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Messier 1, the Crab Nebula captured with a 6.5" APO triplet refractor, CMOS color camera at a temperature of -25 Celsius and 146 minutes of expsoure time. 

Packman Nebula, captured using a 6.5" APO triplet refractor, Triad Quad ultraband narrow filter, CMOS color camera with 72 minutes of exposure time.

M33, imaged in blue light. 

The starless image of NGC7000, North American Nebula was captured using the Scientific Explore ED165mm APO refractor and ASI2600 CMOS color camera, at a temperature of -30 Celsius using 95 minutes of exposure time. The image was processed using Astro Pixel Processor with calibrated frames, StarNet to remove the stars, and an LPO filter using band-passes of OIII, H-beta, H-alpha, and SSI.

The North American Nebula (Cygnus Wall) was captured using a 6.5” APO Triplet APO refractor and CMOS color camera with a temperature of -30 Celsius, using 71 sub-frames at 60-second exposures each. The image was taken using a light pollution filter, including H-beta, OIII, H-alpha, and SSI band-passes.

The North American Nebula is an emission nebula, that carries a designation of NGC7000 and is in the constellation Cygnus.

Interferometer components, ADE-25MH Passive Double Balanced Mixer (25 - 2500MHz), YWBL-WH Passive Diode Double Balanced Mixer module, low noise and Tiadacent Balanced modulator/demodulator AD630 chip, lock-in Amplifier module. Also DZS  RG316 wire jumper for Line RF coax cable antenna extender. 

Interferometer, work in progress...

New feedhorn build

Two, 3-meter RA telescope, interferometer. Work in progress...

Feedhorn testing

Radio (RAS or RA) and optical astronomy star party!

3-meter Feedhorn

Two, 3-meter RAS telescopes

First, 3-meter Radio Astronomy (RAS) telescope assembly. 

Three Day Time Lapse Video

Second H1 observation at 21cm or 1420.4058 MHz of the Milky Way  drift scan transit.

Feedhorn Element

Feedhorn Element

Completed feedhorn

PC with cooling fans. 

Neutral Hydrogen - H1 PC and weather enclosure with SAWBird H1 + LNA

Radio & optical astronomy. Drift scanning. 

Second round of feedhorn testing

Feedhorn testing

The image of Jupiter was captured using the Explore Scientific ED165-FPL53, air-spaced APO Triplet refractor, and ZWO ASI2600 CMOS, one-shot dedicated color astronomy camera, in video mode.

If you look to the upper left, you’ll notice one of the Jovian moons, possibly Callisto. The image was taken using 274, SER video frames, at a temperature of 92.12 Fahrenheit and processed using AutoStakkert3. The Great Red Spot is also slightly visible to the lower right.