Objects in Orion

Boxing day evening 2016

Scope: Evostar 80ED DS-Pro

Camera: Pentax K5

Images: 120 x 25sec, ISO3200

Horse head nebula and Flame nebula.

Same setup.

Orion nebula

Seeing must have been exceptional that night, imaging on subsequent nights yielded nothing remotely close to these images.

First images using a new Skywatcher Evostar 80ED-Pro refractor.

Pleiades

Moon a few days before the 'super moon' in November

Moon the day before the 'super moon' in November

Latest of Venus yesterday. Less atmospheric turbulence so the globe is better defined. Taken against a very light sky well before sunset.

Some nice faculae

20 July, faculae

Sun Spot Progression over 6 days

A series of images taken between 17/07/2016 and 22/07/2016

17 July

18 July

20July

21 July

22 July, about to disappear over the lim.

And to put the group into context

Sun spots

After around two weeks of exceptionally low sun spot activity, things are picking up. Here's an image of  the only large group visible today.

Saturn

Testing a new camera, not great seeing.

28/12/2016
As it turned out the new camera, QHY 5P-II-C, which while having a high resolution also suffered from high noise, rendering in not too useful for astro imaging. A week or so later I purchased a QHY 5L-II-C, it doesn't have the high resolution but is streets ahead on the noise front and much more useable.

A few recent images

Sun spot 17/04/2016 - Nice detail


Jupiter 13/05/2016 -Philips Web Cam


Jupiter 08/06/2016 - New QHY 5P-II-C
Three moons nicely visible.