Monday 13 November 2017

M31 Andromeda Galaxy with M32 and M110

Latest attempt at capturing the Andromeda Galaxy. Some nice detail, also M110 above and M32 below.

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Pentax K5

Stacked from 117 images, each 30" @ ISO1600


Monday 28 August 2017

NGC281 Pacman Nebula

Not ideal 'seeing' a lot of haze, this is my first attempt at capturing the Pacman Nebula.

Scope:   Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount:  Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Pentax K5

190 x 30 sec exposures at ISO 1600, stacked with DeepSkyStacker.


Tuesday 22 August 2017

21/08/2017 Partial Solar Eclipse

UK was predicted to experience a (very small) partial eclipse. It had been very cloudy all day but a few minutes before the event the clouds parted. So grabbed the Pentax K5 + Sigma 70-300mm zoom lens and hot footed it to the Turf Walk at Totland Bay. Captured many images, this was a nice one showing some sun spots as well.


Testing a new Baader Solar Continuum Filter

Without filter

With filter, more detail in the granualtion

Saturday 15 July 2017

Milky Way

Pentax K5
Samyang f2 16mm ED AS lens

24 frames stacked in DeepSkyStacker, finished in PhotoShop Elements 13



Saturn

Saturn 09/07/2017
Telescope: Celestron C8
Camera: QHY 5L-II-C


Tuesday 11 July 2017

Sunspot 2665

Progression of Sunspot 2665 over a period of 4 days.

Telescope: Celestron C8
Camera: QHY 5L-II-C


Monday 19 June 2017

Juiter 17/06/2017

Six images of Jupiter taken over a 2 hour period between 2000 and 2200 on 17/06/2017.
Celestron C8 telescope c\w QHY 5L-II-C camera. Each image stacked from a 2 minute video with RegiStax 6 and enhanced using Photoshop Elements.