Deer Lick Galaxy by AstronomyMan
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This is a favourite of mine, The Deer Lick Galaxy Group. Apart from the obvious large galaxy there are at least four other small ones in this picture. The big one (Caldwell 30) is 49 million light years away.
Photo taken with my usual gear at Cherry Springs State Park in PA. This is THE DARKEST site on the East Coast of America. There is no light polution here, no cities, no MacDonalds no idiot car sales outlets that polute the sky with light that serves no purpose.
I will post other pictures I got from this vivit in days to come. Interesting to compare to other posts I have made of the same objects from my deck.
20 x 3 minute exposures, Orion Starshoot camera on an 8" F5 scope, guided with a QGuide CMOS camera on a piggybacked 3" scope. Images calibrated and stacked with NEBULOSITY, curves and level adjust with PaintShopPro X.
Comments (13)
alltheoriginalnames
Great capture. Light polution lol, tell me about it. I live way up in the mountains in northern New England so when I went to Boston to work for a month, I couldn't barely see any stars, even on a "clear" night.
jared99
Excellent work. Glad you have a dark sky available to you.
Octaganoid
Great ! Light pollution wipes out 90 percent of the sky where i live which is a crying shame !!
PhrankPower
Absolutely stunning. To think of the distance is almost too much to comprehend. Hell, just 49 light years is mind-blowing enough, but 49 million? Sheesh! Looking forward to more!
Cosme..D..Churruca
Really amazing!
athesdan
splendid shot !
Rob2753
What an awesome image !!! Bravo !
Fidelity2
Very well done. 5+.
nikolais
just amazing to be able to see so deep. thanks for sharing
Gammacrucis
You are right, now it's difficult to find a place without artificial light disturbing the beauty of the sky by night. I like the groups od Galaxies, they seem friends in the Universe that cross the big black spaces together. Very good work, thank you for sharing ^__^
lue
wow nice work I like it a lot, now let me ask you somthnig do you have andromeda any where I would like to see it if you do. Now as far as light polution o man I am in chicago and if you see few stars it is good but where I lived beck home in old country you could see so many stars and milky way o man it is awsom there is just somthnig in them and meritor showers towoards the end of summer I miss the night sky not much time for fun but thenks to you and other people I see nice things, thanks so much and nice work.
RobyHermida
NICE...................
WindchimePhotography
Wonderful! I'm thinking of getting a telescope myself, but it would be my first and I don't know the first thing about photographing through one.