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Witches Broomstick
The witches broomstick, its part of the Veil Nebula and was taken with the Askar 71F scope and a ZWO ASI585MC camera on a Skywatcher EQ 55i Pro mount
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Pelican nebula
The Pelican Nebula, taken with an AltAir585c camera on a SkyWatcher 130 reflector scope mounted to a SkyWatcher EQ AL55i Pro mount
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The dumb bell nebula
Taken with a ZWO 585c camera on the Celestron Advanced GT mount and with the Askar 71F scope
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Update!
Update in the Galaxy’s gallery, a couple more images of M106 and NGC5458
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Some clear skies
Finally! the UK got some clear skies and i managed to get to grips with some of my kit!
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New Scope
On its way! looking forward to giving this one a go, the reviews are good and some of the images people have done look great!, this will match well with my ALTAIRHypercam585C, its theASKar 71F Flat-field Refractor
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The Camels eye
ran another 55min total exposure and got this, The Camel’s Eye nebula, it came out ok considering the not so great conditions and it was a little bit windy too.
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Its been quiet
as the weather has been bad, but i finally got the chance to get the scope out last night, this is the result, its not amazing but came out ok as its only a hour total exposure
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Conditions
Conditions are everything! last night saw some good conditions and allowed me to get these pics! There’s still work to do in the initial settings and the processing, but a definite improvement
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Improving or
was it a Fluke! Time will tell as i try to reproduce and improve, never the less im happy with this picture of Jupiter. SkyMax 127 and ALTAIR 585c Camera used
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The Gear
Had these bad boys out the other night
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My latest effort
after much faffing about with my somewhat ancient laptop and a crap WiFi signal, i got a reasonable night with few clouds, the general conditions not so good but at least i could see the stars! This is my latest effort of Jupiter taken with the SkyMax 127 and SVBony 305c Pro camera, im happy…
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There is more too
Astronomy than you think! When i started on this journey, i naively thought that getting a telescope and waiting for a clear sky was what you needed to do, how wrong was i! There are so many variations on what a telescope does and how it works, some simpler but more expensive, some cheaper but…
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Finally!
A little bit of clear sky! so i took advantage to use the new telescope, a Skywatcher SkyMax 127 Maksutov-Cassegrain and got some closer shots of the moon and a pic of Jupiter too!
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Me waiting for
Clear Sky’s!
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This has been
the view of the sky for me, both day and night for the last few weeks 🙁
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Lucky shot
im not sure what i caught here, a satalite or a meteor maybe but still cool
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A little more
Playing around with Astro Pixel Processor, this time with an image i took of a spiral galaxy on a not so great night, there where some light clouds, this is evident in the picture.
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A little adjusting
As the weather has been so poor of late, i have been doing a little bit of image adjusting as i practise using Astro Pixel Processor as this will be the prigram i use in the future. The image of the moon is the same one i took with the Dwarf 3.
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Tonight’s captures
So this is last nights effort 280126, not great but done with my f5 Solomark 130 telescope and a SVbony SC311 WiFi camera
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Finally
A brake in the weather last night and a reasonable clear sky. So i thought id give the new Sky-Watcher AZ-GTiX mount and tripod a try
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viewing the Moon
Over the last couple of nights i have been attempting to view and capture our Moon, how hard can that be i hear you cry! after all its the biggest, brightest thing in the night sky, should be easy to find with a reasonably powerful telescope, right? well, no. i spent ages in my freezing…
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Christmas Day
On the evening of Christmas day 25-12-25, I ran a quick setup of the Dwarf 3 to try to capture the Soul nebula, the sky was reasonabley clear to start with but became cloudy a little later on. Checkout the Images page for the result Images
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3i Atlas
So in the morning (20-12-25) ill be attempting to capture 3i Atlas interstellar comet with the Dwarf 3 as it passes Earth, it will be at about 45 degrees at 5 am Saturday morning, this is the closest it will get to our planet, and we will never see it again, the sky is reported…
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