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Rosette Nebula. 120 x 15s lights for 30min total exposure. ISO800 with Canon 600D modded.
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Canon 600D and Skywatcher 150P EQ3-2 unguided. 120x15s lights (plus darks and flats). Processed with Siril and Startools.© Kevin Hurley, 2022
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Horsehead Nebula - Canon 600D (modified) with Skywatcher 150P and EQ 3-2. 12 min @ ISO800
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First nebula imaged with my newly acquired Canon 600D (modded). Lots of struggles with tracking so only managed 20 subs x 30s of lights. Really pleased with the amount of red nebulosity that was captured in this short session though so looking forward to more to come in the future. Processed using siril and startools.© Kevin Hurley, 2022
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Hi. After finally getting a clear night after what feels like months off cloud cover I finally managed to take my skywatcher heritage 150p (virtuoso) scope outside again for a spot of observing. I'm a beginner and my current goal is to target some nebulae. It was a very chilly night so i focused on m42 as my first target using my svbony 7-21mm and it was beautiful to see. I was able to make out some of the nebula structure and zoom in on the Orion Trapezium Cluster. I've since been looking into getting a filter to get a clearer view of the nebula and future nebula tagets. From my googling so far it points me at purchasing a uhc filter. As there are a few options on the market I was hoping to get some opinions from anyone with a similar scope on the benefit of a uhc filter and whether the more expensive Astronomik UHC Filter (£89) would be worth getting over a Explore Scientific UHC Nebula Filter (£47) or Castell UHC Ultra High Contrast Filter (£38). These seem to be the ones which come up time and again on forums but any opinions on other filters for nebula observation for this type of scope would also be welcome and greatly appreciated. Thank you- 18 replies
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Reprocessed the pervious image - using Startools again but this time stretched to the point where the noise is visible in the image. The nebulosity comes out now but it's accompanied by grainy bands unfortunately. 120 lights - 30s @ ISO 100, 20 darks, 23 flats, 20 biases. I think I needed more darks.© Kevin Hurley, 2021
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Clear skies were forecast for most of the night so I decided to give the 150P a go at the telescope targets (which I failed to get anywhere with using the ST80, that was mostly due to a bad night though). Found the first target, the Crab Nebula (M1), something I had not seen before. Not brilliant seeing conditions, on a better night may even be able to make out some structure, but tonight it just looked like a grey blob. Other highlights of the night include my first sighting of the Great Red Spot - evident as a pale gap in the upper cloud belt (as seen in the telescope). It was at the correct time for the spot to be visible so I assumed this was it, as it is not red at the moment. Also managed to get decent views of the Orion Nebular, the Fish's Mouth and Trapezium stars, although could not focus fully using the 5mm due to seeing conditions. Tried for the Owl cluster but the clouds were already rolling in and seeing conditions had taken a dive. Jupiter had a big halo around it and my optics were dewing up (even my glasses).
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From the album: Kevin Hurleys Deep Space Objects
What a great night last night. Found my first Virgo cluster galaxies! Located without seeing anything in my finderscope - figured I must be in the right place as there were almost no stars. Had to take a quick shot at high ISO to confirm there were galaxies there. Really pleased to see 3 Messier galaxies and a whole bunch more pop out after 20 min. If I hadn't spent a hour messing about with polar alignment and collimation I would have grabbed more integration time. Oh well - lesson learned. While this was imaging I got out my binoculars and found M104 too. Will try to image if there's another good night like last night.© Kevin Hurley, 2021
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M45 Pleiades. 12min 30s total exposure (45s subs, unguided). ISO 100 at F/5 using Nikon D3200 at primefocus on skywatcher 150P. Taken around moonrise (1 day after full) on Feb 28, 2021. Stacked with darks and flats in Siril and then processed in Startools. -
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Skywatcher 150P with Nikon D3200 at prime focus. 30 x 20s subs. ISO 200. Unguided, tracking only. Stacked with flats and darks in Deep Sky Stacker and then processed in Startools. Full moon was just rising while Orion was due south. I'm pretty surprised at the quality of the image given the moon. -
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First attempt at imaging Andromeda galaxy. It doesn't fit fully in the frame. Captured 40x 30s subs of lights plus 10 darks and 7 flats. Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker for total of 14min 45s. Processed in Startools but struggled to get the colour looking right.-
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M45 Pleiades - 7 min @ ISO 800. Skywatcher 150P with Nikon D3200. No guiding.
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M45 Pleiades. Captured using Nikon D3200 at prime focus of Skywatcher 150P on EQ3-2 with RA motor tracking (no guiding). Total of 79 x 10s subs at ISO 800 aligned and stacked in DeepSkyStacker to give 7min 20s. Processed in StarTools. Thin and high cloud for some of the subs. Taken at 3:30am on Sunday morning Aug 30, 2020.-
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Here is the first photo i have taken using my 'scope! I have sharpened up the image a tad in Photoshop -
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M51. Skywatcher 150P with Nikon D3200 at prime focus. EQ3-2 mount with RA motor. Unguided. 10 x 30s subs - aligned and stacked with DSS into a 2min 30s exposure at ISO 800. Post-processed with Startools - binned, cropped, stretched and colour balanced. This is an updated processing of previous image posted here.-
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M27 Dumbbell Nebula. 5mn 2s, ISO 100. Skywatcher 150p with Nikon D3200
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M27, the Dumbbell Nebula. Using Nikon D3200 at prime focus of my 150mm aperture F/5 Skywatcher 150P on EQ3-2 with RA drive and no guiding. 5min exposure from best 10 of 20 30s subs, aligned and stacked in DSS. Post processing using Startools - stretched, binned, cropped and colour balanced. -
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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M13 taken with Nikon D3200 at prime focus of my Skywatcher 150p mounted on EQ3-2 with RA motor drive (no guiding). 12 subs (30s each) aligned and stacked in DSS for total of 180s. Processed in startools - binned, cropped and stretched.-
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M57 Ring Nebula. Nikon D3200 at prime focus of a skywatcher 150p. Mount is EQ3-2 unmodified with RA motor drive and no guiding. 3min30s exposure at ISO100 after aligning and stacking in DSS. Post-processed in Startools to stretch, crop, bin and colour-balance. Quite a moonlit night and sky not fully dark. Will go back and try again another time.-
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Single 60s image. ISO 400. No guiding - some star trails, -
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Barlow x2. ISO 800, 1/13s. Some clouds -
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ISO 800. 1/60s exposure. -
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