I was testing the usability of an 8″ F/4 Newtonian with a 3-vane spider.   There’s some issues with it, but it takes reasonably good images.

The Seagull Nebula done as a mosaic of 2 separate panes and combined together.  My trusty Televue TV-85 refractor was used for this one.

This one was one of my better images taken in 2012.   I had a new camera and I was putting it through its paces.

The beautiful California Nebula in Perseus.

This was 84 sub-images of 3 min each at ISO 800 combined with 5 subs of 15 minutes each shot at ISO 400.  All images done with a Televue TV-85 with a 0.8x focal reducer for F/5.6 speed, a Canon T3 modified DSLR camera and a IDAS-LPR filter.

I took this with my Televue TV-85 refractor and combined 2 nights worth of data.  The exposures ran like this: 46×180″ ISO1600, 11×900″ ISO400 and 57×360″ ISO800.   Gamma Cassiopeia is the really bright star in the center and overwhelms the sensor, so I had to suppress it quite a bit in processing.

This is a composite image of the Belt of Orion area combining images shot with a Canon 200 mm F/2.8 lens at F/3.5 and at F/2.8, plus the Orion Nebula area and Horsehead area each imaged separately with a TV-85. RegiStar was used to align the separate images and PSCS2 was used to stack and blend the images together and crop them to form the final version seen here.

One of my better Horse Head Nebula images. This was taken in Dec ’07 with the TV-85 APO.