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 Red,...
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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...
Finally, Things have Fallen Into Place…
Well… it’s taken it’s sweet time, but I think I’m finally there. Where, I hear you ask? Where is there? There, just so happens to be a point at which my imaging has finally...
Hubble, Bubble, Collimation Trouble – Bubble Nebula in Ha – 10/09/18
See what I did there? No? Ah well… Today’s post is a bit of a lessons learned post. First – which of these statements is true :- Collimation is important SCTs keep their collimation...
Markarian’s Chain – 06/05/2018
This image is one I’ve wanted to capture for a while. This is one part of a string of galaxies known as Markarian’s Chain, that form part of the huge Virgo Cluster. I’ve decided...
The Leo Trio – 20/04/2018
This is a mono capture the Leo Trio of galaxies. People refer to it as the Leo Triplet, but I prefer the way Leo Trio rolls off the tongue…!
Skywatcher Mount Power Woes (and a Way to Solve Them!)
For the last few years, I’ve had what I like to call the ‘Flash Gremlins’ visiting me fairlyt regularly. This is how I dealt with them…
Atik 314L – First Light: Rosette Nebula in Ha – 18/04/2018
I recently acquired an addition to my astronomical imaging arsenal. A mono Atik 314L (not the 314L+), came up for an extremely good price on an astro-classifieds site, and finally, I bit the bullet...
Power Box Mk II – Power Box Strikes Back
I love a project. A few weeks ago, I was at doomed UK electronics tat-merchant Maplin, looking for some bargains in their closing-down sale. Incidentally, I love what Maplin used to be, but unfortunately,...
Lunar Capture Shenanigans – 23/02/2018
A reasonably clear night (with some intermittent cloud, but nicely transparent in between), prompted me to get the 8″ LX90ACF out, and slap the ZWO ASI120MC in the back and capture some photons reflected...
The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae Revisited – 17/02/2018
After a long hiatus, I finally managed to get back out under the stars to capture some faint fuzzies again. Being the time of year where Orion is sitting high up in the South...
Jupiter – Captured 21st-24th May 2017
This is a set of three shots of Jupiter captured in May 2017. All consist of the best 4000 of 8000 frames captured in Firecapture with my ASI120MC planetary camera through the 8″ LX90ACF...
M101 – The Pinwheel Reprocessed
This is a reprocess of previous data on M101 taken back in 2014. It consists of 1hr 35mins of data in 4m exposures at ISO 800 with the modified 1100D and Astronomik CLS...
M45 – The Pleiades – Kelling Heath, Sep 2015
Another image taken at Kelling Heath Star Party – M45, the Pleiades in Taurus. This is the closest star cluster to us, and glows blue with the young stars, embedded in whispy nebulosity. Captured...
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