Feb 24th/25th Imaging Sessions

The February Full "Snow" Moon of 2024. AT60EDP, QHY294C, Antlia Triband filter.  The best 20 frames of 45, stacked in AutoStakkert.   1.5x enlarged crop.
The February Full “Snow” Moon of 2024. AT60EDP, QHY294C, Antlia Triband filter.  The best 20 frames of 45, stacked in AutoStakkert.   1.5x enlarged crop.

I normally don’t image during a full moon, but the weather was beautiful and I had a new telescope to do more testing with.    Plus, there was a comet just begging me to take it’s picture.   I couldn’t pass up the chance.

I ended up taking images both Saturday and Sunday nights.   I tried to give lots of time to single objects and not jump around so much, for a change.

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks on Feb 25, 2024 (Feb 26 UT.)   17×60 sec, QHY294C, AT60EDP at F/5, Antlia Triband filter.  Full field.
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks on Feb 25, 2024 (Feb 26 UT.)   17×60 sec, QHY294C, AT60EDP at F/5, Antlia Triband filter.  Star Freeze cropped version.
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks on Feb 25, 2024 (Feb 26 UT.)   17×60 sec, QHY294C, AT60EDP at F/5, Antlia Triband filter. Star Streaks cropped version.

The comet was very low in the west at dusk.  I had to quickly get shots and didn’t notice a building’s awning was in the shot along with street lights casting reflections from that direction.   Clouds coming and going didn’t help, either.

But!   This comet is bright enough to show up (with a tail!) that low in the muck of a Bortle 8-9 zone!    That’s quite bright, by most comet imaging standards!

IC 446. 79×180 sec, QHY294C, Antlia Triband filter, AT60EDP at F/5.
Cone Nebula area. (IC446 is on the right.)  This is only 12 x 3 minute sub-mages. AT60EDP, QHY294C, Antlia Triband filter.
Cone Nebula area. (IC446 is on the right.)  This is only 12 x 3 minute sub-mages. AT60EDP, QHY294C, Antlia Triband filter.

The Cone and the IC 446 Nebula area.   It was well placed and I shot 4 hours for IC446 on one night and did a short run on the Cone next door the following night.

M13 Globular Cluster. 50x 3 minutes, QHY294C, AT60EDP at F/5, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter.
M13 Globular Cluster. 50x 3 minutes, QHY294C, AT60EDP at F/5, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter.

I always enjoy seeing M13 again after it emerges in the late winter morning skies high enough to get imagery.   The colors got washed out with all the moonlight, unfortunately.   I created a darker version with more color enhancement, but the washed out look remains:

M13 Globular Cluster. 50x 3 minutes, QHY294C, AT60EDP at F/5, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter. Darker version.
M13 Globular Cluster. 50x 3 minutes, QHY294C, AT60EDP at F/5, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter. Darker version.

Oh, well…  I had fun taking it and processing it.   🙂

First Light – Astro-Tech AT60EDP

The Orion Nebula on 2/20/24. 68x180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60EDP at F/5. Full Field.
The Orion Nebula on 2/20/24. 68×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60EDP at F/5. Full Field.
The Orion Nebula on 2/20/24. 68x180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60EDP at F/5.
The Orion Nebula on 2/20/24. 68×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60EDP at F/5.  Cropped.

Here’s the very first stacked image taken with my new Astro-Tech AT60EDP.  It’s a 60mm, F/5 Petzval telescope with 300mm focal length.   This  was 64×180 sec using the new scope.   Location was a Bortle 8-9 zone with a bright moon out, 48F,  clear and above average transparency.   The second version is the full field.

Comet 62P/Tsuchinschan in the Virgo Cluster. 68 x 180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Astro-Tech AT60EDP at F/5, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter.
Comet 62P/Tsuchinschan in the Virgo Cluster. 68 x 180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Astro-Tech AT60EDP at F/5, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter.

Comet 62P/Tsuchinschan near the galaxies NGC 4608, NGC 4596. Also included are M58, M59, M60 and other faint galaxy fuzzies in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster.

M4 Globular Cluster. 11 x 3 minutes with a QHY294C, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter from a Bortle 8-9 zone.
M4 Globular Cluster. 11 x 3 minutes with a QHY294C, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter from a Bortle 8-9 zone.

