Imaging the Universe

The Sculptor

The Sculptor Galaxy (also known as the Silver Dollar Galaxy or NGC 253) is a bright intermediate spiral galaxy of about 70 thousand light-years across that lies some 11,4 million light-years away in the southern constellation Sculptor, while it is moving away from us at approximately 243 kilometers per second.It is the largest and brightest member of the Sculptor Group of Galaxies, one of the nearest groups of galaxies to the Milky Way.We see the Sculptor Galaxy almost edge-on, and although very bright, this galaxy is also very dusty. In addition to the dust lanes along its spiral arms, tendrils of dust seem to be rising from the galactic disk. This galaxy also shows clumpy gas clouds, and young, luminous star clusters.Raw data what taken by David Plesko from the Cheery Mountain Observatory, for the  images integration and color processing I used both Pixinsight and Photoshop to achieve this lovely photo of the Sculptor Galaxy.













The Horsehead

The Horsehead Nebula is around 1,500 light years from Earth and is located in the constellation of Orion. Due to its recognizable shape the Horsehead Nebula is one of the most famous celestial objects. It is categorized as a dark nebula composed mainly of hydrogen gas and high levels of dust blocking out background light.The dark Horsehead Nebula is visible due to the backdrop of the bright emission nebula IC 434.Both the Horsehead Nebula and IC 434 are part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, an enormous star forming region spanning hundreds of light years in diameter. The Horsehead Nebula is thought to be around 3 to 4 light years tall and 2 to 3 light years across. Taken in 2018 using a Takahashi 106ed with SX Trius 694 Mono camera 600 sec x 20 frames of RGB each, process in Pixinsight.















IC405

IC 405 The Flaming Star Nebula, is known as Caldwell 31, is a nebula in the Auriga constellation.


IC 1318  -Using QHY600 -First Light

This is my first real image using my new camera - CMOS QHY600, the main differences to a CCD is the short time exposure and the cooling of the camera, while my exposure with the FLI 16803 runs in the 1200 sec (see images prior this one), this latest CMOS camera I can exposure no further then 600 sec to achieve the same level of quality in terms of SNC and noise reduction.



IC1318 Further Zoom Inwards

Part of the Dark nebula LDN 889, is shown here at the bottom of optical image. This dark dust cloud ,stretching from upper left to lower right, we can observe more shattered dust towards the center and upper section of the image, of which obscures the light from the red/brown emission nebula (IC 1318, also known as the Butterfly nebula) behind it. The dust cloud is about 20 light years thick. The whole complex lies in the center of the Cygnus constellation.



IC 1318 Pattern in the Bright Gases

In the constellation of the swan near the nebula of the pelican lies the gas cloud of the butterfly next to a star known as the hen. That star, given the proper name Sadr, is just to the right of the featured frame, but the central Butterfly Nebula, designated IC 1318, is shown in this image. The intricate patterns in the bright gas and dark dust are caused by complex interactions between interstellar winds, radiation pressures, magnetic fields, and gravity. The featured telescopic view captures IC 1318's characteristic emission from ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms mapped to the red, green, and blue hues of the popular Hubble Palette. The portion of the Butterfly Nebula pictured spans about 100 light years and lies about 4000 light years away.Taken from my Observatory in South Spain, filter exposure 1200sec to each filter Ha OIII SII (21:20:15). Telescope Takahashi 250/1250, Camera FLI 16803.





IC 1340 Closed-Up

This image was obtained with the FLI 16803 camera on the 250cm /1250cmTakahashi telescope from my Observatory in Southern Spain. IC 1340 is part of a large supernova remnant called the Cygnus Loop. It is located about 1,500 light-years from Earth. Astronomers estimate the supernova explosion that produced the nebula occurred between 5,000 to 10,000 years ago. The image was generated with observations in the Oxygen [OIII] (blue), Sulphur [S II] (green) and Hydrogen-Alpha (orange) filters.When I took this image back in 2020 the FLI filterwheel shuttle got stick resulting in light licking in many of the frames taken, almost 50% from the originate exposures taken was damaged, including Darks and Flats.Giving this issue I had to work with Photoshop and Pixinsight.Total frames used 55 framesHa 900sec x 28 framesOIII 1200sec x 9 frames (20 frames damaged)SII 1200sec x 18 frames (10 frames damaged).


