M106 NGC4565 NGC4725 M63 – Sunflower galaxy M51 – Whirlpool Galaxy M53 M3 – Globular cluster
Galaxy Trio in Leo M81 M82 NGC3628 – Hamburger Galaxy M109
Astronomy Manual by Haynes – The Practical Guide to the Night Sky This Astronomy Manual by Haynes (yes the people who publish the car manuals) has an introduction by Sir Patrick Moore with the foreword by Dr Brian May. The Astronomy Manual begins with details about everything in our solar system. The images and diagrams
This was my first proper night out really trying out my new GSO 8″ RC from Altair Astro. I had attached the Lakeside Focuser, collimated the scope to the other scopes, finders and red dot finder. I had also managed to get the telescope collimation as good as I could so far by using a
As of yet I have not seen comet Panstarrs myself, but I shall be looking out for it in the next few days if we ever get any decent clear skies here in the UK. So where do you look for it? Well you need to be looking to the Western horizon an hour or
This is the first astronomy/space based Haynes manual I have seen, and I am pleasantly surprised. I really didn’t know what to expect, I probably thought it was just going to be engineering drawings with lots of information on how to service and build your own space shuttle, a bit like the Haynes car manuals.
This M45 Pleiades image was taken in one night. It consists of around 70 images, each lasting 1 minute. I took Red, Green, Blue and Luminance frames with my Atik 314L+ camera and Astronomik filters.
The Elephants Trunk took me a while to find with the small field of view of my Atik 314L+ CCD camera. I imaged it with just a Hydrogen Alpha (Ha) filter and I took 10 minute exposures and stacked together about 10 of these. The image was taken using one of my new telescopes, the
This is an imaging list for myself to follow. The reason it does not include all objects may be due to my surrounding garden views or that some distant objects are just too small for my telescopes. M31 Andromeda Galaxy M52 M52 and Bubble Nebula IC5146 Cocoon Nebula NGC7317 Stephan’s Quintet IC1396 Elephants Trunk
I have imaged M27 before using RGB filters, but this time I decided to use narrowband filters. I used Hydrogen Alpha (Ha) and Oxygen III (OIII). This image was taken on a Meade 127mm triplet telescope with an Atik 314L+ CCD camera. The exposures were 3 minutes long each, about 10 of Ha and 10