Monthly Archives: December 2018

Comet Wirtanen 46P

Taken just last night, here is my first look at comet Wirtanen 46P grabbed quickly with the Canon 5D MkII and a 15mm fisheye lens. Moon up so no point in bringing out the big guns really. May try with … Continue reading

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Pleiades – superdeep

I took 6 hours of 40-minute subs with the Sky 90 array on 9th December 2018 and added this to 9 hours of 40-minute subs taken last year to get this result.

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Procyon and Gomeisa

Alpha and Beta Canis Minoris taken with the 200mm lenses and a 2-frame (horizontal) mosaic.

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M31 in perspective

A composite view of M31 using a very wide field background taken with the Canon 5D MkII and a Canon 200mm prime lens.

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Sky90 array image of M31 the Andromeda galaxy

9 hours of data using 20-minute subs (so 3 hours of actual imaging time) using the Sky90 array on 1st November 2018. 6:52 p.m. start and no Moonrise until midnight.

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The Hyperstar III does M31 the Andromeda galaxy

The Hyperstar III/Trius 814C combination was used to grab this central view of M31.  The red circle shows the size of the full Moon for comparison.

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Vega plus two Carbon stars

North is to the left in this image showing brilliant star Vega and two nearby Carbon stars.

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The Double Cluster and Stock 2 in wide-field

A wide-field image using the Canon 200mm lenses of the Double Cluster and Stock 2 open clusters. Stock 2 is the “stick man on his side” directly above the Double Cluster.

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Running Man – Zoom In/Zoom Out

A zoom in/zoom out image of the Running Man nebula in M42 in Orion.

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The CTB1 region in Cassiopeia

The supernova remnant is barely visible dead-centre in this highly stretched image of the CTB1 region in Cassiopeia.

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