NGC 7822 Dense Pillars of Gases

This Nebula NGC7822 consist of hot, young stars and a gigantic cosmic pillar of gas and dust. At the edge of a giant molecular cloud toward the northern constellation Cepheus, the glowing star forming region lies about 3,000 light-years away. Within the nebula, bright edges and dark shapes stand out in this colorful image. The image includes data from narrowband filters, mapping emission from atomic oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur into blue, green, and red hues. The emission line and color combination has become well-known as the Hubble palette. The atomic emission is powered by energetic radiation from the central hot stars. Their powerful winds and radiation sculpt and erode the denser pillar shapes and clear out a characteristic cavity light-year across the center of the natal cloud. Stars could be forming inside the pillars by gravitational collapse.Taken last year from my Observatory in South Spain. The telescope is the OS 1400/250 with a FLI 16803 camera, taken with 1200 sec exposure and 40:42:45 (Ha, OII, SII) frames.



Veil Nebula - Gases Wave Storm

The rising intensity and recurrence of wave storm of gases can be observed from the supernova remnant is known as the  Veil Nebula also called the Cirrus Nebula or the Filamentary Nebula.The nebula’s progenitor star is not visible  — which was 20 times the mass of the Sun — lived fast and died young, ending its life in a cataclysmic release of energy.Despite this stellar violence, the shockwaves and debris from the supernova sculpted the nebula’s delicate tracery of ionized gas — creating a scene of surprising astronomical beauty yet we observatory the similarity to an sea ocean wave storm.To create this colorful image, of the Veil Nebula observations is taken from my observatory in Southern Spain, using a OS 1400mm x 250mm telescope, the camera is a FLI16803, three different filters (Ha, OIII, SII) were used.



NGC6910 - First Light with the QHY600

My first-light with the QHY600 CMOS based camera, one might think of sensor gain as one of the most prominent and critical controls for the camera, but gain often has a far less familiar companion called offset that, to many and especially me appears to be related to gain in some fashion, but how it works and its exact relationship to gain was a mysterious and not obvious. Honestly, having less experiences to a CCD, there was a lot of testing not only to this relationship, but also the telescope to the camera. To help me out I used the excellent program Sharpcap, and in particular its  'Sensor Analysis' and 'Histogram' . its provide an initial gain and exposure time, once you have this information, you test and test.

The Process was done with PI, using HOO , the exposure was at 300 sec 60 Ha, and 300 x 48 OIII
Gain at 59 
Offset at 29

 



NGC7822 in HOS Palette

NGC 7822 is an emission nebula located in Cepheus, about 3,000 lightyears away. It’s a violent, chaotic deep-sky region where young stars are being born, their powerful radiation ionising the surrounding gas and causing it to glow. These energetic stellar winds are also carving out the dusty streams and pillars seen throughout the nebula.
This image was quite a challenge to combinate the colors combination in HOS palette , I had to process it in Pixinsight and correct the three color pattern in Photoshop.
This is the first of the three palettes that I want to process.


IC433

This image shows the Jellyfish Nebula (IC443) in the constellation Gemini, imaged in broadband using the popular HaRGB. This nebula is thought to be a supernova remnant and contains a Neutron star (not shown). It lies some 5,000 Light Years from Earth and is about 70 light years across. The main issue in the processing was the reducing of the hundreds of stars that was imaged originally. Taken from my observatory in Spain.



IC1364b


The Elephant's Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust and ionized gas region located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible wavelengths, where it is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. The bright rim is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star that is just to the west of IC 1396A. The entire IC 1396 region is ionized by the massive star, except for dense globules that can protect themselves from the star's harsh ultraviolet rays.
This image is a close-up of the image taken previously.


