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.

Cygnus

Cygnus 30/09/2015. K5 c/w 24mm F2.8 lens. The image is built from a stack of 6 lights and 1 dark all 60 seconds at f8  ISO6400 on a fixed tripod using the OGPS Astrotracer feature.

Andromeda

Image built from a small stack of 7 images. The K5 c/w 200mm f4 lens was mounted on the scope.

Nice Sunspot group May 9 2015

Pleiades 08/02/2015

Experimenting with my K5 and OGPS-1 Astrotracking feature. This image was taken with a 50mm prime lens at ISO400 for 30 seconds. No star trails!

Cropped from the above, still no star trails.