Getting to observe this comet was special after a lot of expectation and disappointment of Halley’s comet in 1987. Share any memories of Hale-Bopp that you have. twitter.com/parags/status/…
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Read more@pundmentlyflawd Don’t think that is true for every bank. I have wired money to people other than me from online bank.
Read moreI remember hiking in the Grand Canyon in following week and the comet looked so much brighter in dark skies out there.
Read moreAlmost 25 years to the day when I took this photo of comet Hale-Bopp at Princeton Battlefield park in Princeton, NJ. This was taken with a Pentax K1000 - 50mm lens and Kodak Gold 100 film. t.co/KhfLjxyL5…
Read moreWordle 298 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Read more@StargazerRob OOOF! It definitely is too much. Breathtaking!!!
Read more@QuantumTessera Surprised to see no papers from PhD. My advisor was very good at encouraging publication of small chunks of research as I went along. I had 9 papers in grad school with 5 first author ones. My most prolific stage in terms of paper writing in my life.
Read more@curiousgawker This sounds a lot like my interactions with fellow astronomy enthusiasts.
Read moreMarkarian’s chain paragvs.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/mar…
Read moreWordle 297 4/6 🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨🟩🟨 ⬛🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Current streak at 100.
Read more@bhalomanush I think it is worse in China especially while getting off the plane.
Read more@bhalomanush Are you in India?
Read more@RealNLM @StargazerRob @catchingphoton1 I like the wide-field view with this scope for Markarian’s chain as there are many more galaxies around it that can be captured in one frame.
Read more@clarkjames70 Thanks! It is just frustrating that on the few nights when there are no other commitments, the clouds show up. Trying to maximize the time available on many targets of interest. Also, can’t pull all-nighters anymore like I used to in younger days.
Read more@RealNLM @StargazerRob @catchingphoton1 Thanks! This was taken using William Optics ZenithStar 61 telescope with focal length of 370mm.
Read more@MeijerNijmegen Thanks, Anton!!!
Read moreM88 is a spiral galaxy. It looks like miniature Andromeda galaxy due to its orientation. It is moving away from us at 2000 km/s.
Read moreThe Eyes galaxies appear at about 100,000 light years from each other but they were probably as close as 16,000 light years and it appears that the galaxy on the right has stripped some material from the galaxy on the left.
Read moreM84 is also an elliptical galaxy that is one of the brightest in the Virgo cluster. Three supernovae have been observed in this galaxy in 1957, 1980, and 1991. This is unusual for an elliptical galaxy.
Read moreIn this field there are a couple of galaxies that have some interesting features. M86, an elliptical galaxy has a large blue shift indicating that it is moving towards us at 280km/s. Actually it is getting pulled towards the core of Virgo cluster but relatively towards us. t.co/GlRfYO4MM…
Read moreM87 aka Virgo A is a giant elliptical galaxy which is one of the strongest known radio source. It is larger then Milky Way and contains about 12000 star clusters compare to ~150 in MW. It has a supermassive black hole at the center that amounts to 2-3 billion solar masses.
Read more@catchingphoton1 @StargazerRob Thank you for that image identifying all the objects. This was a quick first shot. I’ll have to spend more time collecting more data and more processing.
Read moreHere is the full frame of the cropped photo from last tweet. I could mark about 50 galaxies but there are many more in this field of view. The whole cluster is about 50-70 million light years away. t.co/03V5cAWsk…
Read more@StargazerRob @catchingphoton1 Thank you, Rob!
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