Thursday, April 5, 2018
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Supernova 2018gv in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 2525
Supernova 2018gv (Type Ia -- white dwarf explosion) in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 2525 (constellation Puppis)
6 Feb 2018 20:22 UT
The supernova is marked by dashes.
A photometry in the Green channel [TG] gives magnitude 12.93+-0.04. A magnitude of the galaxy is about 11.6m, so the galaxy only in several times brighter then the exploding star.
Distance ~50 mio l.y.
Crop 30x30 arcmin, North is up.
Canon EOS 600D + SkyWatcher 150/750
50x30s; ISO=800
6 Feb 2018 20:22 UT
The supernova is marked by dashes.
A photometry in the Green channel [TG] gives magnitude 12.93+-0.04. A magnitude of the galaxy is about 11.6m, so the galaxy only in several times brighter then the exploding star.
Distance ~50 mio l.y.
Crop 30x30 arcmin, North is up.
Canon EOS 600D + SkyWatcher 150/750
50x30s; ISO=800
Friday, January 26, 2018
Comets in January 2018
Two relatively bright comets captured in January 2018.
Place: Kyiv (Osokorky district)
Equipment: Canon EOS 600D + Sky Watcher 10575 OTAW / EQ5 motorized
Processing: IRIS, FITStacker, Fitswork4, RawTherapee
Comet C/2017 T1 (Heinze)
43x30s
2018-01-08 16:09-17:09 UT. Comet position in the frame with stars corresponds to 16:09 UT.
FOV = 40x40 arcmin, North is up.
Processing: IRIS, FITStacker, Fitswork4, RawTherapee
Comet C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS)
68x30s ISO 1600
2018-01-10 19:49 UT (mid of series)
FOV = 40x25 arcmin, North is up
The blue color of the coma caused by ionized carbon monoxide CO+. Last time a comet with such a high content of CO was observed in 1962.
Place: Kyiv (Osokorky district)
Equipment: Canon EOS 600D + Sky Watcher 10575 OTAW / EQ5 motorized
Processing: IRIS, FITStacker, Fitswork4, RawTherapee
Comet C/2017 T1 (Heinze)
43x30s
2018-01-08 16:09-17:09 UT. Comet position in the frame with stars corresponds to 16:09 UT.
FOV = 40x40 arcmin, North is up.
Processing: IRIS, FITStacker, Fitswork4, RawTherapee
Comet C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS)
68x30s ISO 1600
2018-01-10 19:49 UT (mid of series)
FOV = 40x25 arcmin, North is up
The blue color of the coma caused by ionized carbon monoxide CO+. Last time a comet with such a high content of CO was observed in 1962.
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Friday, October 20, 2017
Supernova sn 2017gxq in Ursa Major
On 18-Oct-2017, I tried to picture a quite bright supernova sn 2017gxq, which exploded in a galaxy NGC 4964 (Ursa Major).
Despite the galaxy with the supernova was quite low in the sky (altitude ~29*) and in the direction near the city center (huge light pollution!) I managed to catch it.
Note that a parent galaxy is not visible at all (only very weak nebulosity could be mentioned).
My rough estimation of supernova's brightness is ~14.2m+-0.2
SkyWatcher 150/750 / EQ5 motorized + Canon EOS 600D; 20x32s; ISO=400. Processed with IRIS, green channel.
Despite the galaxy with the supernova was quite low in the sky (altitude ~29*) and in the direction near the city center (huge light pollution!) I managed to catch it.
Note that a parent galaxy is not visible at all (only very weak nebulosity could be mentioned).
My rough estimation of supernova's brightness is ~14.2m+-0.2
SkyWatcher 150/750 / EQ5 motorized + Canon EOS 600D; 20x32s; ISO=400. Processed with IRIS, green channel.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Messier 15 Globilar Cluster
Messier 15: a globular cluster with the very compact core; it is suspected that a black hole may exist in the center of the cluster.
Processing: IRIS (calibration, alignment), FITStacker (stacking, gamma, color correction), RawTherapee, FITWorks4, GIMP (SCNR by my plugin, BW+Color combining), FSViewer, crop, resize 50% of original.
The next picture is at 100% resolution, crop to field of view 15'
(after some deconvolution and contrast adjustment using AstraImage)
Processing: IRIS (calibration, alignment), FITStacker (stacking, gamma, color correction), RawTherapee, FITWorks4, GIMP (SCNR by my plugin, BW+Color combining), FSViewer, crop, resize 50% of original.
The next picture is at 100% resolution, crop to field of view 15'
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