All details at Astrobin, see also below.
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M51 – Whirlpool Galaxy
The galaxy season started, here’s a modest try at M51. See at Astrobin and below for more details.
Continue readingXi and NGC 4945 – Galaxy in Centaurus
Xi and NGC 4945 – Galaxy in Centaurus
NGC 4945, a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus, vnear the star Xi Centauri.
All details at Astrobin.
NGC 2997 – Spiral Galaxy in Antlia
NGC 2997 – Spiral Galaxy in Antlia
All details at Astrobin.
M87 – Supergiant Elliptical Galaxy
M87 – Virgo A – NGC 4486 – Supergiant Elliptical Galaxy
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.
M83 – Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
M83 / NGC 5236 – Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
A southern hemisphere beauty, the massive, grand design spiral galaxy M83 aka NGC 5236 in Hydra.
All details at Astrobin.
M100 with Supernova SN2019ehk
M100 mit Supernova SN2019ehk
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.