June 1, 2022

NGC 1955, 1968, and 1974 (aka NGC 1991) (2018)

This data was gathered by Martin Pugh in Australia in 2018.  (I've taken my time with it.)  The scope was a 12" RCOS in an observatory in New South Wales.  It is 12 hours of Ha and O3, combined.  The NGC numbers refer to three clusters of stars beginning lower left and proceeding up and to the right, mixed in with three clumps of nebulosity.

M105, NGC 3384, NGC 3389 (Mar. 2021)

I've had this set for a long time.  The M105 group slips behind a tree too quickly for me to gather a lot of time on it, but I'm unlikely to get any more soon, and I like this image.  I observed the two brighter, elliptical galaxies with my 6" this spring, and they are obvious.  The dimmer NGC 3389 was invisible in our light-polluted skies with that scope.  I'm happy to catch more of it with the camera even in this short set.  This is 12x900" with the 203mm Synta ONTC Newtonian at f/4.9 using the Atik 460EXC and Baader MPCC Mk II.

May 21, 2022

Lunar Eclipse - Just Post-Mid-Eclipse (May 15, 2022)

This is one of the sharpest and deepest images of mine that night.  The moon passed through an interesting star field.
 

May 17, 2022

Lunar Eclipse, First Image (May 15, 2022 CDT)

This is 1.6 seconds with a Canon T3i through the 203mm Synta-ONTC Newtonian (at f/4.9) and a Baader MPCC Mk II.  The image was taken at about 10:25 pm, just before the moon slipped fully into the umbra.  On the bottom left of the moon is double star HR 5756, which fell behind the moon a few minutes later.
 

May 11, 2022

Rupes Recta (the Straight Wall) to Mare Nectaris (Sea of Nectar) (May 10, 2022)

 


The moon is a busy place!  The Straight Wall is a prominent feature (upper left), but one could easily get lost exploring from there to the Sea of Nectar.

This is a stack of about 200 frames gathered through my wonderful 6" f/8 telescope with a Vernonscope 1.5x barlow, so effectively at f/12, with the QHY 5iii485c camera.

May 8, 2022

M20, from Insight Observatory's ATEO AFIL-2 (Mar. 2022)

 

This image is constructed from data gathered by Insight Observatory's remote telescope AFIL-2, a Skyrover 130 APO located at Yunling Observatory, China.  Data for this image includes 3.75 hours of exposures: 1.5 hours (18x300") through a red filter and roughly equal exposures taken through green and blue filters.