An image of Comet Garrad generated from 40×180 sec @ ISO 1600 sub-exposures. These were taken with a TV-85 at F/5.6 and a Canon T3 DSLR camera.
Comet Garrad, March 24th, 2012
The Flaming Star Nebula and the “Tadpoles”
This one was one of my better images taken in 2012. I had a new camera and I was putting it through its paces.
Image Gallery for January 2012
California Nebula
The beautiful California Nebula in Perseus.
The Orion Nebula Complex, January 2012
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.
Image Gallery for December, 2011
Image Gallery for November, 2011
Gamma Cass, IC 63 & IC 59
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.
The Belt of Orion
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.
Image Gallery for October, 2011
