Sunday, June 29, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Coathanger Mosaic
total 30 frames of 1 deg each [15 each for R & B] used to create an image of famous binocular object as seen thro 48inch telescope!
Cart Wheel Galaxy
Extremely violent impact of a galaxy right in the central hub of a spiral torn it
& sent a violent shockwave moving outward visible as a blue cartwheel rim.Its nothing but young stars forming @ mad rate due to this shockwave!Spokes of cartwheel are warped unusually.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Leo Triplet
The bright galaxies in Leo Triplet pull each other tidally.The topmost galaxy NGC 3628 has sustained most of the damage along with stretched arms of M 66 @ lower right.The field coverage is 1 deg. vertically.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
M 33
Majestic Spiral M 33.Note the biggest red blotch @ the end of main spiral arm [10'o clok frm centre of galaxy.Its NGC 604-a huge emission nebula much bigger than Orion Nebula in our galaxy.Can be seen through 4 inch scope.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Deep inside M24
M24 is the distinct patch of Milky way even visible to
unaided eye.This 1 as seen thro 48inch eye!!
No blue data coverage for this object so the image depicts
onlyRed data colorized to represent wavelength used to
create it.9 Frame Mosaic covering approx 2.7 deg. in the
sky.Original file @ 95 MegaPixls! Clik on img to see 10%
of original.[3kx3k]
Many objects are readily visible inside this starcloud viz Prominent open cluster 6603,Dark Neb-B93,B92 etc.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Maffei1 hiding behind heavy galactic dust
Used IR+R for red spectrum to reveal hidden extent of galaxy due to intervening galactic dust
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