Saturday, Nov 2, 2024

Another Galaxy, another world, approximately 15 million light years away from Earth. Contains around 40 billion stars. With a diameter of 40,000 light-years, the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy. The red spots contained in its spiral arms are nebulae excited by its very hot young stars, while the blue spots are newly formed stellar clusters. Captured at the Madruguinha Observatory, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil, between 03/14/2024 and 05/01/2024, with a total of 78 hours of exposure. 1070 frames of 60 seconds in L 907 60 second frames in R 928 60 second frames in G 919 60 second frames in B 86 frames of 600 seconds in Ha Setup Used: - GSO 305mm F/5 Newtonian telescope, AstroPipe carbon tube; - SkyWatcher EQ8 R-Pro Germanic Equatorial Mount; - ZWO ASI2600MM camera; - ZWO ASI 174mm mini Guiding Camera - SkyWatcher Quattro Coma Corrector; - 36mm Antlia V-Pro LRGB and Ha filters; - OAG L ZWO - Filter wheel and ZWO electronic focuser. Software Used: Capture: NINA – Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy Guindance: PHD2 Processing: PixInsight Pleiades Astrophoto and Adobe Photoshop