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Skywatcher 190MN telescope, Ioptron CEM70 NUC mount, Altair Tri-Band filter, ASI2600MC Pro at -20C. 21 x 5 minute exposures (1 hour 45 minutes) at Gain 100, Offset 50, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight, Topaz denoise, and Photoshop.
Collected between 20-43 and 23-08 on the 22nd of October 2022.
NGC 3324 is an open cluster in the southern constellation Carina (the same constellation as our previous image of ETA Carina Nebula)
It is sometimes called the "Gabriela Mistral Nebula" due to its resemblance to the Chilean poet. It is approximately 7560 light years from Earth and is 6.754 million years old.
This version was created with the same data captured back in February 2021 but processed by mapping Ha to Red, Oiii to Green and Sii to Blue (HOO) instead of the Hubble pallet (SHO). Hopefully we can get some clear nights soon, so I can start using our new ZWO ASI 1600mm camera.
Equipment Details:
•8 Inch Skywatcher Quattro Carbon Fibre F4.0 Newtonian Reflector
•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount
•SBIG STT 8300m CCD Camera cooled to -20'c
•SBIG FW8G-STT Filter Wheel
•Baader Ha, Oiii and Sii Filters
•SKywatcher BD 102mm Guide Scope
•Meade DSIii CCD Guide Camera
•Polemaster for polar alignment
Exposure Details:
•Ha 15X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Oiii 15X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Oiii 15X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
Total Integration Time: 2 hours and 15 minutes
The Christmas Tree Cluster is a young open cluster located in the constellation Monoceros. Included are the Cone Nebula and the Fox Fur Nebula. It is located in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way.
Unfortunately, I still have not been able to get out due to shoulder issues but hopefully after the next operation in November and some recovery time, I should be back into it.
This is a reprocess of some older data, using HA, and RGB filters.
Equipment Details:
•Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED Refractor
•Skywatcher HEQ5 Mount
•SBIG ST2000xm CCD Camera cooled to -20'c
•SBIG CFw8 Filter Wheel
•Custom Scientific Red, Green, Blue Filters
•Astronomic 12NM Ha Filter
•Orion ST80 Guide Scope
•Orion Starshoot Autoguider Guide Camera
Exposure Details:
•Ha 15X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Red 10X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Green 10X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Blue 10X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
Total Integration Time: 4.35 hours
It just so happens that the Dragon's are rising in the milky way at the moment so it made a good target to shoot but I had to wait for the Nebula to get above the shed and fence. This is two nights of 6.5 hours each night and yielded quite a spectacular image. very different to my first because of the filter and the size of the sensor 900mm shot.
Taken with ZWO CMOS camera 77 Files 10 min files Shot With
ZWO ASI071MC Pro @ -10c
ZWO AEF,
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher EQM35Goto
Guided PHD2,
Stacked DSS. Processed PixinSight (stil learning), PS and Lr.
So, I did purchase a tracker ^-^
My first tracked astrophotography with the SkyWatcher Star Adventurer and my first one processed mostly with PixInsight.
Not a very challenging subject to start with, but still quite an improvement compared to my previous M31 photo where I had to use a 2.5s exposure time compared to 30s here. Now, I just need the clouds to go away :)
39min = 78 x 30s exposures with 20 of each dark, bias and flat frames.
Shot with Canon 5DmkIV with 70-200mm L lens @ 200mm, f/5.6, ISO6400.
Stacked in AffinityPhoto, post-processed in PixInsight with some final cosmetic in Photoshop.
There was a little bit of high cloud about but I thought I would use my ZWO ASI585 camera to take a mosaic of the moon this time rather than my D500. Scope was my Skywatcher 180 pro mak
I took 10x 1000 frame videos full resolution, processed them in AS!3, did wavelets in Registax then tidied up the background and adjusted contrast etc in Lightroom.
I'm quite pleased with the result.
This is an image of the Messier 78 complex M78 in Orion. It is a difficult object from my location due to the strong light pollution here unfortunately but I decided to try.
This is also known as the "Casper The Friendly Ghost Nebula" although I'm not entirely sure where this comes from!
Certainly the two Nebula, M78 at right and NGC 2071 left, look like two ghostly eyes peering out from the darkness but I wouldn't say they looked friendly, more sinister I would say lol!!
