Thor’s Helmet. 3 sessions with the last being 25 x 3 minutes of integration.
Over 4.6 hours of integration with a variety of exposures including 3 min, 2 min and 30 sec sub-images. All were taken with a QHY183c camera at -20C or -15C cooling, an Optolong L-eNhance filter and a Televue TV-85 at F/5.6.
thors-helmet-25×180-g20-o100-lnh-qhy183c_-20C-85f5_6-crop plus thors-helmet-30×120-g20-284×30-g37-o200-lnh-qhy183c_-15C-85f5_6-v2a
Ghost Nebula Combined Data. 60×180 sec, Gain 20, Offset 100, QHY183c at -20C, L-eNhance filter, Televue TV-85 at F/5.6.
The December 26/27 weekend of 2020 was the last imaging session of the year. I managed to bag good data for all the objects on this page. The Heart and Soul Nebulae are still works in progress, though.
Soul Nebula 2-Panel Mosaic. 40×180 sec top panel and 42×180 sec for bottom panel. Gain 20, offset 100, QHY183c at -20C, L-eNhance filter, Televue TV-85 at F/5.6.Cone Nebula Combined Data. 29×240 sec at Gain 11, Offset 100, and 183×30, gain 42, offset 42, QHY183c at -20C, L-eNhance filter, Televue TV-85 at F/5.6.Tease for Heart Nebula Mosaic work in progress.
Jupiter & Saturn on Dec 21, 2020. Best 32 frames of 320 captured with a Meade 6″, F/5 (750mm F.L.) and an Aptina AR0130 CMOS camera.Jupiter-Saturn on Dec 20, 2020 with a normal zoom camera lens. (70mm, F/4 and .25 sec exposure @ ISO 1600.)
Images of Comets, Nebulae, Galaxies and Star Clusters
