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Here's Messier 100, a grand design spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices. It is one of the brightest and largest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster and is approximately 55 million light-years from our galaxy, it has a diameter of 107,000 light years.

89 x 120 second exposures captured 16/04/21 with my ASI294MC camera and 9.25 SCT telescope.

My first 3 hour exposure image and had to do my first meridian flip as the object moved past due south during the exposures!

Autosave-M100-EL.jpg

Hope you like it.

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Great picture!
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Thanks Hans.

It was the first time in ages that there was a clear night with still air, no Moon and no work the next day!

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Awesome! Thanks for sharing this great pics!!
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That's so cool!!! Terrific!!

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Is there a higher resolution image that you can share? This JPG is incredible but leaves me wanting more!
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Thanks Graeme!

Keep them coming.
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Thanks for the kind words all.

PJ_in_FL wrote:
19 Apr 2021, 11:45
Is there a higher resolution image that you can share? This JPG is incredible but leaves me wanting more!

Here's a couple of 45Mb png files. I reprocessed the first one in an attempt to bring out the colour of the spiral arms.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

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Graeme wrote:
19 Apr 2021, 18:01
Thanks for the kind words all.

PJ_in_FL wrote:
19 Apr 2021, 11:45
Is there a higher resolution image that you can share? This JPG is incredible but leaves me wanting more!

Here's a couple of 45Mb png files. I reprocessed the first one in an attempt to bring out the colour of the spiral arms.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

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Amazing! And the depth you've captured with maybe a dozen or more objects also visible in the view makes me wish I still lived in West Texas so I could use my small telescope again. Florida skies just don't get dark enough, even down in the swamps of the Everglades.
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Cheers PJ

The full resolution images are full of surprises. Sending them to nova.astrometry.net gets an annotated version returned. M100 has a number of satellite galaxies.

Capture.JPG

There's a lot of galaxies to be found in the direction of Leo and Virgo!

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PJ_in_FL wrote:
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..... makes me wish I still lived in West Texas so I could use my small telescope again.

Then you would need to sign up again as PJ_in_WT!
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In the best tradition of Scuttlebutt :pirate:

In other space related news, this article has a great picture of the location of a man-made distant object:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-new ... -milestone

It reminds me of Pooh's map showing where the Woozle wasn't :smile:

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Graeme wrote:
19 Apr 2021, 18:01
Here's a couple of 45Mb png files. I reprocessed the first one in an attempt to bring out the colour of the spiral arms.
The originals were messy, but these are even messier
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stuck wrote:
21 Apr 2021, 07:33
In the best tradition of Scuttlebutt :pirate:

In other space related news, this article has a great picture of the location of a man-made distant object:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-new ... -milestone

It reminds me of Pooh's map showing where the Woozle wasn't :smile:

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Curious to know what the straight line distance is between the two spacecraft.

Also, the linked article on the use of New Horizons to get enhanced parallax imaging is fascinating, too!
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stuck wrote:
21 Apr 2021, 07:33
In other space related news,....

15 years to catch up with the Voyagers and still only 50 AUs! It's a long way to Alpha Centauri!

StuartR wrote:
21 Apr 2021, 07:38
The originals were messy, but these are even messier

You should see the images that the famous French astronomer Crasseux produced!
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Graeme wrote:
22 Apr 2021, 05:19
...It's a long way to Alpha Centauri!...
Is that anywhere near :sing: Tipperary?

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Cosmically speaking, yes.
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Graeme wrote:
22 Apr 2021, 05:19
...the famous French astronomer Crasseux...
You mean the one that's not on this list of notable French astronomers?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_F ... stronomers
and doesn't seem to turn up in various Google searches?
:evilgrin:

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I bet his first name was Plus...
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:scratch: I'm clearly missing something here...

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