M4 Globular Cluster, Antares and friends in Scorpio. It was still the 1st light night for my new AT60EDP, but at 5:00 AM the next morning.  This is 11 x 3 minutes with a QHY294C, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter from a Bortle 8-9 zone.  Still noisy with only 33 minutes and there was some twilight, but I’m sure I’ll be able to add to it in time.

The Moon, A Comet and A Star Cluster – Jan 28th, 2024

Comet 144P/Kushida. 15x180 sec, AT60ED, QHY294C, Antlia Triband filter.
Comet 144P/Kushida. 15×180 sec, AT60ED, QHY294C, Antlia Triband filter.
Comet 144P/Kushida. 15x180 sec, AT60ED, QHY294C, Antlia Triband filter. Star Freeze version.
Comet 144P/Kushida. 15×180 sec, AT60ED, QHY294C, Antlia Triband filter. Star Freeze version.

It was a clear Sunday evening on Jan 28th, 2024 and I had to do some tweaking to the scope, so I took advantage of the good weather and did some imaging to test the results.

After the tweaks and adjustments for the scope, I went straight to Comet 144P/Kushida, which was well placed in the early evening sky.   I took 45 minutes worth of subs and above are the two images I generated from this data.

M35 Open Cluster and NGC 2158, taken on Jan 28th, 2024. 40x180 sec, QHY294C, Astro-Tech AT60ED, Antlia Triband filter.
M35 Open Cluster and NGC 2158, taken on Jan 28th, 2024.  40×180 sec, QHY294C, Astro-Tech AT60ED, Antlia Triband filter.

I shot of few sub-images of M35 the last time I was out and wanted to return to it now that I tweaked the scope.   I got two hours of data on it and it came out reasonably well.

By the time I finished M35, the moon had risen high enough to drown out any dim nebulae and whatnot, so I shot the moon itself.   It was still rather low in the sky, but did not come out too bad:

The Moon on Jan 28, 2024. QHY294C, Astro-Tech AT60ED, Antlia Triband filter.
The Moon on Jan 28, 2024. QHY294C, Astro-Tech AT60ED, Antlia Triband filter.

I resized it 200% for this display image and did some sharpening with the AstraImage Maximum Entropy Deconvolution filter in PS.  Yes, not too bad at all for a 60mm scope.

Saturday Night, January 13th-14th, 2024

Comet 144P/Kushida. 5x180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.
Comet 144P/Kushida. 5×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.
Comet 144P/Kushida. 5x180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.
Comet 144P/Kushida. 5×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.

On this night, I was mainly going to try making adjustments to the new tilt plate gizmo for the AT60ED and see if I could get further improvements to its field.   Even though it was clear at first, the forecast was clouds coming in for a few hours, so I was not looking to take any keeper images and I wanted to get this testing done instead.

I had just completed star aligning and noticed a comet near Aldebaran in Taurus on the charts, which I had just used to sync the scope’s alignment with.   It wasn’t listed by SkyHound’s Comet Chasing website, so I took a few images to see what it looked like and how bright it was.    Only 15 minutes of exposure, so it’s not much, but it is what started the night.

I was really after the Comet 62P in Leo, and this runt comet was interesting, but I wanted to do more testing of the tilt plate thingy.   I was going to come back to it, but clouds invaded and stayed until 11:00 PM or so.   By that time, I still had about 2 hours for the comet in Leo to get to a good spot, so I took images of M81 and M82 to kill time.

M81 & M82. 36x180 sec, QHY294C, Antlia Triband filter, AT60ED at F/4.8.
M81 & M82. 36×180 sec, QHY294C, Antlia Triband filter, AT60ED at F/4.8.

I lost/missed focus for this dataset and the guiding for it was terrible.    Plus, it wasn’t quite as clear as it needed to be from lingering clouds and moisture.  I salvaged what I could.   I only include it here to remind me to focus before each object if I want a keeper image and remind me it takes 3 SharpCap polar alignments and not just 2 to get good tracking.

