A week on, AR2529 is still going strong, but about to disappear behind the solar limb. (Click image for full-sized version). Scope: Lunt LS60THa/B1200CPT, Meade 2x Barlow Camera: ZWO ASI174MM, FireCapture Mount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6, EQMod Processing: AutoStakkert! 2, IMPPG, PixInsight 1.8, Gimp 2.8 Date: 17th April 2016 Frames: Best 25% of 500 Frames, 30 seond intervals
Sun, Full Disk Hydrogen Alpha. (click images for full size). Scope: Lunt LS60THa/B1200CPT Camera: ZWO ASI174MM, FireCapture Mount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6, EQMod Processing: AutoStakkert! 2, PixInsight 1.8, Gimp 2.8 Date: 17th April 2016, 08:44BST (07:44UT) Frames: Best 10% of 1,000 Frames
Another animation of AR2529 (a sunspot), taken in Hydrogen Alpha. This is a different set of images from the previous post and shown in the normal (not inverted) colour scheme. Click the image below for the full-sized view (you might have to wait a few moments for it to load). Scope: Lunt LS60THa/B1200CPT, Meade 2x Barlow …
Large Sunspot Animation (AR2529) in Ha 10-04-2016 Read More »
Animation of AR2529 (a sunspot), taken in Hydrogen Alpha. The image is inverted so the sunspot appears white against a dark background, as this allows much more of the image detail to be seen. Scope: Lunt LS60THa/B1200CPT, Meade 2x Barlow Camera: ZWO ASI174MM, FireCapture Mount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6, EQMod Processing: AutoStakkert! 2, IMPPG, PixInsight 1.8, Gimp 2.8 Date: 3rd April …
A solar prominence animation in Hydrogen Alpha (with the Earth shown approximately to scale). This is my first attempt, as a bit challenging to create as there were a lot of high clouds drifting through. This has created some long gaps between frames and a few odd artefacts around the prominences and disk where I …
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M33 is three million light years away and the third big member of the Local Group of galaxies, along with the Milky Way and Andromeda. This was taken at quarter moon, but luckily on the opposite side of the sky.I tried three different integrations in PixInsight – normal, Bayer Drizzle (1x with 1.0 drop size) …
The Jellyfish Nebula (IC443), the remains of a supernova in the constellation of Gemini. It is about 5,000 light years away and was created sometime between 3 and 30 thousand years ago. Also top centre is IC444 which is a blue nebula due to starlight being reflected off gas and dust. (No sign of SpongeBob …
This image was taken on my first night out following the street light switch-off in the nearby towns (between midnight and 5:00am), helpfully the moon was also on the opposite side of the sky by this time. As you can see, I have also also managed to capture a fair few of M101’s companion galaxies …
M42 – The Orion Nebula, plus top left M43 – De Marian’s Nebula (aka “The Running Man Nebula”). This is 30 x 30 second exposures, plus 22 x 320 second exposures in an HDR composite, taken 11th Jan 2014. Again I was battling a nearly full Moon as we seem to get nothing but rain …
This is the Western part of the Veil Nebula (known as the Witch’s Broom), a supernova remnant in the constellation of Cygnus. This image was taken on Sunday 10th November 2013). The seeing wasn’t too great due to the jet stream, and I was battling the moon which was nearly half full and within 45 …
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