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 The Relativistic Jet of M87

   May 21, 2021


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   NoiseRed_LCE_Composite_Arrowed

   Photographer:  Greg Parker
   Summary Author:  Greg Parker
   As it’s galaxy viewing season now (for stargazers with telescopes), I
   thought I'd look for the  relativistic jet coming out of galaxy
    M87 in the  Virgo Galaxy Cluster. M87, some 54 million  light
   years away, is the galaxy where a radio image of the  supermassive
   black hole that lies at its center was recently acquired. The
   relativistic jet of  high energy particles is the signature of this
   black hole.

   After imaging, when I did my normal processing procedure, the jet was
   lost in the glare of M87 itself. So, I used a  Digital Development
   Filter to mask out the galaxy, and this allowed the jet to be seen
   quite clearly. Photo taken on April 18, 2021.
   Photo details; The image consists of 12 sub-exposures each of 4-minutes
   taken on a Hyperstar III (f#2; Celestron C11 SCR telescope; Starlight
   Xpress 814C one shot color CCD camera. The main frame is the whole
   field of view of the Hyperstar III with M87 at the center of the frame.
   The insert is a further processed view of just M87 in order to make the
   jet clearer.

   New Forest Observatory, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, U.K. Coordinates:
    50.819700, -1.590349

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