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Composited M45

Posted on January 21, 2017 by Greg Parker

I composited last night’s deeeep M45 data with some older shallower data with good colour and ended up with this result:

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Deeeeeep M45

Posted on January 21, 2017 by Greg Parker

Yet another beautiful clear Moonless night last night – and best positioned for some deeeeep imaging was M45, the Pleiades.

Managed to grab 18 x 40-minute (yes that IS 40-minute!!) subs and very quickly processed (leaving in the plane trails) just to see what I caught.

This shows more of the faint stuff in the region than I have managed to grab before with this kit.

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Hind’s Variable nebula

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Greg Parker

Hind’s Variable nebula, Struve’s Lost nebula, Burnham’s nebula, NGC1555 – they’re all the same thing and it is the orange thing in the centre of this image.

A beautiful clear night last night allowed me to grab 41 x 20-minutes to go with the 24 x 20-minute subs taken in 2014.

Sky 90 array with the M26C OSC CCDs.

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6th January 2017 Earth Science Picture of the Day

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Greg Parker

Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with “Contrasting Star Pair in Auriga”.

Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.

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Taurus molecular cloud 2-framer

Posted on December 31, 2016 by Greg Parker

And here is a 2-frame mosaic combining the IC2087 and SAO76573 frames taken with the Canon 200mm prime lenses and M26C OSC CCDs.

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Taurus molecular clouds

Posted on December 31, 2016 by Greg Parker

Taken a couple of nights back, this is 10-hour’s worth of 20-minute subs centred on SAO67573 one frame to the right of IC2087 also taken with the Canon 200mm lenses and M26C OSC CCDs.

At the top/centre there is a very interesting nebula Vdb 27. The whole region of course is full of dust and dark nebulosity all part of the Taurus giant molecular cloud.