Finally, 62P Tsuchinshan is high enough to image, so I star taking images of it.   I realized the first few subs were not in focus, so I stopped and redid it.  But otherwise, I was able to let it take pictures on its own while I caught a few winks.   All in all, 68 images of it were taken or 3.4 hours worth:

Comet 62P Tsuchinshan on Jan 14, 2023. 68x180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, AT60ED at F/4.8
Comet 62P Tsuchinshan on Jan 14, 2023. 68×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, AT60ED at F/4.8

Transparency was only average to slightly above at times for this night, so it wasn’t as clear as predictions.  But, I did notice what the focus was doing and I now have a better handle on it.  Plus, now that I know about it, I might have to try for more sub-images on that first comet and see what shakes out.

Mid-Week Imaging Session Jan 9th/10th, 2024

The Flaming Star and Tadpoles Nebulae area. 75x180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.
The Flaming Star and Tadpoles Nebulae area. 75×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.
The Flaming Star and Tadpoles Nebulae area. 75x180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8. Lighter version.
The Flaming Star and Tadpoles Nebulae area. 75×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8. Lighter version.

In the second week of 2024, the weather gave me a break on a Tuesday evening.  It was going to be one really clear and totally transparent night and I could not let it pass without imaging something.

I was setup and was taking flats by dusk.   But, the object I really wanted to get data on was not going to be in position until about 2:00 AM the following morning.  So, I needed to kill time and this area of the sky in the image above (Auriga) was in prime position.  I managed to get 3.75 hours before the mount reached the meridian and it was time to flip it.

The Virgo Cluster and Mankarian's Chain area. 40x180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.
The Virgo Cluster and Mankarian’s Chain area. 40×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.

At this point, I had another 2 hours of waiting, so instead of flipping the mount, I went with imaging the Virgo Cluster with this very wide field rig.   Not too bad for only two hours, but it needs about double what I had time for.

Comet 62P/Tsuchinshan, Jan 10th, 2024.   45x180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.
Comet 62P/Tsuchinshan, Jan 10th, 2024. 45×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.

Finally, Leo and Comet 62/P, the object I was really after, was high enough to get data on, and I managed 45 sub-images of it.  I have two versions.  One is the cropped version above that I did first.

The full field version is below, which I restacked a couple of times to get a better background-stars-only image.  One stack was done with SharpCap, and then I re-calibrated the subs in FitsWorks and stacked them again in IRIS, which was not as noisy as the Sharpcap stack.  These two stacks were combined and then the comet-only images was composited in.

Not a very big comet, but it has a tail, at least.   I don’t think it will get much better than this, unfortunately.   It already passed perihelion in December and will make the closest approach to Earth before month’s end.  It was forecast to slowly dim over the next few weeks.

Comet 62P/Tsuchinshan, Jan 10th, 2024. 45x180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8. Full field version.
Comet 62P/Tsuchinshan, Jan 10th, 2024. 45×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Antlia Triband filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8. Full field version.

I stopped imaging the comet shortly before dawn.  I had to work that day, so I grabbed my scope and laptop and brought them in and tried to sleep for an hour or so.   I had napped during the night, but still lacked enough sleep to function.  It took a couple of days to recover enough to do the processing for these.  lol

Jan 3rd, 2024 – Equipment Test

M45, the Pleiades. 21x180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Gain 1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.
M45, the Pleiades. 21×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Gain 1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.

It is a Wednesday in the middle of the week, but the weather is clear and earlier that day I just received my new ZWO tilt-plate adapter.  The goal of getting it being to fix my skewed field of view of the AT60ED with the QHY294C camera.

I stuck it on, hooked it to the scope and twisted just one screw up and down a couple of times to see what it would do, then just barely turned it, just a bit and locked it down with the screw beside it.   This screw was in line with the landscape orientation of my camera and also the way the field seemed to be tilted.

I crossed my fingers and started shooting 3 minute exposures.   It had looked good with 2 sec shots, but I was not convinced until I saw the first normal sub-image.

Amazingly, the field was almost perfectly flat with just a little elongation in one corner!  It’s possible the extension tube I removed to put the adapter in place had sagging issues, but I think I just got lucky with the adjustment.  Maybe both.   lol  🙂

M78 and part of Bernard's Loop. 83x180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Gain 1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.
M78 and part of Bernard’s Loop. 83×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Gain 1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.

I wasn’t planning on staying out long, since this was supposed to be just a test of the adapter session.  I thought I would be adjusting it all evening and not trying to shoot keeper images.

I picked the M78 area, since I had some data from the last session that got cut short by clouds.  It needed more time and this was going to be it.

