Daily Random Photos - ONE PIX PER DAY (process, adjust, photoshop)

[elnina]

[Lamplight]

[Art2ro]

Banol Beach - Coron, Philippines (360 deg view)

One of the many secluded beaches in the Coron islands of Palawan.

[Snikt]

[orogenicman]

Messier 1, The Crab Nebula, In Taurus

From Wikipedia:

The Crab Nebula (catalogue designations M1, NGC 1952, Taurus A) is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. Corresponding to a bright supernova recorded by Chinese, Arab, and Japanese astronomers in 1054, the nebula was observed later by John Bevis in 1731.
At X-ray and gamma-ray energies above 30 keV, the Crab is generally the strongest persistent source in the sky, with measured flux extending to above 1012 eV. Located at a distance of about 6,500 light-years (2 kpc) from Earth, the nebula has a diameter of 11 light years (3.4 pc) and expands at a rate of about 1,500 kilometers per second. It is part of the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy.
At the center of the nebula lies the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star (or spinning ball of neutrons), 28–30 km across,[5] which emits pulses of radiation from gamma rays to radio waves with a spin rate of 30.2 times per second. The nebula was the first astronomical object identified with a historical supernova explosion.
The nebula acts as a source of radiation for studying celestial bodies that occult it. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Sun's corona was mapped from observations of the Crab's radio waves passing through it, and in 2003, the thickness of the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan was measured as it blocked out X-rays from the nebula.
The cloudy remnants of SN 1054 are now known as the Crab Nebula. The nebula is also referred to as Messier 1 or M1, being the first Messier Object catalogued in 1758.


Image:

10 x 300sec = 50 minutes at ISO 800 (Cropped)

Processed using DeepSky Stacker and Adobe Photoshop CS3

Image taken on January 4, 2011 at the Louisville Astronomical Society James Baker Center for Astronomy

Equipment:

Camera:

Hutech Modified Canon T1i with Baader MPCC Coma Corrector and Baader UV/IR cut astronomical filter

Telescope:

200mm f5 modified Konus Newtonian

Guiding:

80mm f5 Orion Shorty refractor with Orion Starshooter Autoguide camera using PhD guiding software

Mount:

Losmandy G-11 German equatorial mount with Gemini Go To controller

Tripod:

Losmandy Heavy Duty Telescope Tripod

[PhotogGal]

A scene from the Museum of Appalachia in Clinton, TN:

[sanspeur]

[DontLookPhoto]

A small part of the Mission Mountains as viewed from Post Creek in Mission Valley on
The Flathead Indian Reservation in Northwestern Montana.

[RayinAK]

[orogenicman]

Messier 3 (NGC 6272), Globular Cluster in Canes Venatici

From Wikepedia:

Messier 3 (also known as M3 or NGC 5272) is a globular cluster of stars in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Charles Messier on May 3, 1764,[7] and resolved into stars by William Herschel around 1784. Since then, it has become one of the best-studied globular clusters. Identification of the cluster's unusually large variable star population was begun in 1913 by American astronomer Solon Irving Bailey and new variable members continue to be identified up through 2004

This cluster is one of the largest and brightest (in the Milky Way), and is made up of around 500,000 stars. It is estimated to be 8 billion years old. It is located at a distance of about 33,900 light-years away from Earth.

Image:

20 x 60 sec = 20 minutes at ISO 800

Processed using DeepSky Stacker and Adobe Photoshop CS3

Image taken on April 5, 2011 at the Louisville Astronomical Society James Baker Center for Astronomy

Equipment:

Camera:

Hutech Modified Canon T1i with Baader MPCC Coma Corrector and Baader UV/IR cut astronomical filter

Telescope:

200mm f5 modified Konus Newtonian

Guiding:

80mm f5 Orion Shorty refractor with Orion Starshooter Autoguide camera using PhD guiding software

Mount:

Losmandy G-11 German equatorial mount with Gemini Go To controller

Tripod:

Losmandy Heavy Duty Telescope Tripod