2012-10-11 20:00-22:30 Clear followed by clouds and compact fog, no wind 2013-09-28 20:30-00:00 Scattered clouds followed by clear weather, no moon, no wind, 7 degrees C NGC6888 Exposures: 10x120s+31x240s LIGHT 20x240s DARK 20 BIAS 20 FLAT Camera: Canon EOS-600D, ISO800 Lens: Meade Model 2080 8-inch … Continue readingNGC6888
2013-09-27 20:30-00:00 Clear with good seeing followed by increasingly worse seeing and scattered clouds, no moon, some wind, 8 degrees C M56 Exposures: 15x240s LIGHT 20x240s DARK 20 BIAS 20 FLAT Camera: Canon EOS-600D, ISO800 Lens: Meade Model 2080 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain Mount: HEQ5 Pro Skywatcher … Continue readingM56
2013-09-27 20:30-00:00 Clear with good seeing followed by increasingly worse seeing and scattered clouds, no moon, some wind, 8 degrees C M71 14x240s LIGHT 20x240s DARK 20 BIAS 20 FLAT Camera: Canon EOS-600D, ISO800 Lens: Meade Model 2080 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain Mount: HEQ5 Pro Skywatcher SynGuider … Continue readingM71
Took an image of M57 – The Ring Nebula before the fog clouds rolled in this Friday. To my surprise I also caught the supernova SN2013ev in the far away spiral galaxy IC1296 (225 million lightyears) which lies in sight with the much closer M57 … Continue readingSUPERNOVA 2013EV IN IC1296
2013-09-13 22:00-00:00 Faint clouds followed by fog, half moon, moist, 15 degrees C M57 /IC1296+SN2013ev Exposures: 22x180s LIGHT 30x180s DARK 20 BIAS 20 FLAT Camera: Canon EOS-600D, ISO800 Lens: Meade Model 2080 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain Mount: HEQ5 Pro Skywatcher SynGuider auto guider and Celestron 80mm guide … Continue readingM57
2013-09-06 22:00-02:00 Clear, no moon, no wind, 15 degrees C M101 Exposures: 40x240s LIGHT 25x240s DARK 20 BIAS 16 FLAT Camera: Canon EOS-600D, ISO800 Lens: Meade Model 2080 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain + Meade Focalreducer 6.3 Mount: HEQ5 Pro Skywatcher SynGuider auto guider and Celestron 80mm guide … Continue readingM101
2013-09-02 22:00-01:00 Some faint fog clouds, no moon, no wind, little moist, 10 degrees C M51 Exposures: 34x180s LIGHT 40x180s DARK 20 BIAS 16 FLAT Camera: Canon EOS-600D, ISO800 Lens: Meade Model 2080 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain + Meade Focalreducer 6.3 Mount: HEQ5 Pro Skywatcher SynGuider auto … Continue readingM51