M42 Orion Imaged Friday 19th March

Great Orion and  Running Man Nebulae Canon 450D and Vixen ED80 on SW EQ6 Mount

20 x 5 Sec(for Trapezium Stars) and 20 x 120 Sec  Stacked in Nebulosity and combined in Photoshop

 

M16 The Eagle Nebula from 20th August 2020

Canon 30D Multiple 2 minute exposures stacked/combined and processed in Nebulosity and further enhancement with Astropanel in Photoshop.
 

Font Hill 14th November 2020

Milky Way High in Eastern Sky 

Early Morning

Timelapse Sunset to Sunrise

Evening Redshift in the clouds to the West

 

Carina and Crux 60 Second Exposure  Canon 1100D.

The Secret Society of Astronomers

Morning Twilight

Moon 3rd September 2020

2 Panel Mosaic each 20 Frames, 40 Frames Total Stacked

Processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop

 Canon 550D and 150mm SkyWatcher Matsukov

Globular Cluster NGC 109 / 47 Tucanae

Globular Cluster NGC 109 47 Tucanae

120 Light Years across and 13050 Light Years distant

10 x 2 Minute frames stacked and processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop

150mm Skywatcher Matsukov and Modified Canon 550D

Tracking Skywatcher EQ6 Mount 

Autoguiding 50mm Guidescope and Meade DSI C

Software Carte Du Ciel, PHD2 and Astro Photography Tool

Stacking Post Processing Nebulosity and Photoshop

Messier 7 The Ptolemy Cluster

 

Modified Canon 30D and Vixen ED80

Tracking Skywatcher EQ6 Mount

AutoGuiding 50mm Guidescope and Meade DSI C II

21 x 2 Minute Frames

Preprocessing, Stacking and Stretching in Nebulosity  

Further enchancements PhotoShop with Astropanel

 

M24 - Sagittarius Star Cloud

2 Panel Mosaic Modified Canon30D Skywatcher ED80

Processed Nebulosity and Photoshop with Astro Panel

Cats Paw Nebula NGC6334 13th July 2020

Prawn Nebula IC4628 Reprocessesed in Startools

 IC4628 Bright Nebula in Sagittarius 6000 Light Years Distant (Centre),  

NGC 6242 Open Star Cluster (Bottom Right),  

NGC 6268 Open Star Cluster (Top Right), 

TR(Trumpler) 24  and the wider CR(Collinder) 316 Open Star Cluster(s) encompass  the foreground area of the Prawn Nebula and adjacent star field to left bottom of the image.

All around 3500 to 3700 Light Years Distant. 

30 x 120sec Images (60 Minutes Integration Time)

Hardware

Modified Canon 30D and Vixen ED80 Refractor

50mm (FL 140mm) Guidescope and Meade DSI C II Guide Camera

Skywatcher EQ6 German Eqautorial Mount

Software

Captured InAPT(AstroPhotographyTool)

Auto-Guiding PHD2

Telescope Control EQMOD with Planetarium CDC (Cart Du Ciel)

Image Preporcessing, Stacking in Nebulosity, Stretching and Noise Reduction in Startools

IC4628 Prawn Nebula, Open Star Clusters NGC 6242, 6268 and TR 14 taken evening 26th to morning 27th June 2020

IC4628 Bright Nebula in Sagittarius 6000 Light Years Distant (Centre),  

NGC 6242 Open Star Cluster (Bottom Right),  

NGC 6268 Open Star Cluster (Top Right), 

TR(Trumpler) 24  and the wider CR(Collinder) 316 Open Star Cluster(s) encompass  the foreground area of the Prawn Nebula and adjacent star field to left bottom of the image.

All around 3500 to 3700 Light Years Distant. 

30 x 120sec Images (60 Minutes Integration Time)

Hardware

Modified Canon 30D and Vixen ED80 Refractor

50mm (FL 140mm) Guidescope and Meade DSI C II Guide Camera

Skywatcher EQ6 German Eqautorial Mount

Software

Captured InAPT(AstroPhotographyTool)

Auto-Guiding PHD2

Telescope Control EQMOD with Planetarium CDC (Cart Du Ciel)

Image Preporcessing, Stacking, Stretching and Noise Reduction in Nebulosity

Further enhancment Photoshop CC with Astro Panel

Below is image processed in Startools after preprocessing and stacking in Nebulosity

Ngc's 3579 3603 3590 3572 Nebulosity and star field in Carina

 

28 x 120 Sec Exposures (56 Minutes Integration Time)

Hardware

Modified Canon 30D and Skywatcher ED80

Skywatcher German Equatorial Mount

Autoguiding 50mm Finder Scope and Meade DSI 2 C

Software

CDC(Carte Du Ciel), Eqmod, PHD2(Push Here Dummy) and APT (Astrophotography Tool)

Image Processing Software

Nebulosity(Stark Labs) and PhotoShop CC (Adobe)

Image before tweeks in Photoshop