However, M78 was discovered in 1780 by Pierre Méchain who passed on its location to Charles Messier who catalogued it as M78.
M78 is a reflection nebula, showing the typical sky blue colour and the brightest in this complex. We only see these structures because of the associated stars illuminating the clouds of dust by reflecting their light. The whole complex is surrounded by dark, thick dust and gas adding a sense of mystery. The dust has a slight reddish hue.
The complex consists of M78, the brightest at left. Above it are NGC 2067 (l) and NGC 2064(r). The bright nebula to the left of M78 forming the other eye is NGC 2071.
Image with a Skywatcher Esprit 120ED scope and a ZWO 2600MC camera.
A total of 3hr exposure calibrated with temp. matched darks, flats and dark flats.
Thanks for looking!
The picture was taken during 4 nights in August. By shooting the tulip Nebula earlier that month, I saw the white 'arc' on my subs / stacking result.
This gave me some hope to shoot this "weird" object (tbh it was the first time I saw it) without knowing directly what it was. :p
There were a lot of details in the O3 layer, so I was able to make pop (faintly but you know, Bortle 8) the Blue bubble surrounding the star and the blue nebulosity in this region.
As the Hydrogen was also a bit weak, I didn't apply many curves transformations on the image, to keep it clean and "natural"
Clear Skies :)
Lights : 96 x 600 sec (16h)
Darks : 60 ~ Offset : 100 ~ Flats : 60
Setup :
Camera : ZWO ASI 2600 MC
Main Scope : Skywatcher Esprit 100 ED
Mount : Skywatcher EQ6-R
Guide Camera : ZWO ASI 120MM Mini
Guide Scope : ZWO Mini Guide Scope
Filters : Antlia ALP-T
Others : ZWO ASIAIR PRO, ZWO EAF
Equipment:
Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)
Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto
Guiding: OAG
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini
Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera
Accessories:
ZWO ASIAIR Pro
ZWO EFW 8x1.25"
ZWO EAF
ZWO OAG
ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 53
Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 111x180s
Bortle Scale: 4
Location: Isaszeg, Hungary
Acquisition date(s):
2021.04.06., 2021.04.07., 2021.04.08.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the 3034, 3035, 3038 and 3040 spots this time.
OTA: Newtonian Celestron 130 mm/f5 modified
Mount: Skywatcher Heq 5
Imaging Camera: Canon 700D astro modified
Telescope Guide: Gso 50mm
Camera Guide: QHY5L II Mono
Baader Mk III Coma Corrector
Polemaster Eletronic Polar Scope
Total Exposure: 3:30 hours (subs 300 sec)
Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking
Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing,
Pulg-in: Hasta la vista, green, astroflat pro
PHD Guiding 2: Guide
Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply
Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . 11/2022
27 x 250sec captures of NGC 300. A spiral galaxy that is found in the Sculptor constellation .Located roughly 6.5 million light years from us it is one of our closest neighbours. Skywatcher Quattro 250P and QHY 183 c Pro cooled astro camera.
The Heart Nebula, IC 1805, Sharpless 2-190, lies some 7500 light years away from Earth and is located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William Herschel on 3 November 1787. It is an emission nebula showing glowing ionized hydrogen gas and darker dust lanes.
Equipment:
Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)
Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto
Guide scope: Orion 50mm mini
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini
Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera
Accessories:
ZWO ASIAIR Pro
Lacerta Dew-heater 20cm
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 200
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 96x300s
Astronomik 6nm O3: 36x300s
Equipment:
Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)
Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto
Guide scope: Orion 50mm mini
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini
Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera
Accessories:
ZWO ASIAIR Pro
ZWO EFW 8x1.25"
Lacerta Dew-heater 20cm
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 111
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 52x300s
Astronomik 6nm Oxygen: 15x300s
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) a once in a lifetime comet, captured from my garden in the UK on January 25th through the night.
This comet is thought to have originated from the extremely distant Oort Cloud, a region on the far outer edges of our solar system. It’s likely to completely exit the solar system and not return for a million years. Humans as we know them will likely be extinct and the photos we have taken now, are likely the only ones to ever be captured.
This is a field of view, around 0.6 degrees of the sky. This is a very tightly framed photo of this comet. Whereas most photos show a much wider 4 to 6 degrees of the sky, showcasing the tail of the comet - I went in for a close up.
