M87 Black Hole with an sbig 6303 E and a Plane Wave CDK 20

Colin, They are all M87 with the a CDK20 and STL6303e . I sent them to Plane Wave and they feel I got the Black hole as well as I. These are 29 stacked with CCD soft. I used the planetary filter in CCD soft and then opened the file in A Microsoft viewer and then edit with Zeke (Orange one ) and zoomed in. The smaller image is prior to zooming in using the Microsoft viewer. You can clearly see the "jet" in the lesser processed images. I have others that are very blown out and overexposed not revealing the black hole. As requested here are some fit files.

 

Hello Alan

I am afraid as the black hole size (event horizon diameter) estimated was with 50µas(microarcsecond), and can not be identified with even 20inch CDK.

See note: https://aasnova.org/2019/04/10/first-images-of-a-black-hole-from-the-event-horizon-telescope/

The M87 image scale around 57 arc second and Event horizon comes 1/1000000 times smaller.

Again the final image of a black hole is not visible optical. It is a false color image of radio (a kind of audio) signals after post-processing.

If we see, telescope setup used (20inchCDK+1603CCD). The plate scale comes 0.54"/pixel. The highest resolution achieves only 0.54". If we really want to see the event horizon then we need 0.000009µm x 0.000009µm pixel CCD.

Regards
Vikrant

 

Yes Sir..

 

Ok, so what is the dark part of my image?

 

I used CCD Soft Lucy Richardson. Combine add. Planetary, zooming plus Microsoft jpg viewer.

 

Hello Mr. Alan

The M87 is a kind of elliptical galaxy, and its center is much violent than our Milkyway (so chosen for event horizon project). The galactic clouds and dust create a kind of opaque wall (highly ionized medium supposed to be there at accretion disk) for the visible spectrum from 400nm-700nm, but NIR/IR/microwave and Radio frequencies may cross it very well. The outer side of M87 is lesser thick so we can see the synchrotron plasma jet towards UV end.

I saw the beautiful luminance filter image by you, but here we need really a very very big radio telescope and interferometry to enhance the signal and resolution.

here something interesting for us (a bit funny too): https://www.fnal.gov/pub/science/inquiring/questions/mikep.html

Regards
Vikrant

 

Thanks for the feedback. M87 is an interesting imaging object.