Finally clear skies and a chance to do some imaging again. A 77% illuminated waning gibbous moon made deep sky photography impossible.
Date: 10.10.2017
Location: Backyard, Asker, NO
Camera: ZWO ASI174MM (mono)
Optics: Takahashi FSQ106-EDX III 530mm f5.0
Filter: Planet IR Pro 742
Exposure: Video, best 200 frames of 1000
Post processing: Registax 6, PhotoShop CS5
Clear skies all day! Lots of data captured. Images will be added to the Events/Transit of Mercury-page in the next few days.
Date: 08.05.2016
Location: Backyard, Asker, NO
Optics: Lunt LS60THa, 500mm
Bandwidth: <0.55A
Camera: IS DMK51AU02.AS
Exposure: 250 frames
Postprocessing: Registax 6, Photoshop CS5
Object: M45 The Pleiades
Date: 06.12.2015
Location: Backyard, Asker, NO
Camera: SBIG-STT-8300 MONO CCD
Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX III (w/reducer) 385mm f/3.6
Exposure: L=9x200sec (bin 2×2), RGB=10x150sec(bin3x3)
Filter: Astrodon LRGB
Calibration: Darks, Bias
Guiding: MaxIm DL, SBIG Selfguiding FW Processing: MaximDL, PixInsight, Photoshop
Object: B33 The Horsehead Nebula
Date: 06.12.2015
Location: Backyard, Asker, NO
Camera: SBIG-STT-8300 MONO CCD
Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX III (w/reducer) 385mm f/3.6
Exposure: Ha 17x600sec (bin 2×2)
Filter: Astrodon Hydrogen Alpha 5nm
Calibration: Darks, Bias
Guiding: MaxIm DL, SBIG Selfguiding FW
Processing: MaximDL, PixInsight, Photoshop
Using PixInsight I made a new edit of The Rosette Nebula. I think I managed to get much more detail, and a much better color balance!
Object: NGC2037 / Caldwell 49 The Rosette Nebula
Date: 13.03.2015
Location: Backyard, Asker, NO
Camera: SBIG-STT-8300 MONO CCD
Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX III (w/reducer) 385mm f/3.6
Exposure: Ha 10x1200sec + RGB 20×600(bin 2×2)
Filter: Astrodon Hydrogen Alpha 5nm + RGB
Calibration: Darks, Bias, Flats
Guiding: MaxIm DL, SBIG Selfguiding FW
Processing: PixInsight
I am really starting to like this new way to process my images – PixInsight! The results are getting really improved! Here is the result after processing my last image of M81/M82 again in PixInsight:
Date: 14.03.2015
Location: Backyard, Asker, NO
Camera: SBIG STT-8300 Mono CCD
Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX III 530mm f/5.0
Exposure: L=19×600 sec, RGB=19×300 sec (2x2binned)
Guiding: MaximDL, SBIG Selfguiding FW
Post processing: MaximDL, PixInsight
Here is another crop – and rotation
Date: 14.03.2015
Location: Backyard, Asker, NO
Camera: SBIG STT-8300 Mono CCD
Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX III 530mm f/5.0
Exposure: L=19×600 sec, RGB=19×300 sec (2x2binned)
Guiding: MaximDL, SBIG Selfguiding FW
Post processing: MaximDL, PixInsight
Another night with clear skies! With Bode´s Galaxy right overhead, I decided to spend the night capturing this beautiful galaxy and its smaller neighbor the Cigar Galaxy.
Date: 14.03.2015
Location: Backyard, Asker, NO
Camera: SBIG STT-8300 Mono CCD
Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX III 530mm f/5.0
Exposure: L=19×600 sec, RGB=19×300 sec (2x2binned)
Guiding: MaximDL, SBIG Selfguiding FW
Post processing: MaximDL, Photoshop CS5
An excellent week and weekend for astrophotography. I spent all week watching the sun during the day, and both friday and saturday night had clear skies and moonrise at about 4am. I spent the early hours of friday night (march 13th) capturing RGB-data for the Rosette Nebula. When the Rosette Nebula disappeared below the horizon, I turned my telescope to the Leo Triplet (M66 group), and managed to capture about 4hrs of good data before I had to get some sleep. The result was the LRGB-image of the Leo Triplet:
Date: 13.03.2015
Location: Backyard, Asker, NO
Camera: SBIG STT-8300 Mono CCD
Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX III (w/reducer) 385mm f/3.6
Exposure: L=18×300 sec, RGB=18×150 sec (2x2binned)
Guiding: MaximDL, SBIG Selfguiding FW
Post processing: MaximDL, Photoshop CS5
I finally managed to capture some RGB-data of the Rosette Nebula. After several failed attempts due to bad seeing and too much moonlight, I managed to capture a few hours of good RGB data during the night of march 13th.
This is the result of the RGB combined with the previously captured Ha-data.
Object: NGC2037 / Caldwell 49 The Rosette Nebula
Date: 13.03.2015
Location: Backyard, Asker, NO
Camera: SBIG-STT-8300 MONO CCD
Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX III (w/reducer) 385mm f/3.6
Exposure: Ha 10x1200sec + RGB 20×600(bin 2×2)
Filter: Astrodon Hydrogen Alpha 5nm + RGB
Calibration: Darks, Bias, Flats
Guiding: MaxIm DL, SBIG Selfguiding FW
Post processing: MaxIm DL, Photoshop CS5
This is the sun today in hydrogen-alpha. Best 300 of 1000 frames stacked in Registax. Captured using my Lunt LS35THa solar telescope and the IS DMK51AU02.AS CCD camera.
Date: 13.03.2015
Location: Backyard, Asker, NO
Optics: Lunt LS35THa, 400mm f11,4
Camera: IS DMK51AU02.AS
Exposure: 300 frames for bouth surface and prominences
Postprocessing: Registax 6, Photoshop CS5
 | Daniel on M42 – “Orion … |
Håvard's Observatory 