IC 1318

The Eagle shape gaseous cloud, This is a close-up inside the IC1318 nebula, this close-up is taken from my previous image.. I am using a RH25/1400 telescope , with a FLI 16803 camera, details can be obtained from my previous image.



IC1396

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. The lower section, is commonly called the Elephant's Trunk Nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim.
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is now thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 yr) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003.
Taken from my Observatory in Spain, it has a narrow band combination :
SII 34 x 900 sec bin 1x1 = 8.50
OII 60 x 750 sec bin 2x2 =12.50
Ha 40 x 900 sec bin 2x2 = 10.00
Total 31 hours
Darks 900 x 50
Flats 50 each
Bias 100


IC1318b

From my previous image I have further zoomed in a particular region of the nebula and to my surprise I have discovered this wonderful image of an Eagle Shaped cloud as a result of the nebula gases. The processing to this level has been carried out by using Pixinsght and this time with the help of Photoshop. Hope you like it, and Happy Holidays!


IC 1318b

Image Information:  IC 1318b is a large emission nebula surrounding Sadr, within  Cygnus the Swan.  The northern section, also known as the Butterfly nebula (IC 1318b) has a dark nebulosity which bisects it (this image was taken near this region, and the dark nebulosity not fully exposed ).  IC 1318b  It is primarily made up of ionized hydrogen but there is a significant SII component.  The nebula is believed to be about 4000 light years distant.  This image, spanning about about 15 arc-min, and located near but not fully in the dark nebulosity, is just a small part of this large, 1.5 degree, nebula (IC 1318a, b and c).

Taken from my observatory in mountains of Istan, Malaga, Spain at 250m altitude. Integration time was 29hours and 54 mins, using Ha, OIII and SII

I used a Officina Stallera RH 250, 1400mm telescope and an FLI PL 16803, Mount 10Mircon 2000 HPS

















IC5070

The Pelican Nebula (also known as IC 5070 & IC 5067) is an emission nebula, a star-forming region (H II region) of roughly 30 light-years across, located about 1,800 light-years from Earth, northeast of the bright star Deneb in the constellation of Cygnus (the Swan). It bears a resemblance to a pelican, hence its name.

This cosmic pelican is just off the east “coast” of its more prominent neighbor, the North America Nebula (NGC 7000), and is divided from it by a thin molecular cloud filled with dark dust, known as L935. Both, the Pelican Nebula and North American nebula are part of a massive H II emission region designated as W80.

Using Stellavue 130 with the Starlight Xpress 694, RGB 120 x 900 equal , 50 Darks, Bias 50, Flats each 50.



NGC 896

The Heart Nebula NGC 896 is an emission nebula in Cassiopeia.This is a close-up my first RGB image using QHY268C - first light on the imaging camera. I started using APP as the integration and alignment, Its a wonderful software and the final result is as good as Pixinsight. The processing was totally done in Pixinsight (LRGB)finally the star spikes using Photoshop.




M51 Galaxy

This latest images to the previous one that I did back in 2016 has a major different in the Telescope and CCD camera I used.

Explaining a bit more about M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, is a grand design spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Canes Venatici. It's one of the most famous galaxies in the sky, appearing face-on when viewed from Earth. M51 has a much smaller dwarf companion, known as NGC 5195, and together they form the finest and most studied example of an interacting galaxy pair in the sky.


This image taken with my large telescope the Officina Stellar 10" , with large format FLI 16803 CCD. Over 25 hours of exposure.

The image has 1200sec x 20 (RGB each) , plus 1200 x 10 Darks with flats and Bias.







