Image category: Members Images

A 3hr window in the forecast cloud for the coming night meant a banzai move down the M62 to get set up… but it was worth it for the clear moments that resulted in this shot of part of the Gamma Cygni Nebula taken with the EOS1000D on 200PDS in H-Alpha.

Composite of separate images using the same magnification all taken on the same night, at the RSPB Outreach event on 28 July 2018

Eastern Veil Nebula – NGC 6992, NGC 6995, IC 1340 – a supernova remnant, part of the larger “Veil Nebula” complex… a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus, 1470 light years from us. Imaged in HydrogenAlpha narrowband.

Solar photography on a budget… ASI034MC (£60 – eBay) with C000004 Celestron ‘Moon’ filter (£5 – eBay), Celestron Travelscope 70 (£25 – eBay), Celestron LCM GoTo Mounthead (£50 – eBay), Bamboo-breadboard Wedge (£5 – Wilkinsons). Baader Solar Film – 6″ square nabbed from Vicky ages ago (ta!).

1000 frames captured in ASICap (MacOS). Best 90% calibrated in PIPP & stacked in AS!2 (W7), processed in Photoshop CC 2018 (MacOS).

A meridian flip part way thru the session resulted in a gradient that became impossible to remove alongside the massive amount of light pollution captured as result of using a full spectrum modified camera with no IR/UV cut or LP filters… making processing rather tricky. As a result of cancelling out the light pollution, any remaining colour from the image was pretty much lost.

M97 The Owl Nebula in Ursa Major imaged 04.05.2018 William Optics FLT-110 refractor and Atik 314L monochrome CCD with Baader narrowband filters 10 x 300 seconds H-Alpha, 10 x 300 seconds H-Beta and 10 x 300 seconds OIII Assigned to R, G & B channels respectively to give a false colour image.

Barred Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major- Magnitude 10.7- number of stars 400 billion- 45 million light years away from Earth.

Soupy’s Place at Keilder Forrest

m57 Ring Nebula in lyra 2,283 light year away

Planetary Nebula in Vulpecula Mag 7.12 M27 is 1,360 light years away from Earth. Camera Atik Infinity OSC video image 8 secs X 20 exposures Taken from backyard 40% Moon