbage. Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and tweaked in SIRIL and GIMP.

Brilliant. Patrick Moore would be impressed.

[fuzzy]

Thanks LL!

[fuzzy]

20 minutes of data on Messier 16- the Eagle Nebula.
This is home to the Pillars of Creation, made famous by Hubble and JWST.
The pillars which you may be able to see in the middle of the nebula are around 4 light years long from tip to base.

[Ardiles]

I'm coming to this late.  Simply mind-blowing.  Thanks for sharing.

I'm going to have a trawl through the rest of the thread to find out the kit you're using etc.