I bagged 47 sub-images and with the 36 from the last session added to it in PS, the image above is the result.  The bad parts from the previous session with the worst star elongation were replaced with the new, which was mainly the top left corner.

Finally!  Success!  I was about to spend more money on a Petzval scope.  Glad I waited and tried this first.

 

New Year’s Eve Weekend of 2023

M33 on Dec 30th, 2023. 51×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Gain 1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.

It was the last two nights of the year and I had clear weather.  What luck!

So, on Friday night, Dec 30th, I had to take care of unfinished business with the Horse Head from the last session.   I had something to block the parking lot lights from next door this time.  While waiting for the Horse Head to get into position, I took images of M33 (above,) which I hadn’t tried with the AT60ED, yet.  It came out decent, I guess.

While taking the Horse Head, I noticed on the charts that a comet was in the field.   It was C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS), at magnitude 11.9 according to Cartes du Ciel.

Horse Head Nebula Region on Dec 30th, 2023. 44x180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Gain 1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.
Horse Head Nebula Region on Dec 30th, 2023. 44×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Gain 1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.
Horse Head and Flame Nebulae. 44×180 sec, QHY294C, AT60ED, Antlia Triband filter. Rotated, cropped, color enhanced.
C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS)
C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS)

I imaged until almost midnight on Friday.   I left the mount setup  and brought in the rest with plans to try again on Saturday,  New Year’s Eve.

On New Year’s Eve, my plans were to go for M78.  While it was getting high enough, I got some more data on the Heart Nebula – an hour and six minutes.   I mixed it with the salvaged Heart job from a couple of months back at about 22 percent to help fill in some noise.

When I got going on M78, it gave me problems with tracking.  I finally realized it was my guide calibration and after redoing it, I was back in business, but wasted almost an hour figuring that out.   Consequently, by the time the clouds came at about 10:20 PM, I still had less than 2 hours of data.    Oh, well…   I’ll try again next year!    lol

The Heart Nebula on Dec 31th, 2023. 22x180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Gain 1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.
The Heart Nebula on Dec 31th, 2023. 22×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Gain 1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.
M78 on Dec 31th, 2023. 36×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Gain 1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.
M78 on Dec 31th, 2023. 36×180 sec, QHY294C at -10C, Gain 1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.  Detail crop.

Imaging Session on Dec 20, 2023

M45. 9×180 sec. Baader UHC-S filter, QHY294C, AT60ED at F/4.8.

On Wednesday afternoon, Dec 20th, 2023, it was clearer than predicted.  So, I broke out the scope and setup to catch the first quarter moon and test a filter I purchased last year that I only used twice.

My main problem with using this filter was getting my flats to work when using the QHY294C camera.   I was never really successful last year and I had to manually do flat calibration in FitsWorks, which was a pain.   So, my first step was to get a good flat and hope that it worked with the 3 minute exposures I planned to use.

Conditions that evening were predicted to be clear, but only average transparency.  In actuality, it was average to below average with a few high clouds that came in periodically.  Oh, well…  I was not expecting to get any keepers this night, but I still wanted to test that filter.

The Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, a lower cost triband filter that I had mixed results with at a dark location last year, was what I wanted to use and test from my heavily light polluted metro area location.   It would be the first time to try it in this kind of heavy LP.

So, the first image at the beginning of the post is how the UHC-S filter performed with 9×3 minute subs.  The conditions were better when this image was taken, so keep that in mind.

Next, here’s how the Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter did with roughly the same exposure on a below average night:

M45. 10×180 sec. Antlia Triband RGB filter, QHY294C, AT60ED at F/4.8.

Almost a match for how much nebulosity it picked up, but the key differences are the star halos that the UHC-S filter tends to produce on bright stars and the lack of halos for the Antlia filter, plus the much stronger blue channel with the Triband.

Next, I put it to a real-world test with 50 sub-images of the California Nebula:

California Nebula. 50x180 sec, QHY294C, Gain 1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.
California Nebula. 50×180 sec, QHY294C, Gain 1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.

I noticed during the acquisition of these that the filter was performing really well, and my flat was working reasonably well.   It was not perfect, but good enough for what I intended to accomplish.

I have a second version of the processing using a PS Starless action.   Not as clean as a removal as StarNet++, but it’s very fast!

