StargeezerTim Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 (edited) Taken with modded 100d, 50mm 1.8 lens at F 2.5. 16 X 5 sec plus calibration frames. Stacked in DSS and processed in photoshop. Taken in my garden at about 6.20 pm. Capella is top right with polaris to its left, i think. There is cluster above and between the two I have identified (NGC 1502, I think!) but a small nebulous smudge below and between Capella and Polaris. Anyone know what this this is? I've looked in stellarium and cant find any DSO's nearby! Edit... I think I am wrong about polaris being in the image, which also makes my ID of the open cluster wrong! The only thing I am sure of is Capella... Edited February 11, 2016 by StargeezerTim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxsatuser Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 First off you did'nt capture Capella. The bright star to the right is Alnath and bright star left of centre/top is Theta Aurigae. The top cluster is M36 and bottom one is M37. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StargeezerTim Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 2 hours ago, wxsatuser said: First off you did'nt capture Capella. The bright star to the right is Alnath and bright star left of centre/top is Theta Aurigae. The top cluster is M36 and bottom one is M37. Well spotted! Is there an easy way of identifying stars etc, a programme you can drop images into that will identify them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxsatuser Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Suppose there are plate solvers but I just used a star atlas and your description of the area. Once I identified the two bright stars the two clusters were easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wimvb Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Nice capture. As for plate solving; there are several options, but the easiest one I found is uploading to Astrobin. It will do the platesolving for you. If you have PixInsight, it has an image solver as well. Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul mc c Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Not sure of the orintation of polaris,but the smuge could be comet Catalina maybe.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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