Cygnus

Cygnus 30/09/2015. K5 c/w 24mm F2.8 lens. The image is built from a stack of 6 lights and 1 dark all 60 seconds at f8  ISO6400 on a fixed tripod using the OGPS Astrotracer feature.

Andromeda

Image built from a small stack of 7 images. The K5 c/w 200mm f4 lens was mounted on the scope.

Nice Sunspot group May 9 2015

Pleiades 08/02/2015

Experimenting with my K5 and OGPS-1 Astrotracking feature. This image was taken with a 50mm prime lens at ISO400 for 30 seconds. No star trails!

Cropped from the above, still no star trails.

Set the controls for the heart of the Sun

A chance in a million shot. Taken on 6th Feb 2015, this is a single frame extracted from a short video. It just happened to capture the silhouette of a plane in the first one second of the video, this is frame 18. The camera was attached to the telescope which was fitted with a solar filter.

Can you spot an alternative interpretation of the silhouette?

Moon

Moon glow Jan 2nd 2015

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

The comet on 15th Jan 2015. Pentax K-5 with 55mm lens.

The following night with the K-5 on the back of my Celestron C8 telescope