Hi, This is an image of NGC 6503. It is a field dwarf spiral galaxy about 17 million light years away in the constellation Draco. A field galaxy is one that does not belong to a galaxy group. This gal

Hi, This is an image of NGC 5033. It is a spiral galaxy about 40 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is about 100,000 light years in diameter, making it about the same siz

NGC 5701 (UGC 9436, PGC 52365 and others) is a barred, ringed spiral galaxy located approximately 80 million light-years away in in Virgo. Luminance – 24x600s – 240 minutes – binned 1x1 RGB – 8x300s –

NGC 6426 is a Shapley-Sawyer class XII (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2%80%93Sawyer_Concentration_Class) globular cluster located approximately 67,500 light-years away in Ophiuchus. Luminance

I’m sending this to the DarkSkyNewMexico group because one of the members in the shared pier building will be doing an advanced presentation on PixInsight. We’ll start with a presentation on some of o

NGC 5746 (UGC 9499, PGC 52665 and others) is an edge-on galaxy located approximately 95 million light-years away in Virgo. The brightness from the left is from 109 Virginis, a magnitude 3.71 star just

M64 (NGC 4826, UGC 8062 and others) is spiral galaxy located approximately 24 million light-years away in Coma Berenices. Luminance – 24x600s – 240 minutes – binned 1x1 RGB – 10x300s – 50 minutes each

Dolidze-Dzimselejsvili 7 is an open cluster of six stars located in Hercules. Luminance – 24x300s – binned 1x1 – 120 minutes RGB – 8x180s – 24 minutes each – binned 2x2 182 minutes total exposure – 3

NGC 5297 (UGC 8709 and others) is a large spiral interacting with NGC 5269 (PGC 48811 and others), a smaller spiral below and to the right (west). These galaxies are located approximately 100 million

I’m sending this to the DSNM group because Rick Steiling is a member imaging from the shared (1M) building. The May Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri Digital SIG (Imaging) Meeting will be held

Hi, This is an image of M104, also known as the Sombrero Galaxy. It is a lenticular galaxy about 31 million light years away in the constellation Virgo. It is about 50,000 light years in diameter, mak

M14 (NGC 6402 and others) is a Shapley-Sawyer class VIII (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2%80%93Sawyer_Concentration_Class) globular cluster located approximately 30,300 light-years away in Oph

Hi all Palomar 5 is a globular cluster in Serpens with a very low concentration of stars (Shapley-Sawyer XII): http://www.greggsastronomy.com/IMAGES/pal5-LRGB.jpg Map: http://www.greggsastronomy.com/I

Hi all: Comet c2020 H2 Pruyne was discovered on April 26 by T. A. Pruyne of the Catalina Sky Survey. Very faint and diffuse, moving fairly rapidly to the north: http://www.greggsastronomy.com/IMAGES/c

Hi all: You may not have seen this trio before (because I just made it up), but NGC 4762, 4754 and 4733 make an intersting grouping in Virgo: http://www.greggsastronomy.com/IMAGES/ngc4762-LRGB.jpg NGC

Hi NGC 4654 is an interesting spiral galaxy near the border of Virgo and Coma Berenices; NGC 4639 is about 20 arcminutes to the northwest: http://www.greggsastronomy.com/IMAGES/ngc4654-LRGB.jpg 1.3X c

Hi, This is an image of M64, also known as the Black Eye Galaxy. It is a spiral galaxy about 17 million light years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. A dark band of dust around the central nuc

Arp 280 consists of NGC 3769 (UGC 6595 and others), the large galaxy interacting with NGC 3769A (MCG+08-21-077 and others) below and to the left (east). Found in Arp’s ‘Double Galaxies – Interacting’

Hi all: Here are two Messier objects which somehow escaped me for all these years: M68 - globular cluster in Hydra: http://www.greggsastronomy.com/IMAGES/m68-LRGB.jpg LRGB, 4 hours total exposure M58

Hi, This is an image of M106, also known as NGC 4258. It is a spiral galaxy about 25 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. Companion galaxy NGC 4248 can be seen on the right si