I've been using AI to gather the infoblocks in my images and found quite a lot of inconsistencies with these, but the contrast in morphology in this single frame is amazing, I love the barred spiral near the face on spiral! It's like finding sea shells in the sky!!!
One of the things I love to see the results of but don't actually like doing is putting in all the little fast facts and menuing. I started working heavily with AI for work and home. I decided it was time to automate this as well. AI is quite good at researching the info on the blog title, scripting no so much so. Between the object specs and exposure automation, I hope to burn down a LOT of DSO work I've been holding out on. Lots in the past 2 years, such as this cool subject, NGC2841, but some going back to 2015 such as NGC210 (Incorrectly shot as NGC248 11 years ago).
ENJOY!
Growing catalog of Galaxies are here:
Google Photos = https://photos.app.goo.gl/rW21YSiQb7yGnBzd6
Imgur - https://imgur.com/a/LbziC
Some of these I refuse to believe are different galaxies and are merely a glitch in the matrix instead.
Enjoy!
Rest of my collection are here:
Google Photos = https://photos.app.goo.gl/rW21YSiQb7yGnBzd6
A backlog of mediocre production. I was out 18 times between January and July. Here's a smattering of 5 random ones. Other's are here:
• Google Photos = https://photos.app.goo.gl/rW21YSiQb7yGnBzd6
1st, Rick and Morty fan here and I never realized that Makemake is literally birdperson!
I was able to find this new edition to the dwarf planet list after I had already setup and started looking for targets. I searched for it in the Minor Planet center to find it's RA/DEC and Mag were within reach of my scope. Unlike main belt targets, 'distant objects' don't move fast enough for me to see motion against background stars in ~1hr, so I hit it up next clear night 3 days later. I was amazed at how bright it is for my setup, which can go down to 19-20mag pretty easily.
Motion over 2 nights, 3 days apart!
https://astromikephillips.wixsite.com/home/makemake
Makemake is the creator of humanity and the god of fertility in the mythology of the South Pacific island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island. He was the chief god of the Tangata manu bird-man cult and was worshiped in the form of sea birds, which were his incarnation. His material symbol was a man with a bird's head. [Ref: Minor Planet Circ. 63395]
(136472) Makemake = 2005 FY9
Discovered at Palomar on 2005-03-31 by M. E. Brown, C. A. Trujillo, and D. L. Rabinowitz.
(136472) Makemake = 2005 FY9
From <https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=136472>
A worthy read to learn more about dwarf planets and the reclassification of Pluto that I recommend is:
Author Michael E. Brown
Language English
Publication date 2010
Publication place United States
ISBN 0-385-53108-7
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
From <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Killed_Pluto_and_Why_It_Had_It_Coming>
