Monthly Archives: February 2012

The dust clouds of Caph

This is a Hyperstar III 4-framer of the Caph region in Cassiopeia.  Each frame is a 1-hour exposure (40 x 90-seconds) at f#2.  I had no idea there was so much dust in the region, this area is in the … Continue reading

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The Pelican nebula and the Cygnus Wall get the Registar treatment

Once again several different datasets have been combined using Registar and slightly processed to give these rather deep results.

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Comet Lulin animation

I took 78 x 4-minute subs of comet Lulin on 28th February 2009 and created a deep-sky image of the object back then.  But it has taken me until 10th February 2012 to edit all the individual subs into a … Continue reading

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The Fireworks galaxy NGC6946 and open cluster NGC6939 in Cepheus

Here we have the Fireworks galaxy, Arp29, Caldwell 12, NGC6946 – and the open cluster NGC6939 lying close by (in the image, not by distance) in the constellation Cepheus.  This is recently processed data from 20th August 2009 taken with … Continue reading

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The Running Man nebula – the full Monty

Managed to process the full width of this image which I didn’t think I’d manage to do when I started on this one earlier today.

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Running Man – bigger crop

Managed to squeeze out a bigger crop which brought in the top of M42 at the bottom of the image.

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The Running Man nebula in Orion – the complete dataset

I used Registar to add together all the data I had on the Running Man nebula in Orion.  This amounted to well over 80 hours of total exposure time including some recent 5 x 1,000 second subs from the Hyperstar … Continue reading

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Wide field image of M51, the Whirlpool galaxy in Canes Venatici

I used Registar to create this composite of Hyperstar I and Hyperstar III data taken of the Whirlpool galaxy, M51.  Around 3 and a half hours of f#2 data taken with an 11″ SCT.  Clearly worth getting even more data … Continue reading

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Abell 2151 the Hercules galaxy cluster

Hyperstar III data taken on 30th May 2009 – 20 subs at 5-minutes per sub, f#2, 11″ SCT.

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Leo Trio – a bit brighter

The version below – but a little brighter 🙂 Looking at this image with fresh eyes this morning rather than towards midnight last night – it looked to dark overall, so brightened it up a bit.

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