Hawksmoor

Took a number of images of Saturn with my DSLR and Samyang lens  stacked and then overlaid it on a WISE image of the same bit of sky. (1:00am 09 Aug2022) Blinking on and off revealed two potential moons which I thought might be Titan and Iapetus. Probably completely wrong🙃. Any thoughts on this would be well received. Thanks in anticipation George.

Very nice images Reggie!

George

Trimmed our hedge in expectation.

A blackhole and a fireball over Ladybower Dam.

Had a nice holiday in Derbyshire with Mrs H and some of my children and grandchildren. In a fit of optimism I had packed my mobile imaging rig in the 'family truckster' and immediately condemned a formerly sweltering 'High Peak' to a week of cloud and overnight rain. Anyhow, the nearby water reservoirs were very very low so I may have delayed the threatened hosepipe ban for the east midlands by a week!  As I am old and naturally gifted in the art of falling over, I am banned by my grandchildren from going out into 'rugged environments' after dark, so my entry is a composite of a fireball meteor  luckily captured between clouds from our holiday let in ' Papa nocturnal safe-mode' and a day time image of  one of the two 'ginormous sumps' that form part of the Lady Bower Dam  infrastructure. The image of the night sky and bright meteor, (possibly a Capricornid) was captured using a single 1 minute exposure at ISO 800  with my unmodded Canon 600d DSLR and a Sigma EX lens at f=10mm all on a Star Adventurer EQ mount. The same camera and lens set up was used at the dam. The two images were developed blended and cropped using Affinity Photo and Topaz Denoise AI.

It's all a bit surreal, but then again so am I!

George now back in a very sunny Lowestoft

Ironically, after I had confused Cirrocumulus Clouds with Noctilucent Clouds, our 'gotten daughter ' Dr Nina Rogers' took this photo with an Iphone in the early hours from her bathroom window.  NLC envy in Lowestoft!

Thanks everyone for the help.

George

Very interesting and unusual high level cloud formations to the north west of our house in Loweswtoft on the 30th June 2022 - 30 minutes after local sunset.  I would welcome your views as to whether these are NLCs or not as I was considering entering them in the SGL NLC competition. Either way they were spectacular to see.  Each were individual handheld photos taken from a bedroom window using a Canon 600d DSLR with the Standard 18-55 Canon EFS lens . A bit of cropping  and a little processing using Affinity Photo software. 

Brian at his best!

In Suffolk and Norfolk cliffs I often find similar looking nodules of Limonite an iron based mineral. Not usually as big as your find and often with a hollow centre, known locally as 'box-stones'.

George in Lowestoft

Absolutely beautiful!

George

Hello and welcome back to SGL from Lowestoft. Best of luck with your new kit and looking out the window, you were right about the clouds turning up!

George next the Sea

Mrs H treated me to an evening tour and open-evening at the Royal Observatory Greenwich - I think in 1999. I was much impressed with the whole visit. Part of the tour was a walkthrough the large dome in which there was a very large refractor.  A big video screen had been set up showing the view via the scope of part of the Moon. It was quite a view!  I must say one of the most thrilling bits of the evening at the Royal Observatory was to walk through a room in which the likes of Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Isaac Newton, Samuel Pepys and Sir Robert Hooke at one time or another sat down to dine (pre-dates sandwiches and a thermos).

The only time I've viewed the Sun in H alpha through a scope was at the Stefanik Observatory in Prague. I was very pleased to see a prominence. It's amazing how some sights stick in the memory.

George.

On 19/04/2022 at 22:44, orion25 said:

Brilliant! Nice catch with the meteor

Thanks Reggie

With a bit of spare time each day, while Mrs. H sleeps after her recent surgery, I have processed a stack of 5minute lights at ISO800 using DeepSkyStacker, Affinity Photo,  APS,  Topaz Denoise AI and Fitswork4.  Canon 200d DSLR with Altair Triband filter, Sigma zoom lens at f=15mm, all on a Star Adventurer equatorial mount .   

The image was marginally cropped at the edges.  The very bright meteor appeared on one of the light frames.

I was surprised how much hydrogen alpha and oxygen lll my modded DSLR captured in this area of the  night sky. I decided to go  full technicolor on this one.

