NGC891 and friends

This is the region (2° 2' x 1° 21' ) around the edge-on galaxy NGC891. Numerous other faint galaxies down to 17,5 mag are visible in this photo. -- See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_891 -- HW: NP127is, QHY8L OSC, FS-60C, Lodestar, NJP/JPZ, 6x1200s RGB. -- SW: EZCAP (image acquisition) MaximDL (calibration/ alignment/ stacking), IRIS (gradient removal), Aperture (post processing).

Messier 51

Image reprocessed in 2023

NGC891

NGC 891 (also known as Caldwell 23) is an edge-on unbarred spiral galaxy (actually barred) about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. [1] -- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_891 -- HW: NP127is, QHY8L OSC, FS-60C, Lodestar, NJP/JPZ, 6x1200s RGB. -- SW: EZCAP (image acquisition) MaximDL (calibration/ alignment/ stacking), IRIS (gradient removal), Aperture (post processing). This image is cropped.

The Hercules Galaxy Cluster (crop)

This cluster is about 720.000.000 light years away from the Earth

Quasars next to M106

http://www.albireo.at/Astronomy/M106/m106_18x900s_4_medium_identification.jpg

NGC5317 and friends

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_5364 http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC5317 -- QHY8L, 660mm, f/5.2, 4x900s stacked and processed with MaximDL. Final processing with Aperture (Mac).

NGC898 and friends

NGC 898, NGC914 (part of it), NGC906, NGC909, NGC911, NGC910, NGC912, NGC913 and numerous other faint PGC galaxies are visible in this cropped photo. -- HW: NP127is, QHY8L OSC, FS-60C, Lodestar, NJP/JPZ, 6x1200s RGB. -- SW: EZCAP (image acquisition) MaximDL (calibration/ alignment/ stacking), IRIS (gradient removal), Aperture (post processing).

The Sombrero Galaxy

TOA130 (f/5.4), QHY8L, 8x900s

NGC4038-4039 Interacting Galaxies in Corvus

Photo (crop): QHY8L, TOA-130NFB (f/5.4), 5x1200s, NJP, Lodestar on FS-60C

Supernova SN2014L in Messier 99

SN2014L is an exploding star in the galaxy M99, located in the Virgo constellation, far far away from the Earth. Its light is visible even from other galaxies million of light years away from it, like our Milky Way. -- QHY8L, JPZ, NP127is, 3x900s, -42°C, no darks, zoom x2

Faint galaxies in Virgo

NGC5746 NGC5740 NGC5738 PGC52652 PGC135861 PGC52624 - Urban Deep Field image 19.1 mag - NP127is QSI683

NGC2903