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[eleventeenratsinaflannelsuit]

Fianlly tearing myself away from the Slooh telescope feeds after… 9ish hours today. curses upon my astronomy teacher for giving me unrestricted access to the dopamine machine.

[mystarypi-astronomy]

This is the Silver Coin Galaxy! 💫💫💫

This intermediate spiral galaxy was found when famous astronomers Caroline Herschel was searching for comets in the night sky. At the center of the populated Sculptor galaxy group, this galaxy is one of the brightest and most active galaxies in the Milky Way’s vicinity! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on July 20th, 2022 at 4:57 UTC. 

[muthur9000]

Reposted from @maes.jochen (@get_regrann) - M38 is an open cluster in the Auriga constellation, around 4200 light years from earth.⁣ ⁣ At around apparent magnitude 7.4, the cluster can't be viewed with the naked eye. You'll need a telescope to be able to observe it. This is mainly due to the distance. The largest stars in the cluster are actually pretty bright at around absolute magnitude -1.5. In a post a while back (August 8th) I explained what magnitude means (the numbers). But what's the difference between apparent and absolute magnitude?⁣ ⁣ Apparent magnitude is as the name suggest, the magnitude at which an object appears to us here at earth. Generally speaking, the further away something is the higher its magnitude (higher number = less bright) will be compared to if it would have been closer to us. Absolute magnitude on the other hand is the brightness of the object regardless of distance. The value for this is the magnitude an object would be when observed from a distance of 10 parsecs (roughly 32.6 light years).⁣ ⁣ To give you a point of reference; the sun has an absolute magnitude of 4.83. So a star with absolute magnitude 3.83 would be 2,512 (the fifth root of 100) times brighter than that. If we go back to our M38 cluster with an absolute magnitude of -1.5; that would be 6 hops (it's a logarithmic scale). So that would be 2,512 to the 6th power; coming down to roughly 250 times as bright as the sun (excuse the lazy math). So if you ever plan a trip to M38; pack some sunglasses.⁣ ⁣ posted on Instagram - https://ift.tt/2Nomk5d

[arctic-hands]

Watching an asteroid flyby on YouTube

come on, just a liiiiiitle bit closer

[mystarypi-astronomy]

This is the Lagoon Nebula! 💗💗💗

The beautiful lagoon shaped portion is created from aggressive stellar winds pushing the nebulae’s gas and dust aside. Many of the stars here are young, hot O-type stars that are more than 200,000 times brighter than the Sun! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on July 23rd, 2022 at 22:31 UTC. 

[mystarypi-astronomy]

This is the Heart Nebula! 💖💖💖

Happy Valentine’s Day! To celebrate this occasion, here is the beautiful Heart Nebula, an emission nebula with dark dust lanes and glowing red hydrogen gas. The heart shape of the nebula is driven by stellar winds from the hot stars inside, some of which have masses up to 50 times the Sun! 💕💕💕

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on February 7th, 2022 at 21:13 UTC. 

[mystarypi-astronomy]

This is Comet PanSTARRS! 🌠🌠🌠

This gif was created throughout the night of July 25th and you can see the potentially interstellar comet in motion. 

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary One telescope on July 25th, 2022.

[mystarypi-astronomy]

This is the Triangulum Galaxy! 🌌🌌🌌

Despite being a spiral galaxy, the Triangulum Galaxy has very little star formation as shown through infrared observations from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). However, a region known as NGC 604 is the largest stellar nursery between itself, the Milky Way, and the Andromeda Galaxy! 🔥🔥🔥

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile One telescope on March 8th, 2022 at 20:17 UTC.