Show us your nebula and planets.

robertxxx

Can the people with photos of the above and galaxies and stuff please post them here for us lesser mortals to enjoy.

I took a few but they are very, very low quality, but I'm going to post them later, so let us have no shame in what ever you have.

Novaman

Hi Robert, here is one to start off, it's my shot of the Orion Nebula..:)

NM

robertxxx

Here's mine, Jupiter and it's moons, taken with my compact camera.



http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq280/meridianman007/DSC02730.jpg

DubOnHoliday

Any shots of the conjunction of the moon and Jupiter? Looks spectacular tonight it must be said!

dr strangelove

Here's my pic of Jupiter.
Taken with a modded webcam and a fairly bottom-end telescope.

http://lennyduckworth.com/pictures/jupiter%20baby.jpg

I know it's not much, but i'm terribly proud of it.

ThatDrGuy

For what its worth: The strange Sunflower Galaxy




Can't remember how when or why I took this. Think it was yet another "test" photo.

TheAlkaline

dr strangelove wrote: »

Here's my pic of Jupiter.
Taken with a modded webcam and a fairly bottom-end telescope.

http://lennyduckworth.com/pictures/jupiter%20baby.jpg

I know it's not much, but i'm terribly proud of it.

What telescope did you use?

Kersh

Heres is my first ever Astropic. Not stricly a sticking to the thread title . . but Im well proud of it


Andromeda Galaxy, with a Canon Eos 300D through a Skywatcher 80 ED, on a Meade LXD55 Mount.


11 shots, and 4 darks, each 30 seconds, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, and slightly modded (by my bro ) in GIMP

dr strangelove

TheAlkaline wrote: »

What telescope did you use?

Hi, i'm using a Skywatcher Telescope 114/500 - it's been kicking around the house for a few years and gets dragged out every so often.

TheAlkaline

dr strangelove wrote: »

Hi, i'm using a Skywatcher Telescope 114/500 - it's been kicking around the house for a few years and gets dragged out every so often.

Oh, really nice
Could you tell me the price of this hardware and where could I buy it?
Looks like a solid piece of equipment for starters.

dr strangelove

TheAlkaline wrote: »

Could you tell me the price of this hardware and where could I buy it?
Looks like a solid piece of equipment for starters.

This scope is similar to what i have, but a bit better:
http://www.ktectelescopes.ie/Starter-Telescopes/Skywatcher-Explorer-130P.html

The webcam was modded following these instructions, (using a webcam that my friend lent me):
http://ghonis2.ho8.com/lifecam/lifecam1.html

I'm not very good at astrophotography, i like to dabble, and i got lucky - you don't see the other 784 appallingly bad pics.

As for where to buy? I've heard these guys are pretty good:
http://www.ktectelescopes.ie/

TheAlkaline

dr strangelove wrote: »

This scope is similar to what i have, but a bit better:
http://www.ktectelescopes.ie/Starter-Telescopes/Skywatcher-Explorer-130P.html

The webcam was modded following these instructions, (using a webcam that my friend lent me):
http://ghonis2.ho8.com/lifecam/lifecam1.html

I'm not very good at astrophotography, i like to dabble, and i got lucky - you don't see the other 784 appallingly bad pics.

As for where to buy? I've heard these guys are pretty good:
http://www.ktectelescopes.ie/

Pretty cool, but it is bit expensive.

Is this the one you have?
http://www.astroshop.eu/skywatcher-telescope-n-114-500-skyhawk-eq-1/p,5011

dr strangelove

Yeah, that looks like the kind of thing i have (except mine is blue)

Kersh

The Orion nebula, 1st attempt at it, Canon300D/Skywatcher 80ED/Meade LXD55.









And this one (stacked) has a satellite trail

dbran

Hi

So here is my first processing attempt at the Western Veil nebula NGC 6960, a supernova remnant in Cygnus. Image was taken on 9 November 2012 at Sugar Loaf Carpark with an 8' Meade Lx90 SCT unguided using an Atic 16IC CCD camera and a focal reducer.

