
All details at Astrobin, see also below.
Continue readingThe galaxy season started, here’s a modest try at M51. See at Astrobin and below for more details.
Continue readingNGC 4945, a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus, vnear the star Xi Centauri.
All details at Astrobin.
All details at Astrobin.
M87 aka Virgo A aka NGC 4486, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in Virgo. Recently, in April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope project published the first direct image of (the shadow of) the supermassive black hole at the center. The cutout shows the blueish plasma jet emitted from the central black hole.
All details at Astrobin Image of the Day 01 Aug 2019 and the version with enlargement here.
A southern hemisphere beauty, the massive, grand design spiral galaxy M83 aka NGC 5236 in Hydra.
All details at Astrobin.
A first deep sky image from this year’s trip to the IAS Observatory Hakos, Namibia.
The supernova SN2019ehk was discovered on 2019-04-29 by Jaroslaw Grzegorzek.