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

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

Sunspot 2665

Progression of Sunspot 2665 over a period of 4 days.

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

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.

Objects in Orion

Boxing day evening 2016

Scope: Evostar 80ED DS-Pro

Camera: Pentax K5

Images: 120 x 25sec, ISO3200

Horse head nebula and Flame nebula.

Same setup.

Orion nebula

Seeing must have been exceptional that night, imaging on subsequent nights yielded nothing remotely close to these images.