June 2014 – Astro La Vista Observatory

Supernova in NGC 4386

This is a recently discovered Supernova that I calculate is currently at magnitude 14.5. It is a crop of a 200 second exposure taken with a QSI 583wsg camera and the C11 Edge HD. Below is an inverted view.

Sun on 06/24/2014

Taken with a Lunt 80mm solar telescope using a DMK 21AU04 camera at 60 fps, 1000 images stacked.

New Davis Vantage Pro Weather Station

This weather station provides on site weather. It is accessible in the main menu under Astro La Vista Weather.

Summer Solstice and International SUN-Day.

Randy Shivak came to our Summer Solstice event and shared his beautiful solar telescope the attendees.

Panstaars C/2012 K1 (Update)

This is the latest photo of this comet. It was imaged using a Hyperstar lens at F2 on a Celestron C11 Edge HD with a Starlight Xpress H9C color camera. The best of 90 images were stacked using Maxim DL and then the image was processed further in Photoshop CS6. The individual exposures ranged betweenContinue reading “Panstaars C/2012 K1 (Update)”

Colliding Galaxies – Siamese Twins – NGC 4567 and 4568

Ten 5 minute LRGB sub exposures stacked in Maxim DL6 and processed in Photoshop CS6. A Celestron 11 EdgeHD SCT telescope at F7 was used to acquire images with a QSI583wsg camera.

M13 – Great Hercules Cluster

“M13 is generally considered the finest globular cluster in the northern skies, mainly because it is visible to the naked eye in a well-known grouping of stars that sails high overhead in the summer sky. It is a swollen mass teaming with perhaps 300,000 to a half-million suns spread across 140 light years or more.”Continue reading “M13 – Great Hercules Cluster”