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http://www.tipf.co.uk/forums/topic/46369-important~-the-forum-its-future-and-finances/

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https://www.tipf.co.uk/forums/topic/57184-202223-forum-finances-update-4th-july-2023/

 

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The spring skies in the early hours galaxies abound. This is because we look out through a thin section of our galaxy towards a vast supercluster of these stellar cities which has 1000's of members and spans through five different constellations.

Here are just two members The famous Whirlpool and Sombrero galaxies.

First The Whirlpool is a classic spiral with its bullied neighbour in tow is 37million light years away is face on to us.

Second The Sombrero is 41 million light years distant and on the opposite side of the supercluster is about the same size as our galaxy  is another spiral and is edge on to us. It has a seam of thick dust running through it.

Taken with a 16" driven Newtonian and a Nikon 3200D at prime focus. 1600ISO and 3200ISO respectively and 20 second exposure.M51WPG020322.thumb.JPG.8e87e3929c7a101a886f8a155c381631.JPGSombrero020322.thumb.JPG.fe5247178164f9f6da5bdc3ca18de3f2.JPG

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Being spoiled by all the clear, still and relatively mild nights.

Here's another  galaxy from the super cluster and one of my favourites. Its M64 or the Black Eye Galaxy. A spiral 1/3 the size of our galaxy and one of the nearer ones at 'only' 12 million light years distant!  But what this system lacks in stature make up for it by its distinctive bright nucleus contrasting with its huge dark dust lane.

Taken at prime focus on a driven 16" Newtonian and a the above camera.

25 sec exposure at 3200 ISO

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