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  1. Nicola Hannah Butterfield
    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.
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    Horsehead & Flame Nebulas
    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.
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    Horsehead & Flame Nebulas

    From the album: Nebula

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    Nebula

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    Just getting started with these as I have just got my first driven mount an NEQ6 Pro.
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    I got a 200p last January, the first thing I did was a decent 'ish mount, in my case an EQ6 Pro, a lot of money for me as I don't work, so I understand that bit. On a decent mount the 200p is a capable telescope for photography (winds aside) over the last year I have invested in a cheap guide scope and camera. I planned on 4 hrs of data for this image but only got 75 mins, due wind early on and cloud throughout the session.
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    We get about 4 to 6 weeks a year in the uk, from my newbie experience.
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    Well got round to using a pressy sanata brought from RVO, the thing is, this is from a previous locked camera position, so is my focusing of by eye, or has Santa wasted his time
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    Ditto what others said.
  9. Nicola Hannah Butterfield
    Thanks for that, I found database that annotated like this, the figures are ly. aquired from the redshifts I could find, and using an edited version of the objects exported using the {GC Hyperleda catalog. It would be nice to find a data source, so I can export the table with redshift and mag. Anyway so far this little adventure has turned up the furthest known object at 3.43 billion miles, providing I have the redshift LY conversion right. Edit. Light years not miles.
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    Thanks.
  11. Nicola Hannah Butterfield
    @HughsieFound the plate solver in PixInsight.
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    @HughsieI tried Astrometry, it has in the past picked up much fainter objects. The only star atlas I have access to apart from a copy of Norton's is the "Deep Sky Hunter Atlas", tried both Stellarium and Cartes du Ciel sky atlases, limited on astrobin. From the catalogue number you gave I did some searching, I found some bits also it is known as UGC 05247, I was interested to see how far it is, but could find nothing clear. I used to have a copy of Uranometria (Northen) back in the 90's not sure what happened to it, so not adversed to digging around I just came up blank with this one.
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    Thanks what did you use to plate solve as everything i tried didn't show anything.
  14. Nicola Hannah Butterfield
    I imaged the M81 galaxy after I had got Jupiter and Saturn the other day. I have noticed a small smudge possibly a galaxy circled in the upper right of the image. This is the first time I have put 95 mins of lights together after plate solving in APT, guiding and dithering (I think the pieces are starting to click into place), it is also pretty much the first time we have any sort of clear nights since I got the guide scope some two months ago, odd clearer night but issues with kit ect, and yes I know there is coma, still saving for that bit.
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    No show here either, same with Venus and m45, clear both sides clouds on the day .Just wishing you all the best on the New Year xx Astronomically
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    moon_Tv1400s_200iso_20201219-16h58m.jpg
    This is the first time I have tried a photo montage from video sequences of the Moon. This is from 4 1,000 frame clips shot at 5x digital zoom, with my Canon 6D and using backyardeos with my SW 200P mounted on an NEQ6 Pro. Visibility for your observatory: Upton 2020-12-19 16h58m43s ( UTC ) Universal Time: 2020-12-19T16:58:43 Magnitude: -8.90 Diameter: 30'48.1" Illuminated fraction: 28.3% Distance: 387956.0 km Apparent RA: 22h24m23.87s DE:-16°13'32.1" Azimuth: 186°10'41" Altitude: +20°00'33.4" Geometric altitude: +19°57'55.0" Rise:11h59m02s Azimuth:118°16' Transit:16h34m00s +20°12' Set:21h19m45s Azimuth:244°47' Mean of the date RA: 22h24m25.48s DE:-16°13'20.6" Mean J2000 RA: 22h23m17.68s DE:-16°19'44.4" Ecliptic L: +331°56'02" B:-05°50'01" Galactic L: +42°39'35" B:-54°05'40" Local sidereal time: 22h48m35s Hour angle: 0h24m11.3s Airmass: 2.9
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    moon_Tv1400s_200iso_20201219-16h58m.jpg

    From the album: Luna

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    Managed to catch this tonight 19-12-2020 @ 16:28UT, clouds parted long enough a few stills, and a couple of videos, not holding out much hope on those but at least it is something. SW 200P and Canon 6D, 4s, f5 200ISO
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    Thanks on both counts.
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    Just seen it, not sure why the spell check didn't pick it up.
  21. Nicola Hannah Butterfield
    My second attempt at M31, this time with guiding and dithering, a little to aggressive on the stars, but I was trying to get more core detail. Lights 20x120's, 9x240's
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    m45

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    m45

    From the album: Star Clusters

    A single 3-minute exposure of M45. This really was only a test to see how much better the M48 T-mount is over the M42 one, in terms of vignetting.
  23. Nicola Hannah Butterfield
    I have managed to get Titan using an old Canon EF70-210mm lens on a Canon 40D back in 2012, and felt exactly the same, similar image quality, this was the first time. Titan is just right of Saturn at 8.58mag. The Brighter Star is HIP 67855 mag 7.7 the other HIP 67471 Mag 8.95, so you can get images with wow factor with modest kit. However, others have already warned you about the addictiveness.
  24. Nicola Hannah Butterfield
    That reminds me somewhat of a S.L.R. medium format camera, without lens viewfinder and film holder.
  25. Nicola Hannah Butterfield
    Long range forecast 97-100% clouds here.
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