Nebulae

Rosette Nebula In A Very Wide Field

Nebulae

Sh2-171 with FSQ85 Telescope and G2-8300 CCD camera

Galaxies

M33 Galaxy in Triangulum FSQ85 with G2-8300

Galaxies

Close Up Study of The Great Andromeda Galaxy M31 with TEC140 and FSQ85

Galaxies

M108 Galaxy in Ursa Major, TEC140

Globular Clusters

M3 Globular Cluster in Canes Venatici

Galaxies

M63 – The Sunflower Galaxy

Solar

ISS solar transits with Lunt T60Ha telescope and ASI174MM camera

Solar

The Sun, 16 June 2021 in Ha with Lunt 60THa and ASI 174MM

Galaxies

The Leo Triplet with TEC140 and QHY268C

Nebulae

The Heart Nebula – IC1805

Nebulae

IC1396 – Elephant Trunk Nebula

Galaxies

M74 Galaxy with TEC 140 and Atik 460

M74_TEC140

M74 is a magnificent spiral galaxy about 32 million light years away in the constellation of Pisces.  It has quite low surface brightness which makes it quite a hard galaxy to observe.  It bears a passing resemblance to M101 I always think, but is much dimmer. M74 Galaxy in Pisces Imaged on 15th December 2022 when to The South.  I used my TEC 140 refractor with its field flattener, an Atik 460 CCD camera with Astrodon E series 1.25″ LRGB filters.  All on my MESU 200 mount which was off-axis guided.  The objective lens was very dirty and I cleaned it the following day.  Despite that, the image came out quite nice.This image is made from quite a modest data set comprising the followingLUM > 12 x 300s ; Red > 9 x 300s ; Green 9 x 300s ; Blue > 9 x 300s Which gives a total integration (exposure)…

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Open Clusters

The Pleiades (M45) with FSQ85 and G2-8300

M45 widefield

The magnificent Pleiades, known to many as the Seven Sisters, is an open cluster in the constellation of Taurus. The Pleiades have been known since the dawn of antiquity and even some cave paintings from 30000 years ago depict them on cave walls. The cluster is 442 light years away and they are about 20 light years across. The exact distance has been a source of debate amongst astronomers for many years but the matter was recently settled using parallax data from the Gaia satellite. Technical Data Imaged with Takahashi FSQ85 refractor and G2-8300 CCD camera with Astrodon E-series RGB filters.  It consists of 20 x 300 second exposures in each of those filters to give over 90 minutes in each of the three channels for a combined integration of about four and a half hours.  As is normal with any type of cluster, I did not bother with a…

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Planetary

Jupiter, 7 December 2022

Jupiter 7 Dec 2022

Jupiter, 7th December 2022 with C925 SCT and ASI 224MC camera I am not experienced with imaging the planets other than the Moon. This image is not going to win any prizes or keep the award winning planetary imagers awake at night! However, it’s a first effort at Jupiter and a foray in planetary imaging to give me some other astronomy options since almost always, when it is clear the moon is bright thus rendering deep sky observing and photography impossible I used my Celestron C925 telescope with a x2 Powermate (a 2″ version). I then used an ADC to try and improve colour correction and to this was connected my ASI224MC colour camera. I tried my very best to “eyeball” the focus the best I could. This is very difficult to do as Jupiter was bouncing around considerably due to quite poor seeing. Jupiter was at about 30 degrees…

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