M87 Galaxy Showing Jet from Black Hole at its center. 14×240 sec, Gain 11, Offset 31, QHY183c cooled to -13C, UHC-S filter, Televue TV-85 at F/5.6, SharpCap 3.2.
I’ve tried this before with little success, but this time the jet of M87 shows quite well in this nearly 1 hour exposure. The amount of energy to shoot out a jet this long is enormous!
M87 Galaxy Showing Jet from Black Hole at its center. 14×240 sec, Gain 11, Offset 31, QHY183c cooled to -13C, UHC-S filter, Televue TV-85 at F/5.6, SharpCap 3.2. Detail Crop.
It even shows the characteristic blue color of the synchrotron radiation of electrons spiraling in a magnetic field.
Supernova SN2020jfo in M61. 248×30 sec, Gain 30, Offset 31, Bin 2, QHY183c at -10C, UHC-S filter, Televue TV-85 at F/5.6. Detail Crop.Supernova SN2020jfo in M61. 248×30 sec, Gain 30, Offset 31, Bin 2, QHY183c at -10C, UHC-S filter, Televue TV-85 at F/5.6. Full field view.
I imaged the galaxy above and the globular below on Sunday, May 10, 2020. Very nice weather that day and a pretty good evening, too. Being I had to work the next day, I cut the session short and only got data on two objects.
M13 Globula Cluster. 100×30 sec, Gain 42 and 1hr (60×60 sec) at Gain 30, Offset 31, QHY183c at -10C, UHC-S filter, Televue TV-85 at F/5.6.
M63, the Sunflower Galaxy. 121×60 sec @ Gain 30, Offset 15, QHY183c at -10C, UHC-S filter, Televue TV-85 at F/5.6M5 Globular Cluster.. 172×60 sec @ Gain 30, Offset 15, QHY183c at -10C, UHC-S filter, Televue TV-85 at F/5.6M27 Planetary Nebula. 60×60 sec @ Gain 30, Offset 15, QHY183c at -10C, UHC-S filter, Televue TV-85 at F/5.6
The Sunflower Galaxy was the second time this year for imaging it, so I combined the two data sets and got this detail view below. It is 3.77 hrs total time:
M63, the Sunflower Galaxy. 152×30 sec, Gain 42, 121×60 sec @ Gain 30, Offset 15, QHY183c at -10C, UHC-S filter, Televue TV-85 at F/5.6.
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