Hi all ... HUGE HONOR...
SPACE.COM has a featured article specifically on the Pleiades star cluster (M45) ... and for the main/lead-in photo... they used MY image of Pleiades!
You can see their article here: https://www.space.com/pleiades.html
So honored!!!
-Jeff J.
jeffj astronomy
Backyard astro-imaging by Jeffrey O. Johnson
Thursday, January 12, 2023
Friday, December 30, 2022
On Instagram... about SEEING STARS IN ANOTHER GALAXY
Captured from my backyard... already shared here in my blog, but also have it on Instagram (for those there):
https://www.instagram.com/p/ClJwdTUr7PW/
https://www.instagram.com/p/ClJwdTUr7PW/
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Christmas Tree Cluster
*** MERRY CHRISTMAS ***
Here is something I made using one of my images...for my family and friends around the world... ❤️❤️❤️
The Christmas Tree Cluster... (from Las Cruces, NM USA)
Red nebula ... and so a red Christmas tree 🙂 🎄
Merry Christmas!!!
Red nebula ... and so a red Christmas tree 🙂 🎄
Merry Christmas!!!
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
NGC 891 (edge-on spiral galaxy)
NGC 891 (edge-on spiral galaxy in the Andromeda Constellation)
Taken over 2 nights from my backyard in Las Cruces, NM.
Dates: 13, 28 Oct 2022.
26x10minL (bin1x1), 6x5min ea RGB (bin2x2)
Tak TOA-130F
EM200
QSI 690wsg
This is a center crop of the larger widefield image.
My main site: http://jeffjastro.com
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Seeing stars in ANOTHER GALAXY... 2.5 million light years away!
Seeing stars in ANOTHER GALAXY... 2.5 million light years away!
(image captured from Las Cruces)
The center of this image (a group of blue stars) is NGC 206 ... which lies within M31 - Andromeda Galaxy. Do you see those tiny blue dots in the center of NGC 206? Some of those are individual stars that are in Andromeda (a galaxy 2.5 Million Light Years away from us!). Along with the individual stars, you can see the massive arms/dustlanes of M31, as well as some huge emission nebula areas (red areas) also in M31 throughout the image. The "other stars" you see around this image are foreground stars, that is, they are stars within our own Milky Way Galaxy.
I captured this from my backyard here in Las Cruces using TOA-130F scope, EM200 mount, QSI 690wsg camera on 28 Oct 2022.
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
NGC 7000 - a close look
My latest backyard result: NGC 7000 - a close look.
This is the Southwest part of the N. America Nebula (NGC 7000)...and I conveniently live in the Southwestern U.S., which would be in this area 🙂
Scope: TOA-130F
Mount: EM200
Camera: EM200
LHaRGB data - for a "true color" look
And here it is in Ha (H-alpha filter) only... so a mono view, which I seem to prefer on this one!
Friday, October 28, 2022
Capturing a star cluster - in ANOTHER GALAXY
Two weeks ago, I took my TOA-130 telescope to the backyard and took a very simple/quick image of galaxy NGC 185 (Caldwell 18). This galaxy is just over 2 million light years away. After some research, I found a Hubble image of same (showing individual stars of that galaxy), PLUS a globular cluster also in that galaxy.
The globular cluster is on the left side of the main galaxy - and highlighted with a line (in my image).
In this video you will see: I have taken the Hubble image data and superimposed it onto MY humble image of NGC 185 (that I took from my backyard).
Certainly no individual stars are seen my my result (they are blurred together)...BUT... I did pick up the globular cluster - in another galaxy!!!
My video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjeeIXKfCM8