The alignment isn't perfect but the stars that move do so contra to others nearby so must be real. The image with the spikes on the big star (Alcyone) is from 1962 overlaying my image from 2019 with a 50% transparency. Play it full screen and take a look at the stars at the top, left of centre. Look closely and you'll see others that also seem to have moved.
Monday, 4 February 2019
Pleiades 1962 to 2019
A few weeks ago a friend gave me a book on astronomy published in 1962, in it was an image of the Pleiades. Luckily it was of a similar scale to my images, so as an experiment I overlayed and aligned one of my images with a scan from the book and it shows some stars that have moved in the intervening 57 years.
The alignment isn't perfect but the stars that move do so contra to others nearby so must be real. The image with the spikes on the big star (Alcyone) is from 1962 overlaying my image from 2019 with a 50% transparency. Play it full screen and take a look at the stars at the top, left of centre. Look closely and you'll see others that also seem to have moved.
The alignment isn't perfect but the stars that move do so contra to others nearby so must be real. The image with the spikes on the big star (Alcyone) is from 1962 overlaying my image from 2019 with a 50% transparency. Play it full screen and take a look at the stars at the top, left of centre. Look closely and you'll see others that also seem to have moved.
Sunday, 3 February 2019
Latest Pleiades
The latest image of the Pleiades. There's a bit more detail and colour graduation in the nebulosity than in previous images.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher CG4 motorised with modified controller for guiding.
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide cam: QHY 5L-II-C
Guide software: PHD2
25 x 5min Light
24 x 5 Min Dark
24 Flats
Stacked in DSS, processed in Photoshop Elements and GIMP.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher CG4 motorised with modified controller for guiding.
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide cam: QHY 5L-II-C
Guide software: PHD2
25 x 5min Light
24 x 5 Min Dark
24 Flats
Stacked in DSS, processed in Photoshop Elements and GIMP.
Thursday, 31 January 2019
M78 - Diffuse Nebula
First attempt at this object, or rather a collection of ojects, M78 (Brightest part), NGC2071, NGC2067, NGC2064 and McNeil's Nebula.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher CG4 motorised with modified controller for guiding.
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide cam: QHY 5L-II-C
Guide software: PHD2
22 x 5min Light
22 x 5 Min Dark
22 Flats
Stacked in DSS, processed in Photoshop Elements and GIMP.
Not a great image, it would benefit from more subs.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher CG4 motorised with modified controller for guiding.
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide cam: QHY 5L-II-C
Guide software: PHD2
22 x 5min Light
22 x 5 Min Dark
22 Flats
Stacked in DSS, processed in Photoshop Elements and GIMP.
Not a great image, it would benefit from more subs.
Monday, 28 January 2019
Latest Flame and Horsehead
A new image of the Flame and Horsehead in Orion
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher CG4 motorised with modified controller for guiding.
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide cam: QHY 5L-II-C
Guide software: PHD2
24 x 5min Light
24 x 5 Min Dark
24 Flats
Stacked in DSS, processed in Photoshop Elements, GIMP and Photoshop Express for iPad.
A windy night but PHD2 did a great job keeping the image stable with not a single lost sub.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher CG4 motorised with modified controller for guiding.
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide cam: QHY 5L-II-C
Guide software: PHD2
24 x 5min Light
24 x 5 Min Dark
24 Flats
Stacked in DSS, processed in Photoshop Elements, GIMP and Photoshop Express for iPad.
A windy night but PHD2 did a great job keeping the image stable with not a single lost sub.
Monday, 21 January 2019
Lunar Eclipse 21/01/2019
With considerable cloud cover seeing wasn't great. As the onset of totality arrived the skies clearded for a short time.
Camera: Pentax K-S2
Lens: Tamron: LD DI 70-300mm zoom, set at 300mm, F4
ISO: 1600
Exposure 2"
Just before totality
About mid point of totality
Camera: Pentax K-S2
Lens: Tamron: LD DI 70-300mm zoom, set at 300mm, F4
ISO: 1600
Exposure 2"
Just before totality
About mid point of totality
Friday, 18 January 2019
Rings around the Moon
Taken with the Pentax K-S2
10" @ ISO400
At the bottom of the frame is part of Orion, and above to the right of the moon is the Pleiades.
10" @ ISO400
At the bottom of the frame is part of Orion, and above to the right of the moon is the Pleiades.
Thursday, 10 January 2019
Orion Nebula
First time imaging the Orion Nebula with 10 minutes subs.
The stacked image had the central bright region totally over exposed with no detail visible, so I blended an image taken with shorter subs to create this final image.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher CG4 motorised with modified controller for guiding.
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide cam: QHY 5L-II-C
12 x 10min Light
6 x 10 Min Dark
12 x Flat
12 x Bias
Stacked with DSS, finished with Photoshop Elements and GIMP.
The stacked image had the central bright region totally over exposed with no detail visible, so I blended an image taken with shorter subs to create this final image.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher CG4 motorised with modified controller for guiding.
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide cam: QHY 5L-II-C
12 x 10min Light
6 x 10 Min Dark
12 x Flat
12 x Bias
Stacked with DSS, finished with Photoshop Elements and GIMP.
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