I decided to go after the north america nebula in cygnus last weekend. we had a single clear night, and I was able to pull in about 6 hours of data across Ha, Sii, and Oiii using the Explore Scientific ED102 APO and my ZWO … continue readingngc 7000 north america nebula
Previously, I captured 5hrs of Ha, SII, OIII data on the wizard nebula. I had an autoguiding error in the middle of the night and did not capture the planned Oiii data. We had a clear evening to capture more data. Rather than simply finish … continue readingupdate – ngc 7380 wizard Nebula
We’ve had pretty consistent cloudy weather for a while now, but had an opening last night to get the telescope back out. I captured 5hrs of Ha, SII, OIII data on the wizard nebula. After processing the data a bit, its obvious more SII and … continue readingngc 7380 – wizard Nebula
I captured 50 – 5 minute subframes of each Ha and Oiii. I also captured some Sii data, but ran into cloudy weather and decided to come back to a SHO version later. I wanted to try the red and blue version I have seen … continue readingngc6992 eastern veil nebula
I decided to image the eagle nebula next. I was able to get about an hour of Ha data last night as I wrapped up the elephant trunk nebula. I had a couple clear nights in a row and was able to capture 50 300s … continue readingsh2-49: eagle nebula
Here is my SHO processed image of the elephant trunk nebula. It took me over two weeks to capture this due to an unusually large dust cloud that crossed the atlantic from the sahara desert and then a series of storms in the southeast USA. … continue readingsh2-131: elephant trunk nebula
Several new items finally arrived this week. I ordered the 1600MM Pro and ZWO 8 position 1.25″ electronic filter wheel from optcorp.com. I also ordered the optolong 1.25″ narrowband set and l-pro filter from highpointscientific.com. Setting up this camera was simple in part because ZWO … continue readingfirst light ZWO ASI 1600MM PRO
The horsehead nebula is another winter target easily found next to alnitak, which is a bright star in orion’s belt. I photographed this target on two recent occasions. Once before and again after making some equipment modifications. For both of these imaging sessions, I used … continue readinghorsehead nebula – DSLR astro-mod comparison
On christmas eve, I was able to capture both orion nebula and the pleiades cluster. This was great because I could recycle darks, flats and bias frames in processing both images. I was still using the Nikon D300 at the time and quickly saw it … continue readingm45 – pleiades cluster
The orion nebula is a very bright object in the winter sky. This is a perfect target for my nikon d300 with short exposures. Setting up is still a bit of a pain with no automation in my process yet. I 3d printed a bahtinov … continue readingm42 – orion nebula