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After a day of mixed weather skies looked very clear Thursday 11/3 so headed out around 9pm to take advantage of a moonless night. Walking in straight from bright lights seeing & transparency were looking good - double cluster & beehive were naked eye visible with direct vision and some Messier dustiness in Auriga with an averted view. I had a vague plan to have a proper go at the Leo Triplet & had spent a bit of time on stellarium to plan how to star-hop in via Chertan & L73. First though I North aligned SynScan on Sirius and Mars (the top 2 suggestions thrown up by the- 4 replies
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I shot luminance for this trio of galaxies in December and after two clear nights in January I managed to get RGB as well. Larger image can be found in my blog: https://www.evenfall.space/post/galactic-waltz Gear: SkyWatcher Esprit 100mm f/5.5 ASI1600MM-C EQ6 guided with ASI224MC TS Optics LRGB filters. L: 196x120s, R: 60x120s, G: 72x120s, B: 60x120s. Total integration time approx. 13 hours.
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Leo Triplet - M65, M66 and NGC 3628. 4min 30s at ISO 800. 150mm reflector F/5.
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M65, M66 and NGC 3628 - The Leo Triplet. Photographed on May 14. Skywatcher 150P with a Nikon D3200 at prime focus. EQ3-2 mount with RA motor drive (no guiding). 19 subs at ISO 800 - 30s each. Aligned and stacked in Deep Sky Stacker to give resulting 4min 30s exposure. Processed in Startools to crop, bin, stretch and colour balance. This was my second time around to process this image - starting to get the hang of Startools now. -
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Leo Triplet (M65, M66, and NGC 3628), The Leo Triplet is a small group of galaxies about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. large version at astrobin https://www.astrobin.com/391520/ Date: 4th January and 2nd February 2019 Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro Telescope: Orion 10" f/3.9 Newtonian Astrograph Camera: Nikon D5300 self modded full spectrum Total exposure: ~3 hours Subs : 300sx36, Flats, Bias, Darks ISO: 400 Guide Scope: Orion 50mm Guide Cam: ASI120MM Filter: Optolong UV/IR cut Corrector: Baader MPCC Mark III Coma Corrector Capturing
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I wasn't going to share this, but what the heck. The winter of discontent continues, so i guess even this little data has to constitute an image these days. After what seemed like an age of night after night of clouds, we had a rare few hrs of clear skies one night last week. So i managed to grab a whopping 9 x 7 mins of the Horsehead Nebula before it disappeared behind the neighbor's house. I then needed something else to aim for, so i brought up the Leo Triplet Sequence in SGP and managed to nab about 2.75 hrs in total, before the clouds returned. It really, really needs double, if not -
The Leo Triplet - a target that I needed to image again as previous efforts haven't really done it justice. This is the most successful attempt so far, largely thanks to the ZWO ASI1600MC Pro camera and by giving it plenty of exposure with not too much gain making for a smoother background and bringing out dust lanes and other details in the galaxies. 014 x 090 second exposures at 161 Gain cooled to -20°C 081 x 090 second exposures at Unity Gain (139) cooled to -20°C 010 x 120 second exposures at Unity Gain (139) cooled to -20°C 016 x 180 second exposures at Unity Gain (139) coole
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After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, we have finally been able to get our dual rig up and running. The rig consists of two William Optics Star 71s - one is a Mark I (5 element) and the other is a Mark II (4 element). They have identical focal length and FOV. Cameras are a Moravian G2-8300 and an Atik 383L. Filters are Baaders. The rig sits on top of a new SkyWatcher EQ6-R. The object chosen was somewhat random - the Leo Triplet - just to check everything was aligned, orthogonal and so on. This was, in hindsight, not the best choice since the Triplet soon started dipping into the li
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Well not strictly a first attempt but the first time I've really made a note of what I'm doing and also a had a new toy to play with (6" f5 newtonian) Leo triplet - largely as a test of my new scope. Skywatcher 150pds, Exos 2 (EQ5) unguided, Canon 500d, ISO 800, a single 60 second exposure (I've not got to grips with stacking yet!) Given there's no guiding, no processing, no stacking, it's a cheap mount and it was near to a full moon I'm not too disappointed with that. The next steps are to work out how to process multiple exosures properly and clean up the hot pixels from my ca
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While waiting for the sky to clear here in Sweden and galaxy season to start I have been fiddling around with data from last season. The first one is M51 data from Ole Alexander Ødegård (aka Xplode) that I added to some wider star field data that I had. I like the feeling of space around the galaxy while there is some rather nice detail that allows a zoom in. Altogether 4 h of data, most of it from Ole's TS 12" Imaging Newtonean (f/4) with a modded Canon 6D. The other is my own Leo Triplet data, and only about 1 hour of it but I think it turned out rather ok (5" ES Apo with a Canon 60Da).
