Galaxy Gallery
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4th March 2008 - Paul Buglass took this image of the galaxy M64, the black-ryr galaxy, using a Meade DSI II Pro CCD camera on his Skywatcher 80ED scope. 12 exposures of 120 seconds were captured. The images were captured, aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools v3. Final levels adjustment was made in Photoshop. |
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4th March 2008 - Paul Buglass took this image of the galaxy M51 using a Meade DSI II Pro CCD camera on his Skywatcher 80ED scope. 20 exposures of 120 seconds were captured. The images were captured, aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools v3. Final levels adjustment was made in Photoshop. |
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4th March 2008 - Paul Buglass took this image of the galaxy M101 using a Meade DSI II Pro CCD camera on his Skywatcher 80ED scope. 20 exposures of 120 seconds were captured. The images were captured, aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools v3. Final levels adjustment was made in Photoshop. |
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4th March 2008 - Paul Buglass took this image of the galaxy M82 using a Meade DSI II Pro CCD camera on his Skywatcher 80ED scope. 20 exposures of 30 seconds were captured. The images were captured, aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools v3. Final levels adjustment was made in Photoshop. |
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6th February 2007 - Paul Buglass took this image of the Whirlpool galaxy (M51) using a Meade DSI II Pro CCD camera on his Skywatcher 80ED scope. 30 exposures of 45 seconds were captured. The images were captured, aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools v3. Final levels adjustment was made in Photoshop. |
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6th February 2007 - Paul Buglass took this image of Bode's galaxy (M82) using a Meade DSI II Pro CCD camera on his Skywatcher 80ED scope. 20 exposures of 30 seconds were captured. The images were captured, aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools v3. Final levels adjustment was made in Photoshop. |
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6th February 2007 - Paul Buglass took this image of the galaxy M82 using a Meade DSI II Pro CCD camera on his Skywatcher 80ED scope. 20 exposures of 30 seconds were captured. The images were captured, aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools v3. Final levels adjustment was made in Photoshop. |
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January 2007 -
Theo Allnutt took this super image of the galaxy pair M81
and M82 on the night of the 22nd of January from the
Clifton area of York. He used his TAL 150P 6" reflector on a Vixen SP mount, and a Canon 350D digital SLR at prime focus. He took 36 exposures at ISO 1600, each unguided exposure was 30 seconds long. The resulting images were stacked using Lynkeos and processed in Photoshop CS. |
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November 2006 - John Lockett took this stunning image of M31 (The Andromeda Galaxy). To the top the smaller M110 galaxy is visible, with M32 also visible just below and to the right of the core of M31. John used a Canon 20D digital SLR to capture 8 x 3 minute images which were stacked and processed using Photoshop. |
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November 2006 - John Lockett took this stunning image of M33 (The Triangulum Galaxy). Thisis a very difficult object to image given its low surface brightness. John used a Canon 20D digital SLR to capture 8 x 3 minute images which were stacked and processed using Photoshop. |
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30th August
2006 - Martin Whipp took this lovely wide-field image of
the galaxies M81 and M82 in Ursa Major, and also captured
the smaller and fainter galaxy NGC 3077. He used a Cannon
350D at prime focus of a Skywatcher 80ED refractor on a
driven CG5 mount. 27 frames of 30 seconds exposure were stacked using K3CCDTools v2 to produce the final image. |
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3rd September 2006 - John Lockett took this image of the galaxy NGC 7331 in Pegasus with a DSI pro through his 8” LX200 using a Mogg x 0.6 focal reducer, from the light polluted skies of York. This image is a stack of images with a total exposure time of 9 minutes. |
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30th August 2006 - Paul Buglass took this image of the edge on galaxy in Andromeda (NGC891) using a b&w modified long-exposure web cam on his C8 scope with an F6.3 focal reducer. 94 exposures of 15 seconds were aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools v3. |
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30th August 2006 - Paul Buglass took this image of the "cigar" galaxy in Ursa Major (M82) using a b&w modified long-exposure web cam on his C8 scope with an F6.3 focal reducer. 63 exposures of 10 seconds were aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools v3. |
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30th August 2006 - Paul Buglass took this image of the galaxy (M81) in Ursa Major using a b&w modified long-exposure web cam on his C8 scope with an F6.3 focal reducer. 38 exposures of 15 seconds were aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools v3. |
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Quasar, Q0957
+561 - John Lockett managed to capture this fantastic
image of oneof the most distant objects observable.
It is a mosaic of 2 images. The bottom half was taken on 1/3/06 and is stack of 44 x 15s image. It shows a couple of galaxies, NGC 3079 and M+9-17-9, but it missed the quasar (wasn’t sure exactly where is was J). On the next night he took 70 x 30s images of the bit just to the north. The combined magnitude is somewhere around 16.4, but the two compoments are around 17 individually. You can just about make out 2 images. It’s the first example of gravitational lensing discovered due to an intervening galaxy. It’s "red shift" is around 1.4 giving it a distance of approximately 7.8 billion light years. |
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M51 (the Whirlpool Galaxy) - John Lockett took this image with a DSI pro through his 8” LX200 using a Mogg x 0.6 focal reducer, from the light polluted skies of York. This image is a stack of 11 x 30s images, and clearly shows the "bridge" between the main galaxy M51, and the smaller companion galaxy NGC5195. |
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Neil Ward took
this image of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) and also M32 and
M110 in the same field, using his Nikon D70 digital SLR.
The main dark dust lanes around the core of M31 can be
seen. M110 is a smaller galaxy above the core of M31 and
M32 is the slight round smudge 45 degrees down and to the
right of the core of M31. This was a single exposure
taken at prime focus of a Skywatched 80ED refractor. Copyright - N J Ward 2005 |
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John Roberts took this image of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) and also M32 and M110 in the same field, using his 80mm F5 Helios refractor and a Starlight Express MX7C CCD camera. The main dark dust lanes around the core of M31 can be seen. M110 is a smaller galaxy above the core of M31 and M32 is the slight round smudge 45 degrees down and to the right of the core of M31. This was asingle 60 second exposure with a Mogg 0.6 Focal Reducer giving an effective focal length of about 240mm at F3. |
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M82 - An active galaxy in Ursa Major - imaged by Martin Whipp and Paul Buglass on May 5th 2005 with Martin's Mintron video camera, and Paul's Celestar 8 SCT telescope on an equatorial mount. About 100 or so frames were captured, and then aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools. Final processing was done in Paintshop Pro to adjust the background level and sharpness. |
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M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy in Ursa Major - imaged by Martin Whipp and Paul Buglass on May 5th 2005 with Martin's Mintron video camera, and Paul's Celestar 8 SCT telescope on an equatorial mount. About 50 or so frames were captured, and then aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools. Final processing was done in Paintshop Pro to adjust the background level and sharpness. |
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The Andromeda galaxy (M31) and also M32 and M110 in the same field, by Martin Whipp. The main dark dust lanes around the core of M31 can be seen. M110 is a smaller galaxy below the core of M31 and M32 is the slight round smudge 45 degrees up and to the left of the core of M31. Martin's Mintron video camera took this image using a 80mm F5 refractor on a driven CG-5 mount. |
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11/12/02 - M82
- This image was taken by Paul Buglass and was his first
attempt at M82 and it is made up of 42 x 10 seconds
exposures. M82 is an active galaxy which is thought to have gone through some sort of galactic collision a few million years ago which has triggerd hugh outbursts of star formation and active regions in its core. It was taken using a 10" F4.8 Orion Optics reflector on a driven CG-5 mount, and a SC1 modified Philips Vesta Pro web cam. |