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Messier 51 galaxy from my back garden.
I imaged two colliding galaxies in our night sky
Thomas McCrorie
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Messier 1 — The Crab nebula: a supernova explosion from a back garden.
I imaged this supernova remnant from my back garden on the 15th January 2024, using my one shot colour camera, my skywatcher telescope...
Thomas McCrorie
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A full run down of the Messier catalogue of deep sky objects.
I have imaged some of these Messier objects from my back garden on the west coast of Scotland. The full Messier list of deep sky objects listed shown below. Messier Catalogue : Charles Messier Number of objects : 110 Above is shown an image of Messier 51a – The whirlpool galaxy which is essentially two galaxies colliding, that I took from my back garden in 2023. This is a total of 12 hours or so made up of lots of 180 second exposures, stacked and combined to give one final i
Thomas McCrorie
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