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.
Saturday, 14 August 2021
Nova RS Ophiuchi
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.
Monday, 14 June 2021
Nova Her 2021
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.
Thursday, 10 June 2021
CME June 9th 2021
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/
Friday, 7 May 2021
NGC 4565
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.
Monday, 5 April 2021
Nova V1405 Cas 2016 and 2021
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
Sunday, 4 April 2021
Sun in Ha 30/03/2021
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
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