BlackEye Galaxy by AstronomyMan

Photography • Space • posted on Jul 03, 2007

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Hi guys, no I haven't left and gone to another world I am still here and still snapping pictures of heavenly bodies. I also had my appendix out so I walk a little lighter now. This is the BlackEye Galaxy, coz it looks like it got a black eye, sheesh). It is number 64 in that Frenchmans list of things that are not comets. Whats new, I am still using the dedicated CCD camera on my telescope. My old webcam has been seriously tweeked with a soldering iron so I can use it attached to another telescope that is mounted on the back of the one used to take this picture. The webcam now interfaces with the telescope mount so that the mount is guided to keep the image in the same place for hours. As a result, I can now take images of very faint thingies with long exposures before the earth moves and ruins the exposure. Enjoy and HAPPY JULY 4th

Comments (10)

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Gortworg

9:24AM | Tue, 03 July 2007

Nice object !

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TwoPynts

9:33AM | Tue, 03 July 2007

Glad to see you have beamed off to another galaxy just yet. Hope you are recovered for having that surgery. Cool shot, a real shiner! ;'] Have a great 4th!

tr4cey

10:13AM | Tue, 03 July 2007

WOW. That is awesome! I've been wanting to try to catch the full moon over the last couple of nights, but havent been able to - we've been swamped with cloud cover... Grrrrr...

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mamabobbijo

9:28AM | Wed, 04 July 2007

Very cool to see and great that you are OK. BJ

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teoratiu

2:27PM | Wed, 04 July 2007

impressive capture. congratulations

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NefariousDrO

5:04PM | Wed, 04 July 2007

That is too cool! I'm also really impressed with your technical know-how to make a guided-telescope for long exposures. Very very cool!

bebert

1:03PM | Sat, 07 July 2007

MESSIER catalog :))) superb !!! excellent " suivi" !!!

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2Loose2Trek

10:00PM | Fri, 24 August 2007

Impressive photo ... and inspiring expertise. Well done!

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Cosme..D..Churruca

1:00PM | Mon, 15 October 2007

Fascinating!

mstepansky

2:04AM | Thu, 28 February 2008

Like Einstein's famous quote: "Spooky distance at action" (a hint that he didn't believe about teleportation, in which some wierd phenomenas might occurred in the quantum mechanical laws of physics) How many light years is that Black Eye Galaxy"? Thanks!