Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Sun in Ha

My first decent image in Hydrogen Alpha (656.28 nm wavelength).

Combining a well exposed image of the Sun's disc with an over exposed image to show prominences.

Stacked from two 60s 20fps videos, the first a well exposed Suns image, the second over exposed to reveal prominences.

Scope: Coronado PST
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Altair Astro 290 M3
Processed with Registax 6, combined and colourised in Photoshop Elements.



Friday, 3 April 2020

New M51 - Combining data from 2019 and 2020

A new image of M51 compiled from images taken over 13 sessions, from Feb, March and April 2019 and Feb and March 2020

Total Lights - 468
Total Darks - 320
Total Flats - 151

Deep Sky Stacker stacked 273 lights for a total integration time of 13hrs 30mins

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher CG-4 motorised (2019)
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro (2020)
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide Cam: QHY 5L-II-C
Guide software: PHD2
Planetarium software: Cartes Du Ciel (2020)
Mount control: EQMOD (2020)

Processed with Deep Sky Stacker and Photo Shop Elements 13


Closer crop