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I hope you all have been able to take advantage of the last few clear, if a bit murky nights :-) I did, and after reminding myself how to use my equipment (by aligning on a random star I thought was Regulus and spending an hour switching on/off again LOLOL) ........I managed to get some "ok" images of the the Leo Triplet - an object I've always liked for its eerie looking galaxies, their foggy arms hiding some sinister alien civilization, plotting their course for the Milky Way...lol This is the first time I've imaged this object with my mono camera (ASI1600MM) I always th
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Finally a multi clear night run here on the coast! I love being able to leave everything set up for days and really getting some quality photons. This beautiful and favorite triple threat of mine is getting a bit to far west to image proper for me so I thought I'd give it a go now while I can. I was only able to get about 8-10 keepers a night with just about 40 minutes of imaging till a tree started showing but luckily those came out great. Not as clear as predicted but well worth the effort. I wanted about 40 pictures and was able to capture 25 keepers so I'll take it. Lots of satellites sho
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.... Or so it seemed there were certainly enough horses around me! The clouds decided to budge outta the way at 11ish but I was still a bit busy sorting some things out and finished up by midnight. Work the next day though so I was left with a dilemma... Well, common sense prevailed so I went out to do some astronomy! However, keeping it reasonably sensible (for a change) and rather than a standard marathon session I promised my good Wife I'd be out for only a short while. To keep things simple I packed my 80ed and camera tripod for an uber quick setup with only a couple of EPs - My 3
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Hi! My first post so I'm little nervous ;-) I'm still a beginner but I decided to show my work. Here are my photos taken in last 1,5 year with Nikon D7200, Sky Watcher 150/750 (Newton) telescope with Baader MPCC on HEQ5 SynScan mount with self-made bluetooth adapter and ASCOM jolo-focuser guided with 50/172 guider scope and QHY5LII Now I'm working on better post-processing and calibration of my photos... M51 20x300s ISO1600, 3x dark M97&M108 12x300s ISO1600, 3x dark NGC6960 20x300s ISO1600, 3x dark NGC7023 11x300s ISO800, 3x dark- 10 replies
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Had a good night last night: M101 Pinwheel Galaxy and M66 Leo Triplet Both 20 x 180s Light, 20 Flats, PHD2 guiding using Altair GP-CAM, Nikon D3200 prime focus I didn't notice the cover wasn't fully on so the darks were spoiled, so will have to do them again once the temp is down to -1C tonight. This will help the re-processing to reduce the noise and there are hot pixels in there. But I'm happy with the light frames.
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Hi, Took this photo of the Leo Triplet during march 2015. The main problem for me to photo in LRGB is the bad light poluttion that I have in my backyard. Photo information: Luminance 18 pics X 15 min. Total Luminance exposure: 270 min RGB: 7 pics for each color channel x 5 min per picture. Total color exposure: 105 min Telescore: Skywatcher P250 F/4.8. Camera: QSI583 Mount: ASA DDM60 (No Guiding) Filters: Astrodon Gen2 LRGB http://www.flickr.com/photos/101543943@N04/17222658636/ Thanks for watching Haim
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The weather has been settled for the last 5 days or so, with pleasant Spring sunshine on most days. The ongoing battle of lighter evenings, resulting in later nights conflicting with 6 am wake up calls for dog walks mean that at the moment, opportunities for observing have to be carefully selected. The day and night of 18th April had an excellent forecast. Barely a cloud crossed the sky all day, but the breeze was very evident. I set up the dob out the back garden just after the sun set. The astronomy forecast was looking good with wind slightly decreasing through the night. Whereas
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From the album: Coco'c Mono LRGB
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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© Copyright Ian Lauwerys, All Rights Reserved.
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Here's my attempt at SN2013AM, since I am on holiday this week and the skies have decided to clear for a few days, worryingly atypical! Of course after a nearly fault free imaging run last night, I am now having some kind of software/mount/usb issue tonight and it's a complete bust as a result (Camera keeps disconnecting from APT, mount keeps disconnecting from EQMod, cannot diagnose problem at all; have restarted everything several times, pulled and checked every cable, etc.) Anyway, on to the good stuff. The first inset is M65 from 2nd March this year 19 x 600s. The second is from last
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Some real beautiful nights here at last wish the mount was up to snuff but managed a few. let me know what you think these were taken with a 1971 Super Takumar 200mm f4 quite the pawn store prize at only 50 bucks! 25 stacks of lights 10 darks in DSS and final edit in CS5
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We all know that data is king in this game and that less is hardly ever more. But....when the prevailing conditions are in your favour, ie, you happen to find yourself under some of the darkest skies in Europe and your host for the week is a certain Mr O Penrice, interesting things can happen! And so it was on the day of our arrival at Les Granges. We were greeted by clear skies and the promise of some class A photon gathering. I'd decided to image the Leo trio as it was an object I'd never captured and I knew it would be a good fit for my Tak 85 at native FL coupled with my Atik 460. I'd fr
