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'Poundland' tripod mounted Canon 600D -EOS lens at 18mm IS0 6400  1x 10sec RAW exposure. Took this in my dressing-gown 'Scrooge style'. Tripod balanced on some boxes on a chair at 2:00am in the morning 16th December 2018

As the weather continues horrid unabated decided to rework old data of the Seven Sisters. Less noisy version.

Started the camera at 11.30pm. Packed up at 4.00am. Beautiful night in the backyard but where were the Leonids?  I saw five slow moving Taurids drop from the sky and three Leonids and one of the Leonids was very good indeed - going from Leo over Auriga and burning out in front of Orion - sadly just outside my cameras FOV.  480 x30 sec exposures and a meteor on only one frame!  Imaged with a Canon 600D DSLR - EOS 18-55mm lens at f=18mm. and F=4.5 all on a Star Adventurer Mount. 

13th. November 2018 - first and last chance this year to obtain  an image of Mars from our backyard - blurry view of the red planet as it spins away on its orbit.  Sad that it was below the houses to our south when it was much nearer at opposition. Polar cap fairly obvious but not sure whether there is a little cloud on the limb or whether the white stuff is noise.

A work in progress. Need lots more data as 'guiding' started playing up half way through a session. Otherwise an exceptional October night in the backyard. 127 mm Meade Apo Refractor -0.6x focal reducer and field flattener - Canon 600D DSLR. Virtually un-cropped and about 40 minutes data using 1 minute and 3 minute exposures at ISO800.

Very nice image. Thanks for sharing. Regards George

A combination of images obtained with the Altair 66mm. Doublet and telescope.org -Open University PIRATE telescope on Mount Teide. Put together using Registar software.

Had a brainwave - decided to combine an old image of M35  I captured with my 127mm Meade Apo some years ago with my images of Comet21P/Giacobini-Zinner taken with the little 66mm Altair Doublet the other night. Quite pleased with the result. Registar is a fine piece of software.

NGC869 and NGC884 - September 2018 - Altair 66mm Doublet -on Star Adventurer mount - 0.8x flattener /reducer - Canon 600D DSLR - mean combination of stacks at 8secs, 15secs and 30secs in Registar. Quite pleased with this image - gets closer to the wonderful view through a widefield eyepiece than I've managed before.?️

Altair 66mm Doublet on a Star Adventurer mount. Canon 600D DSLR 0.8x reducer flattener. 28 x 30 sec  lights at ISO1600 stacked etc Whats the hazy blue blob on the other side of M35? - faint galaxy?

Altair 66mm Doublet on a Star Adventurer mount. Canon 600D DSLR 0.8x reducer flattener. 28 x 30 sec  lights at ISO1600 stacked etc

Reykjavik October 2017. Canon 600d DSLR !8-55mm EOS lens at f=18mm. As I watched the Aurora twist, fade and flutter across the dark sky boats moved on the Fjord affording tourists views of the Northern Lights.

Taken early evening Aug 13 -2018 by Windermere in the Lake District.  Canon 600d DSLR - 18-55 EOS Lens at f=18mm. Mounted on a Star Adventurer. Stacked images. I'm glad I'm not based in the Lake District - condensation to die for!

Reykjavik October 2017 - Canon 600d DSLR - tripod mounted - 18-55mm EOS Lens at f=18mm.

Due to trips away and cloud the camera and scopes have not seen much action. Last night I noticed Antares was just visible from the bedroom window along with Saturn, Jupiter and the Milkyway dropping through Sagittarius - so I balanced my DSLR on a mini-tripod from £-Land and took a few snaps. Lots of light pollution, some cloud etc. but a pretty picture over my neighbours' houses none the same.

A really pretty open cluster. I enjoy observing this from my backyard through my 11x80 binoculars. 

Thanks for posting, regards George

What a beautiful looking galaxy! Thanks for posting.

George

Excellent image! Always great to capture a Supernova. One enormous bang!

Nice set of planetary images. Well done, I enjoyed looking at them.

regards George

12 minutes ago, Dave Lloyd said:

Blimey, those scopes look about f30 at least. 

I reckon you are right,  his scopes were stopped down to about 25mm and they were about 930mm long- so assuming f=900mm- F36 ish?  Must have had a very small FOV and not much light getting through to the old boy's eyeball.  He did pretty well to see Jupiter let alone its Moons and no wonder he struggled with Saturn's rings.

On 03/05/2017 at 21:44, mdstuart said:

I saw it just as in your image next to that star! Although I could not see the colours!

Thanks for sharing.

Mark

 

Thanks for your comment.  To be honest the colour intensity had more to do with my usual rather heavy handed image processing than reality. Anyway it made for a more interesting image and made the fainter areas of coma visible.  Glad you got to see it in real time.  I like all comets but I think this one is quite beautiful with or without 'Technicolor '

Regards George

Really nice image. I like looking at the double cluster through my bins and although I've imaged it I've never thought that I did it justice. Your photograph does - well done !

Regards George

3 hours ago, MARS1960 said:

That is quite amazing, i even had to call my partner over to take a look, great stuff, really gets the grey matter fired up, thanks.

Thank you very much for your kind comment. I was quite pleased to find my first  asteroid amongst all the very many stars.

Regards George

Lovely  image Pieter!

Really enjoyed looking through this album. Excellent and interesting images.

George