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<\/a>Veil Nebula with the Seestar S50 Pro<\/p>\n
A partial elcipse of the Sun observed using an Acuter Phoenix 40 telescope. After threatening to cloud over all day long the weather was great in the end. A few small amounts of cloud drifted by and finally stopped play with about 30 minutes to go.<\/p>\n ISS\u00a0 pass at 22:45UTC on 14\/07\/2026. Consecutive 30 second exposures with the ASI290MM<\/p>\n M16 Eagle nebula.<\/p>\n M20 the Triffid Nebula.<\/p>\n Lots of clear nights this month and another supernova is now visible in NGC5907. This is a type 2 supernova which occurs when a massive star runs out of fuel and suffers core collapse. This image is with the 250mm SCT using 60 minutes of luminence and 3×20 minutes of RGB. Quite a bright 12 to 13 day old moon nearby but the result is not too bad.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Supernova 2026 FVX in galaxy NGC4205. This is a type 1a supernova which occurs when a white dwarf in a binary system steals enough mass from its companion to exceed the Chandrasekhar limit of 1.4 solar masses. The spectrumn was obtained with a Star Analyser grating. I calibrated the wavelength by comparison with Regulus using the hydrogen lines and atmospheric oxygen. I had sime diffculty identifying the features in the supernova spectrum although the two broad dips are probably due to silicon. Both images 250mm SCT and ASI 183 Pro. There are at least 3 other galaxies in the image.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Comet C2025 R3 Panstarrs. A stack of 20×1 minute images with the Seestar S30<\/p>\n Primary minimum of RZ CAS. From mutliple 2 second exposures using the Seestar S30<\/p>\n Jupiter animation from 21\/03\/2026 from 19:27 to 21:53. Click to play<\/p>\n The eclipsing binary W UMA using a Seestar S30 and 5 second exposures. Each data point comes from a stack of 12 images, so 1 minute total exposure. The blue points use further a moving average. Raw 5 second data is very noisy.<\/p>\n A picture of JWST which is 1 million miles away at the L2 Lagrange point. Estimated magnitude about 18. 2 minute exposures with the AIS 183 and the 250mm SCT. The line represents the drift of JWST relative to the stars over about 25 minutes.<\/p>\n A nice clear night with fair seeing. This taken with the 250mm SCT and the ASI 290MM.<\/p>\n A Seestar image of IC1805<\/p>\n 2 deep sky images using the LX200 and ASI 183. M74 has a low surface brightness which is 12x less than\u00a0 M27. The result is it’s much easier to get a good image of M27 especially in a badly light polluted area.<\/p>\n A Perseid meteor\u00a0 using the ASI290MM and 2.1mm focal length lens. Exposure 30 seconds with mid-exposure at 21:38:35 on 12\/08\/2025. The meteor trail points towards Vega.<\/p>\n Sun with\u00a0 Acuter Phoenix 40 telescope.<\/p>\n Nebulosity around \u03b3 Cygni<\/p>\n All these images were taken with the LX200 and\u00a0 ZWO ASI183 Pro. The 27 year old LX200 has been removed from its old fork mounting which has a faulty declination drive, and placed on a Ioptron CEM 70. Tracking is much improved. The skies here are Bortle 7 so deep sky imaging remains challenging.<\/p>\n A few recent planetary images<\/p>\n Autumn 2024<\/span>M33 galaxy in Triangulum taken on 27 and 28\/11\/2024 with ZWO ASI 183 and Skywatcher.<\/p>\n Comet A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS). 30 seconds at ASA200 with a Canon 450D about 20:00 on 17\/10\/2024.<\/p>\n M31 ZWO ASI 183Andromeda Galaxy on 03\/10\/2024 with the Skywatcher and Atik 314. Processed in StarTools.<\/p>\n M27 Dumbell Nebula 3 minutes of RGB with the Skywatcher at 300mm FL<\/p>\n The sun with the Skywatcher and Baader film white light filter, ZWO ASI 290MM.<\/p>\n Coloured stars in the M67 star cluster and the moon both taken on 16-Apr-2024<\/p>\n An image of the Jellyfish nebula IC443. 2 hours each of HA and OIII<\/p>\n A narrow band SHO image of IC1805 the Heart Nebula.Taken with the 80mm Skywatcher. 45 minutes for\u00a0 H alpha\u00a0 and OIII and 90 minutes for SII.<\/p>\n California Nebula NGC1499 with SkyWatcher and H Alpha and Oxygen III filters. Processed in Startools and\u00a0 Paint.Net . Taken 17-01-2024 and 18\/01\/2024 both\u00a0 very cold but transparent nights. Minimum temperature was -9C.<\/p>\n Jupiter on 01\/12\/2023 with excellent seeing<\/p>\n Jupiter is now high in the northern sky so the next few years will present the best opportunity for imaging for 12 years. This with LX200, ZWO MM 290 and IR pass filter<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Supernova SN 2023ixf in M101. 50 x 1\u00a0 minute with the Skywatcher at f6.25.Taken from 22:10 and 23:00 UTC on 28\/05\/2023<\/p>\n The Venus collection. All images ASI290MM, UV filter and 250mm SCT at f10<\/p>\n The moon with the Skywatcher 80mm and IR filter<\/p>\n Venus again with the UV filter and a slight blue tint added. The image from 28\/04\/2023 is the best I have managed so far.<\/p>\n After a very cloudy run a brief clear spell with the first quarter moon nicely high in the sky and decent seeing. LX2000 and ASI290MM IR pass.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jupiter<\/p>\n Mars very high in the dawn sky but the seeing wasn’t great on either day<\/p>\n Jupiter is back in the northern hemisphere sky.<\/p>\n Mercury on 23\/06\/2022. LX200 at f10, ASI290MM and IR pass filter. Although the image is a bit noisy there\u00a0 there is good agreement with the reference image in terms of large scale features.<\/p>\n An image of the ISS on 22\/05\/2021 at around 21:00UT. Taken with the LX200 at f10 and the ZWOASI290mm. Almost exactly a year since I got my sharpest ISS image ever this one is not quite so sharp. The latest image shows the Dragon capsule docked.<\/p>\n Another image from the 18th. Seeing was poor but the view is quite different. In this case the solar panels are mostly in shadow so hard to see.<\/p>\n Moon images taken with the 250mm SCT at f10 and the ASI290MM with Baader IR pass filter on 19\/04\/2021. The smallest craters are around 1km in diameter which is at the theoretical limit for a 250mm scope.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After a cold winter I finally got some more imaging done. Here is an image of NGC1893 and IC410 taken on 02\/03\/2021. 40 minutes each of H\u03b1, OIII and SII with the Skywatcher 80 and Atik 314L. Processed in Star Tools using Hubble Palette.<\/p>\n The great conjunction of 2020 between Jupiter and Saturn is the closest easily observable for several hundred years. This image was taken at around 16:30 0n 20\/12\/2020. This is with the Skywatcher 80ED ZWO ASI 290 camera. This was 24 hours before closest approach but the day itself was inevitably cloudy.<\/p>\n Mars at 00:07UTC on 11\/10\/2020. IR-RGB with the LX200 at f10 and ZWO ASI 290MM camera<\/p>\n <\/p>\n NGC6888 Crescent Nebula in Cygnus. Around 30 minutes each of H alpha and OIII with the Skywatcher and Atik 314.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nAugust 12\u00a0 2026<\/h2>\n
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