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.
I last imaged NGC281 over two years ago, so here's a new one taken on Christmas Eve 2020
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
51 x 5min Lights
21 x 5min Darks
32 flats
Stacked in DSS, total exposure after stacking 200mins.
Finished in Affinity Photo and Photoshop Elements.
The latest sunspot cycle appears to have started about a year ago, slow to get going but on the up now.
These two images were taken on the 28th November.
White light image equipment
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Imaging Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Ha image equipment
Scope: Coronado PST
Imaging Camera: Altair Astro GP-CAM 3 178M
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro
White light, with active regions identified
In Ha combined image to show surface and prominences.
