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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Isle of Wight – A Few Images From the DDA Star Party 2014
Here are a few more images I took during the Disciples of the Dark Arts Isle of Wight star party 2014. Unfortunately, despite the darkest skies I’ve ever imaged under in the UK, the...
Jupiter – Colour and Mono comparison
A quick post to illustrate the differences between processing data from the same night from a Toucam Pro and a QHY5v Mono taken through my f/6 Newtonian with a 2x Barlow. The left pic...
Jupiter in Glorious Mono with the QHY5v – 13/02/2014
As well as the moon, I targeted Jupiter last night. Jupiter is currently in a very favourable position – nice and high in the sky, and closer to Earth than its been for a...
Planning an Imaging session with SkySafari
During last night’s imaging session, I got to try out a feature that I’ve wondered about since I started using SkySafari. One thing i always had trouble with previously was visualising exactly what I...
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