This was captured using my Skywatcher Explorer 200P telescope with a native focal length of 1000mm, reduced down to 950mm. The camera I used was a ZWO 533MM, cooled to -15C and LRGB filters from Antlia to produce this colour image.
This was the other project that I was going to work on with the 105mm lens. The Vela Super nova and the Gums. Also in an area not far from the Carina Area, This show you more the relation ship of the parts to each other. This has been worth while using just a Nikon lens to capture there and i quite good detail.
This was shot over two nights Nikon 105mm F2.8 Macro lens in total 100 odd shots. Its good to see most of the target I have taken over the last few years with the ED80 in reality to each other. I make no apology for the number of stars in the shot.
ZWOASI071 -7 100 shots 450 sec rotated 7 Degrees
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
OTA: Newtonian Celestron 130 mm/f5 modified
Mount: Skywatcher Heq 5
Imaging Camera: Canon 700D astro modified
Telescope Guide: Gso 50mm
Camera Guide: QHY5L II Mono
Baader Mk III Coma Corrector
Polemaster Eletronic Polar Scope
Total Exposure: 4:00 hours (subs 300 sec)
Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking
Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing,
Pulg-in: Hasta la vista, green, astroflat pro
PHD Guiding 2: Guide
Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply
Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . 05/2022
The Horsehead Nebula is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, one of the bottom stars in Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.
This was our longest total exposure, comprising of approximately 15 hours of Ha. R, G and B frames. Captured with the Sbig ST2000xm attached to the Skywatcher ED80.
The “Sculptor Galaxy” NGC 253, also known as the “Silver Coin Galaxy”, is a bright local spiral galaxy, smaller than the Milky Way and only 12,000,000 light years distant.
The apparent width of the galaxy is about one lunar diameter.
Its circular disc is about 12° from the edge-on position and it has a concentrated central nucleus and mottle-textured dust lanes & dark patches.
It is located only 2° from the South Galactic Pole.
Object Details:
Designation: NGC 253, Caldwell 65
Constellation: Sculptor
Visual magnitude: +7.0
Apparent size: 26.8′ x 4.6′
Diameter: 94,000 light years.
Distance: 12 million light years.
The Gear:
Skywatcher Esprit 120 telescope.
ZWO ASI071 camera.
Skywatcher Esprit 80/400, ASI2600MM-Pro, Astronomik Ha-OIII en 6 nm pour 6h et 5h.
HEQ5 kit Rowan
Capture : NINA
Traitement : Pixinsight (Plugins NoiseXterminator et StarXterminator), GraXpert
OTA: Newtonian Celestron 130 mm/f5 modified
Mount: Skywatcher Heq 5
Imaging Camera: Canon 700D astro modified
Telescope Guide: Gso 50mm
Camera Guide: QHY5L II Mono
Baader Mk III Coma Corrector
Polemaster Eletronic Polar Scope
Total Exposure: 01:00 hour (subs 300 sec)
Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking
Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing,
Pulg-in: Hasta la vista, green, astroflat pro
PHD Guiding 2: Guide
Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply
Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . 06/2023
Three consecutive nights of shots in the city light area some with moon light some with no moon. 118 shots 10 min ISO 200 Guided PHD2 Dev3. Shot DSLR Nikon D810 using a Skywatcher ED80.
This was a case of set and let it auto start in SGP each night in the end close to 20 hours of shot time in total. First time all of this has gone without a hitch all in auto mode starting and stopping by itself.
Most of this editing was stretching very little colour edit as much as possible as shot. I wanted all the colour that is around the nebula as well as the nebula. Only very small crop to remove stacking artifacts.
This deepscape image shows the Orion Nebula and the Running Man Nebula setting behind the Hoernli mountain station in Arosa, Switzerland.
Such images tend to raise a lot of skepticism, but this is a real alignment:
Sky and foreground were captured from the same tripod position and during a single night, with the same equipment and at the same focal length. I only shut down the tracking of my mount when Orion Nebula was in the position you see in the image, captured the foreground an recombined sky and foreground in post processing. Check the behind the scenes photo of me capturing this deepscape:
The small field of view due to the long focal length (1000mm full frame equivalent) makes precise planning to find the exact shooting position a must. A small error of a few meters is enough to make the nebula miss the foreground features.
