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Astrophotography: June 2016
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CLICK ON IMAGE ABOVE FOR LATEST POST. Sunday, June 12, 2016. Dome update and new images. It's been a busy year so far. I added a small room and pier to to observatory for my seldom used Orion Sirius mount. The pier is a 10" diameter, 8' long concrete tube. I had a local welding shop make 2 customized plates to adapt the Orion Sirius. I finished the roll off roof project with a very noisy (sorry neighbors) electric winch. I also finished the outside sheeting and trim overall. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Astrophotography: August 2014
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CLICK ON IMAGE ABOVE FOR LATEST POST. Sunday, August 31, 2014. NGC 281 The Pac Man Nebula. NGC 281 The Pac Man Nebula is a HII region roughly 9500 light-years away located in the constellation of Cassiopeia. The constellation of Cassiopeia is well known for it's "W" shape seen in the northern skies. The location of the Pac Man is designated by the circle in these photos:. This new image was taken on August 28 and 29,2014.finally some clear skies! It consists of 3 frames 10 minutes each taken through each...
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Astrophotography: November 2014
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CLICK ON IMAGE ABOVE FOR LATEST POST. Monday, November 24, 2014. One Great Night of Astrophotography! It's really hard sometimes to image during a weeknight if I have a full workload the next day. I still do, but I prefer imaging on weekends (I can sleep in! Friday (11/21/14) was one of those great nights. I started by collecting Luminance filtered images of M45, the Pleiades. In my last post, I had already done M45. http:/ astrochuck.blogspot.com/2014/11/hyperstar-imaging.html. I ended the "great night ...
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Astrophotography: March 2014
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CLICK ON IMAGE ABOVE FOR LATEST POST. Saturday, March 29, 2014. Months of Cloudy Skies and New Gear. I haven't posted in a while, I've had months and months or cloudy, cold weather. Instead of getting rid of my gear I decided to upgrade! I made a comparison image of the FOVs I had been used to. Today I finally got all the final parts and pieces together to setup the rig for imaging. I added an ADM dovetail to the top and piggybacked my AT65EDQ. Once I installed the QHY9M camera I need more counterwei...
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Astrophotography: June 2015
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CLICK ON IMAGE ABOVE FOR LATEST POST. Friday, June 19, 2015. My image from February was chosen as AAPOD2 for today 6/20/2015. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Astronomy on the Web. Amateur Astronomy Association of Pittsburgh. BBC One Sky at Night. Flickr (my "terrestrial" photos). Astronomical Almanac Lunar Occultations of Planets, Minor Planets and Bright Stars. Bortle Scale(light pollution) Map. Field of View Calculator. 8226;2-day map where ISS crosses the Moon in Google Map. Orion Telescopes and Binoculars.
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Astrophotography: December 2016
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CLICK ON IMAGE ABOVE FOR LATEST POST. Sunday, December 4, 2016. Since it's been cloudy the last few weeks, I decided to reprocess some older data from last year. This is IC 348 in Perseus. LRGB image taken with a QHY23M and 11" Celestron EdgeHD w/Hyperstar. Taken on November 3, 2015, reprocessed with PixInsight. The "new" data was acquired on November 18,2016 between 9:33-9:46 EST. I have tried SkyTools, Starry Night and several online resources and cannot identify the object. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Astrophotography: January 2015
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CLICK ON IMAGE ABOVE FOR LATEST POST. Tuesday, January 20, 2015. M78 and Orion Mosaic. On January 15,2015 I finally had clear night. I collected enough sub exposures with my Celestron 11" Edge HD, QHY23M and Hyperstar to assemble an image of M78 in Orion. I collected 33x60 second images for Luminance, and 45x60 RGB images, totaling 78 minutes. On the 17th I had another clear night and decided to add longer Luminance exposures 9x300 seconds. This was the result. Since I was using the Luminance filter, I w...
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Astrophotography: July 2015
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CLICK ON IMAGE ABOVE FOR LATEST POST. Friday, July 17, 2015. QHY10 One-Shot Color CCD (OSC) First Light. I haven't had many clear nights in months, actually it's been bad for the past 2 years! Maybe this is the norm here in southwest Pennsylvania, and I was just spoiled my first 2 years of Astrophotography. I was graciously given the opportunity to test a QHY10 OSC camera recently. I've shot this object many times before, so it would be a good benchmark. From the Iris I moved to IC5146 the Cocoon Nebula.
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