The Whirlpool Galaxy-NGC 5149

This Galaxy is one of the most spectacular example of a spiral galaxy. With two spiral arms into ne another in a billowing swirl. Its composed of hundred of billions star, this galaxy is about 30 million light years from Earth.
NGC2174 The Monkey Head Nebula in SHO (Sulfur, Hydrogen, and Oxygen gases)

NGC2174 is an HII emission nebula in the constellation Orion and is associated with the open star cluster NGC2175. It is estimated to be located about 6,400 light-years away from Earth.
I took this object image way back in 2017 which I have now reprocessed in Pixinsight using SHO workflow, and retouched in Photoshop using High Dynamic Range for the color mix.









 IC 443
The time taken for this image is nearly 7 hours using ASI 1600mm camera, the original images was full of stars covering the entire object IC443 (top image). To be able to remove the stars was difficult as there were 1300 stars, I used Pixinsight Starnet+++ script with 35% reduction, but the red channel became weak, so I had to extract this channel and replaced it with HA channel.
IC 443 is a galactic supernova remnant in the constellation Gemini. On the plane of the sky, it is located near the star Eta Geminorum. Its distance is roughly 5,000 light years from Earth. IC 443 may be the remains of a supernova that occurred 3,000 - 30,000 years ago.
































 The Triangulum Galaxy, 

 also known as Messier 33 (M33), is a spiral galaxy in Triangulum constellation It lies at an approximate distance of 3 million light years from Earth and has a diameter of about 50,000 light years.
M33 is believed to contain 40 billion stars. Taken from my Observatory in Spain. 7 hours of exposure.




Orion Nebula, 

 (catalog numbers NGC 1976 and M 42), bright diffuse nebula, faintly visible to the unaided eye in the sword of the hunter’s figure in the constellation Orion. The nebula lies about 1,350 light-years from Earth and contains hundreds of very hot (O-type) young stars clustered about a nexus of four massive stars known as the Trapezium. Taken with Takahashi 106, 7hrs of exposure.





NGC6997


NGC6997 in Ha Color

 Technical card

Imaging telescope or lens:Takahashi CCA250Imaging camera:FLI PL16803Mount:10Micron 2000 HPS GM2000Guiding telescope or lens:Takahashi CCA250Guiding camera:Starlight Xpress Lodestar x2Software:PixInsight 1.8.6 Ripley pixinsightFilters:Astrodon 3nm SII 3nm,  Astrodon 3nm OII 3nm,  Astrodon 3nm Ha 3nmAccessory:Pegasus Astro Pocket Powerbox Hub USBResolution: 4045x3845Dates:Aug. 30, 2019Frames: 140x120"Integration: 4.7 hoursAvg. Moon age: 0.08 daysAvg. Moon phase: 0.01%Astrometry.net job: 2895026RA center: 314.112 degreesDEC center: 44.206 degreesPixel scale: 1.489 arcsec/pixelOrientation: 271.900 degreesField radius: 1.154 degreesLocations: Charles Duarte, Istan, Malaga, SpainData source: Backyard


















IC434 in Colour

 I am using CCDstack for calibration with RegiStar to align the calibrated, Registered and Normalization colour images. I completed the process by going into Pixinsight for Background normalization and colour balance.





IC434



 Technical card

Imaging telescope or lens:Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Guiding telescope or lens:Takahashi 60mm 60 mm Guiderscope
Resolution: 2636x2010
Frames: 10x1200"
Integration: 3.3 hours
Avg. Moon age: 13.36 days
Avg. Moon phase: 97.79%
Locations: Home Permanent Pier , Manilva, Malaga, Spain
Data source: Backyard

 Description

IC434, this massive Ha area expands through-out the entire region. I am using 10 images with Ha filter 3nm, with 1200 sec per frame. I am using SGP , with PDH2 and Plateslove2 , the 10Micron mount acting on a 15 points mapping plus another 65 points model using Mountwizzard3.
This is my second real test on this combination of software /hardware and the results are excellent, for registration etc I am using CCDstack2, and Photoshop for processing the image.















M106
Moon Video
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My beginnings - images based on unexperienced processing techniques. 


