Integration time (running total):
* OSC 139 X 60s (139m)
* Total: 2h19m
Seeing index: OK (3)
Jet stream: Good (7 m/s)
Transparency: Good (4)
'Star, star teach me how to shine, shine'
Integration time (running total):
* OSC 139 X 60s (139m)
* Total: 2h19m
Seeing index: OK (3)
Jet stream: Good (7 m/s)
Transparency: Good (4)
Integration time (running total):
* OSC 5 X 300s (30m)
* Total: 0h30m
Between the clouds the other day I squeezed in 30 minutes of exposure time on the border between Cassiopeia and Cepheus, a region full of interesting objects. The view in the photo is wide field - 6.6 x 4.8 degrees. Due to the short exposure the H alpha clouds are mainly colourless (e.g. the Lobster Claw Nebula) and the resolution is somewhat poor but I thought it quite an interesting exercise to point the…
Integration time (running total):
* OSC 365 X 60s (365m)
* Total: 6h05m
Integration time target
* Target: 6 hours
* Progress: 100%
Seeing index: Excellent 5/4
Jet stream: Poor (32m/s)
Moon phase: 80%
Transparency: Poor
Integration time:
* 174 x 60s (2h54m)
* Total: 2h45m
19th November 2022 The current long run of cloudy skies has freed up a bit of time to catch with some processing and experimentation. The latest image is properly calibrated and processed with Bill Blanshan’s Pixinsight script for Hubble pallet images using OSC data.
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.
The two nebulae - Heart and Soul - in widefield
Integration time:
* 111 x 120s (3h42m)
* Total: 3h22m
13th August 2022 A small number of frames gathered before clouds rolled in once more.
10th July 2022 In the end it took five hours to stack the subs! The end result was good though.
First light with a new widefield refractor and one-shot colour camera.