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| M96 in Leo, spiral galaxy, lum, f5 |
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| 41M LY away. Discovered in 1781. About 100,000 LY across. |
| PGC 11277 Galaxy Cluster, lum, f5 |
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| 16s shots stacked, located in Aries in a larger galaxy cluster, more galaxies in pic than in box |
| Scultptor or Silver Coin Galaxy, NGC 253, lum, f5 |
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| Looks like 5th largest galaxy since it's close to us. 10M LY away. Good pics on web! |
| M77 Spiral in Cetus, Lum, f5, 10/28/08 |
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| Famous Seyfert galaxy with Active Galactic Nucleus, strong radio source at core (10 million suns) |
| M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy |
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| Nice example of a face-on spiral galaxy (LRGB) |
M51 was taken under the dark skies of west Texas. It's unlikely that I could have caught this much light in
my home skies.
| M82 - The Starburst Galaxy |
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| The elevated new star formation is caused by a recent interaction with galaxy M81 |
M82 is a very interesting galaxy. It's called the Cigar Galaxy and is the brightest galaxy in infrared light.
It forms stars about 10 times faster than the average galaxy and has lots of supernovae. It's quite close to us (11
million light years), galactically speaking.
| Sombrero Galaxy (M104) - looks like a hat a bit! |
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| Unbarred spiral galaxy in Virgo with dark lane in middle, seen edge on |
| Antennae Galaxies (NGC4038/9) in Corvus the Crow |
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| Nearest colliding galaxies - about 63M LY away. Over 1000 young star clusters from collision. |
| M65 in Leo |
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| A spiral galaxy about 35 million LY away. Mammals were just rising when light left it. |
| M66 in Leo |
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| Another spiral galaxy and part of the Leo Triplet galaxies (along with M65 and NGC3628) |
| NGC5850 (upper left) and NGC 5846 in Virgo |
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| Double barred spiral and elliptical galaxies in western end of Virgo |
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| M49, LRGB, color as processed - looks better on most monitors |
I took this using my DMK camera and a .5x focal reducer. This galaxy is in the Virgo Cluster and is about 65 million
light years away. Another way to imagine how far away that is - when the light that made this picture left M49, dinosaurs
ruled the earth. So, if someone there is looking at us right now, then they would see dinosaurs on the Earth (well they
would need an extremely good telescope).
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| M49 brightened to show other galaxies (labeled), luminance only, flipped vertically |
I was concerned about field rotation so I just took a lum shot with the sky glow filter. I took two sets of video.
One showed similar detail as the LRGB image above but with the sky glow filter, I could collect light longer before it was
washed out by light pollution. So, in this image, you can see more stars and even a little galaxy (probably a companion
galaxy) to the right of M49.
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| M49 in LRGB - increased yellow |
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 - looks like a hat a bit! )
 in Corvus the Crow)
 and NGC 5846 in Virgo)
