Image Description and Details : The Grus Triplet is group of galaxies about 60 million light years away in the constellation Grus and is comprised of NGC 7582, NGC 7590, and NGC 7599. These three galaxies along with NGC 7552 make up the Grus Quartet, which is part of the IC 1459 Group.

Location/Date – El Sauce, Chile, August 2021

Imaging System – Planewave 17” CDK, 10 Micron GM3000, FLI ML16803 Chroma Filters

Exposure – LRGB, 11 hours

Copyright: Good Astronomy

Image Description and Details : Imaging telescope: LACERTA 200/800 Carbon FotoNewton Edition 2021
Imaging camera: QHYCCD QHY183M
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding telescope: QHYOAG-LACERTA 200/800 Carbon FotoNewton Edition 2021
Guiding camera: ZWO 290MM Mini
Coma corrector: GPU Optics GPU Komakorrektor

Baader Planetarium B 1.25" CCD Filter: 50x210" (2h 55') (gain: 11.00) -15C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium G 1.25" CCD Filter: 50x210" (2h 55') (gain: 11.00) -15C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium Luminance 1.25": 400x90" (10h) (gain: 11.00) -15C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium R 1.25" CCD Filter: 50x210" (2h 55') (gain: 11.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 18h 45'

RA center: 20h 34' 41"
DEC center: +60° 8' 13"
Pixel scale: 0.620 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 358.766 degrees
Field radius: 0.552 degrees

Location: Kalliopi, Lemnos, Greece

Copyright: ©2021 Stamatis Paraschakis

May 11 - June 17, 2020

Location: Dark Sky New Mexico

Telescope: Planewave CDK-17

Camera: FLI PL16803

Mount: Paramount ME

Luminance: 22x20 minutes (binned 1x1)

Red: 16x20 minutes (binned 1x1)

Green: 16x20 minutes (binned 1x1)

Blue: 18x20 minutes (binned 1x1)

Copyright: Bernard Miller

Discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781, Messier 106 (M106) is a spiral galaxy located in the northern constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy lies at a distance of 22 to 25 million light years from Earth. It has the designation NGC 4258 in the New General Catalogue.

17 million light years from us, in the Constellation of the Chioma of Berenice we find a bright and beautiful galaxy marked by the initials M64.
It is also called "Black Eye Galaxy" due to a vast area of dark dust that covers part of the central area.
The latest studies have shown that the peripheral part of the Galaxy rotates in the opposite direction of the nucleus, probably due to an "ancient" clash with a smaller galaxy captured by M64. This clash would have started to rotate the outer part of the galaxy in the opposite direction to the nucleus. These two areas that rotate in the opposite direction collide forming compressed "gas pockets" creating regions with an extremely intense star formation.

Imaging telescope or lens:Geoptik Formula 20 - Newton 200/1200
Imaging camera:Nikon D5100 full Spectrum Modded
Mount:Sky-Watcher EQ6 SynTrek
Guiding telescope or lens:Sky-Watcher 80/400 f5 acro
Guiding camera:QHYCCD5L-II-M
Filter:Optolong UV/IR Cut
Accessories:Explore Scientific HRCC Coma Corrector , Selfmade Peltier CoolingBox
Dates:15 Mar 2020 , 16 Mar 2020
Frames:
Optolong UV/IR Cut: 58x300" ISO200 -5C
Optolong UV/IR Cut: 39x600" ISO200 -5C
Integration: 11.3 hours

Instrument or lens: SkyWatcher 200/1000 BLACK DIAMOND                                                        Atik 460 EX Mono                                                                                                                                   SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro Goto Guidance                                                                                              ZWO OPTICAL DIVIDER Reducer / focal corrector                                                                  SkyWatcher Coma Corrector II                                                                                                      Astronomik RGB, Baader Ha 7nm, Astrnomik CLS-CC Access -s                                                  Astrnomik CLS-CCD: 104x300 "-10C bin 1x1Baader Ha 7nm: 140x300" bin 1x1 Astronomik RGB: 48x150 "bin 1x1                                                                                                                                     Integration: 22.3 Hours Darks: ~ 50Flats / PLU: ~ 11Bias / offset: ~ 1001Astrometry.net job                 AD: 7h 36 '52 "DEC center: + 65 ° 36' 10" Pixel scale: 0.468 arcsec / pixel Orientation: 179.532 degrees Field radius: 0.450 Source data: Backyard

Copyright: Rémi Méré

Messier 95, also known as M95 or NGC 3351, is a barred spiral galaxy located about 33 million light-years away in the zodiac constellation Leo. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781, and cataloged by fellow French astronomer Charles Messier four days later. It has around 40 billion stars.

Copyrigth: David Wills at PixelSkies, Spain www.pixelskiesastro.com

Instrument: UNC 254mm f / 4 Astrograph Telescope
Imager: QSI 540WSG CCD Camera at -25 °, Atik GPE Guidance
Exposure: 20 exposures of 300 sec at -25 ° in Luminance
Preprocessing: 8 Dark / 8 Flat / 8 Offset
Processing: Prism 10, Photoshop CS3
Notes First test of the new telescope
Description GNC 2683 is a spiral galaxy of type Sb located in the constellation of the Lynx, at a distance of 16 million light years. It has an apparent angular dimension of 9.3 'by 2.2' of angle. Its magnitude is 10.6.

