Author: Adam
Comet C/2020 F3 (Neowise) – The Best Comet in at least 13 years
A trip to a local Roman fort in the early hours helped produce some spectacular shots of the summer’s visiting dirty snowball, with a few surprises along the way…
Mars November 2020 – Not Long After Opposition
My first planetary capture session of any note for several years…!
The ISS Transits the Moon – 1st June 2020
A transit across the face of the moon by our favourite 420-ton hunk of scientific loveliness…
Caldwell 49 – The Rosette – Dual-Colour Narrowband
A return this last month to an old favourite – Caldwell 49 – The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros…
ARP94 – A Pair of Interacting Galaxies in Leo
A quick one this… I couldn’t make it to the last SEKAS meeting prior to them going on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but I heard that the month’s imaging challenge was ARP94,...
M42 – The Great Orion Nebula – Hydrogen Alpha Mono
My first astro-image of the new decade, and my first from the garden of my new house after a recent move. This is my first take on M42, the Great Orion Nebula for a...
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...
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...
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