Sculptor Galaxy Dec 2010

Hi all First image with a 300 mm Canon len s and the Canon 350d

The Sculptor Galaxy NGC253 and also at the bottom NGC 288 a mag 8 Globular cluster.

This was a 60 second single image

Terry

Cold weather imaging

Hi all

Couple of images taken when very cold about -18 c at the end

Canon xt batteries were the first thing to fail..

Nexstar scope worked fine in the cold temps though very noisy when slewing

Tried my Celestron Light polution filter in fron of the camera

Imaged M45 and M42 to test it

Results were good in that it kept stars from bloating and reduced the Chromatic Aberation

New M42 and M31

M31 Revised

M42 as before but used a Baader contrast filter..It gives a lot smaller stars by reducing

the chromatic aberation from the Nexstar 80 mm

Canon xt 350d

Terry

Images Nov 10 and 13

Orion Nebula 5 min 1 min ten second intergrated exposures with Canon XT



Latest Comet image Hartley 103P

Images Taken 10/11/10 and 14/11 10 with 80 mm Nexstar

Great seeing and sky

Terry

Auto Guiding

Ten Min exposure

5 min exposure

2 min exposure

My first attempts at Auto Guiding..Made a 2 min then 5 min then ten min exposures..

Had to use my main pc and a laptop to take the images due to duplicate port usage

Results are not bad and better than unguide but still room for improvment

All done with the Rebel XT Canon and the Nexstar 5i plus 80 mm ota

The tem Min exposure was take with a lower sensitivity to avoid over exposure

Results as you see

Terry

Comet Hartly(103P)

Satellite passes the comet

Images Taken with the Ultima 2000 and C8 with focal reducer
Camera Canon XT 350D
2 min exposures

More to come

Terry

M31 Andromeda Galaxy

M31 ...One single 5 min image taken with the Canon rebel XT prime focus with the

Nextar 80 mm short tube telescope.P.Shop used to set contrast and size.

Was reduced from 8 meg to 640 x480 to load to the blog..Hope it still looks ok

Any comments

Terry

Jupiter September 2010

Altair 120 second exposure

Jupiter with one major band

Hi all

Image of Jupiter..Single shot with the Canon 350d xt

Also a 120 second image of the star Altair

Terry

19Sept xt pics

Hi all

My latest attempts with the Canon 350d xt Almost full Moon Altair and the North American Nebula...Moon with 5inch Nexstar the rest with 80mm Nexstar

Terry

Sun Ray Lalonde

Rays Photo

Adjusted by George Anderson

Well done Ray

Canon Rebel XT 350D images

Hi all
Took some images with the new camera Canon Rebel 350D XT


M27

M17 Swan

Full Moon

cafta

Cafta 2010

The Sun with my regular solar filter

The Sun through Rays solar scope

Cafta 2010

Images from Cafta 2010

Images 20July 2010

Triffid Nebula M20

M17 Swan Nebula

M16 Eagle Nebula

M8 Lagoon Nebula

Images taken 20th July 2010

Conditions murky sky lots of humidity

Taken with Sac8-11 camera and the Nexstar 80 mm

Terry

Milky Way Image

16 Second exposure at f2.8 with Kodak z1012 looking south June 11 0100 hrs

Terry

Meeting BYA Cornwall Cruise Control

Thunder clouds

Murrys creation

Full Moon

Heron

Meeting BYA May2010 Some pictures from the meeting on Cruise Control

Terry

May 12 images

M13

M104

Hi all

Replaced the faulty computer with a brand new (old) laptop

and had first light with the new setup

Imaged M104 Galaxy and M13 Rays favorite..

used the C8 and Sac8-11 camera

Great view of ISS this night

Neaf 2010

Hi All

Some Neaf pictures..a great weekend

Terry

M51 and M101

M101 Pinwheel Galaxy

M51 Whirlpool Galaxy

Hi all

Imaged M51 to check out the scope and camera

Used the 8 inch Celestron sct and the Sac8-11 camera

Also imaged M101

Not my best images

but got things working again

Terry

Imaging 21 st January

Hi all

Best night for a long time and not to cold

Imaged Mars when it came into sight

Before that captued M67 part of the Beehive cluster

And M42 again

Was a good night till the Small Mars image was lost ..

With 2 barlows hard to find again without removing the camera and refocusing

Terry

Mars was very small image size ..Used the c5 sct plus 2 barlows stacked..

Image was still small