Whilst Mrs H was having a sleep after her hip replacement operation, I processed over One hours worth of two minute lights etc taken with my newly acquired astro-modded Canon 200d DSLR and clip in Altair Astro dual band filter. Plenty of light pollution as captured before the LED street lighting goes out in Lowestoft. There was also a bit of moonlight about. So all in all quite pleased to capture a few dim fuzzies amongst the stars and H alpha glow. I used my 66mm Altair Doublet with a 0.8x focal reducer and field flattener. The tracking is a bit off as I was using my Star Adventurer rather than my NEQ6 mount. Processed with Affinity Photo, APS and Fitswork4.

1 hour ago, gorann said:

Supernova remnant G150.3+4.5 and LDN 1400 & Co in HaOiiiRGB

In late March I stumbled on these faint blue (Oiii) and red (Ha) filaments by accident when I imaged this area using the NBZ dual band Ha+Oiii filter. After some searching, and with the help from friends, I realized that this was the first visual light image of the SNR G150.3+4.5 described by radio astronomers in 2014. (https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2014/07/aa24128-14/aa24128-14.html). I have now combined about 18 hours of HaOiii data with 4 hours of RGB data (ASI2600MC without filter).

I get the feeling that the dark nebulosity and other dust are obscuring most of the SNR and that we just get a small glimpse of it through a hole in the dust clouds.

So, caught with my dual RASA8 rig and ASI2600MC. 212x5 min with IDAS NBZ filter and 49 x 5 min without filter, so totally about 22 hours.

Cheers, Göran

Truly splendid image. Very impressed!  In my opinion, the best of some very good images.

best regards George

Excellent work Reggie! Really nice photos.

George

Dusty Bear.

Using my latest acquisition a pre-used astro-modded Canon 200d camera, an Altair Triband clip in Filter and my Sigma widefield zoom lens at f=15 F 5.6 and ISO 800 24x5minute lights.  Taken before the  LED street lighting went out. Processed and cropped using Affinity photo software.

Is a light giraffe a measure of distance or weight?

Perplexed of Lowestoft

Our postman delivered a well packaged print of one of my astro-images. Mrs H very kindly had my photo of Orion over St Michaels Church printed on aluminium for me. Not only that but she also allowed me to hang it in our 'front-room' which is confusingly located at the back of our house! It is the first time that I have had one of my photos printed on aluminium and I was most impressed with the quality of print and the heavily discounted price.  For proof that I made the front-room see below. George in Oulton Broad

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After a long layoff from imaging the Sun in white light, I decided in view of recent increased activity to image a few spots.  The 7th of March was a bit cloudy but I thought it was worth a try. Probably deciding to use my old 90mm Meade RA mounted on my Star Adventurer was not one of my better decisions. All the optics were very dusty and together with hazy high level cloud the result was always likely to be poor.  Anyway the best run of 3000 frames using my QHY5L-11 mono camera  at about f=1250 mm. gave me the something to process. 

Very nice image.

George

Wow, considering the weather and the area of sky being covered by the lens that must have been so very bright.

George

Go number two  !  I find it very difficult processing these images to look other than unreal - probably need a lot more data and a lot more skill.

Had some additional lights at f=14mm and F/6.3. Canon 600d DSLR with Altair Triband Filter. ISO800  focal length =14mm. F/6.3. 7x5min lights. Captured on the 4^th of February 2022.  Sigma EX10-20 zoom lens. at f=14mm. Camera mounted on a Star Adventurer equatorial mount. RAW images stacked using the HDR merge tool rather than the astrophotography stacking tool in Affinity Photo. Image processed using Affinity Photo and James Ritson’s actions, APS , Topaz Denoise AI and Fitswork 4.  

Well this my widefield go covering a bit of Perseus,  Auriga, Gemini and Taurus. Still getting to grips with Affinity Photo and what all the buttons do. Think I've imaged clouds of dust but I may have just smeared out a lot of very faint stars.  Not sure how to best render dust so used the Prof Ian Morison's recommended method for processing the Milky Way. Plenty of splodges of Hydrogen Alpha and the California Nebula stands out quite well.

The data was collected before the LED street lights went out, on the 4th of February. Over one hour of 5minute subs at ISO 1600 and ISO800 plus a set of BIAS files. Aligned in AF and processed with AF, APS and Fitswork4.  Unmodded Canon 600d camera  - with Altair Triband filter and a Sigma EX  10-20mm zoom lens  at  F13 and F6.3 and f=13 mm . The camera was mounted on a Star Adventurer mount.