 IC 1795

M13




 

Technical card

Imaging telescope or lens: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Guiding telescope or lens: Takahashi 60mm 60 mm Guiderscope
Resolution: 1768x1469
Dates: June 17, 2016
Frames: 12x600"
Integration: 2.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 11.56 days
Avg. Moon phase: 88.82%
Astrometry.net job: 1201357

 Description

M13 mainly RBG 1x1 600 x 4 for each color, Dark 600 x 12, 40 Bias, 40 Fltas for each color







NGC6823 in Narrowband




Contains: NGC 6823, NGC 6820

 Technical card

Imaging telescope or lens: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Guiding telescope or lens: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Resolution: 2343x1905
Dates: June 17, 2016
Frames: 12x1200"
Integration: 4.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 11.56 days
Avg. Moon phase: 88.82%
Astrometry.net job: 1135846
RA center: 295.944 degrees
DEC center: 23.110 degrees
Pixel scale: 1.764 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 90.948 degrees
Field radius: 0.740 degrees
Locations: Home Permanent Pier , Manilva, Malaga, Spain


M101 

Using QSI 632 camera for this image 




NGC 5194 Color







NGC 5194 Mono






 Technical card

Imaging telescope or lens: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Imaging camera: QSI 632 wsg QSI
Guiding telescope or lens: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Filter: Astrodon LRGB
Resolution: 1515x1116
Dates: Feb. 26, 2016
Frames: 10x600"
Integration: 1.7 hours
Avg. Moon age: 17.71 days
Avg. Moon phase: 90.53%
RA center: 202.498 degrees
DEC center: 47.213 degrees
Pixel scale: 2.642 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 94.947 degrees





NGC2306




NGC2246

The Christmas Tree Nebula


Contains: Cone nebula, Christmas Tree cluster, NGC 2264, The star 15Mon

Card

Imaging telescope or lens: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Imaging camera: QSI 632 wsg QSI
Guiding telescope or lens: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Resolution: 1472x2154
Dates: Feb. 5, 2016
Frames: 6x900"
Integration: 1.5 hours
Avg. Moon age: 25.74 days
Avg. Moon phase: 15.38%
RA center: 100.240 degrees
DEC center: 9.885 degrees
Pixel scale: 2.642 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -175.766 degrees
Field radius: 0.957 degrees
Locations: Home Permanent Pier , Manilva, Malaga, Spain












IC444



The Rossetti Nebula


NGC 2244



IC443

IC 443 (also known as the Jellyfish Nebula and Sharpless 248). I bit more of raw frames used, mainly narrowbands.
Final Image using HLRGB

Using RGB



NGC3031

M81, Bode's Galaxy (also known as NGC 3031) is a spiral galaxy located 12 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major (Great Bear). It is the prototype of starburst galaxy, being characterized by a high rate of star formation in the center, apparently caused by a gravitational interaction causes between two and a half billion years with neighboring M82 (not shown here).


IC443


IC 443 H-Alpha

 Technical card

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Takahashi 60mm 60 mm Guiderscope
Software: CCDStack,  Photoshop C6,  The SkyX Pro
Resolution: 2750x2200
Dates: Dec. 4, 2015
Frames: 25x900"
Integration: 6.2 hours
Avg. Moon age: 22.74 days
Avg. Moon phase: 43.71%
Locations: Home Permanent Pier , Manilva, Malaga, Spain










NGC2174




 Technical card
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Takahashi 60mm 60 mm Guiderscope
Resolution: 2498x1900
Dates: Nov. 6, 2015
Frames: 25x900"
Integration: 6.2 hours
Avg. Moon age: 24.38 days
Avg. Moon phase: 27.11%
Locations: Home Permanent Pier , Manilva, Malaga, Spain













IC1405



M45

With Stars development



Without Stars touching


The Pleiades star cluster – M45

Contains: Merope nebula, NGC 1435, Maia nebula, NGC 1432, The star ηTau, The star Merope (23Tau),The star Sterope I (21Tau), The star Taygeta (19Tau), The star Electra (17Tau), The star Celaeno (16Tau)

