{"id":2163,"date":"2016-06-05T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2018-01-13T13:06:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T13:06:49","slug":"may-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.popastro.com\/deepsky\/may-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two section members overcame the difficulties of bad weather conditions and ever shorter nights to produce the 10 images reproduced below.<\/p>\n

Ian Papworth,<\/strong> SPA membership secretary, sent in 9 of the 10 received;\u00a0 the first four are M97, the Owl planetary nebula in the constellation of Ursa Major; \u00a0 M65, a spiral galaxy in Leo;\u00a0 M57, the Ring planetary nebula in Lyra (Ian imaged this object twice) and M5, a globular cluster in Serpens.<\/p>\n

The Owl is thought to be around 8000 years old, and is about 2000 light years from the Earth.\u00a0 One of the famous Leo trio of galaxies, M65 has a slightly deformed disk:\u00a0 this and a “recent” bout of new star production is indicative of an interaction with a neighbouring galaxy.\u00a0 M57 is about 2300 light years from us, but at under 2000\u00a0 years old is less than a quarter the age of M97.\u00a0 At magnutude 5.7 M5 is an easy binocular target, lying close to 5 Serpentis.<\/p>\n

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M97<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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M65<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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M57<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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M5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The next four images are M82, the Cigar starburst galaxy in Ursa Major;\u00a0 globular cluster M10, which lies in the constellation of Ophiuchus;\u00a0 globular cluster M92 in Hercules and M63, the Sunflower galaxy in Canes Venatici.\u00a0 Ian uses a Celestron Nexstar\u00a0 6SE f6.3 SCT and a ZWO ASI MM camera plus RG and B filters.<\/p>\n

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M82<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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M10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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M92<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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M63<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Steve Norrie<\/strong> sent in the image below.\u00a0 It is instantly recognisable as M51, the Whirlpool galaxy in Canes Venatici.\u00a0 There in fact two galaxies in the image;\u00a0 M51 a and M51 b (or NGC 5194 and NGC 5195) and they are an interacting pair.\u00a0 The larger M51 a has an active nucleus, and is a Seyfert type 2 galaxy.\u00a0 Steve used an Atik 490EX camera, and an ES127 apochromatic refractor to capture this image.<\/p>\n

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M51<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Dave Finnigan<\/em><\/p>\n

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Two section members overcame the difficulties of bad weather conditions and ever shorter nights to produce the 10 images reproduced below. Ian Papworth, SPA membership secretary, sent in 9 of the 10 received;\u00a0 the first four are M97, the OwlRead more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t