Friday, November 21, 2014

Bear Claw on the Sun

                                     
                                                       Bear Claw shaped Sunspots

                       
                                    Taken with white filter and Equinox 80 mm and Canon  Rebel T3

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Helix Nebula

Imaged The Helix Nebula with 80 mm Nexstar and Contrast and Light polution Filter

3 Min Guided

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Moon Image The Wall

                               
                  Moon   The Straight  Wall  Taken with Sac7 Imager and a C8 Scope

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

May 6th Viewing



 
Images taken tonight  Seeing no to bad but hard to get detail on Jupiter

Terry

March 6th viewing

Hi all
 Finally had the scope on the driveway(miss my observatory) and imaged Mars Jupiter and the Moon

                                                                              
Seeing was not bad


Terry

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

March 3rd Imaging Horse Head and Flame Nebula




Horse Head and Flame Nebula
Combination of 10 images between One min and 3 min  Guided exposures
Simple Nexstar 80 mm short tube achro with Celestron LPR filter in line
Canon Rebel T3 (1100d)
Nebulosity software for imaging..PHD Guiding and Photoshop for final
Temp was Minus   -21 c  Clear skys
 

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Rosette Nebula 17 Feb 2014

                                                                 
                                                              The Rosette Nebula


Taken with the Canon Rebel T3   80MM Nexstar  HA Filter  Guided ..total of 350 seconds exposure
Had tried this before without the filter and no or little nebulosity visable..
Image was taken in colour then converted to Grayscale in P/shop
Set Levels and Contrast then Hue  Added unsharp mask filter for final



This is a rehash of the same 78 megabite image with less noise..Better I think

Sunday, February 16, 2014

T3 Rebel Images 300mm lens




Moon with 300mm Telphoto Lens..Camera mouted on Nexstar 5 Mount.Done with Nebulosity software
This is a cropped image with Photoshop




The Beehive Cluster  M44   300MM Lens   also cropped with photoshop...Lots of light from the almost full moon...This is why the background is Blue




300 MM lens

300MM Telephoto

Friday, February 14, 2014

Canon Rebel T3 Images



Orion

Orion with just 55 mm lens and Canon rebel T3.No tracking short exposure