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Hopefully this is an improvement on last year's image, this should have been 4 hrs or so, but what with wind and cloud (it was supposed to be clear) it ended up at 75 mins of 60's, 60's due to wind and cloud.

What do you think? Good, bad, suggestions for improvement? This is my first image of M13 made up of about 4 hours of 2 minute exposures from the centre of light polluted Manchester. Skywatcher 150 AZEQ6-GT Mount Altair HyperCam 183C

Celestron Neximage 5 Solar System Imager, Celestron Nexstar 8i SCT.

This is beautiful too. Such a beautiful texture and I love the bright filament of yellow light near the top right.

I could see that image on the cover of a book. Fantastic composition

NCG 6720 in the constellation Lyra.

Great image, i got a shot of it on Saturday night struggling with the core haha. Tried blending a set of shorter rxpaoure but doesn't look great gunna keep working on it.

Camera ASI ZWO 1600mm-c, ZWO LRGB filter, Baader Ha, Skywatcher Equinox 80 PRO APO This is all @unity and -25c Bin 1x1 we have 24x 300 sec L 2 hour 24x 75 sec L 30 min Bin 2x2 there is 24x 150 sec Red, Green and Blue 3 hour 24x 45 sec Red, Green And Blue 54 min 14x 150 sec Ha 35 min Totalling 6 hours and 59 min. Most of this collected on 19.11.2020 and the rest on 21.11.2020 If anything, I should have collected a little more Ha. Anyways a fun project to do. Hope you like, and Clear skies!

Cor, lovely!

Yes Reggie, I thought Syrtis Major was very prominent this year.The last time I managed to image this feature was back in 2014.You really notice the passing of time when you have astronomy for a hobby. Stay safe George

Great, George! I noticed the polar cap was smaller, too. But Syrtis Major more than made up for it

Must have been imaging at roughly the same time! Lots of detail Reggie your Big Mak does a great job! Best regards from George.

Wow lot of work, cannot believe 42 min at 1 sec!!! Lot of patience keyboardBlondie. I though I had some work on my hands. I took 400 times 1.6 second for a merly 10 minutes lol. Good work, there is a lot of data in that picture for sure. Submit Comment dsSubmit Comment

You got some great detail there, George. Nice work, buddy!

99.3% moon Sky-Watcher Mercury 70/500 AZ3 2.5X barlowcanon 1100Diso 100 1/50s X 50frames processed and stacked with pipp+registax

Great image. Funny I’ve just literally tried using TDNAI too and it does work surprisingly well, I tried it on one of clavius too.

That's a cracking image

Nice job, George. Love the composition. That is very artistic and dramatic

Looks like clouds to me!

I did see the beautiful conjunction of the moon, Saturn and Jupiter. I got a picture that I haven't uploaded yet. Mars, though, has been getting most of my attention these past few months, lol. Looking forward to "seeing" more of your images, George. All the best, Reggie

Lovely colours

M33 Triangulum Galaxy Sky-Watcher Mercury 70/500 AZ3canon 1100Diso 3200exposure 1h 13min in total , 1.3sec per frame

The link is not to a 2" to 1.25" but to a T-2 mount camera body (no lens) / t ring / t mount - inserted into the telescope focuser as you may not be using the diagonal you may need a 2" long extension tube to use instead of it Before buying anything I would read up more on using a camera with your Evo 90mm

Super nice shot and what a great location!

Impressive

Love this! What a dramatic image! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you very much for your kind comment. I did not set out to image the Moon. I was setting up to image Venus and noticed the Moon much lower down and just above the false horizon created by the kitchen extension roof. It was so beautiful I decided to capture a composite image. I never think you can do justice to the quality of light and colour when you capture the Moon in twilight. But I keep trying! George

How? That's amazing.

That is a beautiful image, I love the colour balance you have; it looks so natural. Jim

Beauty!!

Nice conjunction took this quick handheld snap with my Canon 600D at about f=300mm. Can never really do these beautiful conjunctions justice. Just goes to show what a fabulous bit of kit the eyeball brain combo is!

Wow--this is nice. It looks like it would look through the worlds best eyepiece. It may not be the most detailed image, but it evokes all the details. Quite amazing.

You have picked up a few galaxies as well. That must be taken with a fair focal length to get that lovely detail on the nebula. Pure LRGB or NB ??

Beautiful photo. I think I may have to look into AP

The above image created from the SDO 'Sun Today' (composite 171,211 and 304 angstrom filters) Credit for base data "Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams." I really like this image as it appears to show Mercury within the corona.

THE DARK & LIGHT SIDE OF THE MOON

My HFD at 3.87 arcsecs per pixel is about 3.5, your HFD at 4.8 as/p is 5.99, so it might be worth giving your focus a tweak too. Michael

Refutes the perception by some that defocusing helps guiding. The PHD2 developers often have to tell users with problems to improve their focusing, going for minimum HFD reading in the Star Profile. Michael

Just after midnight this morning a camera on my 'meteor rig' snapped this Perseid shooting past Cassiopeia. Canon 400d -EFS 18-55mm lens at f=18mm - ISO 1600. - All on a Star Adventurer mount. Star field - 20x30 sec stacked lights layered with frame containing Perseid.

Wow, that looks like something taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

"One of these is very large and a long way away, the other is much smaller but nearby" "No I'm still not getting it Ted" Composite of two images at different exposures to accommodate the wide dynamic range of luminosity of the two bodies. Canon 600D Canon camera with an EOS 90-300mm. telephoto lens at f=300mm. on a fixed tripod.

A captivating image.

There are some critics of the 294 camera but I love mine and your image just goes to show what can be done with it.

Almost 3D, love it.

Lovely image! There's a wonderful intensity to the stars. Congratulations.

Nice one !

30 second exposure with a Huawei P20 Pro in mono mode. Using a televue 85 with 55mm plossl, photonis night vision monocular and 6nm Ha filter. Taken in Tenerife at 1400m on top of a village hotel (sqm 20.8)

Very nicely done sir

Super stuff, aethereal and delicate with a touch of fantasy.

I think this one and the Triffid Nebula are my favourite shots from 5 years of astrophotography M31 is quite a tricky one to get right and it took a lot of effort to finally capture the data I needed to draw out all the detail. Not just that but the learning curve required to get the processing methods was a good 3 years work so don't be disappointed if you try and it just comes out all wrong keep on going and you will get it right remember, no pain no gain in this game.