Category: Astrophotography

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5/11/2024 Galaxy 9 from Outer Space!

My friend Ryan Carroll did a much better job this weekend but was not the only one looking at this.

Better known as M51 or the Whirlpool Galaxy, Galaxy 9 is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus. It lies in the constellation Canes Venatici, and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. It is 23.5 million light-years away and 76,900 light-years in diameter. This image is made from 61 60 second images shot with an 11″ SCT at f/6.3. The evening was problematic and I need to try it again when the Moon gets out of the way. Shot at the River Ridge Observatory.

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5/11/2024 The Sun

The Sun Saturday afternoon through a 127mm MCT with a white light solar filter and my Canon T8i. 10 frames median stacked. It that sunspot cluster in the lower left that has been causing all the trouble lately.

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5/10/2024 Aurora!

I went to the River Ridge Observatory with an admittedly ambitious agenda for the evening, three rigs, nine objects. Two rigs involved telescopes, the third a DSLR with wide-ish angle lens on a simple stationary tripod pointed north in hopes of aurorae. The aurorae did not disappoint. They started about an hour after sunset and went on like this for another hour. Even after they dimmed, they continued for much of the evening. The video here is made of 197 15 second frames at two frames per second.

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