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Sharpless 86 (Work in Progress)
Andromeda (M31)
Andromeda Galaxy(M31) taken with a Williams Optics Star 71 (71mm) telescope. The camera was the QSI 583wsg. It is a composite of 55 five minute images taken with luminance, red, green, and blue Astrodon filters.
PROPELLER NEBULA (DWB111)
The Propeller Nebula is a very faint emission nebula in Cygnus. This is a stacked group of 30 five minute exposures in H-Alpha and 30 five minute exposures in O3 for a total exposure time of five hours. It was taken through the Astro-Physics 130mm Starfire Refractor and the QSI 690wsg camera.
PELICAN NEBULA
With the improving weather I was able to finish this off. The benefits of longer exposures are starting to pay off. The image is a stacked composite of 90 five minute narrow band exposures taken through the Astro Physics 130MM Starfire refractor for a total exposure time of 7.5 hours. It was processed in MaximContinue reading “PELICAN NEBULA”
PELICAN NEBULA – Work in Progress
Well, the weather is turning bad, so I don’t know when I will be able to add data to this narrow band photo of the Pelican Nebula. I would like to add a little more color and some more detail. So far I have stacked 10 five minute H-Alpha images and 10 five minute OIIIContinue reading “PELICAN NEBULA – Work in Progress”
Moon Shot
Before deep sky imaging begins, it is always fun to take a look at the moon. This shot was taken through an Astro-Physics 130 GT refractor while the sun was still up by using a hydrogen alpha filter in the QSI camera. The thirty .02 second exposures were stacked for a total exposure of 0.6 seconds.
Globular Cluster M14 in the Constellation Ophiuchus.
When he discovered this object in 1764, Charles Messier described it as a nebula without stars. Obviously he was wrong, but this points out a primary difference between the efficacy of using your eyes to observe things in our digital age when ccd cameras can see details like this through a four inch refractor telescope.Continue reading “Globular Cluster M14 in the Constellation Ophiuchus.”
A LITTLE SOLAR IMAGING
It was a nice day for solar imaging. The image was taken with a Lunt 80mm refractor and an Imaging Source Video camera. The sub exposures were taken at a rate of four per second. A total of 1000 images were taken and half of them were stacked to form the final image in RegistaxContinue reading “A LITTLE SOLAR IMAGING”
Comet Lovejoy
Comet Lovejoy is now located near the Orion Nebula. It is shining at a fairly bright fifth magnitude. I took 60 thirty second photos with the C11 at F7 and stacked the best of them.
Astro La Vista Observatory 