Equipment - Zenithstar 66

2006

NGC7000 - North America Nebula thumbnail

NGC7000 - North America Nebula

23:07 19/4/2006 UTC: My Zenithstar has collection of like every imaginable aberration... It really makes ugly images, ...  [Read More]

 
IC443 thumbnail

IC443

18:44 22/3/2006 UTC: I have to admit this is maybe a bit too dim for my gear. I am still a bit surprised how well I ca...  [Read More]

 
Rosette Nebula thumbnail

Rosette Nebula

18:01 17/3/2006 UTC: This is the first real imaging attempt using my modified EOS 350D. It was a nice clear moonless e...  [Read More]

 
Comet C/2006 A1 Pojmanski thumbnail

Comet C/2006 A1 Pojmanski

03:15 13/3/2006 UTC: I woke up earlier this morning to try catch this comet before it fades away. Conditions were very...  [Read More]

 
M100 and SN2006X thumbnail

M100 and SN2006X

22:26 25/2/2006 UTC: My first ever picture of supernova! I have terrible light pollution south in the altitudes M100 c...  [Read More]

 
M100 Widefield thumbnail

M100 Widefield

22:26 25/2/2006 UTC: While the actual target was M100 and its latest Supernova I was surprised how many faint fuzzies ...  [Read More]

 
M42 - The Orion Nebula thumbnail

M42 - The Orion Nebula

20:07 14/2/2006 UTC: Finally a clear weather again! Full moon was up in the sky, so I decided to try UHC-S filter to M...  [Read More]

 
Horsehead and Flame Nebulae thumbnail

Horsehead and Flame Nebulae

21:52 30/1/2006 UTC: I really wasn't prepared to take images, but sky suddenly and unexpectedly cleared. There was som...  [Read More]

 
 

2005

NGC6960 - The Western Veil thumbnail

NGC6960 - The Western Veil

19:43 9/10/2005 UTC: This time I went to dark sky site to make longer exposures of Veil Nebula. I had PEC working like...  [Read More]

 
M42 - The Orion Nebula thumbnail

M42 - The Orion Nebula

01:44 9/10/2005 UTC: I have to admit this is so far the most difficult image to process. I have terrible light polluti...  [Read More]

 
M45 - The Pleiades thumbnail

M45 - The Pleiades

22:08 4/10/2005 UTC: I couldn't resist taking image of this beautiful cluster. I had already taken long set of M33 and...  [Read More]

 
NGC6960 - The Western Veil thumbnail

NGC6960 - The Western Veil

20:13 9/9/2005 UTC: Although I'm pretty happy with this image, this was really a battle for me. My mount went complet...  [Read More]

 
M33 - The Triangulum Galaxy thumbnail

M33 - The Triangulum Galaxy

23:42 30/8/2005 UTC: Almost everything went wrong with this image. I was tired in the late hours and didn't have energ...  [Read More]

 
The Double Cluster thumbnail

The Double Cluster

21:24 19/8/2005 UTC: Full moon was up and still I couldn't resist doing some imaging. I had to choose some bright open...  [Read More]

 
M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy thumbnail

M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy

20:53 17/8/2005 UTC: This time clouds did not interrupt me as they did two nights before. The transparency was good, t...  [Read More]

 
M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy thumbnail

M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy

21:43 8/8/2005 UTC: I finally got my new scope for DSLR imaging. It is a William Optics Zenithstar 66mm f6 Petzval re...  [Read More]