First light TS-Optics 8″ f/4 UNC: M33 – 2018

2018-12-27 18:00-22:00Clear, no moon, some wind, 99% humidity, 3 degrees C M33Exposures:43x60s L(30+30+30)x60s RGB30x90s HaRotation:180 degrees First light with new equipment: TS-Optics 8″ f/4 UNC Newtonian with GPU Superflat 2″ Coma Corrector, ZWO OAG, EQMOD and SESTO SENSO robotic focusing motor. Was only going to … Continue readingFirst light TS-Optics 8″ f/4 UNC: M33 – 2018

Heart and Soul Nebulae

Testing the PixInsight GradientMergeMosaic tool. IC1848:2014-04-03 22:00-05:00 (2 hours lost due to a combination of hardware and software problems)Clear, moon at the horizon, no wind, 0 degrees CExposures:8x480s LIGHT28x480s DARK200 BIAS IC1805:2015-12-13 17:30-21:00 (2 hours lost due to Canon driver issue with Windows 10 and … Continue readingHeart and Soul Nebulae

AAPOD winner of July 20th 2014

This image of the central part of Auriga containing the star clusters M36, M38, NGC1931 as well as the nebulae IC417 and NGC1907 was chosen as the Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day today (July 20th 2014) 🙂