The Best Image of M51 You Will Ever See - 255-Hour Collaboration!
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
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Carl's post: elveteek.ch/en/m51-dsc
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00:00 - Introduction and why we joined the project
01:28 - Why M51?
03:42 - How the project was organized
04:14 - Our Data Acquisition
04:55 - Data Acquisition by everybody - Reaching 255 hours
05:49 - Opening the Master Files
06:50 - Who did the Processing?
07:24 - Image Reveal
08:30 - The Tidal Stream
09:18 - The Ionised Gas Cloud
10:24 - The Blue Stellar Stream
11:02 - Overall Details
11:17 - Conclusion and How to Join the Group
We decided to join a group to collaborate on a deep space image altogether! We combined our data with 15 astrophotographers to produce what might be the best ever image of Messier 51 (The Whirlpool Galaxy) ever taken. We were able to reveal a lot of faint signal, including the Ionised gas cloud and the blue stellar stream. The total integration time fo this image is just about 255 hours!
Credits for the image:
Carl Björk - @Palmito
Thomas Bähnck - www.newhorizonobs.de
Sebastian Donoso - @georgian82
Jake Gentillon - @jake_g
Antoine and Dalia Grelin - www.galactic-hunter.com
Stephen Guberski - @Guberski
Richard Hall - @RichardHall
Tino Heuberger - @RononDex
Jason Jacks - @jmdl101
Paul Kent - @pkastronomy (Instagram)
Brian Meyers - @drprs8181
William Ostling - @the_astro_enthusisast
Nicolas Puig - @orion13
Tim Schaeffer - @xSky_Watcher
Felix Schöfbänker - @fel_sch
Mikhail Vasilev - @bobby_zamora
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That's the best M51 I've ever seen. Well done everyone who played a part. Hope you entered it for a NASA APOD.
Thank you, let's hope it gets featured as an APOD!
@@GalacticHunter It did, congratulations! :)
Congrats to everyone who participated! This image was great fun to process
Fantastic processing 💪🏻
Congrats to all the imagers!!! I’m curious about the stacking process. How long did it take? Is your computer still alive?! 😂
Congratulations on getting this photo onto the NASA website. I gave it 5 stars for sure. Great work from all collaborators. Clear skies
Awesome collab! Grats to everyone who has contributed! Was very interesting to see how many different scopes were used in this. APOD for sure on this one :)
Thanks! Let's hope for an APOD!
Wow! Love those tidal streams which I have never seen before. If this does not qualify for APOD, nothing will :). You two are the best astro-couple on UA-cam!!
Thanks! And yes if this doesn't get APOD it would honestly be laughable.
Congratulations to you and the entire group! And now you've been given a well deserved APOD today!
Breathtaking!! :-D Amazing job to all involved!
Wow! This is just phenomenal!
Incredible stuff, guys! What an amazing collab. That Ha detail is unreal.
You two ddo great together. Love the girls emphasis on some points.
Great video, thanks for sharing! Amazing effort and accomplishment for everyone involved!
This image blew me away! Fantastic work!
Very cool work! The amount of dust around M51 is amazing. Congrats to the team!
Stunning! Congratulations! My favorite galaxy. I will certainly take part in these projects. Thank you.
Incredibly detailed!! Great job guys!!
Thank you!!
Woot! So excited for you. Just woke up to a familiar sight on my NASA widget. Félicitations de votre premier APOD!!! 😊
Wow! Excellent project! Beautiful image! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks we're very happy with the results!
Beautiful work
Amazing guys! I´ve never seen M51 with so much details! Very inspiring work! Thank you!
Thank you!! It's nice to have such a great result!
What an awesome thing to do. Congrats to everyone involved. BRILLIANT!
Thank you!!
Truly stunning image, well done to all 👍
Thank you!
Beautiful work everyone!👏🍻
The detail of the tidal stream is absolutely mind blowing! Congratulations to the team! I hope you will win an award for this masterpiece
Thank you! Hoping for an APOD on this one, it was a big project!
Incredible turnout and love the project to get these very deep insights into M51 behaviour. Keep up the good work!
Thank you, we will do more!
Congratulations on APOD!!! All you guys really deserve it!!!
Congrats on publishing you picture on NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
That's an insane image well done to everyone who participated by far the best M51 I've seen.
Thank you!! More to come!
Great effort by all, well done
You finally made it. Congratulations on the APOD. :)
Wow! Really the best M51 I have ever seen!
