Galaxy Thread - Post your images of galaxies

[Levina de Ruijter]

@Jeff WX1USN

Terrific images, Jeff!

 

[JohnPD]

NGC 2442 the Meathook Galaxy
Taken with the Slooh 20" telescope at the Slooh remote Australian Observatory by myself using remote imaging.

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Messier 100 Sprial galaxy
Taken with the Slooh 20" telescope at the Slooh remote Australian Observatory by myself using remote imaging.

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Outstanding. It's amazing how much you are able to capture.
And is that another galaxy, at the bottom there?

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Outstanding. It's amazing how much you are able to capture.
And is that another galaxy, at the bottom there?

It is NGC 4312, doesn't have a name just a number.

M100 is also known as the Mirror Galaxy or Blow dryer galaxy, often the names make you wonder what the person who named them was smoking...

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

another shot of M33 the Triangulum Galaxy Seestar S50 my backyard

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

From the Wiki "Messier 100 (also known as NGC 4321 or the Mirror Galaxy) is a grand design intermediate spiral galaxy in the southern part of the mildly northern Coma Berenices.[5] It is one of the brightest and largest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster and is approximately 55 million light-years[3] from our galaxy, about 166,000 light-years in diameter. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781[a] and 29 days later seen again and entered by Charles Messier in his catalogue "of nebulae and star clusters".[6][7] It was one of the first spiral galaxies to be discovered,[7] and was listed as one of fourteen spiral nebulae by Lord William Parsons of Rosse in 1850. NGC 4323 and NGC 4328 are satellite galaxies of M100; the former is connected with it by a bridge of luminous matter"

 

[JohnPD]

From the Wiki "Messier 100 (also known as NGC 4321 or the Mirror Galaxy) is a grand design intermediate spiral galaxy in the southern part of the mildly northern Coma Berenices.[5] It is one of the brightest and largest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster and is approximately 55 million light-years[3] from our galaxy, about 166,000 light-years in diameter. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781[a] and 29 days later seen again and entered by Charles Messier in his catalogue "of nebulae and star clusters".[6][7] It was one of the first spiral galaxies to be discovered,[7] and was listed as one of fourteen spiral nebulae by Lord William Parsons of Rosse in 1850. NGC 4323 and NGC 4328 are satellite galaxies of M100; the former is connected with it by a bridge of luminous matter"

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Amazing image, Jeff. And thanks for the info. 166,000 lightyears in diameter. How does that compare to our own galaxy?

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Amazing image, Jeff. And thanks for the info. 166,000 lightyears in diameter. How does that compare to our own galaxy?

The milky way, our galaxy, is about 100,000 lightyears in diameter

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Taken with the 17" scope at the Slooh Observatory in Chile. after I took it I processed it in Pixinsight and Lightroom

info from the WIKI
Messier 83 or M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy and NGC 5236, is a barred spiral galaxy[7] approximately 15 million light-years away in the constellation borders of Hydra and Centaurus. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille discovered M83 on 17 February 1752 at the Cape of Good Hope.[8] Charles Messier added it to his catalogue of nebulous objects (now known as the Messier Catalogue) in March 1781.[8]

It is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies in the sky, and is visible with binoculars.[9] It has an isophotal diameter at about 36.24 kiloparsecs (118,000 light-years). Its nickname of the Southern[a] Pinwheel derives from its resemblance to the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101).

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Caldwell 83 taken with the 14" Celestron telescope at the Slooh Chile Observatory, processed in Pixinsight and Lightroom

NGC 4945 (also known as Caldwell 83) is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus, visible near the star Xi Centauri.[3] The galaxy was discovered by James Dunlop in 1826 and is thought to be similar to the Milky Way Galaxy, although X-ray observations show that NGC 4945 has an unusual energetic Seyfert 2 nucleus that might house a supermassive black hole.[4] Around the nucleus of the galaxy, there is a dense disk of dust and gas, along with many dense star clusters

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Messier 61 taken with the Slooh 14" SCT in Chile

Messier 61 (also known as M61, NGC 4303, or the Swelling Spiral Galaxy) is an intermediate barred spiral galaxy in the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. It was first discovered by Barnaba Oriani on May 5, 1779, six days before Charles Messier discovered the same galaxy. Messier had observed it on the same night as Oriani but had mistaken it for a comet.[5] Its distance has been estimated to be 45.61 million light years from the Milky Way Galaxy. It is a member of the M61 Group of galaxies, which is a member of the Virgo II Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out from the southern edge of the Virgo Supercluster

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

It is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies in the sky, and is visible with binoculars.[9] It has an isophotal diameter at about 36.24 kiloparsecs (118,000 light-years). Its nickname of the Southern[a] Pinwheel derives from its resemblance to the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101).

In which direction would I have to point my binoculars to see it, Jeff?

 

[RichardB]

barred spiral galaxy

I never realised that galaxy are barred. (I actually had to look up what "barred" meant in this context.)

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

In which direction would I have to point my binoculars to see it, Jeff?

That all depends on the time of night and season of the year! I recommend downloading the free software call Stellarium! I used it for what is in the sky tonight from my home in New England at the same time I have set up quick links for the Canary Islands, Chile and Australia the 3 observatories I belong to with SLOOH. It will allow you to search on any object or even just browse around. Messier's Caldwell's and the entire NGC catalog of thousands of objects!

https://stellarium.org/

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

That all depends on the time of night and season of the year! I recommend downloading the free software call Stellarium! I used it for what is in the sky tonight from my home in New England at the same time I have set up quick links for the Canary Islands, Chile and Australia the 3 observatories I belong to with SLOOH. It will allow you to search on any object or even just browse around. Messier's Caldwell's and the entire NGC catalog of thousands of objects!

https://stellarium.org/

I know. I have it! And I still can't find things because I can't estimate the distances. In Stellarium something is like halfway up between north and north-east, but how far is that from where I am standing, how far up? How far to the right? I'm hopeless! But I will try again.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

I know. I have it! And I still can't find things because I can't estimate the distances. In Stellarium something is like halfway up between north and north-east, but how far is that from where I am standing, how far up? How far to the right? I'm hopeless! But I will try again.

They have apps for the phones that you hold up and it shows the stars etc that you are pointing at such as Stellarium for iphone/android, Skyview free, SkySafari etc they actually work

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Messier 106

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

They have apps for the phones that you hold up and it shows the stars etc that you are pointing at such as Stellarium for iphone/android, Skyview free, SkySafari etc they actually work

I just purchased Skyview. It was just 2.99. I had no idea apps like that existed. Thanks for the heads up!

Messier 106

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Another great image, Jeff.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

I just purchased Skyview. It was just 2.99. I had no idea apps like that existed. Thanks for the heads up!


Another great image, Jeff.

Glad to help!

The galaxy was taken with the S50, so easy to use!

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Set up a plan on both my S30 and S50 as it was to be clear until 1 am. The clouds moved in at 11 so I only got 2 objects on S50 and 1 on the S30. I did find that if a S30 (and probably the S50) cannot see the object at the beginning of the imaging session, in my case the first object was behind a tree so no stars it highlighted it in the plan in red and waited for the next target, which it then captured. So it doesn't totally shut down but having many trees I have to make sure the target is out from behind them when I give the plan a start time.
Here is C32 the Whale and C7 galaxy with the S50 and the Leo Triplet with the S30

 

[JohnPD]

Here is C32 the Whale and C7 galaxy with the S50 and the Leo Triplet with the S30

Amazing images. And three galaxies in one frame? Wow.