A beautiful clear Moonless night last night – absolutely perfect for deep-sky imaging. The Hyperstar III was on the case again, armed with PERFECT collimation! Here we have the Rosette nebula in Monoceros, 27 subs at 500 seconds per sub.
A reprocess and crop of the previous image.
Said I would go back to this one with the Hyperstar on a Moonless night to do it justice – and last night was the night. Managed to grab 32 subs at 5-minutes per sub before it clouded over around … Continue reading
Bellatrix in Orion taken with the Hypserstar III on Friday 13th January 2012 using 32 subs at 45-seconds per sub.
Saiph taken with the Hyperstar III on Friday 13th January 2012. 59 subs at 30 seconds per sub. Can even see little PGC147980 at 7 O’clock on one of the bright stars near the bottom – mag 30!
Taken on the evening of Friday 13th January 2012 (living up to its reputation just about EVERYTHING went wrong this night) we have the NGC2174 region in Gemini known as the Monkey Head nebula. I have North down in this … Continue reading
Dimming every other star in the area is the brightest star in the sky at magnitude -1.46, the brilliant blue Sirius in the constellation Canis Major 🙂 Taken as an experiment immediately after 12 Victoria – 60 x 10-second subs.
Towards top left of this image you can see the elongated trail of asteroid 12 Victoria. Around 50 subs at 3-minutes per sub with the Hyperstar III – bright Moon and a lot of thin high cloud but the asteroid … Continue reading
Here is a 3-frame Hyperstar III mosaic of the M87 region taken in April 2010.
A Hyperstar III 2-framer of the Markarian Chain/M87 region in the Virgo galaxy cluster.
