Backyard Stargazing and Amateur Astronomy in Suffolk, Virginia USA
Check it out! A supernova in M51 the Whirlpool Galaxy. Pretty cool stuff. More information on the supernova can be found here www.universetoday.com/86261/supernova-discovered-in-m51-t… The supernova is tagged on the Flickr page which can be found here http://www.flickr.com/photos/herseyc/5797898286/. M51- Whirlpool Galaxy with Supernova 06/03/2011 – Suffolk, VA Camera: Orion Star Shoot DSI II Scope: Astro-Tech 66 [...]
A couple galaxy shots I took last weekend. First was M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy. This is a stack of thirty 60 second shots through the AT66 with my Orion StarShooter DSI II. I guided through the C6-SCT. I think it turned out pretty good. This is M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy. Again it is a stack [...]
I took this image of M51 the Whirlpool Galaxy on 4/27/2009. It is a single 2 minute prime focus image. I wish I had been able to get a few more. I took several other images that have things (satellites, meteors, plane, ???) streaking through them. And here is another one, hard to see but [...]
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