I have the dwarflab tilted on tripod to 50 degrees pointing the back of the unit at Polaris, lenses front this minimises any field rotation dramatically to aid in stacking
The Needle galaxy taken with 11" Victoria with ASI533MC in live stack mode. 20 x 60s - no flats, no darks, final tweak in Pixinsight with Blurexterminator.
Earth passed through the plane of the orbit of C/2022 E3 (ZTF) last night. The comet is now showing an anti-tail which is now several degrees in length. Taken with a Redact51 18 x 120s exp. Left image stacked on comet, right image stacked on stars.
A nice transit of Ganymede's shadow and the Great Red Spot on Jupiter presented itself for our visitors at tonight's open evening. Taken with 20" in Connaught Dome with ASI120MC
Within the past 24 hours or so, the peculiar Centaur object 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 has undergone its second most intense outburst for more than 12 years. This image taken tonight with C9 and ASI533MC shows it almost stellar.
In the foreground is the bright star 16 Piscium at 100 light years distant, behind that is the interacting pair of galaxies Arp 284 (NGC 7714 & NGC 7715) 100 million light years distant. To the north east you can find a small blue object which is QSO B2333+019 which lies at 10 billion light years! Imaged last night with a C9 + ASI533MC 20 x 120s.
Bubble Nebula NGC 7635 and the Cassiopeia Salt-and-Pepper Cluster M52 / NGC 7654 17-19 September 2022 Equinox ED80 and Atik460 L: 24 x 4min Binned x 2 - R:5x4min,G:5x4min,B:7x4min Plus Bias, Darks, Flats All processing carried out in Pixinsight apart from a final little touch with Topaz deNoise AI Image size 2475x2028, reduced for message.
A new nebula that was discovered just a few years ago: Borisov's Nebula: https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=13834 This is a faint a target and took 30 x 120s exp with C9 and ASI533MC to catch it.
Yes you can see what remains of a whole stream of satellite passes above the bright star. Sigma clipping removes most of them but still lives a ghostly track
That's a really excellent image David - this is a really big & faint nebula. It's a broadband target, so difficult with moonlight and gradients, then there's Rigel very close-by which is extremely bright, also this part of the sky has probably the busiest highway of satellites criss-crossing throughout the region making it hard to process. Well done!
Cheers Dave, Lol Kate always dithering took another 6 frames last night to add to it also M33 temperature is dropping now for the camera. Now have the full heart nebula will post when its ready. Steve
Worth keeping an eye on this one as it shows variation in brightness over a matter of weeks. All part of a huge giant molecular cloud LBN 468 suitable for wide field imaging. Well place at present.
Looking like a small comet, Gyulbudaghian's Nebula is a highly variable nebula in Cepheus. The red star attached to it is PV Cep a young stellar variable object. Imaged tonight with C9 ASI533MC ASIair 30 x 120s. A popular target on the BAA forum.
Last night I caught a shadow transit of Ganymede and the GRS crossing the central meridian. C9 + ASI533MC + ZWO ADC processed in AS!3 Registax and Photoshop. Imaged from 2137h - 2328h UT.
great image Allan