Here's my go at the edge on view Needle Galaxy in Coma Berenices from last night. I fitted a new dew heater ring on the SCT yesterday and it did a great job. The guide scope was just starting to mist up at the end of the session. The plan was for a 2200 to 0200 four hour session, from just past meridian to sinking in the West. As it turned out I got started at 2250 and finished at 0150 with resolution failing in the light dome of London.
42 (from 58) x 180 sec lights, 8 removed for satellite trails, 8 removed for London LP. Collimation needs sorting out! I wonder if it's that causing the soft focus?
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Graeme
NGC4565 - C38 - The Needle Galaxy
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Why you can't just admit you're a closet UFO hunter, I just don't know.
(Nice pic!)
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I endorse the comments by Leif and Hans but will not be able to sleep tonight until I know why a 331/3 rpm of a work by Ralph Vaughan Williams is considered a Bad Thing.
Thanks in advance for any elucidation, Chris
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I might admit to that if it wasn't my best guess that the answer to the Fermi Paradox is the hugeness of space and time!
Thanks Hans
The Long Player is a work of genius, the Light Polution is a sadly, ever growing, PITA!ChrisGreaves wrote: ↑25 May 2022, 11:35I endorse the comments by Leif and Hans but will not be able to sleep tonight until I know why a 331/3 rpm of a work by Ralph Vaughan Williams is considered a Bad Thing.
Thanks in advance for any elucidation, Chris
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Re: NGC4565 - C38 - The Needle Galaxy
Around 40 million light years away ... I wonder if it is still there?
Top photography Graeme
Perhaps all beyond our own galaxy are long gone ... or as the saying goes "Is there anyone out there".
Top photography Graeme
Perhaps all beyond our own galaxy are long gone ... or as the saying goes "Is there anyone out there".
CYa Ron
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The only reason we have the 4th dimension of Time is so that everything does not happen at once.
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The only reason we have the 4th dimension of Time is so that everything does not happen at once.
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Re: NGC4565 - C38 - The Needle Galaxy
Another stellar photograph (), Graeme!
Thank you!
Thank you!
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Thank you Graeme for clearing up LP.
Cheers, Chris
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Thanks Ron. The time machine aspect of astronomy is fascinating. When the photons that my camera sensor collected left the Needle Galaxy there were no mammals on Earth! Pondering that during a visual observing session is a mind blower!
Thanks Bob. Probably a trillion stellas!
You're welcome! Now who can clear up the London excess lighting? I can't see well enough to image below about 35° when looking West!
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NGC4565 is today's Astronomy Picture of the Day
Best wishes,
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And a very nice image it is too! Makes you want to go out and buy a new monochrome camera and a set of filters!
(as he sat pondering, he slipped further down the slippery slope that is the astrophotography financial wormhole!)
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Oh! Please!! No!!!
Not another phpBB installation; this time around dedicated to "Threads of the Needle Galaxy" ...
Cheers, Chris
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