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CCD Astrophotography Images

Rho Leonis – a very blue star

A Sky90 image of the Rho Leonis region.  Rho Leonis is a very blue star.

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Mighty Merak

Here is a Sky 90 4-framer of the Merak region in Ursa Major.  You can see the “broken engagement ring” the Owl nebula (M97) and M108 in this image.

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Carbon star T Cancri with the mini-WASP array

Taken last night – 18 x 10-minute subs with the 3 x Sky 90s and 3 x M26C OSC CCDs. Carbon star T Cancri.

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Polaris and the Integrated Flux Nebula

Noel Carboni put together a bunch of Polaris subs we had and I overdid the curves to pull out the very faint Integrated Flux Nebula (Galactic Cirrus) lurking in the background. Very surprised at the amount of Cirrus that came … Continue reading

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IC2087 region

Due to a series of mishaps I only managed to get 15 x 20-minute subs on this one last night using the Sky 90s (should  have got 27 x 20-mins).  This is the IC2087 region in Taurus – and is … Continue reading

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Unknown object near Aldebaran

About a year ago a German amateur imager contacted me about a faint object lying near Aldebaran.  It was visible (just) in an old image of mine which only had an hour of total exposure time.  Just woke up this … Continue reading

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Aldebaran 2-framer

First clear night in 2 months last night – so I quickly grabbed this 2-framer of Aldebaran with the Sky 90 array.  2-minute subs and 1-hour per frame.

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R Coronae Borealis

As there has only been one imaging night for the whole of October 2015 I have had to look for other things to get on with. I took a Sky 90 image of the R Coronae Borealis (RCrB) region in … Continue reading

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Definitive Kemble’s Cascade

I used Registar to put together all the best images I had of Kemble’s Cascade – and this is the result 🙂

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V1331 Cygni region second dataset

Once again, before the Moon came up I went for the V1331 Cygni region with the Sky 90 array, this time using 15-minute subs.  Got a total of 14 x 15-minute subs which were added to the earlier 15 x … Continue reading

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