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CCD Astrophotography Images

The Gamma Cassiopeia region

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

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Rosette nebula reprocess using Registar

The Rosette nebula reprocessed using the proper procedure in Registar.

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Proper dataset this time!

Although this image probably only looks a little brighter – it also uses the proper (dual) dataset as well, so there’s a couple more hour’s worth of RGB data from the Hyperstar III in this one.

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The Monkey Head nebula – proper application of Registar

I actually spent a little while looking at the “Help” instructions that came with Registar in an attempt to see what it does and to hopefully apply it properly to mosaics.  Why has it taken me so long to look … Continue reading

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NGC1999 region with the waterfall nebula – learned at lot with this one!

Managed to get 2 hours of 10-minute subs using the Hyperstar III on 26/01/2012.  In fact I got 4 hours worth of subs but didn’t realise the bottom of the image was being clipped by the trees over the back, … Continue reading

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The same final twiddles applied to the Registar composite of the Monkey Head nebula

The same final process twiddles carried out on the Registar composite image of the Monkey Head nebula 🙂

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Rosette composite – final twiddles

Carried out some final (?) processing twiddles on the Rosette composite – think it’s just about there now 🙂  

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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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One of the reddest naked-eye stars in the night sky

One of the reddest naked eye stars in the sky this is 119 Tauri in the constellation Taurus – and it has a nice companion blue star for some dramatic colour contrast.  Taken on the clear Moonless evening of 16th … Continue reading

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