Category Archives: Sky 90 and SXVF-M25C

The Rosette nebula reloaded

Handled the old data slightly differently in this Registar composite reprocess.

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Playing with Registar to composite NFO data

Registar was used to align old Rosette and Monkey Head nebula data with that taken recently to form a composite image with even more data 🙂  Here are the results.

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Blast from the past

Here is a wide-field composite image of M78 and its relation to Barnard’s Loop taken using both Sky90 and Hyperstar I data.

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NGC7380

A darker background and the edge has been cropped 🙂

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NGC752 or Caldwell 28 – a 2-billion year old open cluster in Andromeda

The 2-billion year old open cluster NGC752 in the constellation Andromeda – together with a whole bunch of faint fuzzies (galaxies) in the background.  North is up in this image.

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NGC7380 emission nebula in Cepheus – narrowband H-alpha image from 2008

An H-alpha narrowband image of NGC7380 in Cepheus taken way back on October 11th 2008 – just found unprocessed on the HDD this morning 🙂

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The IC1831 region in Cassiopeia

I revisited and reprocessed this data to see if I could find any of the nebulosity reported in the Sky 6.  There is some, but it is pretty faint throughout the region – you can see the very edge of … Continue reading

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A galaxy group in Bootes

I have no idea why I took this image of a galaxy group in Bootes on January 29th 2011.  I also have no record of it in the logbook.  I ran an astrometry check on it to find where it … Continue reading

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M109 and Phecda in Ursa Major

A double dataset was processed for this one.  From 7th March 2011 27 subs at 10-minutes per sub, and from 13th March 36 subs at 5-minutes per sub.  The odd shaped resulting image shows the overlap wasn’t too good between … Continue reading

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Stock2 open star cluster in Perseus

I just processed this data from September 2nd 2010 to keep my hand in 🙂  This colourful cluster (which is rarely imaged) is Stock2 and it lies in the constellation Perseus – right next door to the Double Cluster – … Continue reading

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