Picture of the Month March 2022

[philjay]

Ooops, I did the write up yesterday, could have sworn I posted it but alas not, another senior moment.

 

See Ron this is what happens when you retire 😀

 

Something tells me its galaxy season again

 

Comets, Asteroids, Meteors & Meteorites

Graham gave us his Feb report

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21105-februarys-detected-meteor-hits/

 

Deep Sky

Bottletopburly kicked us off with a galaxy group

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21177-messier-96-and-friends/

 

Derbyshire Dave gave us M51

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21187-13-minute-m51/

and a fascinating shot of a faint nebula not often seen

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21273-lowers-nebula-in-sho/

 

Grahams getting to grips with the RC

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21192-m106-in-lrgb/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21334-ngc-2403-finally-a-decent-lrgb-image/

 

A farewell to Orion as it gets lower in the sky plus a few galxies from Glafnazur

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21232-horsehead-m63-m109/

plus a nice sharp M13

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21340-m13-revisited/

M34

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21358-m34/

and

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21368-ngc-1502-plus-a-bonus-ngc-1501/

and

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21367-ngc-2419/

 

 

A jewel of a Planetary from Ibbo

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21276-ngc2392-eskimo-nebula/

plus a detailed shot of the Rosette

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21290-ngc2237-dust-in-the-rosette/

 

 

Another jewel of a galaxy this time from RonC

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21315-ngc-2903/

and a couple of clusters

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21328-2-clusters/

and another galaxy

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21357-ngc-3344/

 

Some superb images from Bob Dobber

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21341-been-a-busy-week/

 

ChrisP posted an image of the Needle galaxy

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21364-ngc4565-the-needle-galaxy/

 

Brady gave us an image of the Sunflower galaxy

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21366-the-sunflower/

 

Lunar

A chance aero transit by ChrisP

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21172-i-got-buzzed/

plus a moonrise

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21262-moonrise-18th-march/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21263-moonrise-sequence-18th-march/

 

A very full and bright halo from Derbyshire Dave

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21213-moon-halo/

 

Even I managed a few photons through my old scope

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21227-moon-14th-march/

 

Solar

You can tell it was a sunny month because there were a lot of images posted this month plus there was a lot of activity up there, here's just a few:-

 

Graham kicked off

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21199-solar-from-today-12032022/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21275-solar-from-today-20032022/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21332-solar-from-today-26032022/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21338-up-close-with-a-sunspot-time-lapse-video/

 

ibbo

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21205-sol-7-3-22-catch-up/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21282-sol-20-3-22-ha/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21322-sol-24-3-22-ha-cak-wl/

plus a Buzzard transit

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21314-common-buzzard-solar-transit-large-file-youtube-added/

 

I managed a shot this month

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21316-sol-250322-wl/

 

ChrisP

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21330-sunspot-regions-2976-2975/

 

Streetbob

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21354-first-image-with-solar-wedge/

 

Widefield

Quite a few posts in this section again this month

 

DerbyshireDave with Orion

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21111-orion-passing/

 

ChrisP with Aurora and northern skies

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21097-aurora-iceland/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21159-the-winter-circle/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21147-final-night-in-iceland-amazing-aurora-display/

 

 

 

There has been some great images posted this month and the standard is very high again which makes POTM choice harder every month but one image made me linger longer.... Brady,s Sunflower Galaxy.

There is loads of stuff in there, the galaxy is nicely detailed and coloured, plus when you look around there more faint fuzzies.

 

[+RonC]

Congrats Wayne, great image of a not too easy galaxy. Well done..

Thanks Phil, not easy these days!!

Edited April 2, 2022 by RonC

[Bob Dobber]

Thanks for the mention and well done to you Wayne 😉

[+Glafnazur]

Thanks Phil and well done Wayne, it's a great image 👍 

[Clive]

Well done Wayne.

Is it just my browser that the web links listed dont work?

[+Graham]

Well done Wayne

It is a cracking image.

 

Thanks for your round up Phil.

[+Ibbo]

Congrats Wayne.

 

Thanks Phil

[BAZ]

Well done Wayne, a cracking shot.

Many thanks Phil, some good ones again.

[Brady]

Thanks All/Phil, around 8 hours on this one but wouldnt mind upping the F ratio a bit....a new frac maybe?🤔