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

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

 

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

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