Jupiter in Taurus w/Pleiades. 5×120 sec @ ISO 1600, 28mm F/5.6.
Jupiter in Taurus w/Pleiades
CG3 Mount Guiding Test
Here’s a single 30 second exposure with my 28mm F/2.8 lens and my camera mounted on an old CG3 style mount with a simple clock drive. I had a Bogen ball-head camera mount so I could position the camera. The mount works well at this focal length for 30 seconds. Too bad there were clouds.
Orion and Taurus Area
The Orion and Taurus constellations taken with a 28mm F/2.8 lens. The camera used is a Canon XS at ISO 1600 and was mounted on a regular tripod. I used 3×20 sec exposures combined in IRIS. Calibration frames were from old data. Bright Jupiter is visible on the right. Even with just 20 seconds for exposure, the stars trailed due to the Earth’s rotation. I had to do some star rounding in PS to correct it somewhat.
Moon Phases for 2013
Jupiter on Dec 12, 2012
Jupiter taken with my Celestron 8 inch SCT.
The Orion and Running Man Nebulae
I shot some sub-images with my modified Canon T3 of the Running Man the other night and added that to the Orion Nebula test image I took recently and made a composite mosaic image of the two. I also shot some short subs (9) of the Orion Nebula core and made a HDR image from them and then composited that in to replace the burnt out core that I had previously.
So, the breakdown is 36×180 sec @ ISO 3200 for the bottom half, 30×180 sec @ ISO 400 for the Running Man and 9 sub-images from 5 to 30 seconds @ ISO 1600 merged into a HDR image in IRIS and then divided into 3 layers of various opacity settings and masking to blend in for the core area.
The ISO 3200 images had 2 LP filters – a Deep Sky filter and an IDAS-LPS. The ISO 400 images and the core images were only shot with an IDAS-LPS. A GSO 8″ F/4 Newtonian with a GSO 2″ Coma Corrector was the imaging scope.
The Veil Nebula
This is a supernova remnant in Cygnus. I took this with a GSO 8″ Newtonian that I was testing. I used ISO 3200 Speed on a Canon T3 DSLR camera that has been modified for astrophotography.
Galaxy NGC 253
This is a test image with a GSO 8 inch Newtonian telescope and my Canon T3 DSLR. 16×180 sec @ ISO 3200.
The Horse Head and Flame Mosaic
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.
Spiral Galaxy M33
Here’s an M33 that I acquired 57×180 sec ISO 1600 sub-images of data for on Nov 9th, 2012. I used a GSO 8″ F/4 newt with an MPCC that I’ve been toying with lately. Its got that funky spikes thing going on with the 3 vane spider. But, it was sitting around for 5 yrs gathering dust, so I thought I’d put it to use.
I cheated a little for this image since I mixed in a little color from a data set taken with a TV-85 last year that was pretty good. Used Registar. It works miracles when mixing different data sets. Glad I have it.