Galaxy Thread - Post your images of galaxies

[Jeff WX1USN]

Did M31 Andromeda again last night with the S30, 8 hours of exposures 5 hours stacked and used.
I just enjoy imaging Andromeda as it is so spectacular

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Did M31 Andromeda again last night with the S30, 8 hours of exposures 5 hours stacked and used.
I just enjoy imaging Andromeda as it is so spectacular

View attachment 60772

It sure is spectacular.

By the way, Jeff. Did you see this: https://focus-on-photography.net/resources/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2025-winners.56/

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

It sure is spectacular.

By the way, Jeff. Did you see this: https://focus-on-photography.net/resources/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2025-winners.56/

very interesting choices in the ZWO contest

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

very interesting choices in the ZWO contest

I noticed it said ZWO contest, from the Seestars. How so interesting choices?

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Caldwell 7 taken with my Seestar S50 in Bortle 7/8 skies

wiki:
NGC 2403 (also known as Caldwell 7) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. It is an outlying member of the M81 Group,[3] and is approximately 8 million light-years distant.
Observation history
The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 1 November 1788.[4] Edwin Hubble detected Cepheid variables in NGC 2403 using the Hale Telescope, making it the first galaxy beyond the Local Group within which a Cepheid was discovered.[3] By 1963, 59 variables had been found in NGC 2403, of which 17 were eventually confirmed as Cepheids, with periods between 20 and 87 days. As late as 1950 Hubble was using a distance of just under 2 million light years for the galaxy's distance, but by 1968 the analysis of the Cepheids increased this by almost a factor of five, to within 0.2 magnitudes of the current value

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

another version of Caldwell 7

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Caldwell 5 The Hidden Galaxy

IC 342 (also known as Caldwell 5) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis, located relatively close to the Milky Way. Despite its size and actual brightness, its location behind dusty areas near the galactic equator makes it difficult to observe, leading to the nickname "The Hidden Galaxy",[4][1] though it can readily be detected even with binoculars.[5] If the galaxy were not obscured, it would be visible by naked eye[citation needed]. The dust makes it difficult to determine its precise distance; modern estimates range from about 7 million light-years (Mly)[6] to about 11 Mly.[2] The galaxy was discovered by William Frederick Denning in 1892.[7] It is one of the brightest in the IC 342/Maffei Group, one of the closest galaxy groups to the Local Group. Edwin Hubble first thought it to be in the Local Group, but it was later determined not to be a member