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