Archive for the “Hyperstar and SXVF-M25C” Category

Images taken with the new Hyperstar lens and the SXVF-M25C camera.

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 short animation :)   Here you see comet Lulin moving through Leo and passing in front of a bunch of Leo galaxies towards the end of the animation.  Enjoy :)

You Tube animation:

 

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NGC6946 and NGC6939

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 the Hyperstar III and is 23 subs at 5-minutes per sub – could obviously do with quite a lot more exposure time for the galaxy, and some dithered imaging would have helped a lot with the quality as well.  Maybe next time :)

 

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The Running Man nebula

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 nebula 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

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 III.  The reason for the 8-spiked stars is that the spikes were orientated differently in different datasets (I’ve no idea why).

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M51 composite Hyperstar image

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 in this region.

 

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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 brighter version

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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Leo Trio Registar combined data

This is a composite image showing the Leo Trio region.  Hyperstar III data taken on 21st March 2010 has been combined with older Hyperstar 1/H9C (2-frames) data from much earlier.  The composite was created using the powerful registering program Registar.

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The Gamma Cassiopeia region

A 4-frame Hyperstar III mosaic of the Gamma Cassiopeia region taken a long while ago.

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