M82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy, is a starburst galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major, approximately 12 million light-years away from Earth. This galaxy reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight around mid-February.
Category: Galaxy
Messier 101, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, is a large face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 21 million light-years from Earth, reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight and is best observed in late April.
Messier 33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Triangulum, approximately 2.73 million light-years from Earth, and reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight mid October.
My 2023 reprocessed version of my 2021 Andromeda Galaxy data. A comparion of both versions is worth a look.
At CS number 16 started something completely new. I shot with a piggyback camera. This evening was a horrortrip, at least i came out with something to show.
The Pinwheel Galaxy – One of the famous Galaxies for Spring evenings. I had to ignore moon to practise more in astrophotography.
Bode’s and Cigar Galaxy, two well known Galaxies on the spring sky. I really like the result for only 30 minutes total exposure.
Some of my early collected light from 2021. Only 1h collected light is just not enough. Reprocessed in 2023. I like the stars much more, the rest is a question of masking and curves.
On the third evening i focused on the Andromeda Galaxy and I used PixInsight the 1st time in postprocessing.
7 Days after my first evening with my Vixen ed80sf, on February the 20th 2021, i had another clear sky. Again, i had to test and try a lot.