The Cygnus Wall in Closeup – Dual Narrowband
In Wednesday night’s unexpected bout of clarity, I made use of the moonless sky to grab the Oiii I needed to complete my Cygnus Wall image from my previous post in dual-narrowband. I captured...
Author: Adam
Two New Autumn Projects – The North America Wall and NGC6820
It’s HYDROGEN ALPHA SEASON folks! To explain… this time of year, high in the sky for most of the night are various emission nebulae that have loads of Hydrogen Alpha (Ha) emissions, at the...
NGC 6992 – The Eastern Veil Nebula – Dual Narrowband Mosaic 01/09/2019 to 05/09/2019
I added to my previous Ha image (here), and am now really happy to present my first finished colour narrowband mosaic image. This is NGC 6992, the Eastern Veil Nebula. Part of the same supernova...
NGC 6992 – The Eastern Veil Nebula – Mosaic in Hydrogen Alpha – 01/09/2019
A bit of unexpected clarity last night, so here’s my first attempt at something new. Have to keep mixing things up a little – it keeps it interesting! This is a Hydrogen Alpha...
NGC 6888 – The Crescent Nebula in Cygnus – Dual Narrowband – 24th September 2018 (Ha) and 30th August 2019 (Oiii)
Final summer image, as Autumn officially starts tomorrow! This is NGC 6888, the Crescent Nebula in Cygnus. Floating in the middle of the huge lake of nebulosity that is Cygnus the Swan, is...
NGC 7635 – The Bubble Nebula in Cassiopeia – 26/08/2019
Another day, another image! I’ve been getting a decent run of cloudless nights this week, which, as we all know in the UK, is unusual, even in the summer… This beauty is NGC7635 – the...
NGC6960 – The Western Veil Nebula – Dual Narrowband – 25/08/2019
I love the late summer nights – lots of lovely nebulosity to capture, with Cygnus high in the sky for most of the night. This is a new image, taken last night at time...
M27 – The Dumbbell Nebula – Dual Narrowband – 23/08/2019
It’s been a few months since I last imaged due to the lack of any real night – in the mid summer, it never really gets dark enough to image well, even in the...
Some Thoughts on Automation, and My Build of a Homebrew Stepper-Motor Auto-Focuser
In the latter part of 2018, I got to the point where I wanted to up my imaging game. The main way I could do this was more data (i.e. more sub-frame exposures =...
M106 – The Splendid Galaxy – 28th-30th March 2019
The latest in my series of ‘captured a few months ago, only got around to posting them now’ images, this is my take on M106, the ‘Splendid Galaxy’. This is a galaxy that has...
M51 – The Whirlpool Galaxy – March 2019
Another image captured a while back, but only now posted, this is an LRGB (Luminance, Red, Green, Blue) image of M51 – the Whirlpool Galaxy in Canes Venatici. It consists of 1hr each of...
The Rosette Nebula in Dual-Narrowband – 24th to 27th February 2019
Life has kind of taken over for the last few months, so I’ve been a bit slow getting this one up, but better late than never eh? This is my dual-narrowband image of the...
M81 and M82 in Ursa Major – My first go at L(R+Ha)GB…
Another first! This is my first ever image captured in full colour using a mono camera. In order to get a colour image out of a mono camera, you capture each of the...
The Pelican Nebula In Dual Narrowband – 11/10/2018
Another Dual-Narrowband offering this time, again from last October. This is a closeup of part of the Pelican Nebula – an H2 region associated with the North America nebula in Cygnus. This area is...
The Elephant Trunk Nebula in Dual-Colour Narrowband – 04/10/2018
This enigmatic object is the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula, which forms part of IC1396 in Cepheus. It’s around 2,400 light years from Earth, and is a column of dark material, inside which stars are forming,...
The Wizard Nebula in Hydrogen Alpha – 25/09/2018
The first of some images taken over the last few months that I haven’t got around to posting yet, this is an image of the Wizard Nebula, NGC7380, in hydrogen Alpha. This is, I...
Heart of the Heart in Hydrogen Alpha – 17/09/2018, and a Discussion of Chip Size
One of the things I was concerned about when moving from DSLR to CCD was the change in the size of the sensor chip I’d be imaging with. I was concerned about not being...
Heart of the Soul Nebula in Hydrogen Alpha – 16/09/2018
This beauty is the core of the Soul Nebula (also known as Westerhout 5), in Cassiopeia. this is an Emission Nebula, that has large cavities carved out of it by the radiation and solar winds...
Crescent Nebula in Hydrogen Alpha – 23/09/2018
This image was a nice side effect of an evening put aside to get plate solving working. Turns out that (for once), getting the plate solving sorted was so quick and easy that I...
North America Nebula in Cygnus – Bi-Colour Narrowband – 13/09/18 & 14/09/18
This image is groundbreaking for me in several ways. Firstly, up until that point, it was by far the longest integration I had got on any object. Integration is the term to describe the...
Recent Comments