California Nebula. 50x180 sec, QHY294C, Gain 1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8. Starless version.
California Nebula. 50×180 sec, QHY294C, Gain 1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8. Starless version.

After this, I wanted to try it on the Horse Head and Orion Nebula.   I started on the Horse Head, but didn’t get too far because my scope was starting to point directly at the parking lot lighting next door.  Once the light was directly hitting the lens, that was it.   So, only 4 sub-images were good out of the dozen or so I took.

I opened the stack in FitsWorks while still imaging it and cropped out the bad part that had caught the direct view of the streetlight.   I spent only about 5 to 10 minutes fussing with it in FitsWorks, which has very limited image editing tools.  It came out much better than I anticipated:

FitsWorks-Only processing.

Here’s the same image, but it is the uncropped, full-field.  I worked on it in PSCS3 to repair the damage from the streetlight’s strong gradient in the top left corner and do a better processing job than what FitsWorks does:

The Horse Head Nebula, Flame Nebula in Orion. 4×180 sec, QHY294C, Gain1600, Offset 50, Antlia Triband RGB Ultra, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8.

So, my conclusions are this filter, with a good flat, tends to work better in heavy LP than the UHC-S filter.  Mainly because it doesn’t produce bad halos around bright stars.  But, it is also because it has a great blue channel, unlike the UHC-S.   That sure makes color balancing easier and I can go after broadband targets in addition to just nebulae.

BTW, I never did get a shot of the moon that night.   The filter test results were too good and I didn’t want to waste any time that I could otherwise use to test it on more nebulae.

Sunday, Dec 17th, 2023 – The Moon and Two Nebulae

It was a very clear night after a cold front had passed and enough time had gone by for the winds to calm down again.  I setup before sunset and got ready.

The Moon, early evening, Sunday, Dec 17, 2023.
The Moon Composite image. 2 images taken Sunday, Dec 17, 2023 blended to show the stars and the moon’s features on the sunlit and dark sides.

The Moon was out and in conjunction with Saturn, which was right above it.   Unfortunately, the field of view was too narrow to include both in one frame without rotating the camera to another angle.   So, I just shot the moon

I composited together an overexposed shot and the first image and blended it to show the moon among a few stars.  Not quite what I was hoping for, but you get the idea.

The Pleiades. 3 hrs of 3 minute sub-images. A “killing time” image.
The Seagull Nebula. Combined data from Dec 14th and Dec 18th sessions totaling nearly 6 hours of exposure (118x180 sec.)
The Seagull Nebula. Includes data from Dec 14th and Dec 18th sessions totaling nearly 6 hours of exposure (118×180 sec.)

The Pleiades is one of those images I end up with when I want to kill time while waiting for what I really want to image.  In this case, it was the Seagull Nebula, which was my main target for this session.

I maxed out for one night with 4.5 hours on this object, which when added with the session from last week, gave me nearly 6 hours on the Seagull.  Finally, an amount of time that gives very smooth results – once you add them all together properly.

Night of December 10th/11th, 2023, Sightseeing Tour

The only serious image out the bunch was the Soul Nebula.   It was the only one I planned for and was my main target.  I managed to get 3.8 hours on it, with .8 hr on one side of the peer and the other 3 hrs on the other.  BTW, all images were taken with a QHY294c, a UHC-S filter and a AT60ED on a SkyWatcher GTi goto mount in Bortle 7-8 skies.

Soul Nebula – 76x180sec,Gain1600

The rest of the images were mostly done with 30 sec exposures at high gain (i.e., 3000. I normally keep it at 1600.)  Like I said, I was sightseeing and doing an EAA experiment.

The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula area was the longest of the 30-sec shots, 240 x 30 seconds.  I still had to combine it with about 30% blend of a 90 minute exposure taken with another camera, but the same scope.  It was still too noisy even after 240 subs.

Elephant’s Trunk – 240×30 sec, (plus 30×180 sec at 30% blend.)

So, the 30 sec high gain experiment for EAA type imaging is not up to par with what I could do with the QHY183c camera.   It did well on open clusters, at least.  Oh, well.  Live and learn, as they say.

Comet 12P – 72×30 sec
M67 – 60×30 sec
Seagull Nebula – 28×30 sec
M44 – 93×30 sec

Images of Comets, Nebulae, Galaxies and Star Clusters