M87 and jet

[tooth_dr]

Unguided belt modded EQ6

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Atik 383L+

R 30 x 80s / G 22 x 80s / B 20 x 80s = Total exposure 1 hour 35 mins

 

 

[Craney]

Nice one Adam.   I only twigged last week that this is the galaxy that the  'famous black-hole' picture came from.

Did you do a lot of processing to extract the jet ??

[Ouroboros]

Excellent image. Interesting how the negative image brings it out more. 

[tooth_dr]

2 minutes ago, Craney said:

Nice one Adam.   I only twigged last week that this is the galaxy that the  'famous black-hole' picture came from.

Did you do a lot of processing to extract the jet ??

Thanks Sean. I literally spent about 10 minutes on this.  I combined the channels and adjusted levels and curves, and that was it.  The jet was visible easily in 80s subs.

[don4l]

Nice!

I've tried to capture the jet and failed miserably.  Well done.

[alan potts]

Very nice image, amazing what can be done now, when I started this would be in a book with Hale 200 inch under it, even then it may not have been as good, maybe a bit bigger though.

[Saganite]

Nice image Adam. The jet is clearly visible.

[Ouroboros]

It is a very nice capture.

I don't know what scope tooth_dr used, but the  jet can be captured with quite a modest scope. I've posted this image before.  It was captured with my ED80. I had set out to image the Markarian chain.  It was only later on reading up about it that I realised that M87 has a jet.  So I reprocessed that part of the image and found it is just about visible. 

 

 

[tooth_dr]

1 hour ago, Ouroboros said:

It is a very nice capture.

I don't know what scope tooth_dr used, but the  jet can be captured with quite a modest scope. I've posted this image before.  It was captured with my ED80. I had set out to image the Markarian chain.  It was only later on reading up about it that I realised that M87 has a jet.  So I reprocessed that part of the image and found it is just about visible. 

 

 

Nice capture yourself too!  I have an ED80, and recently did Markarians chain.  I didnt realise M87 was on the periphery of the FOV.

I used an equally modest scope here - an old blue tube 10" Skywatcher newtonian.

[Rodd]

Pretty cool Doc....The jet is clear as a bell.  Amazing.

Rodd

[Ouroboros]

4 hours ago, tooth_dr said:

Nice capture yourself too!  I have an ED80, and recently did Markarians chain.  I didnt realise M87 was on the periphery of the FOV.

I used an equally modest scope here - an old blue tube 10" Skywatcher newtonian.

OK.  Yes, If I were to try and image M87 to bring out the jet I'd use my 8" SW Newtonian. I think too I might try a range of shorter exposure times than I usually do with my DSLR to avoid saturating the jet region with light from the M87 galaxy itself. It would make an interesting imaging exercise. 

[astro mick]

Well done Adam.Thats mighty impressive.

Mick.