http://www.astro-nut.net Adventures in Astrophotography, DeepSpace And A Astronomy Link List Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:23:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Make sure you stop by Astro Links, its my new project "Astronomy Link List" I can use your help in adding links to it! If you have any ASTRO related links please add them to the list! http://www.astro-nut.net/2008/06/23/astro-nut-links/ A scoping buddy let me borrow his Orion 120mm f/5.0! I have sort of been wanting one of these scopes to use for astrophotography! Last night I got my chance. The Moon was at 89% and viewing was not that good. I am more then surprised at how nice the picture came out! [photopress:M13_120.jpg,thumb,pp_empty] Here ... http://www.astro-nut.net/2008/07/16/orion-120mm-f50/ This is M20 the Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius This is 11 subs @ 15 sec Scope Starblast 4.5 imaging Camera Meade DSI-C Mount CG5GT unguided Stacked with MaxIm DL Essentials Edition processed with PhotoShop 6 [photopress:M20.jpg,thumb,pp_empty] This what one of the subs look like. [photopress:M20sub.jpg,thumb,pp_empty] http://www.astro-nut.net/2008/07/08/m20-trifid-nebula/ M57 The Ring Nebula is one of my favorite deep sky object. It BRIGHT for a planetary nebulae and its very easy to find! I can see it in my little Celestron StarSeeker 80mm. I was out in the HUT till the wee hours this morning and M57 cleared the trees so I had ... http://www.astro-nut.net/2008/07/01/m57-the-ring-nebula/ I got up a bit early this morning to go out to the Astro Hut. This is 3 subs @ 15 sec Scope Starblast 4.5 imaging Camera Orion StarShoot II Mount CG5GT unguided Stacked with MaxIm DL Essentials Edition (it comes with the SS II) processed with PhoteShop 6 The Moon is waning gibbous [photopress:MoonJuneNEW25.JPG,thumb,pp_empty] http://www.astro-nut.net/2008/06/25/moon-25-jun/ Last night was so clear I decided to go and play in the Astro Hut (backyard observatory) I managed to get a nice shot of M14 This is 14 subs @ 15 sec unguided Scope Starblast 4.5 imaging Camera Meade DSIC CCD Mount CG5GT [photopress:M14.jpg,thumb,pp_empty] Here is a PDF Star Chart for M14 http://www.astro-nut.net/2008/06/24/m14/ The Night Sky I picked this book up at a garage sale last week and this book blows it's competitors out of the water. Bar none the most comprehensive and through book on it's topic. It give a gives definition on most of the subjects in our hobby... http://www.astro-nut.net/2008/06/07/book-the-night-sky/ M13 The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules [photopress:m13.jpg,thumb,pp_empty] This is 1 15 second sub. We had a bad storm come through yesterday. I did not think I would get any scope time.... But I looked out around 10:30 and we had clear sky's. So out the the BackYard Observatory I went. M13 is one of my favorite ... http://www.astro-nut.net/2008/06/06/m13/ [photopress:m5new.jpg,thumb,pp_empty] Last night I also managed to to get a couple of subs of M5 http://www.astro-nut.net/2008/06/06/m5-globular-cluster/ This is my latest telescope. I have been having a ball with it! Here is my first DEEPSKY picture taken with it This is M5 its a globular cluster in the constellation Serpens. [photopress:m5a.jpg,thumb,pp_empty] 15 subs at 15 sec each. Stacked with Registax 3 http://www.astro-nut.net/2008/06/04/starblast-45-imaging/