Latest image of M45 the Pleiades taken on 2021/12/02
140 x 60s lights + Darks and Flats
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Camera: QHY268C
Guide scope: Sky Watcher Evoguide 50ED
Guide cam: Altair Astro GP-CAM 290M
Image capture: SharpCap
Guiding: PHD2
Planetarium: Cartes du Ciel
Stacked in DSS.
Processed in Affinity Photo V1.10.4
Image compiled over two nights 29th Sept and 1st Oct. Total integration time of 2.5 hours.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Camera: QHY268C
Guide scope: Sky Watcher Evoguide 50ED
Guide cam: Altair Astro GP-CAM 290M
Image capture: SharpCap
Guiding: PHD2
Planetarium: Cartes du Ciel
Stacked in DSS.
Processed in Affinity Photo V1.10.1 and Photoshop Elements 13.
Combined sessions from 07, 15 and 17 September 2021.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Camera: QHY268C
Guide scope: Sky Watcher Evoguide 50ED
Guide cam: Altair Astro GP-CAM 290M
Image capture: SharpCap
Guiding: PHD2
Planetarium: Cartes du Ciel
Stacked in DSS.
Processed in Affinity Photo V1.10.1 and Photoshop Elements 13.
07/09/2021 - 95 x 60s Lights + Darks and Flats
15/09/2021 - 120 x 60s Lights + Darks and Flats
17/09/2021 - 120 x 60s Lights + Darks and Flats
Total integration time: 5h 35m.
Taken with the ED80 scope and QHY268C APS-C camera, captured more detail than I was expecting considering the size of the scope and large sensor.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Camera: QHY268C
Image capture: SharpCap
Planetarium: Cartes du Ciel
Compiled from a well exposed Jupiter and overexposed to image the Moons.
Jupiter video - 125ms exposure for 60sec
Moons video - 2s exposure for 60 sec
Original frame size 1600 x 1200, cropped to 795 x 509 then doubled in size to 1590 x 1018
Processed in Affinity Photo V1.10.1 and Photoshop Elements 13.
Moons left to right Callisto, Europa, Io and Ganymede
First light with a new QHY268C camera.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Camera: QHY268C
Guide scope: Sky Watcher Evoguide 50ED
Guide cam: Altair Astro GP-CAM 290M
Image capture: SharpCap
Guiding: PHD2
Planetarium: Cartes du Ciel
Stacked in DSS.
Processed in Affinity Photo V1.10.1 and Photoshop Elements 13.
95 x 60s Lights + Darks and Flats
The sky hasn't been too cooperative this month but Thursday was clear enough to try for some images.
Equipment:
Camera: Pentax K-S2
Lens: Pentax 50mm 1:1.7
Fixed Manfrotto photographic tripod
Interval shooting, 4 x 10s exposures per minute.
Nova RS Ophiuchi (RS Oph) recently brighten for the first time since 2006.
RS Oph is a recurrent nova see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS_Ophiuchi
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide scope: Sky Watcher Evoguide 50ED
Guide cam: Altair Astro GP-CAM 290M
Image capture: SharpCap
Guiding: PHD2
Planetarium: Cartes du Ciel
Stacked in DSS.
Processed in Affinity Photo V1.10.0 and Photoshop Elements 13.
90 x 60s Lights + Darks and Flats
The nova is the central bright reddish star.
A new Nova discovered on 12th June by Seiji Ueda (Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan)
This image was compiled from 60 x 60s frames + Darks & Flats on 13th June.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide scope: Sky Watcher Evoguide 50ED
Guide cam: Altair Astro GP-CAM 290M
Image capture: SharpCap
Guiding: PHD2
Planetarium: Cartes du Ciel
Stacked in DSS.
Processed in Affinity Photo V1.9.2 and Photoshop Elements 13.
The Nova is the bright red star at the centre of this image.
I captured my first CME today, from just over 1000 frames taken at 15s intervals this short video is about 200 frames long, the CME lasted about 43 minutes in real time.
Scope: Coronado PST
Imaging Camera: Altair Astro GP-CAM 3 178M
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Image capture: SharpCap
I used "Planetary Imaging PreProcessor" (PiPP) to stabilise the Sun in the frame, that results in the unstable base of the video.
https://sites.google.com/site/astropipp/
A new target for me, NGC 4565 is a fantastic edge-on galaxy. My efforts probably don't do it justice, much more data required.
This image was compiled from 60 x 120s frames taken on 25 April.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide scope: Sky Watcher Evoguide 50ED
Guide cam: Altair Astro GP-CAM 290M
Image capture: SharpCap
Guiding: PHD2
Planetarium: Cartes du Ciel
Stacked in DSS.
Processed in Affinity Photo V1.9.2 and Photoshop Elements 13.
The image was slightly affected by a nearly full Moon, leaving some bright patches lower right. Also, just visible in the image is NGC 4562 up and right of NGC 4565.
This is a rich field with approximately 20 objects in the field of view.
Here is a picture combining an image of the area of the recent Nova in Cassiopeia.
The 2016 part was cropped from a image posted by Jakub K here
https://www.astrofotoblog.eu/?p=774
Thank you Jakub.
My 2021 image was taken 04/04/2012, compiled from about 45 x 120s exposures.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
An impressive prominence, in height 7.5 times the diameter of the Earth.
Scope: Coronado PST
Imaging Camera: Altair Astro GP-CAM 3 178M
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Still image compiled from two images to show the prominences and surface.
Close up time-lapse video of the big prominence at the top of the above image
Discovered on the 18th March by Japanese photographer Yuji Nakamura.
This image was compiled from 183 x 60s frames taken on 22nd and 23rd March.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide scope: Sky Watcher Evoguide 50ED
Guide cam: Altair Astro GP-CAM 290M
Image capture: SharpCap
Guiding: PHD2
Planetarium: Cartes du Ciel
Stacked in DSS.
It's been over 2 years since last imaging M1, so here's a new image taken on 06/03/2021.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide scope: Sky Watcher Evoguide 50ED
Guide cam: Altair Astro GP-CAM 290M
Image capture: SharpCap
Guiding: PHD2
Planetarium: Cartes du Ciel
89 x 2min Lights + Darks and Flats
Stacked in DSS
1492 x 1030 pixel cropped from a 5440 x 3648 full frame image .
Here's a new image of the Flame and Horse head nebulas created from sessions on 17/02/2020, 12/02/2021 and 07/03/2021
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide scope: Sky Watcher Evoguide 50ED
Guide cam: Altair Astro GP-CAM 290M
Image capture: SharpCap
Guiding: PHD2
Planetarium: Cartes du Ciel
17/02/2020 - 40 x 2min Lights
12/02/2021 - 59 x 2min Lights
07/03/2021 - 89 x 2min Lights
Stacked in DSS.
Total of 188 subs of which 150 were stacked for a final total of 5 hour integration time.
Finished in Affinity Photo and Photoshop Elements.
Some more active solar prominences today.
Scope: Coronado PST
Imaging Camera: Altair Astro GP-CAM 3 178M
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Time lapse video created from 240 frames taken at 15s intervals and compiled to video using PIPP.
