Astrologie und Astronomie

I captured about an hour of data on the supernova in messier 101 last night, circledin red in pic 1. So cool to witness with my own eyes and equipment! A new supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy, aka M101, is the closest to Earth in a decade. Amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki discovered it on May 19, 2023. The supernova should continue to brighten for a few days. It should remain visible to amateur astronomers with backyard telescopes for a few months. The supernova – named 2023ixf – lies in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major, near the end of the handle of the Big Dipper. 120s x 28 for just about an hour of data. 15 darks/50 Flats Awb Onesky 130mm reflector Svbony sv165 guide scope Zwoasi120mcs guide camera Zwoasi294mc Zwo UV IR Cut Filter 1.25 inch Skywatcher HEQ5I Mount SharpCap PHD2 guding with Dithering Dss Siril Topaz Denoise Lightroom mobile

The Iris Nebula (also known as NGC 7023 and Caldwell 4) is a bright reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. The designation NGC 7023 refers to the open cluster within the larger reflection nebula designated LBN 487. About 1.5 hours of data. 20 darks/50 Flats Awb Onesky 130mm reflector Svbony sv165 guide scope Zwoasi120mcs guide camera Zwoasi294mc Zwo UV IR Cut Filter 1.25 inch Skywatcher HEQ5I Mount SharpCap PHD2 guding with Dithering Dss Siril Topaz Denoise Lightroom mobile

The Lagoon Nebula

Added 2 more hours of data on this target.

Ngc3718 spiral galaxy 120s x 87 for just about 3 hours of data. 20 darks/50 Flats Awb Onesky 130mm reflector Svbony sv165 guide scope Zwoasi120mcs guide camera Zwoasi294mc Zwo UV IR Cut Filter 1.25 inch Skywatcher HEQ5I Mount SharpCap PHD2 guding with Dithering Dss Siril Topaz Denoise Lightroom mobile

Messier 104 (M104), also known as the Sombrero Galaxy, is a majestic unbarred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy has an apparent magnitude of 8.98 and lies at a distance of 29.3 million light years from Earth. It has the designation NGC 4594 in the New General Catalogue. The Sombrero Galaxy occupies an area 8.7 by 3.5 arc minutes in apparent size, corresponding to a linear diameter of about 50,000 light years. The galaxy is inclined at an angle of only 7 degrees to our line of sight and appears edge-on. It is visible in binoculars and small telescopes, but only appears as a small patch of light. 4-inch telescopes may hint at the galaxy’s dark dust lane under exceptionally good conditions, but the dust lane usually requires a 10-inch or 12-inch telescope. The galaxy’s bulge and disk are visible in 8-inch and larger telescopes.

NGC 6820 (also known as Sh 2-86) is an emission nebula that surrounds the open cluster NGC 6823, located some 6,000 light-years away from Earth in the faint northern constellation of Vulpecula (the Fox), near the Dumbbell Nebula (Messier 27) The most striking feature is the trunk-like pillar of dust and gas protruding from the east side of the nebula towards the open cluster, NGC 6823 in the west. The center of the open cluster, which is about 50 light-years across, is about two million years old and is dominated in brightness by many young, bright blue stars, packed in a Trapezium-formed region of about 1.3 x 0.7 light-years across. Outer parts of the cluster, involving pillars of the emission nebula, contain even younger stars.

Last night I slewed to a galaxy that's 13.28 billion years old! The Sunflower Galaxy, also known as Messier 63 or M63 and designated as NGC 5055 in the New General Catalog, is a spiral galaxy located in the northern constellation Canes Venatici. It lies roughly 37 million light years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 9.3. 43 x 120s for 1.4 hours of integration in sharpcap Svbony 80ed Svbony. 8x field flattener/reducer Svbony sv165 guide scope Zwoasi120mcs guide camera Zwoasi294mc Optolong 2 inch L-Ultimate Filter Svbony sv172 Dew heater strip Skywatcher HEQ5I Mount

Last night I pointed the scope to the Southeastern sky in Sagittarius, and collected just over 2 hours of data on M24, the small Sagittarius cloud. Messier 24 (M24), also known as the Sagittarius Star Cloud, is a large Milky Way star cloud in Sagittarius constellation. The Sagittarius Star Cloud lies at an approximate distance of 10,000 light years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 4.6. It has the designation IC 4715 in the Index Catalog of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars. Messier 24 is about 600 light years wide and lies in the Sagittarius Arm of our galaxy, the next inner spiral arm to our own. 300s x 32 frames for just over 2.5 hours of integration. Svbony 80ed Svbony. 8x field flattener/reducer Svbony sv165 guide scope Zwoasi120mcs guide camera Zwoasi294mc Optolong 2 inch L-Ultimate Filter Svbony sv172 Dew heater strip Skywatcher HEQ5I Mount

I added 2.5 more hours to my Gamma Cygni project. This us 5 hours total integration.

Always something new to learn. Today I learned that I basically wasted a session 2 nights ago by imaging IC1318 in rgb with the OptolongL-Pro. Last night I recorded 2.5 hours of IC1318 in narrowband using the L-Ultimate instead. Unfortunately, since I slightly rotated the camera swapping filters, I could not stack both narrow and broadband data without cropping away the field rotation (pic 3). Otherwise, I'm totally happy with what I gathered in narrowband. Things really work well the better the seeing conditions. I had great guiding. 👍🏽 300s x 32 frames for just over 2.5 hours of integration.

IC 1318 is often known as the Gamma Cygni Nebula and can be seen around the star Sadr, although the nebula and the star are unassociated and Sadr is not the cause of the emission nebula's glow. 300s x 15 for just over an hour of integration. Svbony 80ed Svbony. 8x field flattener/reducer Svbony sv165 guide scope Zwoasi120mcs guide camera Zwoasi294mc Optolong L-Pro Filter Svbony sv172 Dew heater strip Skywatcher HEQ5I Mount Sharpcap PHD2 Dss Siril Lightroom mobile

Nikon p900/Mond

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Mond 02.05.2023 Lumix fz82/DMW LT55

Very beautiful 😍