NGC 6744 is a galaxy in the constellation Pavo. The galaxy has beautiful spiral arms, which attracted my attention and I spent 4 hours collecting the light coming from this 28 million light-years distant deep space object.
| Telescope | Meade 10" |
| Aperture | 254 mm |
| Focal length | 2097 mm |
| Mount | MK 100K |
| Autoguiding | MGEN 240 mm |
| Camera | ZWO 071 @-10°C |
| Corrector | TS 0.67 reducer |
| Filters | none |
| Exposure | 78x180s, Gain 95, bin 1x1, |
| Date | 2022-05-28 |
Messier 77 is a spiral galaxy located in constellation Cetus and it is approximately 47 million light-year away from Earth. Due to its diameter 170 light-year, this galaxy is one of the biggest objects of Messier Catalogue.
The galaxy in the bottom right corner is called NGC 1055, which together with M77 creates binary system.
The picture is a stack of 20 pictures, each 3 minutes long, i.e. only one hour of integration time. This is obviously not enough for such deep space object, but I wanted to capture another DSO this night. Moreover, I was not able to wait till 1 o’clock, when the street lamps are switched off, because at this time, this galaxy was nearly reaching the horizon.
Now it’s time to slew to M78 Nebula.
| Telescope | Newton 254/1000 mm |
| Aperture | 254 mm |
| Focal length | 1000 mm |
| Mount | Gemini G53f |
| Autoguiding | ZWO 174MM, TS 60/240 mm |
| Camera | ZWO 071 Pro @-20°C |
| Corrector | TS-Optics 2" 3-element MaxField |
| Filters | Hutech IDAS LPS-D2 |
| Exposure | 20x180s, Gain 94, bin 1x1, |
| Date | 2018-12-13 |
Needle Galaxy is located constellation Coma Berenices The light from there traveled 40 million years, because the galaxy is approximately 40 million light years from Earth. Actually, what we are looking at is 40 million years old picture. The needle shape is caused by its orientation towards our Milky Way Galaxy (the plane of the galactic disk is perpendicular in our view).
M96 is a spiral galaxy located in constellation Leo. It is approximately 31 million Light-years far from Earth and it has same size and mass as our home – Milky Way. Neighboring galaxies M95 and M105 will be captured next time.
Triangulum Galaxy is our neighboring spiral galaxy in distance only 3 Million light years from the Earth. It has diameter approximately 30 light years, which means that it’s 3 times smaller than our home – Milky Way Galaxy. Last year I tried to capture some photons coming from there, but the outcome was not so great, therefore I was waiting one year and here is the outcome:
