Another backyard galaxy before the summer break, details here at Astrobin.
Continue readingM106 – Galaxy in Canes Venatici
Monthly Archives: May 2020
NGC 6188 Workflow
Description of the PixInsight workflow for processing the recently posted NGC 6188 image.
Continue readingNGC 6188 – Emission Nebula in Ara – May 2020 IAS Remote Session
Remote Observatory, Hakos, Namibia
Data acquisition by Herbert Sauber/Werner Möhler for the IAS e.V. community, used with kind permission.
Also posted to Astrobin.
Continue readingISS Strike at the Center of the M106 Galaxy
When the ISS flew over Cologne, Germany on 15 May 2020, 02:17 – 02:24 CEST, the path went straight through M106 which I was imaging at that time.
Given the recent Starlink upheaval, I was a bit angry that one of my subexposures had been ruined by a bright satellite. But on second thought I realized that this was a special event. The path of the ISS flyover can be seen here on heavens-above.com.
Single image, exposure time 10 min, not stacked. See below for technical details.
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