Timelapse from Gippsland Star Party - Buchan last night as I images Fighting Dragons Of Ara. Captured a meteor and at the very end quite a few satellites.
Oh how i miss dark skies.... Reminiscing back to clear nights under dark skies. Feels like it's been years since I had access to clear skies. Oh & this is Orion Nebula from late last year
Single 30 second ISO3200 image of Gabriela Mistral Nebula taken last night with the Samsung S22 Ultra &Skywatcher ED80 Telescope. Got about an hours worth to stack later
No aurora yet, but here's a cool shot of my telescope under th3 milkyway imaging Trifid Nebula as a plane heads to Tullamarine Airport. Imaged with a
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S22
It's not every day you get to make use of a $12,000 telescope, however this weekend I did & it was quite the honour. Here's a timelapse of the Takahashi 8" Epsilon 180 (F2.8) imaging Tarantula & Pleiades using my
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S22 Ultra to image with. Timelapse captured with my S22
This might well be the best Centaurus A image i've taken yet.
Centaurus A
August 7th 2024 LMDSS (Bortle 2)
Camera:
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S22 Ultra
Mount:
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EQ5
Scope: 102mm Doublet Refractor
Eyepiece: 25mm Plossl
115 x 55s Lights
ISO3200
30 Darks
Stacked in
Helix Nebula, Imaged in Coburg with a Seestar.
280 x 10 second images. Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor & processed in Pixinsight & Photoshop.
Under near full moon conditions & Bortle 7 skies
Imaged under a 40% moon in Bortle 7 using an Lenhance filter, We can see the impact of the filter with the lack of blue (reflection nebula). Still happy with the detail within trifid on this one though so i figured i would share it.
Trifid Nebula
August 13th 2024 Hadfield
Happy Easter to all. Here's a few snaps from the Leon Mow Dark Sky Site. Tonight the 25" & 40" scopes are out. Skies are of course nothing short of stunning
Imaged with the Seestar in Coburg with good old light pollution and moon pollution. all images stacked in Astro Pixel processor & processed in PixInsight & Photoshop
Helix Nebula - 272 x 10 second images
Sculptor - 1202 x 10 second images
Tarantula - 480 x 10 second images
Trifid