'Star, star teach me how to shine, shine'
Integration time (running total):
* OSC 307 X 180s (921m)
* Total: 15h21m
January has been a better month for clear skies making astro imaging possible once again. Hooray! M78 in Orion is a reflection nebula approx 1600 light years from Earth with NGC2071 to its North. Also visible is part of the H-Alpha cloud known as Barnard’s Loop which encircles the left-hand/East side of the constellation. Barely visible on following the line of the dark lane in the centre of M78…
Integration time (running total):
* OSC 35 X 300s (175m)
* Total: 2h55m
Seeing index: 3
Jet stream: Poor
Integration time (running total):
* OSC 280 X 300s (1400m)
* Total: 23h20m
Integration time target
* Target: 24 hours
* Progress: 99%
Sat 14th October
Integration time (running total):
* OSC 88 X 300s (440m)
* Total: 7h20m
Integration time target
* Target: 7 hours
* Progress: 100%
Mon 4th September
Integration time (running total):
* OSC 129 X 300s (645m)
* Total: 10h45m
Integration time target
* Target: 12 hours
* Progress: 90%
8th August 2023
Integration time:
* SII 75 x 300s (375m)
* Ha 86 x 300s (430m)
* OIII 53 x 300s (265m)
* Total: 1070m/17h50m
Integration time target
* Target: 20 hours
* Progress: 89%
28th April 2023 I recently acquired a more capable processing PC which has opened the door to re-processing of lots of old data which was languishing untouched due to the unreasonable length of time required for the old PC to run Pixinsight. Nine months after the initial acquisition, the…
Integration time:
* 291 x 120s (9h42m)
16th September 2022 Whilst monitoring the observatory imaging this evening I had the chance to process the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula from last month. Processed as SHO from an OSC image.
