Messier 53 (M53) is a globular cluster located in the constellation Coma Berenices. Messier 53 reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight around April 10th.
The excellent collaboration image between astronomers Mark Hanso and Martin Pugh shows the peculiar planetary nebula HFG-2, also cataloged as PK 247-04 1 among other designations. It is a sphere with a network-shaped structure, whose filaments connect with each other and shows a possible opening to the south. This planetary nebula appears to be..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
Got another 1.5 hours of light last night from nearby(ish) galaxy NGC 3621 which features the recent supernova #SN2024ggi
Have now been grabbing light from this event over a few months and can see its colour/flux temporal evolution.
Caught it with VIVID’s extreme light pollution too! (VIVID is a very popular festival of light here in Sydney in which light pollution increases by several orders of magnitude!)
While I wait for suitable conditions for more imaging, I've been continuing my image processing education. I always love using my Rosette Nebula data--it's such a lovely target. Originally shot this in narrowband (Ha, SII, OIII) a year ago and this is a reprocess in SHO.
A rather blistering 5am start for the second virtual #astrophotography gallery event with the IAU and @futuremeetings! But a good crowd, and really fun to listen to the photographers describe how they took these photos with a smartphone (!).
This image shows the regions surrounding the Corona star cluster, better known by its English name, Coronet Cluster. Also cataloged as R CrA for its brightest star, it is located at a distance of about 400 light years from the Solar System and is located in the direction of the Corona Australis Constellation, isolated on the edge of the Gould Belt. The Corona Cluster is..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
This image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows spiral galaxy NGC 4689. Resembling a cosmic fingerprint, this galaxy exhibits spiral arms branching in all directions, classifying it as a foculating spiral. Its position facing us offers astronomers an almost perfect view to study its structure in detail. The disk contains dense regions of gas, dust and..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
NGC5907, also known as the knife-edge galaxy or the splinter galaxy, is an essentially bulgeless Sc galaxy which we can see nearly edge on, thus revealing very prominent dust lanes. Its peculiarity is that only very few giant stars are detectable in NGC5907, most of the light apparently comes from (relatively low metallicity) dwarf stars. The fainter part of the galaxy westward of the dust lanes has the NGC number 5906.
The image by astronomer Jerome Yesavage shows a low surface brightness planetary nebula cataloged as PN Kohoutek 1-16, located in the direction of the Draco Constellation and located at a distance of about 3,400 light years from the Solar System. The central star is a very hot pulsating star called DS Dra, it has a magnitude of 14.96 and is of spectral type..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
If you are interested in the use of virtual spaces for online events, do check out this event next week!
Organised by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), this #astrophotography gallery is hosted in spatial: a 3D virtual space you can explore via a regular web browser or #VR Meta headset.
I love virtual spaces for feeling I've "gone somewhere", and the audio falloff means you can chat to people you meet... or run off and ignore their babble while you cruise the #astronomy art.
ESA's new Sun-orbiting Euclid telescope recently captured the most detailed image ever of the bright star forming region M78. Near the image center, M78 lies at a distance of only about 1,300 light-years away and has a main glowing core that spans about 5 light-years. The featured image was taken in both visible and infrared light. The purple tint in M78's center is caused by dark dust preferentially reflecting the blue light of hot, young stars.
The International Astronomical Union (#IAU) are hosting an #astrophotography gallery in #VR! The event is on May 27 from 11am - 12:30pm UTC and May 28 from 8pm - 9:30pm UTC, and showcases astronomical photographs captured with a smartphone 📱🌌
The event is being held in spatial.io, which is accessible from a VR headset (Quest), or just from your computer browser (i.e. no headset needed).
The difference between #landscape photographers and #astrophotography photgraphers is that when something in the scene moves the former get very pissed while the latter get very excited.
The Milky Way is best seen during the summer months (from June to August) in the Dolomites. During this time, the galactic core is positioned high in the night sky, offering the best view of the Milky Way's band of stars, dust, and gas.