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EXIF
Camera:
ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro, with Baader H, O & RGB filters
Telescope:
William Optics Megrez 88 f/5.6 (500mm)
Mount:
Equatorially mounted Skywatcher AZ-GTI
Control and Guiding:
ZWO ASIair
Foreground:
Untracked single exposures of 60s through RGB filters
Sky:
H-alpha: 21 x 120s + 15 x 60s + 5 x 30s
Oiii: 3 x 120s + 12 x 60s + 20 x 30s
RGB: 9 × 60s + 10 x 10s
Total integration time: ~120min
My first Deep Sky image.
Mi primera imagen del Cielo profundo.
Mount Skywatcher AZ EQ5 GT , Scope Skywatcher 80/400 , Canon EOS 100d.
ISO 800
10 Lights 3 min.
6 Darks
6 Bias
Proces. DSS , PS , LR
La galaxia de Andrómeda, también conocida como Galaxia Espiral M31, Messier 31 o NGC 224, es una galaxia espiral gigante con un diámetro de doscientos veinte mil años luz y que contiene aproximadamente un billón de estrellas.[4] Es el objeto visible a simple vista más lejano de la Tierra.
The Andromeda Galaxy (/ænˈdrɒmᵻdə/), also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth.[4] It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way and was often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts. It received its name from the area of the sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which was named after the mythological princess Andromeda.
Being approximately 220,000 light years across, Andromeda is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way, the Triangulum Galaxy, and about 44 other smaller galaxies. Despite earlier findings that suggested that the Milky Way contains more dark matter and could be the largest in the grouping,[12] the 2006 observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that Andromeda contains one trillion (1012) stars:[9] at least twice the number of stars in the Milky Way, which is estimated to be 200–400 billion.[13]
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the 3310, 3311, 3312 and 3313 spots.
is a barred spiral galaxy located 22.5 million light years away
distance 22.5 Mly
exposure time: 13,7 hours
Processing: PixInsight/affinity photo
Equipment:
10" /f4 TS ONTC Newton
ASI1600mmc v2
ZWO EFW 8x
Skywatcher EQ8
Guiding TS9 OAG Lodestar
247x120s Luminanz
55x120s red
50x120s green
59x120s blue
February/March 2021
Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D3300.
35 lights x 90 s @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop.
Veil Nebula in Narrowband
Also called the Witches broom.
20x300s Ha,O3
Skywatcher Esprit 100ed
Zwo Asi2600mm
Pixinsight & Lightroom
Officially named NGC 281, IC 11 or Sh2-184, the nebula is popularly named the Pacman Nebula for its resemblance to Pac-Man, the character in the popular 1980s maze video game. A dark dust lane forms the Pac-Man’s mouth.
The Pacman Nebula is a bright emission nebula and part of an H II region in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. It is part of the Milky Way's Perseus Spiral Arm, lies approximately 9,200 light years from Earth and stretches 48 light years across.
The nebula is a star-forming region that contains young stars, large dark dust lanes and Bok globules. Bok globules are small, dense dark nebulae packed with material from which new stars are formed.
EXIF
ZWO ASI 1600MM
Baader Ha Oiii RGB filters
William Optics Megrez 88 f/5.6
Skywatcher AZ-GTI controlled with ASIAir
Total integration time: 4h20min
This is the result Of shooting three nights in a Row with out a moon or clouds. In total 68 shots or 11 1/2 hours shot time I had the trees one side and the house the other so limited my number of shot to 30odd a night. The shots guided with PHD2 Dev3 which proved very good at guiding. For the first time editing done in Pix Insight, Photoshop and Finished out in Light room. This is the Skywatcher ED 80 scope at work with the D810 the extra detail that came out with each night photos added made this worth while.
Getting to know Nina better.
QHY183C -10c 90 shot 10 min
MeLE Mini PC
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps.
This is the view I was after when the USB plug broke on the camera March last year. This proved to be a marathon getting images as the mount threw up a curveball and at this stage still not sure if I have found the answer to the problem.
This will be my last photo for a very long time as I do a huge panorama of the Milky way of some 40 odd shots. Enjoy it.
QHY 183C -10c 21 shots each night 10 min each over Five night..
