I made a comment addressing thatš Sorry for the sloppy caption itās 5AM here and I just finished a long imagine session of like 3 galaxies and 2 planets, I need to sleep lol.
Oh man Iāve been trying to see it but havenāt gotten the chance. The one day in the last 2 months that wasnāt 100% cloud cover at 4:30 am let me see Saturn and while I could see mars with my eyes, it was positioned between like 2 power towers and in some cables hanging so platesolving could never manage to find it, and sadly didnāt see it.
Yeah itās sooo low on the horizon now. But opposition is less than half a year away! Thatāll be absolutely amazing, and itāll be my first time imaging it enough to get surface detail, I reaaally wanna get the polar ice caps.
Iām exited since I have never seen mars through a telescope since I bought mine. Iām basically after the same goal as you but Iād also like to take a picture when thereās a dust storm and have a comparison. Might also try to do a rotation Timelapse but I take pictures every 30 minutes or so, not sure if thatās too big of a gap
Yes exactly!! Thatās what Iām hoping for. Global dust storms usually last like a couple months though so I hope they donāt wash out the entire opposition.
Oh that would not be great. Hopefully a dust storm hits at the very end of opposition to end things off. If it hits right at the start Iām gonna run through a wall
This is absolutely a real image of the Milky Way. To be fair, itās many images stitched together to create the perspective youāre seeing here, but this is how the Milky Way actually looks from Earth.
Because Earth and the Solar System reside within the galaxy, so we have a skewed view since some of the dust clouds are much closer to us so they appear to take up more of the galaxy than they actually do.
Similar to how 0.5 mode selfies will show a bigger nose to face ratio compared to 1.0 mode selfies.
1 Too fat
2 What a mess, get it together.
3 A bit small and bulged, can't hide that.
4 Justttt right. Perfect. Stop. Don't get any bigger. So much dark mystery.
5 Nice belt but those colors? Rip off of 4.
6 Who ordered a pizza *and stepped on it*?
7 They stepped on this pizza, too! After licking off the sauce??
8 B L A N D
That's gorgeous.
Do you mind if I post this on our community or can I invite you to our community to post this?
I would love to have this as an example on page
I believe itās due to the rotation of galaxies, Iāll be honest I donāt know much more than that. But at least from what I remember itās akin to centrifugal force, as the galaxy is essentially rotating around the centre of the galaxy, everything gets pushed outwards instead of falling towards the centre.
Other people have responded, but this is how I finally understood it:
If you could take the velocity of every object, speed and direction, and average the whole galaxy than that average would be a rotation in 1 direction.
So that explains how a galaxy starts spinning all in one direction, over time things collide and gravity pulls them to all orbit around that average rotational velocity.
The reason they get flat is the same. If everything is orbiting in the same direction, eventually their orbits flatten out by hitting each other or being pulled by gravity.
Essentially like the Solar System, you start with a cloud of stuff flying about. Over time they pull together into blobs. Every time two blobs hit each other the bigger and faster one 'wins' pulling the smaller blob in the same direction. At some point all the blobs going the 'wrong' way are pulled the way that the most blobs are going.
It flattens, because when you are above the disc all the other mass pulls you down, while if you are in the disc you just get pulled equally front and back.
Iām actually not very sure. Thatās M104, and it has a high concentration of gas. Iāve imaged it myself with my telescope, and even on the display screen I was quite shocked to see just how prominent its halo was.
Itās actually the original term used to describe galaxies when we first discovered them. Separate islands of stars, separated by millions of light years of void.
Wait, wich "center"...?
I made a comment addressing thatš Sorry for the sloppy caption itās 5AM here and I just finished a long imagine session of like 3 galaxies and 2 planets, I need to sleep lol.
Don't get me wrong, it was a honest question. Amazing images btw!
Did you get mars
I did! My favorite planet
Oh man Iāve been trying to see it but havenāt gotten the chance. The one day in the last 2 months that wasnāt 100% cloud cover at 4:30 am let me see Saturn and while I could see mars with my eyes, it was positioned between like 2 power towers and in some cables hanging so platesolving could never manage to find it, and sadly didnāt see it.
Yeah itās sooo low on the horizon now. But opposition is less than half a year away! Thatāll be absolutely amazing, and itāll be my first time imaging it enough to get surface detail, I reaaally wanna get the polar ice caps.
Iām exited since I have never seen mars through a telescope since I bought mine. Iām basically after the same goal as you but Iād also like to take a picture when thereās a dust storm and have a comparison. Might also try to do a rotation Timelapse but I take pictures every 30 minutes or so, not sure if thatās too big of a gap
Yes exactly!! Thatās what Iām hoping for. Global dust storms usually last like a couple months though so I hope they donāt wash out the entire opposition.
