Equipment - WO 0.8x FF

2010

M27 - Season opening test shot thumbnail

M27 - Season opening test shot

20:45 16/8/2010 UTC: First night out after summer break. First night out I usually just test everything is still worki...  [Read More]

 
M13 - The Great Hercules Cluster thumbnail

M13 - The Great Hercules Cluster

23:07 19/4/2010 UTC: After premature end with M106 I had a short opportunity to continue imaging before dawn. I could ...  [Read More]

 
M106 Revisited thumbnail

M106 Revisited

20:10 19/4/2010 UTC: I was in Artjärvi to try this again in a dark site. Unfortunately my exposures were cut shor...  [Read More]

 
M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy thumbnail

M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy

20:05 18/4/2010 UTC: This beautiful galaxy was up high in the sky and weather was exceptionally good. This time I put ...  [Read More]

 
M106 LRGB thumbnail

M106 LRGB

19:10 12/4/2010 UTC: This is my very first try at LRGB imaging. I finally got Nebulosity to understand SX wheel via AS...  [Read More]

 
IC410 - The Tadpoles Ha:OIII thumbnail

IC410 - The Tadpoles Ha:OIII

18:11 23/3/2010 UTC: Not the best conditions for OIII imaging. Moon high up and random thin clouds hovering all over t...  [Read More]

 
IC410 - The Tadpoles in Ha thumbnail

IC410 - The Tadpoles in Ha

18:10 17/3/2010 UTC: Spring sky is pretty much void in emission nebulae, but this nice complex in Auriga is still well...  [Read More]

 
M81 Group and Integrated Flux Nebula thumbnail

M81 Group and Integrated Flux Nebula

18:03 12/3/2010 UTC: Most of the Nebulae are illuminated by only one or just few stars. Integrated Flux Nebula is a la...  [Read More]

 
M42 - The Orion Nebula thumbnail

M42 - The Orion Nebula

17:32 7/3/2010 UTC: Long time no see - stars! It's been like four months since I've done imaging. Weather has been ve...  [Read More]

 
 

2009

The California Nebula project continues thumbnail

The California Nebula project continues

17:36 22/11/2009 UTC: Finally after almost a month sky cleared again and what a night! SQM gave almost record readings ...  [Read More]

 
The California Nebula thumbnail

The California Nebula

20:10 29/10/2009 UTC: After a long cloudy and rainy period we finally got some nice weather (and moon of course). I had...  [Read More]

 
The Heart Nebula Project thumbnail

The Heart Nebula Project

18:55 7/9/2009 UTC: Finally I got some time and clear sky to do SII and OIII exposures to this. Moon was nearly full...  [Read More]

 
The Heart Nebula Project thumbnail

The Heart Nebula Project

19:51 24/8/2009 UTC: I started my next project with H-alpha. This time my target is a nice nebula IC1805 commonly know...  [Read More]

 
The North America Nebula thumbnail

The North America Nebula

20:10 21/8/2009 UTC: Finally got my H-alpha filter and immediately had clear night to finish this project. Now totalli...  [Read More]

 
The North America Project SII thumbnail

The North America Project SII

20:13 19/8/2009 UTC: Clear sky allowed me to continue this project with SII data. Clouds disturbed the session a bit, ...  [Read More]

 
The North America Project OIII thumbnail

The North America Project OIII

20:13 15/8/2009 UTC: I started my first astroimaging project for this season last night. The conditions were superb, s...  [Read More]

 
M27 - The Dumbbell in OIII thumbnail

M27 - The Dumbbell in OIII

20:37 9/8/2009 UTC: I continued to fine tune the system with M27 using OIII filter. I am getting pretty sharp results...  [Read More]

 
NGC4565 - The Needle Galaxy thumbnail

NGC4565 - The Needle Galaxy

18:55 27/3/2009 UTC: The Needle, which is also known as The Flying Saucer Galaxy, is a very attractive spiral galaxy...  [Read More]

 
M51 - The Whirpool Galaxy thumbnail

M51 - The Whirpool Galaxy

19:43 26/3/2009 UTC: We have now clear nights after each other several days in a row now. This time I decided to imag...  [Read More]

 
M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy thumbnail

M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy

19:10 26/3/2009 UTC: M101 is a very nice photogenic spiral galaxy in Ursa Major. The galaxy is positioned face-on and ...  [Read More]

 
Leo Triplet thumbnail

Leo Triplet

18:26 19/3/2009 UTC: Leo Triplet is a photogenic group of galaxies in the constellation Leo. This group is also known ...  [Read More]

 
IC410 and The Tadpoles in color thumbnail

IC410 and The Tadpoles in color

17:26 8/3/2009 UTC: IC410 is a HII region in Auriga. This interesting nebula and open cluster hosts two interesting n...  [Read More]

 
First light - IC410 thumbnail

First light - IC410

20:26 7/3/2009 UTC: Atik 4000LE First Light! Weather was awful and I had some serious hassle with my gear. First of a...  [Read More]

 
M42 - The Orion Nebula thumbnail

M42 - The Orion Nebula

21:01 9/1/2009 UTC: Very cold night. I haven't been out imaging in such a cold weather yet. Usually I don't take my g...  [Read More]

 

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