Great Work!
That was amazing! The data management alone was impressive. So worth the results.
It was a great project, now we can't wait to do more!
J’en ai eu des frissons de voir M51 aussi belle.
Bravo pour cette collaboration
Encore merci pour cette restitution
Merci beaucoup Pascal, c'était un super projet et on va continuer sur d'autres objets !
Awesome work! Congrats!
Thanks Marcel!
Cool work. Hopefully all of you guys are going to take on other objects like this with crazy integration time. Because these kind of pictures are really a piece of art.
Whouaaaa ce boulot 😳👌 c'est juste SUBLIME. Un grand BRAVO
Merci beaucoup Jeremy!
Awesome, yes, the best iamge I have ever seen of M51
That's a really impressive picture. Great teamwork
Thank you!
Aloha from 22.1N! Great teamwork and Stunning image! Congrats! Aloha!
Thank you!!
can't wait
Absolutely stunning result!
M51 will always hold a special place for me. It was the first "real" deep sky object I ever imaged back in 2019 or so. The image was an underexposed, trailed and blurry mess and it was captured with an f/12 MAK and a DSLR using the stock alt/az mount on a wobbly deck against a streetlight consisting of barely 20 minutes of 30s exposures. In spite of all that, it somehow still remains one of my favorite images.
Haha, you never forget your first target! Great memories
Great job. 👌At the end i taught you were going to show a comparison with the Hubble image 😁
Haha I should have!
shes looking stunning 😍
Amazing image and congratulations to the team. That's a mind blowing amount of integration time but clearly worth it.
Thank you! We'll have more to come!
@@GalacticHunter and now...... congratulations on the APOD!!!!👏🎉
Incredible 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 more in the future ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you! Yes we hope to do many more!
That's actually better than I expected... I didn't think that that much more could be brought out even with so much time.
Thank you, yes it's so nice to see all the faint stuff in the image!
Amazing job. Great idea. I don't think I get 23 hours of integration time in an entire season. That's dedication. Congrats.
Thank you! We're lucky we often have clear skies and were able to gather our part of the data pretty fast
Superbe ! Félicitations à vous tous
Merci beaucoup!
Wow amazing image of M51!
Thanks!
Outstanding!
Thanks Trevor!
oh my god, that is awesome.
Yesssss thanks!
wow congrats
grats on your apod tomorrow it seems :)
Just saw the APOD of this image today!!!
Very interested in the process on how to bring all the different data together in Pixinsight Please!!
Big thumbs up! Very impressive and motivating to put more time into imaging M51. Great job! Is there a threshold for Bortle skies to participate in your group?
Thank you! Sadly the group is now closed due to too many requests to join 😅
Well done! Congratulations 🎉! Will you be able to write this up for a paper submitted to a professional journal? It sounds like there’s some new science here.
Thanks Alan! I don't believe that anything new was disovered, a 2015 paper ( iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2041-8205/800/1/L3/pdf ) covered the tidal stream in depth, and a 2018 paper covered the HA cloud ( arxiv.org/abs/1804.01699 ). Not sure about the blue stream
That was impressive. I've never seen a photo of M51 that showed all the trailing ionized gasses.
Thank you, it's great to be able to reveal such faint gas!
It was chosen as an APOD!
Cliff hanger 🙂
Been waiting 2 years 6 months 17 days, 5 hours and 31 minutes (when I got my first telescope) and wondered how you would do this.
I can wait a few more minutes….😊
Haha, the wait is now over :D
@@GalacticHunterwow!! That is really stunning even on iphone screen. Can’t wait to see it on something bigger. Truly well done to everyone involved
Billions and billions
this looks like something hubble will take
i'm still waiting lol
NASA announced it will be APOD tomorrow (11th of August)
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day - 11 August 2023
This would have to be the best image of M51 and NGC5195 and friends that exist from ground based telescopes. What focal length?
Clear skies.
Thank you! Several telescopes of various focal lengths were used, the one we used was 655mm.
okay, I feel kind of dumb for asking, but where can I find the poster in the background?!
hello can i Share the image through my IG account?
Holy F#@@!
are you on mastodon guys?
🦆
Yeah Messier objects are beautiful but not as beautiful as Dalia ❤
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incapable image
Is it legal, by the way??? =D Smells like cheating! =D
im pooping myself due to the suspense!!!!!!
mahalo !!!!!!
mind blown guys!!!