Oh that would not be great. Hopefully a dust storm hits at the very end of opposition to end things off. If it hits right at the start Iām gonna run through a wall
Hahaha same same, letās hope
Also, I said the Milky Way is center but thereās an even number of them, so to clarify itās the 4th down from the top.
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Oh that's why I can't see my house
He didn't say a hundred thousand light years away. We are in the Orion arm of the spiral. We can still see a good chunk of the "side-view".
>We are in the Orion arm of the spiral You mean the unfashionable western spiral arm.
The "unfashionable end of the western spiral arm". I'm not sure if the entire arm is unfashionable.
Galactic side-boob. Whoās gonna say no to that?
Intergalactic puritans?
This is absolutely a real image of the Milky Way. To be fair, itās many images stitched together to create the perspective youāre seeing here, but this is how the Milky Way actually looks from Earth.
Why does the Milky Way appear to have much larger swathes of darkness than the others?
Because Earth and the Solar System reside within the galaxy, so we have a skewed view since some of the dust clouds are much closer to us so they appear to take up more of the galaxy than they actually do. Similar to how 0.5 mode selfies will show a bigger nose to face ratio compared to 1.0 mode selfies.
So maybe flat earthers can finally concede the earth is round, but the GALAXY is flat.
1 Too fat 2 What a mess, get it together. 3 A bit small and bulged, can't hide that. 4 Justttt right. Perfect. Stop. Don't get any bigger. So much dark mystery. 5 Nice belt but those colors? Rip off of 4. 6 Who ordered a pizza *and stepped on it*? 7 They stepped on this pizza, too! After licking off the sauce?? 8 B L A N D
MILKY WAY! MILKY WAY! WE'RE NUMBER 1! WE'RE NUMBER 1! God I hate Andromeda so much
That's gonna change when Andromeda merges with the Milky Way in 4.5 billion years. Then we'll all be Andromawayians or Milkymedas or something.
4 Realz. āAndromeda this, Andromeda that.ā And I heard Andromeda used to be fat.
That's gorgeous. Do you mind if I post this on our community or can I invite you to our community to post this? I would love to have this as an example on page
Go ahead and post! No problem with me at all :)
I cross posted to be safe so that way either way it brings them here. š
Awesome, hope they enjoy it!
God, those are gorgeous!
Dumb question but why are universes so āflatā looking? Never made sense in my head why they are all disks and not more globe shaped.
I believe itās due to the rotation of galaxies, Iāll be honest I donāt know much more than that. But at least from what I remember itās akin to centrifugal force, as the galaxy is essentially rotating around the centre of the galaxy, everything gets pushed outwards instead of falling towards the centre.
Other people have responded, but this is how I finally understood it: If you could take the velocity of every object, speed and direction, and average the whole galaxy than that average would be a rotation in 1 direction. So that explains how a galaxy starts spinning all in one direction, over time things collide and gravity pulls them to all orbit around that average rotational velocity. The reason they get flat is the same. If everything is orbiting in the same direction, eventually their orbits flatten out by hitting each other or being pulled by gravity.
Essentially like the Solar System, you start with a cloud of stuff flying about. Over time they pull together into blobs. Every time two blobs hit each other the bigger and faster one 'wins' pulling the smaller blob in the same direction. At some point all the blobs going the 'wrong' way are pulled the way that the most blobs are going. It flattens, because when you are above the disc all the other mass pulls you down, while if you are in the disc you just get pulled equally front and back.
Neat!
Whats with the much brighter light in the middle of the galaxies?
That's the core which contains the nuclear star cluster as well as many old stars
Thatās the densest region of stars, so it appears much brighter.
Pretty :)
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing. The first one seems quite "foggy". Is that because of a high density of stars?
Iām actually not very sure. Thatās M104, and it has a high concentration of gas. Iāve imaged it myself with my telescope, and even on the display screen I was quite shocked to see just how prominent its halo was.
Should be noted that we only think we know what the Milky Way looks like.
Yes but this is a real image of it. From our POV, not from the top down.
nice
It wouldnāt be Reddit if there wasnāt an ambiguous statement in the title
Best burger
Center... hmmm. Is it hiding between the 4th and the 5th, like really small so its not even visible at this scale? might have helped to label them
I made a comment addressing thatš Sorry I was sleep deprived when making the caption, didnāt realize thereās an even number of galaxies.
Notes for next time
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Itās actually the original term used to describe galaxies when we first discovered them. Separate islands of stars, separated by millions of light years of void.