More Snake Valley Astro Pics

Flame and Horsehead Nebulae, Canon 350D, 300mm zoom.

Eta Carina Nebula, Canon 350D, 300mm zoom

Plieades, Hyades abd Jupiter, Canon 350D, 50mm Lens.

Plieades, Canon 350D, 300mm zoom

Sword of Orion, Canon 350D, 300mm zoom

Large Magellanic Cloud, Canon 350D, 300mm zoom

Images from Snake Valley Astronomy Camp

Southern Cross and Carina 18th November 2012.  21x30 Second Frames, Modified Canon 350D with 50mm lens, Tracking on Vixen Polaire, processed in Nebulosity.

Orion Star Field, 15x30 Second Frames, Modified Canon 350D with 50mm lens, Tracking on Vixen Polaire, processed in Nebulosity

30th October 2012 AstroPhoMo (Astro Photo Month)

This is the western sky looking towards Lupus, Scorpius and Sagittarius.
20 Seconds of exposure at 800 ISO, Aperture 3.5, post processing in Nebulosity.

29th October AstroPhoMo (Astro Photo Month)

Lots of cloud around the full moon preventing a good sharp view but the moonlit skies and landscape provided some great opportunity.

A Panorama of 4 x 30 second shots.   See the light trail from car headlights in the left of the image.

Western sky looking at Scorpius.

27th October AstroPhoMo (Astro Photo Month)

An addition of  2 times magnification with a Barlow made the world of difference with it filling the field of view of the camera just nicely.

28th October AstroPhoMo (Astro Photo Month)

This quick unguided portrait of 47 Tucanae is pretty much just for the sake of a daily post.   Very mucky skies and not anywhere near the October 12 version .

26th October 2012 AstroPhoMo (Astro Photo Month)

Today cloudy again but clear enough for another look at the Moon.   Day 11 now with three days to go to the full moon.  Mare Imbrium along with Sinus Iridium now fully visible along with much of the crater spray from Tycho.

This next version has less contrast between the lunar mare (dark patches) and the surrounding terrain but highlights more detail along the terminator. Some of the brighter areas are a tad over saturated too.

October 25th AstroPhoMo (Astro Photo Month)

A break in the clouds last night brought a waxing gibbous.

October 22nd 2012 AstroPhoMo (Astro Photo Month)

Took this shot of the quarter moon after coming home from an evening shift at work, 3 pm to 11 pm.    Time was limited so I grabbed my 70mm William Optics refractor and plunked it on a camera tripod and quickly put the 300D into prime focus.   After focusing and then experimenting with exposures I settled on 1/200th second at 200 ISO.  I then took 7 shots and then stacked and processed then in Nebulosity.

October 20th AstroPhoMo (Astro Photo Month)

I missed the opportunity to capture anything on the 19th due to an astronomy teaching commitment.  However last night's icy clouds and waxing crescent provided a lunar halo.

 To the left of the halo you should just make out the constellation Scorpius, with the tail and the stinger (Shaula and Lesuth) fairly prominent.  To the right the bright star is Altair in the constellation Aquila.
The star just off the lunar limb is Mu Sagittarius at 3.8 mag .

15th to 18th October 2012 AstroPhoMo (Astro Photo Month)

Weather and Work have intervened the pas couple of days but I still have a 16th October South Celestial Pole time lapse sequence and a shot of a light polluted eastern horizon at dusk.

The actual naked eye view wasn't nearly as spectacular with there only being just a faint red hue.   The sensitivity of the camera does wonders to these hints of colour only just detectable to us.