The image was a final stack of 42 subs of 10sec each, stacked in Deepskystacker and further processed with nebulosity and Gimp. It was quite windy and hence I lost over half of the subs. Unfortunately the power in the laptop ran out as I was taking the colour bits. next time I guess!!

Regards

dbran


[URL="[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/bertthebudgie/8174937958/][img]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8347/8174937958_c7a7957700_b.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/bertthebudgie/8174937958/]NGC 6960 -Veil nebula[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/bertthebudgie/]bertthebudgie[/url], on Flickr"][/url] NGC 6960 -Veil nebula by bertthebudgie, on Flickr

dbran

Hi

Heres another image i took in Roundwood earlier this year of M34 The Blackeye Galaxy.

16 images stacked in the end 25-30 seconds each.Taken with lx90 8" in altaz with ariving 16ic. Stacked with dss. Conditions were clear but some breeze meant a lot the subs had to be omitted. First image in a long time so I am happy with how it turned out in the end.

Some nice detail on the spiral arms, just needed some more subs to bring it out more.

dbran

[URL="[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/bertthebudgie/6933254670/][img]http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5195/6933254670_4a14cf1550_b.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/bertthebudgie/6933254670/]m64e[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/bertthebudgie/]bertthebudgie[/url], on Flickr"][/url] m64e by bertthebudgie, on Flickr

Wailin

Novaman wrote: »

Hi Robert, here is one to start off, it's my shot of the Orion Nebula..:)

NM

Thats a great shot novaman, great colour and clarity. Would you have the details, equipment used etc?

Novaman

Hi Wailin, the M42 shot was a stack of 70x2 minute exposures using my Canon 40D on my Celestron CGE mount, stacked against just 10 dark frames, and all unguided

NM

DubOnHoliday

Novaman wrote: »

Hi Wailin, the M42 shot was a stack of 70x2 minute exposures using my Canon 40D on my Celestron CGE mount, stacked against just 10 dark frames, and all unguided

NM

Your photo is the now the background on my laptop , super photo.

Tzetze

A couple of images from over the last week.

Just 9x 600s subs in this one. (1.5hr)

M81 & M82 10/12/12 by .Tzetze., on Flickr

39x 600s subs here. (6.5hr)

M106 09/12/12 by .Tzetze., on Flickr

Novaman

Your photo is the now the background on my laptop , super photo.

NM

ZeRoY

Moon Halo from this evening, harder to image than I though!

John mac

Jupiter by 1000john, on Flickr


Took this earlier , Juipter and moons

nanook5

Here's Jupiter and The Moon from tonight .
Had to take quickly as clouds were rolling in .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89901642@N06/8308400712/

ZeRoY

nanook5 wrote: »

Here's Jupiter and The Moon from tonight .
Had to take quickly as clouds were rolling in .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89901642@N06/8308400712/

Its a great shot, not easy to take considering one or the other is always going to be over exposed. Well done mate!

nanook5

Thanks

The Scratcher

The Moon and Jupiter last night.

Wailin

Here's my second attempts at M42 and M45 and my first at M31 from my light polluted back garden. Living in the big smoke sucks for this hobby!

Rubecula

great shots Wailin thanks for posting.

ZeRoY

Wailin wrote: »

Here's my second attempts at M42 and M45 and my first at M31 from my light polluted back garden. Living in the big smoke sucks for this hobby!

This is getting real good! Im curious for M31, although the framing is not exactly centered you seem to have a goof field of view, what equipment were you using again?

Wailin

ZeRoY wrote: »

This is getting real good! Im curious for M31, although the framing is not exactly centered you seem to have a goof field of view, what equipment were you using again?

Thanks Zeroy, the scope is an 80mm ED refractor, 600mm focal length so it has a nice wide field of view. The other shots may have been cropped, can't remember, so they are not at the full field of view in the pics. Detail of M31 is fairly poor in fairness, its definitely one I want to work at.