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This image was taken on my first night out following the street light switch-off in the nearby towns (between midnight and 5:00am), helpfully the moon was also on the opposite side of the sky by this time. As you can see, I have also also managed to capture a fair few of M101's companion galaxies in this image, including NGC5474 just left of top centre. This is also the first image I have processed using PixInsight's new 'Masked Stretch' process (released this week, replacing the old script version). It has made a massive difference to retaining colour in the cores of the stars and the galaxy, so much so that I may well have to go back and reprocess some of my earlier images which suffer from a lack of star colour (a common problem with DSLR images). Imaging: Sky-Watcher Evostar 80ED DS-Pro, Sky-Watcher 0.85x reducer, Hutech IDAS LPS P2 2", Canon EOS 500D (Unmodified), APT Guiding: Orion ST80, QHY 5, PHD guiding, Sky-Watcher NEQ6, EQMod, AstroTortilla Processing: PixInsight 1.8.01 Date: Jan. 12, 2014 Lights: 30 x 600 seconds ISO 400 Darks: 109 Flats: 102 Bias: 330

Imaging: Sky-Watcher Evostar 80ED DS-Pro, Sky-Watcher 0.85x Reducer, Canon EOS 500D (Unmodified), Hutech IDAS LPS P2 2", APT Guiding: Orion ST80, QHY 5, PHD guiding Mount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6, EQMod, AstroTortilla Processing: PixInsight Dates: March 2, 2013 Lights : 19 x 600" ISO 400

Target: Jupiter Date: 2011-12-22 18:17 UTC Scope: 8" Meade LX10 SCT + Revelation Astro 2" 2x Barlow Camera: Canon EOS 500D unmodified Stack of 201 frames from Canon LiveView movie created with BackyardEOS capture software. Stacked and wavelet enhanced using Registax V6

Target: Full moon, 2011-12-10 18:48-18:54 UTC Location: Essex, UK Imaging Scope: Meade LX10 8" SCT Camera: Canon EOS 500D (Unmodified) Software: Stack of 8 x CR2 images (lower) and 6 x CR2 images (upper) wavelet enhanced in Registax, Stitched using Microsoft ICE.

New moon off California's central coast just after sunset. Date: Aug. 20, 2012 Imaging telescopes or lenses: Canon EF-S 18-55mm 3.5-5.6 IS Imaging cameras: Canon EOS 500D / Digital Rebel T1i

Contains: Mars, M 44 Dates: March 24, 2012 Locations: Home Frames: 10x240" ISO800 20C Integration: 0.7 hours Darks: ~4 Bias: ~10 Avg. Moon age: 1.26 days Avg. Moon phase: 1.79% Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.00 RA center: 10:15:41.395 DEC center: +21:05:46.315 Pixel scale: 51.91 arcsec/pixel Orientation: 179.38 degrees Field width: 57.35 degrees Field height: 27.44 degrees Imaging telescopes or lenses: Canon EF-S 18-55mm 3.5-5.6 IS Imaging cameras: Canon EOS 500D / Digital Rebel T1i Mounts: Meade Fork on Wedge Guiding telescopes or lenses: Meade LX10 Guiding cameras: Logitech Quickcam Pro 3000 Software: Luc Coiffier's DeepSkyStacker, Stark Labs PHD Guiding, GNU Gimp, BackyardEOS Accessories: Yahoo Meade LX10 Group Arduino Uno Autoguider (Homebrew)

Imaging: Meade LX10, Canon EOS 500D (Unmodified), BackyardEOS Mount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6 Guiding: Orion ST80, QHY 5, PHD Guiding Processing: PixInsight Dates: June 5, 2012 Lights: 10 x 300"

Imaging: Meade LX10, Canon EOS 500D (Unmodified), BackyardEOS Mount: Meade Fork on Wedge Processing: Deep Sky Stacker, GNU Gimp, Fits Liberator Dates: Jan. 14, 2012 Lights: 7 x 10", 6 x 30", 1 x 60" ISO1600 Darks: ~8 Bias: ~50

Date: April 1, 2012 Time: 22:40 Frames: 1200 FPS: 29.00000 Focal length: 4000mm Imaging telescopes or lenses: Meade LX10 Imaging cameras: Canon EOS 500D / Digital Rebel T1i Focal reducers: Revelation Astro 2x Barlow ED (2") Software: GNU Gimp, Registax, BackyardEOS Accessories: Revelation Astro Revelation SCT Crayford Focuser Dual Speed