One Galaxy or two sir?

[steppenwolf]

For the first time in ages I managed to get out and image last night with the main goal being to run the equipment up to ensure that it was all still working. The following is my series of test shots centred on NGC 4889. This region of sky is populated my huge numbers of galaxies and, apparently dust bunnies too

[Whippy]

That's a quailty image, and the galaxies aren't bad either . Very nice sir.

Tony..

[barkis]

Can't see the Bunnies for Galaxies Steve.

That's a great Pic. The gear is 'A OK..

Ron.

[RichieJarvis]

Beautiful Steve - glad to see the equipment has survived its hibernation OK

There are a lot of them in there - have you run it through astrometry.net to get them all ID'd? I reckon that shot would be well worth it!

You can tell its Galaxy season out there, can't you

Cheers,

Richie

[Psychobilly]

Great to see your up and about again Steve

Nice one...

Billy...

[Beyond_Vision]

Bagged a few fuzzies there. Nice to see you back up and running Steve.

Regards

Kevin

[JCJC]

Great image Steve, loads of galaxies in there.

Jordan

[RichieJarvis]

Steve - do you mind if I grab that image and run it through Astrometry on Flickr? I'd love to see it solve an image like that!

Cheers,

Richie

[steppenwolf]

Feel free, Richie

[RichieJarvis]

Steve + all - I've added this image to my Flickr site and tagged it for Astrometry solving - hopefully we should see some results in about an hour....

You can view here: 20130d1237467551-one-galaxy-two-sir-ngc4889_180309 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Once its been solved, the Astrometry data will appear as a comment under the image.

[jgs001]

Wow, that's a lot of fuzzies in there Steve, nice one.

[RichieJarvis]

It took a bit longer than usual for the Astrometry.net server to solve the image (i think it was down for a couple of days), but the image has been solved. Heres the details - click on the Flickr link to see the image overlay with each target identified.

Flickr Link: 20130d1237467551-one-galaxy-two-sir-ngc4889_180309 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Astrometry.net Results:

Hello, this is the blind astrometry solver. Your results are:

(RA, Dec) center:(195.024019277, 27.9571109985) degrees

(RA, Dec) center (H:M:S, D:M:S):(13:00:5.765, +27:57:25.600)

Orientation:176.38 deg E of N

Pixel scale:31.34 arcsec/pixel

Parity:Reverse ("Left-handed")

Field size :2.09 x 1.39 degrees

Your field contains:

NGC 4839

NGC 4841

NGC 4848

NGC 4874

NGC 4889

NGC 4895

NGC 4921

NGC 4931

NGC 4944

View in World Wide Telescope

I love this service

Cheers,

Richie

[steppenwolf]

Thanks for submitting that, Richie

[RobH]

Interesting image very well captured and processed Steve.

What was the rig?

If dust bunnies are that size, maybe they account for dark matter!!

Cheers

Rob