Supermassive black hole M-87

I still cannot realize that the human being has been able to take the first picture of the event horizon of a black hole.

What I have been able to observe is that the media in different languages ​​refer to this photo as the photo of the black hole when in reality it is the event horizon, these are very different parts.

This image is the achievement of a great human and technical effort that spans the 5 continents. I am going to explain it to you.

First, all the news will have this acronym somewhere EHT, which is Event Horizon Telescope (known by its acronym in English, Event Horizon Telescope) The set of millimetre telescopes that currently form this network are: Alfonso Serrano Large Millimeter Telescope (GTM) from Mexico, Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) from Chile, South Pole Telescope (SPT) at the South Pole, Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii, Submillimeter Array (SMA ) in Hawaii, the Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) in Arizona and the 30-m Millimeter Radio Astronomical Institute (IRAM) in Spain.

After this exploit, we can only wait for the next great photo or maybe a video that would be interesting.

The Sun

This is some images of the sun, as you can see there is no activity

Orion Nebula M42

After two years I have decided to revisit M42, I am very happy with the results

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Photo by: Francisco Silva
Scheduled by: You
Observation date: Thursday, February 28, 2019
Observation time: 3:45pm EST / 12:45pm PST / 20:45 UTC
Observatory: Slooh Canary Islands
Telescope: Canary Three
Instrument: Canary Deep Sky

Photo by: Francisco Silva
Scheduled by: You
Observation date: Thursday, February 28, 2019
Observation time: 3:46pm EST / 12:46pm PST / 20:46 UTC
Observatory: Slooh Canary Islands
Telescope: Canary Three
Instrument: Canary Deep Sky

Photo by: Francisco Silva
Scheduled by: You
Observation date: Thursday, February 28, 2019
Observation time: 3:48pm EST / 12:48pm PST / 20:48 UTC
Observatory: Slooh Canary Islands
Telescope: Canary Three
Instrument: Canary Deep Sky

The Whirlpool Galaxy M51

The Whirlpool Galaxy is one of the brightest galaxies in the sky, visible with simple binoculars. The spiral galaxy structure was observed for the first time in this galaxy, which is the dominant member of the group of galaxies M51.

Its accompanying galaxy, NGC 5195, was discovered in 1781 by Pierre Méchain. Sometimes the term M51 is used to refer to this pair of galaxies, in which case the galaxies are semi-perfect circles that must be called individual M51A (NGC 5194) and M51B (NGC 5195). This galaxy is less than 37 million light years from Earth, although some measurements reduce this figure to only 16 million light years.

On June 27, 2013, Wolfgang Kloehr, a German astronomer, discovered a type II supernova in this galaxy. Call SN2005cs reaching a magnitude of 13.5

These photos have been taken with 15 days of separation.

Photo by: Francisco Silva
Scheduled by: You
Observation date: Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Observation time: 7:14pm EST / 4:14pm PST / 00:14 UTC
Observatory: Slooh Canary Islands
Telescope: Canary Two
Instrument: Canary Ultra-Wide-Field

Photo by: Francisco Silva
Scheduled by: You
Observation date: Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Observation time: 7:14pm EST / 4:14pm PST / 00:14 UTC
Observatory: Slooh Canary Islands
Telescope: Canary Two
Instrument: Canary Wide-Field

Photo by: Francisco Silva
Scheduled by: You
Observation date: Thursday, February 28, 2019
Observation time: 6:06pm EST / 3:06pm PST / 23:06 UTC
Observatory: Slooh Canary Islands
Telescope: Canary Four
Instrument: Canary Solar System

Photo by: Francisco Silva
Scheduled by: You
Observation date: Thursday, February 28, 2019
Observation time: 6:08pm EST / 3:08pm PST / 23:08 UTC
Observatory: Slooh Canary Islands
Telescope: Canary Four
Instrument: Canary Solar System

Observation Log for NGC 2964