near and very far...

[nytecam]

Getting cabin-fever with 9 cloudy nights in a row but ok last night for a stroll down garden with laptop to obsy and away!  Scope drive playing up and some pics dumped through trailing.   Started with beautiful crescent moon and Venus conjuction in the west at dusk and ended with quasar in Cancer in SE @ 8 BLY as below - stuff in between to follow

[f15p5]

Neat images, keep them coming. I like seeing how deep the X2 can go!

[orion25]

What a night! Moons, planets and QUASARS! Oh my! Nice work!

Cheers,

Reggie

[nytecam]

Neat images, keep them coming. I like seeing how deep the X2 can go!

Has to be the grav-lensed quasar in Lynx currently on view above Gemini at 12 BLY at mag 16. It's within range of my tiny 70mm ETX-70 scope with help from the Lodestar :-)

[nytecam]

From the session Orion stuff in M42 [1s exp]; Horsehead and Flame [both 60s exp] but reduced in size to minimise noise

[nytecam]

full size crescent in 3-frames

[nytecam]

Four Leo gx in M65/66 [60s exp] and M95/96  [120s] - M96 has some remote gx behind it.  Also NGC 2903 [strangely missed by Messier !] in the Leo Sickle [60s exp] and fine M67 OC in nearby Cancer [30s exp]