The Sunflower Galaxy, M 63, is a so-called flocculent spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici (hunting dogs). It is about 29 million lightyears away and belongs to the M 51 galaxy group, named after the brightest galaxy in the pack. Although it is a spiral galaxy, there is are […]
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The Whirlpool Galaxy, M 51, is one of the prettiest galaxies in the northern sky in the unremarkable constellation Canes Venatici (hunting dogs). It is about 31 million lightyears away and has a diameter of about 76 000 lightyears. Actually, it is not one galaxy but two galaxies whose gravitational […]
The most famous supernova remnant and number 1 in the Messier catalog – this is the Crab Nebula, M1. Its origin is the supernova, now cataloged as SN1054, which was observed in Juli 1054 by Chinese and other astronomers. The supernova was brighter than Venus and visible on the day-time […]
One of the most impressive and pretty galaxies, the Sculptor Galaxy, NGC253, in the constellation Sculptor. It is about 11 million lightyears away and has a diameter of about 90 000 lightyears. It is a spiral galaxy, although the spiral arm are not obvious because of the prominent dark nebulae […]
This is the Helix Nebula, NGC7293, a large planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius. It is just 650 light-years away and thus one of the closest planetary nebulae. It has been expanding for about 50000 years and has reached a diameter of about 2.9 light-years. The small dot in […]
This is one of the first light images with our new setup at the TURMX Observatory, hosted at the e-EyE Astronomical Complex in Extremadura, Spain. It is only a quick snapshot with a total of 6 hours of exposure time with the Baader CMOS-optimized ultra-narrowband filters as a first test […]
After installing our new Planewave CDK17, the first galaxy we aimed at is the Triangulum Galaxy, M33. This telescope with a focal length of almost 3 meters in combination with the QHY600M CMOS camera gives an unbinned pixel scale of 0.26 arcsec/pixel. Only during nights with exceptional seeing conditions, we […]
We have installed the TURMX setup in August 2019, right after the construction of the new observatory module “Apollo VII” at E-EyE was completed. As shown in the image above, we were the first team to move into the new module. The team at E-EyE had done a great job […]
The TURMX Observatory at the E-EyE Astronomical Complex near Fregenal de la Sierra in the Extremadura region in Spain ist fully remote operated. Although the are E-EyE technicians on site, in case of technical problems, the goal is to run the setup over an extended period of time without touching […]