M78 - Diffuse Nebula

First attempt at this object, or rather a collection of ojects, M78 (Brightest part), NGC2071, NGC2067, NGC2064 and McNeil's Nebula.

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher CG4 motorised with modified controller for guiding.
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide cam: QHY 5L-II-C
Guide software: PHD2

22 x 5min Light
22 x 5 Min Dark 
22 Flats

Stacked in DSS, processed in Photoshop Elements and GIMP.

Not a great image, it would benefit from more subs.

Latest Flame and Horsehead

A new image of the Flame and Horsehead in Orion

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher CG4 motorised with modified controller for guiding.
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide cam: QHY 5L-II-C
Guide software: PHD2

24 x 5min Light
24 x 5 Min Dark 
24 Flats

Stacked in DSS, processed in Photoshop Elements, GIMP and Photoshop Express for iPad.

A windy night but PHD2 did a great job keeping the image stable with not a single lost sub.

Lunar Eclipse 21/01/2019

With considerable cloud cover seeing wasn't great. As the onset of totality arrived the skies clearded for a short time.

Camera: Pentax K-S2
Lens: Tamron: LD DI 70-300mm zoom, set at 300mm, F4
ISO: 1600
Exposure 2"

Just before totality

About mid point of totality

Rings around the Moon

Taken with the Pentax K-S2
10" @ ISO400

At the bottom of the frame is part of Orion, and above to the right of the moon is the Pleiades.

Orion Nebula

First time imaging the Orion Nebula with 10 minutes subs.

The stacked image had the central bright region totally over exposed with no detail visible, so I blended an image taken with shorter subs to create this final image. 

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher CG4 motorised with modified controller for guiding.
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide cam: QHY 5L-II-C

12 x 10min Light
6 x 10 Min Dark
12 x Flat
12 x Bias

Stacked with DSS, finished with Photoshop Elements and GIMP.

Two recent images

Testing autoguiding my small CG-4 mount with modified controller.

Both images:
6 x 10 min lights
6 x 10 min darks

2019 01 04 - Plieades

2019 01 04 - Flame and Horse Head nebulas

Comet 46P-Wirtanen

Stacked from 30 sub-frames of 2mins each

and a short video built from the same set of sub-frames