NGC 4565 – The Needle Galaxy is an edge-on spiral galaxy between 30 to 50 million light years away located in the Coma Berenices constellation. Details: Comprised of 10 minute exposures for each filter: 12x Red, 10x Green, 11x Blue, and 10x Luminance. Captured the nights of 18 and 19 Read more…
NGC 3628 – The Hamburger Galaxy (also called Sarah’s Galaxy) is an unbarred spiral galaxy located about 35 million light years away from Earth in the constellation Leo. Although pictured alone here (due to narrow field of view of my telescope setup), it is part of a group of galaxies Read more…
The Leo Quartet consists of a collection of 4 galaxies located in the constellation of Leo. The galaxies are NGC3185, NGC3187, NGC3190 and NGC3193. Note that NGC3185 is out of frame in this image, but the remaining items are:Top Left: NGC 3193 (Galaxy) – 99.5 million light years awayTop Right: Read more…
Tonight, I’ll be going live for the maximum viewable conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. Live stream will begin at 4:45pm US Pacific / 7:45pm US Eastern time. I’ll be broadcasting the view from my Planewave 12.5″ CDK telescope at my remote observatory in Rodeo, NM. Remember, I have an all-sky Read more…
Live on our YouTube channel sharing the view from the AstroShed down in Rodeo, NM at Rusty’s RV Ranch.
Michael is live-streaming his adventure with Jupiter and Saturn from his observatory in Rodeo, NM at Rusty’s RV Ranch.