Showing posts with label IC 648. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IC 648. Show all posts

Thursday, 23 February 2012

Galaxies here, there, everywhere

This is a lovely image of 2 hours 44 Minutes Iso 1600 in 2 minute subs, autoguided and  dark subtracted,  Near perfect focus on a myriad of M's, NGC's and IC's.  You will of course recognise M95 a beautiful barred spiral 38 million light years away. the Brighter M96 a mere 31 Million LY's. M105 the giant eleptical now known to have a super massive black hole in it's belly. A multitude of other Ngc's and a few IC's, all collectivly known as a member of the Virgo super cluster.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, C/2023 A3 , Comet A3,

  A cosmic wanderer, Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas or more commonly known as Comet A3 has traced its elliptical path through the solar system, a j...