M 33 – The Triangulum Galaxy Description: The Triangulum galaxy is part of the Local Group of galaxies with our Milky Way and about 80 others. In fact, this local group of galaxies contains 2 lobes including one in which is located our Milky Way and its...
M 51 – The Whirlpool Galaxy Description: M 51, the Whirlpool galaxy. One of the galaxies amateur astronomers love to photograph because it is relatively bright, large, colorful, and almost always visible near the tail of the Big Dipper. She’s 27 million...
M 64 – The Black Eye Galaxy Description: The Black Eye galaxy presents a rather unusual aspect, a consequence of its particular structure. It has an annular structure with two counter-rotating discs of equal mass made of tightly wound spiral arms. It is one of...
M 81 – Bode’s Galaxy Description: M 81 is a beautiful spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major, right next to another well-known galaxy, M82 the Cigar Galaxy. The two are often photographed in duo with larger field telescopes. It is the same...
M 82 – The Cigar Galaxy Description: Messier 82, the Cigar Galaxy, is revealed here in a rather unusual way. I used a narrow-bandpass filter (hydrogen-alpha), which shows filaments of ionized gas in its central region being ejected by a galactic superwind....
