MadMan's Astronomy and Astrophotography Pages - Photos of the Week
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| Photos of The Week - May through October, 2015 Various imaging results after a very wet summer. Canon 60Da, Trius 814, SXVR-H694 - G11 mount, Tak FSQ-106 EDxiii and Canon lenses |
| Finally got some data capture during October over 4 nights. Recorded a number of DSO's. Processing results below. Hope you like them! |
| NGC 1333 is the currently most active region of star formation in the Perseus molecular cloud. The presence of emission-line stars and Herbig-Haro objects first established NGC 1333 as an active region of star formation. Today, NGC 1333 is one of the best studied extremely young clusters of low to intermediate mass stars. This region is rich in sub-mm cores, embedded YSOs, radio continuum sources, masers, IRAS sources, SiO molecular jets, H2 and HH shocks, molecular outflows, and the lobes of extinct outflows. Dozens of outflows from embedded and young cluster members criss-cross this region. While the complexity and confusion of sources and outflows has made it difficult to unravel the relations between various components, NGC 1333 has illuminated the roles of feedback and clustering phenomena in star formation. |
| Above: NGC 1333 Final. Cropped. 6 hrs R,G,B bin 1x1 10 minute subs plus 2 hours R,G,B bin 2x2 5 minute subs plus 3.5 hours of Lum bin 1x1 10 minute subs. Colorization from a 6 hour former processing using an SXVR-M25C camera. Processed PixInsight and Photoshop, StarSpikes Pro. |
| 8 hours of RGB uncropped. |
| 11.5 hours of LRGB uncropped. |
| Three processing renditions to the right and below. 11.5 hours LRGB. Tak FSQ-106EDx iii, Trius 814 camera, guide lodestar on G11 mount. Captured with SGP, processed with PixInsight and Photoshop. |
| Miscellaneous: Double Cluster in Perseus 1 hour - 5 minute subs - Canon 60Da in Takahashi FSQ-106 EDXiii @ f5.0 Pixinsight, Photoshop |
| Almost no processing. |
| The Triangulum Galaxy (M33): The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598, and is sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy, a nickname it shares with the Andromeda Galaxy and about 44 other smaller galaxies. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye. |
| Above: For the purists - no diffraction spikes |
| Miscellaneous: Bubble Nebula and Messier 52 Open Cluster - Hydrogen Alpha Filter 2 hour - 6x20 minute exposures - Trius 814 Takahashi FSQ-106 EDXiii @ f5.0, Pixinsight, Photoshop |