Telescope: Newton GSO 250MM F/4.9
Sensor: CCD MORAVIAN G2 8300
Mount: Neq6
OAG: Ts D-King
Guide Camera: Lodestar
FilterWheel: Starlight Xpress

COPYRIGHT: Fabio Mortari

- Perth
- APM107/700 + Riccardi 0.75x Reducer
- KENKO AZ-EQ6GT
- QSI683WSG
- L 1Bin 600sec 13shots / R/G/B 2Bin 300sec shots each

Copyright: KyeongSang Yun

Image Description and Details : The great spiral galaxy M33 in Triangulum, a favorite among imagers, imaged from my home observatory under suburban Bortle 5 skies, during the month of Oct, early Nov 2019. Stellarvue SVX152T @f8, 1200mm FL on a Paramount MyT. QSI 683 camera using Luminance, Red, Green, Blue, and 5nm Ha filters. 360min Luminance bin 1x1, 300min Red, 290min Green, 280min Blue and 660min Ha bin 2x2. Total of 31.5hrs of exposure time. PixInsight used for processing. Please visit the full size link on the web page above to see individual stars resolved within the galaxy.

Copyright: Jon Talbot

Astrnomik CLS-CCD: 90x300" -10C bin 1x1 ATIK 460ex_neq6pro_newton 200/1000
Astronomik RGB: 45x150" bin 1x1

Integration 9.4 Hours

Copyright: Rémi MERE

Imaging telescope or lens:GSO RC12 truss

Imaging camera:ZWO ASI071MC Pro

Mount:SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro

Guiding telescope or lens:GSO RC12 truss

Dates:March 3, 2019

Frames: 20x450"

Integration: 2.5 hours

Avg. Moon phase: 8.75%

Locations: Calar Alto, Almeria, Spain

Copyright: Jose Luis Bedmar

Imaging telescope: Celestron 11" Rowe-Ackermann Schmidt Astrograph

Imaging camera: QHYCCD QHY367C

Mount: Orion Atlas Pro AZ/EQ-G

Guiding:Astromania 60mm Guide Scope & QHYCCD QHY5III178M

Filter:Astronomik L2 UV/IR Cut

Dates:Nov. 29, 2019, Dec. 15, 2019

Frames: 410x60"

Integration: 6.8 hours

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 5.00

Mean SQM: 19.68

This is a very interesting area in the Taurus Molecular Cloud featuring many dark and reflection nebulae. The main subject in the center is Barnard 7 (the dark nebula) and LBN 782 (the blue reflection nebula). To the left side is vdB 27, illuminated by RY Tauri, a young variable star. To the right is another reflection nebula illuminated by variable star CW Tauri. Peeking through the dust 186 million light years away is the galaxy IC 359, in the bottom right. All in all, a lot of different things to see here!

Copyright Jarrett Trezzo

LRGB + Hα
12in RC
2400mm F8

MoravianG2 KAF8300M

Copyright: Masanori Mizutani

Messier 82 also known as the Cigar Galaxy or NGC 3034 is a starburst galaxy approximately 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

Imaging telescope or lens: Planewave CDK17

Imaging camera: Finger Lakes Instrumenttaion Proline 16803

Guiding telescope or lens: Planewave CDK17

Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2

Software: PHD2 PHD 2.6.2,  PixInsight 1.8 Pisinsight 1.8

Filters: Chroma Blue,  Chroma Green,  Chroma Red

Copyright: Seymore Stars

NGC 1365 taken at Martin Pugh Astrophotography in Australia.

NGC 1365 is barred spiral galaxy in the Fornax cluster. Within the larger long bar stretching across the center of the galaxy appears to be a smaller bar that comprises the core, with an apparent size of about 50″ × 40″.

This second bar is more prominent in infrared images of the central region of the galaxy, and likely arises from a combination of dynamical instabilities of stellar orbits in the region, along with gravity, density waves, and the overall rotation of the disc. The inner bar structure likely rotates as a whole more rapidly than the larger long bar, creating the diagonal shape seen in images. The spiral arms extend in a wide curve north and south from the ends of the east-west bar and form an almost ring like Z-shaped halo.

Astronomers think NGC 1365's prominent bar plays a crucial role in the galaxy's evolution, drawing gas and dust into a star-forming maelstrom and ultimately feeding material into the central black hole.

NGC 1365, including its two outer spiral arms, spreads over around 200,000 light-years. Different parts of the galaxy take different times to make a full rotation around the core of the galaxy, with the outer parts of the bar completing one circuit in about 350 million years. NGC 1365 and other galaxies of its type have come to more prominence in recent years with new observations indicating that the Milky Way could also be a barred spiral galaxy. Such galaxies are quite common — two thirds of spiral galaxies are barred according to recent estimates, and studying others can help astronomers understand our own galactic home.

Copyright: Albert Barr

NGC 1672 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Dorado. It was originally thought to be a member of the Dorado Group, however, this membership was later rejected.
NGC 1672 has a large bar which is estimated to measure around 20 kpc. It has very strong radio emissions emanating from its nucleus, bar, and the inner portion of the spiral arm region. The nucleus is Seyfert type 2 and is engulfed by a starburst region. The strongest polarized emissions come from the northeastern region which is upstream from its dust lanes. Magnetic field lines are at large angles with respect to the bar and turn smoothly to the center.

It was taken with a 36.8 cm F9 Ritchey Chretien telescope using a SBIG STXL16200 CCD camera. The exposure is a LHaRGB image with about 9 hours total imaging time.

Copyright: Steve Crouch‎

AAPOD2 Title: NGC 1672 in Dorado
AAPOD2 Page Link: https://www.aapod2.com/blog/ngc-1672-in-dorado
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