Lunar Eclipse

Seagull Nebula Image from April 2017

Various objects in and around Scorpius and Sagittarius.

 Barnards Galaxy NGC 6822 1.5 million LY distant. Bright Stars(bottom left) HIP 97063 et.al. (bottom right and red) HIP 97013 et.al. Little Gem Planetary Nebula(Blue) just above HIP 97013 slightly more right.

NGC6723(Globular Cluster) and 6726 and 6727(Reflection Nebulae in bottom centre  collectively forming NGC6729) ans V686CRA (bright [rotating variable] star top right) and EpsCRA (bright star[eclipsing binary system] just above centre) and small red star is HIP 93125 et. al.

Rho Ophiucus Nebula IC 4604 (Middle) and the Bipolar Nebula IC 4603 (Left)

Top Centre NGC6256 Globu;ar Cluster and comet 71P

Trifid Nebula (M20 NGC6514)  Open Star Cluster "Webbs Cross" adjacent right and above (M21 NGC 6531)

M22 Globular (Great Sagittarius (Crackerjack) Cluster)  NGC 6656  approx 9800 ly distant

NGC 7293 Helix (Planetary) Nebula

Globular Cluster M55  approx 17600 distant

(Flickering) Globular Cluster M62  approx 22000 ly distant.

Globular Clusters   NGC6304 (Bottom Left) and NGC6316 (Top Right).  Blue Star Bottom Right is  Mag 6.1 HIP84175 et. al.




    Cr367 ( Nebulous HII region centre to right top)                         11 Sgr    Star                                   
            NGC6544_(Star Fish Cluster)              (top of Lagoon Neb)                                NGC6546         

Globular Clusters NGC 6652 (top left)        M69 or NGC 6637 (bottom right) approx 30000 ly distant.                             

Centaurus A Galaxy 8th June 2018

Centaurus A NGC 5128

60,000 Light years distant.

Canon 550D Camera and Skywatcher 6 Inch Matsukov Telescope and EQ6 Mount. Guided Meade DSI 2 Camera amd Prostar 50mm Guidescope. 10x10 minute light frames and 10x10 minute dark frames aligned and stacked and enhancement in Nebulosity.

IC2602 Theta Carina Southern Pleiades Cluster 12th April 2018

Canon 450D Skywatcher ED80 Telescope and EQ6 Mount 6 x 120 seconds exposures processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop.

NGC5139 Omega Centauri Globular Cluster Cropped and Uncropped.

Images acquired in APT(Astrophotography Tool) with Canon 450D and Skywatcher ED80 Refractor EQ6 Mount controlled with CDC (Cart Du Ciel), Guided Orion G3 Colour Camera and Short Refractor with PHD2 (Push Here Dummy), 6 x 120 second exposures, with flats and darks stacked and processed in Nebulosity,

Core of Eta Carinae Nebula

6x 2 Minute Frames, Canon 550D (Filter removed), 150MM SW Matsukov, SWEQ6 Mount, Guiding with 50mm  Prostar Guidescope with Meade DSI2Pro and PHD2, Stacked and Processed Nebulosity and Photoshop.

Night time at Coonabarabran 6th May

Canon 760D, 30 seconds exposure,ISO 3200, Aperture 2.8 Tokina WA Lens.

  The Emu clear as crystal on Timor Road. 

Jupiter and Jupiter!  See https://www.solarsystemdrive.com/

Eta Carina and a new image processing pathway!

This image was stacked from 6 x 2 minute individual frames in Deep Sky Stacker and prleminary stretching and noise reduction was carried out in Startools (Previously I have used Nebulosity for both these functions).  Then, as per my old ways, some tweaking in Photoshop.

Here's the same image processed in my old image processing pathway Nebulosity and Photoshop.

Aurora Australis at Blackstone Heights Tasmania

Crazy Chickens IC2944

First part of a failed 2 panel mosaic with a Dual Band Filter, Ha and Oiii.

5 x 300second Exposures stacked and enhanced in post processing.

6 Panel Mosaic, 30 x 5 minute exposures in total, taken at Font Hill 2nd April with a ZWO1183MC and ED80 Refractor 2023 

Integration 5 and a half hours in Astro Pixel Processor and further processing in Nebulosity and Photoshop.

The 'Head' of the Chicken. iTelescope Data July 2022

My Home Setup, Canon 450D SWED80  10 X 10min Frames Nebulosity and Photoshop

Running Chiecken Via T13 at Coonabarabran.  Takahashi Sky90 90mm Refractor and Sbig Universal Colour Camera. 15th April 2018. 5 x 5 minute frames stacked and  processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop.

Running Chicken. T12 at Coonabarabran.  Takahashi FSQ ED 106mm Refractor and FLI  Monochrome Camera plus filters for colour.

New Addition/Editions

Above Stacking in Nebulosity and Combination in Photoshop

Running Chicken. T8 at Coonabarabran.  Takahashi FSQ ED 106mm Refractor and FLI  Monochrome Camera plus filters for Hubble Colour Pallette(HA Hydrogen Alpha, OIII Oxygen 3 and SIII Sulphur 3)

Below Preprocessing, integration and combination in AstroPixelProcessor with star reduction/removal in Photoshop.