 

Technical card

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Takahashi 60mm 60 mm Guiderscope
Guiding cameras: Starlight Xpress Lodestar x2
Resolution: 2502x1904
Dates: Nov. 18, 2015
Frames: 28x1000"
Integration: 7.8 hours
Avg. Moon age: 6.06 days
Avg. Moon phase: 36.16%
RA center: 56.522 degrees
DEC center: 24.164 degrees
Pixel scale: 1.764 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -174.807 degrees
Field radius: 0.770 degrees
Locations: Home Permanent Pier , Manilva, Malaga, Spain
















NGC2175

NGC2175 -The Monkeys Head

Contains: NGC 2175, NGC 2174

Technical card

Imaging cameras: Starlight Xpress Trius SX-694
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Takahashi 60mm 60 mm Guiderscope
Software: FocusMax,  CCD Autopilot 5,  Photoshop C6,  The SkyX Pro

Resolution: 2750x2200
Dates: Nov. 17, 2015
Frames: Astrodon 3nm H-Alpha Narrowband Filter: 24x600" -30C bin 1x1
Integration: 4.0 hours
Darks: ~20
Flats: ~30
Bias: ~30
Avg. Moon age: 5.05 days
Avg. Moon phase: 26.19%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.00
Mean FWHM: 2.23
Temperature: 10.00
RA center: 92.330 degrees
DEC center: 20.646 degrees
Pixel scale: 1.764 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 5.227 degrees
Field radius: 0.863 degrees
Locations: Home Permanent Pier , Manilva, Malaga, Spain

M1


 Technical card

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Takahashi 60mm 60 mm Guiderscope
Guiding cameras: Starlight Xpress Lodestar x2
Dates: Nov. 7, 2015
Frames: 15x600"
Integration: 2.5 hours
Avg. Moon age: 25.27 days
Avg. Moon phase: 19.16%
Locations: Home Permanent Pier , Manilva, Malaga, Spain



































IC1396


IC1396 (Ha)

Contains: IC 1396

Technical card

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Takahashi 60mm 60 mm Guiderscope
Guiding cameras: Starlight Xpress Lodestar x2

Resolution: 2184x1432
Frames: IDAS Light Pollution IDAS LPS P2 - 1,25": 25x900" -25C bin 1x1
Integration: 6.2 hours
Darks: ~20
Flats: ~30
Bias: ~30
Avg. Moon age: 4.23 days
Avg. Moon phase: 18.89%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.00
Mean FWHM: 1.96
Temperature: 16.00
RA center: 324.433 degrees
DEC center: 57.513 degrees
Pixel scale: 2.636 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -96.719 degrees
Field radius: 0.957 degrees
Locations: Home Permanent Pier , Manilva, Malaga, Spain


M33 -Galaxy




 Technical card

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Takahashi 60mm 60 mm Guiderscope
Guiding cameras: Starlight Xpress Lodestar x2
Filters: Astrodon LRGB
Resolution: 2224x1736
Dates: Nov. 6, 2015
Frames: IDAS Light Pollution IDAS LPS P2 - 1,25": 24x600" -30C bin 1x1
Integration: 4.0 hours
Darks: ~12
Flats: ~30
Bias: ~30
Avg. Moon age: 24.38 days
Avg. Moon phase: 27.11%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 2.00
Mean FWHM: 2.24
Temperature: 11.00
Locations: Home Permanent Pier , Manilva, Malaga, Spain















NGC6618




NGC6618 Mono

Contains: Omega nebula, M 17, NGC 6618

 Technical card

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Imaging cameras: QSI 632 wsg QSI
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Takahashi 60mm 60 mm Guiderscope
Resolution: 1844x1372
Dates: July 3, 2015
Frames: 30x900"
Integration: 7.5 hours
Avg. Moon age: 15.73 days
Avg. Moon phase: 98.94%
RA center: 275.221 degrees
DEC center: -16.112 degrees
Pixel scale: 2.641 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 86.305 degrees
Field radius: 0.843 degrees
Locations: Home Permanent Pier , Manilva, Malaga, Spain

























