Galaxy Thread - Post your images of galaxies

[PhotoNut]

The wonders of the universe. Wonderful images, all.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Caldwell 23 -
NGC 891 (also known as Caldwell 23, the Silver Sliver Galaxy, and the Outer Limits Galaxy) 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.[3] The galaxy is a member of the NGC 1023 group of galaxies in the Local Supercluster. It has an H II nucleus.[4]

The object is visible in small to moderate size telescopes as a faint elongated smear of light with a dust lane visible in larger apertures

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Another image of the Andromeda Galaxy to high Messier 110 in the upper right corner, a companion galaxy in Andromeda. Taken with the Seestar S50

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Another view of Messier 33 the Triangulum Galaxy

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Combined two nights of sub exposures for Messier 33

 

[Darren75]

Another image of the Andromeda Galaxy to high Messier 110 in the upper right corner, a companion galaxy in Andromeda. Taken with the Seestar S50

Another view of Messier 33 the Triangulum Galaxy

Great images, all. Still amazes me you take these from your backyard.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Went out with the S30 and S50 last night. Processed in the Seestars, to try to avoid the color cast a lot of people and shots are getting I tried less contrast and negative saturation before the denoise
I went out to take images of IC1396 the Elephant Trunk Nebula but since it didn't come up until 11:30 pm I started with M31 Andromeda again. I was trying to get M110 in the image but it got cut off

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Last night I put the S30 out and decided to do something I haven't done before. I decided to image M31 for over 8 hours at one session starting in the East and going up over my oak tree in the NE and then down towards the West! I did a 1.4x mosaic to get the entire galaxy in.
I was able to attempt this due to using EQ mode! I started a 8:30 pm and around 1:15 am I caught a little of the top of the tree near the zenith and then down to the west ending a 5:00 am.

Out of the 8 hours of imaging it had 262 minutes 4.3 hours of usable images that were stacked by the Seestar S30. I did 1,572 10 second exposures.

I am really impressed on how well the S30 did with the extremely long imaging run.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Last night I put the S30 out and decided to do something I haven't done before. I decided to image M31 for over 8 hours at one session starting in the East and going up over my oak tree in the NE and then down towards the West! I did a 1.4x mosaic to get the entire galaxy in.
I was able to attempt this due to using EQ mode! I started a 8:30 pm and around 1:15 am I caught a little of the top of the tree near the zenith and then down to the west ending a 5:00 am.

Out of the 8 hours of imaging it had 262 minutes 4.3 hours of usable images that were stacked by the Seestar S30. I did 1,572 10 second exposures.

I am really impressed on how well the S30 did with the extremely long imaging run.

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Geez that's a long time for the S30 to be spinning. And no elongated stars! That really is impressive.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Caldwell 23 the Silver Sliver galaxy

NGC 891 (also known as Caldwell 23, the Silver Sliver Galaxy, and the Outer Limits Galaxy) 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.[3] The galaxy is a member of the NGC 1023 group of galaxies in the Local Supercluster

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

put both scopes out last night, mainly to get C65 or to see if I could get it. It is very low in the south and all the trees except for a few are higher than the galaxy. Did a 2 hour exposure and over 1 hour had trees in the subs and were deleted. But the result was fine. I will be doing more runs of it over the next few months as it will be getting dark earlier.
The biggest problem is trying to figure out where the hole in the tree where I want to start imaging because unless the scope can identify the target it will fail and not image it when using the plan feature. I shot this from 3 am to 5 am so needed it to be in the FOV.

The Sculptor Galaxy (also known as the Silver Coin Galaxy, Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253, or Caldwell 65) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. The Sculptor Galaxy is a starburst galaxy, which means that it is currently undergoing a period of intense star formation.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Two versions of M31 the Andromeda Galaxy taken with the S30 and S50. The S30 is full frame while the S50 is a 2.0x mosaic. The S30 shows more detail in the arms of the galaxy while the S50 shows less but I think that is due to a lot of the exposure time being used to image the outer parts of the galaxy while the S30 spends it entire imaging time doing the entire galaxy. At the same time the S30 seems to show more red in the image, both images were stacked rather than the live view. Taken from my bortle 7.5 sky last night with an almost full moon.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Two versions of M31 the Andromeda Galaxy taken with the S30 and S50. The S30 is full frame while the S50 is a 2.0x mosaic. The S30 shows more detail in the arms of the galaxy while the S50 shows less but I think that is due to a lot of the exposure time being used to image the outer parts of the galaxy while the S30 spends it entire imaging time doing the entire galaxy. At the same time the S30 seems to show more red in the image, both images were stacked rather than the live view. Taken from my bortle 7.5 sky last night with an almost full moon.

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I’d be very happy with either but the first image from the S30 looks better. It seems to have better IQ with richer colours.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

NGC 253 the Sculptor Galaxy taken with the SLOOH Canary Island #1 20" Planewave by myself over the last couple of years. Processed in Pixinsight and Lightroom. It was 8 hours of data.

The Sculptor Galaxy (also known as the Silver Coin Galaxy, Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253, or Caldwell 65) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. The Sculptor Galaxy is a starburst galaxy, which means that it is currently undergoing a period of intense star formation