Riverwood Star Party Gallery
Astrophotography images from our Riverwood Star Parties
Wednesday May 15th
A variable high-cloud layer made it difficult for the Unistellar to plate-solve on occasion. Variable Seeing.
M104 Sombrero Galaxy
A spiral galaxy 28 million light-years away in Virgo
Antennae Galaxies (NCG 4038 & 4039)
A merging pair of galaxies 45 and 65 Million light years away in the constellation Corvus.
M90 spiral galaxy
The M90 spiral galaxy is about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo.
M3 Globular cluster
M3 is globular cluster of stars in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is one of the largest and brightest clusters in our galaxy, and is made up of around 500,000 stars. Its center is 32,600 light-years away from Earth.
M97 Owl Nebula
Owl Nebula is a planetary nebula approximately 2,030 light years away in the constellation Ursa Major.
M51 Whirlpool Galaxy
The Whirlpool Galaxy is an interacting spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, 23.5 million light-years away. It is interacting with it’s companion dwarf galaxy NGC 5195 (to the left in this image)
M13 Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
M13 is a globular cluster about 22,200 light years away in Hercules containing about 300,000 stars.