Imaging the Tadpoles and More guiding experiments

Last night (November 21st 2017) there was slightly better weather than the previous night, but again I got clouded out. Anyways, I did some more guiding experiments and I did some imaging of a new target SH2 236 which is in Auriga near the Flaming Star Nebula. I managed to get 10, 5 minute Hydrogen Alpha Exposures before the clouds came. I am particularly intrigued by the little tadpole like structures on the left side of this nebula. Just like the Claw, this one deserves more time, and maybe even color, but the weather gods decreed it not to be so. Oh well another time.

Astrophotography Articles

Published: 03-22-2018 Hits: 6305

Awesome week for Astrophotography

These last few days have really been phenomenal nights for Astrophotography! I was set up in my own driveway on Wednesday night, I was at a friend's helping him with his setup on Thursday ...

Published: 03-21-2018 Hits: 2011

Imaging Spring Galaxies in 2018

It's Galaxy Season!! Since it is now Galaxy Season, I was thinking that it is a good time for me to switch back to my big scope, my homemade 10 inch f/6, to image galaxies. I had not yet ...

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Imaging the Butterfly

I had a little time last night (Oct 18th, 2017) to do some imaging in this great week of clear skies. I chose the “Butterfly Nebula” near Sadr in Cygnus as my target. I did not have ...

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Imaging the Flaming Star and KStars Stacking experiment

One of the features that has often been requested for KStars is Real Time Stacking. So I decided to invest some time into writing some algorithms that could be used to process, align and stack ...

Published: 03-21-2018 Hits: 2081

Imaging The Great Mexican Space Dragon

On September 23rd 2017, I went to an astronomy special interest group meeting. It was the first time I have had my equipment out since July and I think this was a good restart. ...

Published: 03-22-2018 Hits: 2046

Imaging the Jellyfish with new powerbox

I kind of wore out my big 100 AH battery a couple of weeks ago, so I have been working on solutions. First, on Saturday Feb 17th 2018, I solved part of the problem by getting a new 100AH ...

Published: 03-22-2018 Hits: 2033

Imaging the Lobster Claw and solving guiding issues

On November 17th, I solved a huge problem I have had with guding. First, a little backstory, I have had some strange issues with guiding that I could never quite pin down for quite a long time. ...

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Imaging the Pelican

On July 19th, 2017, a friend and I had some fun doing astronomy experiments ;-). It was a beautiful night aside from intermittent clouds every now and then. We carefully put the ...

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Imaging the Rosette Nebula

Here is an image of the Rosette Nebula that I did last night (December 20th, 2017). This is 8 Ha and 8 OIII images that are 5 minutes apiece. I was planning to collect a lot more data, ...

Published: 03-22-2018 Hits: 2078

Imaging the Tadpoles and More guiding experiments

Last night (November 21st 2017) there was slightly better weather than the previous night, but again I got clouded out. Anyways, I did some more guiding experiments and I did some imaging of a ...