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps .
Old data processing of M106 galaxy ( 24/04/2020 ) .
Processed with the help of sp.la.sh.id, find him on Instagram: www.instagram.com/sp.la.sh.id/
Gear used:
■ Mount: skywatcher neq-6 goto with Rowan modification belt
■ Telescope: skywatcher 200/1000 F/5
■ Autoguiding: Asi 120mm
■ Total exposure: 2H25m || 29 X 300 seconds
■ Camera: modified canon eos 700d astrodon
■ Filter(s): no filter
■ Other optic(s): baader coma corrector
■ Software : Siril / PixInsight / photoshopCC
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula and The Spire) Canon 5DSr on a Sky Watcher Quattro 250 F4 Telescope. 1st night with Optolong L Enhance filter. 5 subs @ 300 sec's each stacked in Sequator software.
Skywatcher Esprit 80/400, ASI2600MM-Pro, Astronomik SO 6nm et HEQ5.
H : 81 x 300" = 6h45 @ Gain 100/Offset 50
O : 84 x 300" = 7h00 @ Gain 100/Offset 50
13h45 au total.
NINA + Pixinsight
A target I did a year ago with my DSLR and ED80 this is almost the other way around ZWO camera and 300mm Prime Nikon lens. the original shot give a good idea just how far in a year thing have improved. The Camera and lens rotated within the lens holder so the wings went from side to side across the whole picture. The next project is a wide field of the same area with 100mm lens.
ZWOASI071MC -6c 104 shots 600 secs, over 3 night camera rotated.
ZWOEAF disconnected ,
Optolong LeNhance filter In filter draw,
Nikon 300MM F4 D Lens,
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps & Lr.
The Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Here are16 x 60 sec shots stacked in Sequator. Canon 60D with optolong L Enhance filter on a Skywatcher Quattro 250P F4 Scope.
2.4 hours of 3 min stacked exposures. 120mm Skywatcher , Canon Rebel 6ti mod, My first great astrophoto. 1,500 light-years away. The left star is the left star in Orion's Belt.
The name of this one how could I resist. Has been a cloud fight to get the shots over 4 night in very strong winds. this sits just below the Horse head nebula and just off the red ring that goes around Orion. Barnards loop the goes around half of the Orion area, Barnards loop I will wait for moon less night to try and get this target with my 50mm F1.8 lens ZWOASI071.
QHY183C -10c 82 shots 10 min each over 4 nights and camera rotated.
Prima Luce Essato Focus ,
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the colossal complex 4294-4296, 4295, 4298, 4299, 4300 and 4301 spots.
The Rosette Nebula is an H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter.13 x 120 sec exp @ ISO 800 with a Canon 60D on a Skywatcher Quattro 250P F4 Telescope.
Helix Nebula ( NGC 7293, The Eye of God ) in Aquarius - by Mike O'Day ( 500px.com/MikeODay )..The visible remains of a star that died around 10,000 years ago, the Helix Nebula ( NGC 7293 ) is one of the closest and largest of the so-called planetary nebulae that are observable from Earth. Situated in the same arm of the Milkyway galaxy as ourselves, the Helix Nebula is around 650 light years away, is growing at a rate of over 100,000 kms / sec and is currently around 2.5 light years across...Links:..https://500px.com/MikeODay.http://photo.net/photos/MikeODay..Details:..RA 22h 30m 33.9s, Dec -20deg 44' 57.1"'. .Skywatcher Quattro 10" f4 Newtonian. .Skywatcher AZ Eq6 GT Mount.Orion auto guider - PHD2. .Baader MPCC Mark 3 Coma Corrector..Nikon D5300 (unmodified)..Field of view (deg) ~ 1.35 x 0.90..long exp. noise reduction on.17 x 120 sec ISO800..Pixinsight & Photoshop.12 August 2016.
Luna 19 May 2013.
I was determined to try my first real session of astrophotography using my new telescope last night, but a failure to correctly polar align, as well as incoming clouds put an end to that idea.
I did however manage to observe saturn which was amazing, and of course Luna.
This was taken prime using a Canon 1000D (baader modified) through my Skywatcher 200P-DS. I need to get a 2" barlow :)
P.S It makes a lovely iPad mini homescreen image :)