Deep sky imaging showcase 2015

[PhotoGav]

All of my images are from the first three months of 2015. Things went very downhill for me from April; health, a duff guidecam that took ages to diagnose and weather conspired against any decent imaging. Anyway, here are my highlights, all taken with a QSI 683-WSG:

The Pleiades - LRGB - SW80ED

The Triangulum Galaxy - LHaRGB - SW80ED

The Crab Nebula - Ha/Oiii/Oiii - Celestron EdgeHD 800

The Rosette Nebula - Ha/Oiii/Oiii - SW80ED

The Orion Nebula & Running Man Nebula - LHaRGB - SW80ED

The Whirlpool Galaxy - LRGB - Celestron EdgeHD 800

WIth any luck 2016 will be a much better year and will provide many more imaging hours. I still haven't managed a first light with my William Optics Star71, purchased in October......

Clear Skies all!

[hjw]

I will be the first to admit that I am not yet on the level of some of the posters above. But I am making progress and I am happy about it.

Got the scope in February and started with the Carina Nebula:

Mid year I started guiding and the Lagoon Nebula was one of my first targets:

The highlight of the year IMO was the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud:

and finally the last picture for the year - Orion:

These were my highlights for 2015 and I am looking forward what 2016 will bring (hopefully less clouds!)

Thanks for looking and clear skies!

HJ

[sternenben]

These are some pretty inspiring images.  I just joined SGL, and here are my 5 best images from 2015, after starting with the hobby in May.  All were taken with a unmodded Canon 50D, through a Vixen VMC200L on an EQ-6 mount, guided with an ASI120MM and an Orion 50mm guidescope.  Exposures were usually 5 minutes, and total integration ranged from 2-5 hours for each image.  I cheated a little bit and included two images that have some integration from 2016 (M101 and the Pleiades), but I did start them in 2015...

Flame and Horsehead

Perseus Galaxy Cluster (annotated in PI)

M81 / M82

The Pleiades

M101

I'm really looking forward to cleaning up my technique and making even better images in 2016.  

Cheers,

[FranckiM06]

Hello everybody,

So, I don't come often but I would like to share my best images of 2015 taken with my TSA 120 refractor and the DSLR Nikon D610 on the 10µ mou,t unguided :

Lovejoy comet :

M8 & M20 :

M81 & M82 :

M97 & M108 :

M109 & NGC 3953 :

All the images have the sub of 300s at 1600 iso

Franck

[DaveS]

A Rosette from the beginning of 2015

2 hours each of H-alpha and [NII] plus 4 hours of the much weaker [OIII] signal, mapped Hydrogen to red, Nitrogen to green and Oxygen to blue, all in 600 sec subs with the Megrez 90 and 0.8 focal reducer / flattener through 3 nm Astrodons.

Guiding with PHD2, capture and post in Astro Art 5

[ultranova]

Hi Every one, I was lucky last year as I had just built the obsy,

and just purchased The Atik 383l and Efw 2 filter wheel so I could get into the dark

art of Narrow band imaging as well as rgb, and I was blessed with a couple of nights of

clear skies.

all HA pics taken with  Atik 383l and 7nm filter

with a WO zenith star 71 with 0.8 r/f with Eq6 pro

NGC 7822

 

ic 1805

ic 1396

sadr

taken with qhy8l and Ed 80 with 0.85 r/f

bubble

Ngc 2264  WO zenith star 71 with 0.8 r/f Lrgb

ic405

thanks for looking

Paul

[Horwig]

It's virtually my only decent image captured last year, and I've only had one successful night since.

QSI 6120, SX 35, TAK 106 with  and without reducer, and two locations, home in Caernarfon, and at Olly's in France

 

Huw

 

Huw

[Sohn]

On Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 00:49, ChrisLX200 said:

Hmm. Just 5 images? I don't know what are the best so I'll just choose some randomly...

First 3 are using the NP127is and Atik490EX camera, last 2 are using the NP127is and G4-16000 camera.

ChrisH

How can someone take such great pictures? What kind of a scope is it? And the cameras must be expensive.