Springtime Galaxies

The clear nights are so few and far between. I have been desperate to update some of the older images from my collection, Last imaged 10 years ago and really not that good.

A minute collection of data here as the clouds rolled in again. Had a few issues with the guiding and binned a large amount of subs. My error though. I had left the guiding set to Lunar DOH........

So in all I have just 10 x 5 minutes Red, 4 x 5 minutes Green & just 3 x 5 minutes in Blue.

Quite pleased that there are over a 100 faint fuzzies in the frame.

M96 & M105

 The universe never fails to amaze me of it's vast size and complexity. The 4 large galaxies seen here in the constellation of Virgo contain over a hundred trillion stars between them at an average distance of 30 million light years ish. When you look a little closer though you will see 360 small boxes. Hidden behind each one is another galaxy so distant it has taken the light of some over over 12 billion years to reach us. Every other point of light you see here are stars within our own galaxy.

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.