June 24 BYA Meeting

Hi all

Meeting on June 24th was held on Cruise Control 11 with Captain Ray

Present were Dan Heinz Hughe Murry Terry and of course CPT Ray

Great weather and a good evening was had by all..

Big thanks to Ray..

Have included some pictures of the meeting and also some of my images from 2 days before.

Cheers Terry

Antares and Moon Encounter

Hi all

Some of the images of Antares and the Moon encounter.

Taken with the Nexstar 80mm short tube and Canon Digital Camera

Latest Comet Lulin Image 01 March

Hi

Clear about 10.30 pm and took this image

Terry

Comet Lulin 26th Feb 2007

Regulus Test Image

Hi all

Looked for Comet Lulin with binos ...nothing ..sky was awfull not transparant at all..So resorted to the Nextar 80 mm on the goto mount...Still nothing with the data for the comet I just downloaded...Soooooo...looked around that area with a wide angle eyepiece and found a fuzzy smudge about 1 degree away from the Starrynight location.Very dim..

Popped in the Sac8-2 camera and made some images..Not the best best at least you can see some tail effect.

Used the 80 mm short tube at F3 ...3 second times 40 images all stacked and processed with a program called Fits x.

Low down the sky had no visability ..when I took the images between 11.30 and after midnight

the Comet was very high in the sky..I could see Regulus ok and took a test image on it for calibration

20th Jan 2009

Horse head Nebula

Rosette Nebula

Venus

Hi all

Took a few images tonight before frustration took over..Go to was off and had a hard time focusing..

Imaged Venus with 5inch sct and barlow..Nice half moon

The Rosette nebula came out not too bad

Seeing was not too good

Terry

Man in the Moon

Hi all

Took this picture of the Moon with the Canon Digital Camera at full zoom plus 2x telephoto lense.

Yes the Man in the Moon is really there

Terry

December 22 imaging

M45 Pleiades

M33 Trapezium Galaxy

Hi all

As we has clear skys forcast for tonight I dug out the Skypod.Then remebered that about -12c

is the lowest my C8 will work without damage I decided use the indoor /outdoor imaging setup..

Just as well as it was -20 c before I finished at 10 pm.

Imaged Vesta though not to interesting to look at..just a starlike spot.

Also Venus Very bright

M33 M45 were the best results for the night..Did the Orion Nebula but it came out really over exposed..

All taken with The Nexstar 80mm scope and Sac8-2 camera