M52 Bubble Nebula (color)


M52 Bubble Nebula



Contains: 


M 52, NGC 7654, Bubble nebula, NGC 7635, The star 4Cas



 Technical card

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Imaging cameras: QSI 632 wsg QSI
Guiding cameras: Starlight Xpress Lodestar x2
Resolution: 2184x1338
Dates: Aug. 7, 2015
Frames: 10x900"
Integration: 2.5 hours



















M101

Taken mid April 2015 from South Spain, I used LRGB channel. 12 x 300sec L, 20 x 600 RGB each.




M57





Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Imaging cameras: QSI 632 wsg QSI
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Takahashi 60mm 60 mm Guiderscope
Guiding cameras: Starlight Xpress Lodestar x2
Resolution: 544x405
Dates: Sept. 4, 2015
Frames: 20x300"
Integration: 1.7 hours
Avg. Moon age: 20.68 days
Avg. Moon phase: 65.37%
RA center: 283.394 degrees
DEC center: 33.028 degrees
Pixel scale: 3.010 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 84.105 degrees
Field radius: 0.249 degrees
Locations: Home Permanent Pier , Manilva, Malaga, Spain






















California Nebula
Ha Filter 3nm, 4 x 600sec 1x1

 The California Nebula is a faint emission nebula in the constellation Perseus. It lies at a distance of about 1500 light years in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy and is about 100 light years in length. The name of the nebula is attributed to the resemblance of its shape to the State of California. This cloud of gas glows in the red light characteristic of ionized hydrogen as it recombines with lost electrons. Wide Angle of California Nebula shows a lower power view of this object.

IC1805 Nebula - Mono




IC1805 - Heart Nebula






Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Takahashi 60mm 60 mm Guiderscope
Guiding cameras: Starlight Xpress Lodestar x2
Resolution: 2750x2200
Dates: Sept. 9, 2015
Frames: 30x600"
Integration: 5.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 25.63 days
Avg. Moon phase: 16.26%
Locations: Gibraltar Eastside  & Home Permanent Pier , Manilva, Malaga, Spain


















NGC7000



Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ 106ED f/3,6
Guiding cameras: Starlight Xpress Lodestar x2
RA center: 314.837 degrees
DEC center: 44.498 degrees
Pixel scale: 2.638 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 83.270 degrees





M15 Globular Star Cluster
M15 Globular Star Cluster
Constellation: Pegasus
Imaging Date: 15-05-15
Seeing Conditions: Good, Windy
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106ED (Q)
Mount: Astro-Physics 1100GTO
Imager: QSI632 wsg in Normal Mode
Exposure: 1x 300sec + 5 x 300sec, Tracking
LRGB combined, Dark 2 x 300sec
Processing Notes: MaximDL, CCD Stack for stacking, calibration and colour registration, DDP and sharpness. No Photoshop
M27




The Dumbbell Nebular or M27
Constellation: Vulpecula
Imaging Date: 15-05-15
Seeing Conditions: Good
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106ED (Q)
Mount: Astro-Physics 1100GTO
Imager: QSI632 wsg in Normal Mode
Exposure: 4x 600sec + 2 x 300sec, Tracking
LRGB combined, Dark 12 x 60sec  
Bias 30

 Processing Notes: MaximDL, CCD Stack for stacking, calibration and colour registration, DDP and sharpness. Photoshop for star rounding and reduction





Changing times, now with a permanent mount and about 200 feet higher in altitude, Great mount and equipment 







2013 -2014


Imaging when I used to have a ALT-AZM Celestron Mount


Imaging underway

Night Imaging











 

2013 Planets Imaging 
















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