Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Messier 83 (also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, M83 or NGC 5236) is a barred spiral galaxy[ proximately 15 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. It is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies in the sky,
I was out till 2:00am this morning capturing this image. M83 is a very elusive object snag. It is very low in the South. At it's peak elevation it is only 21deg. above the horizon, and is only visible above the trees for about 2 hours.Camera: Canon T3i
Telescope: Celestron C8 @ f6.3
Mount: Lostmandy G11 with Gemini GoTo
Guiding: Orion StarShoot Auto-guider on a 70mm scope. and PHD2.
Image Capture: BackYard EOS
Processing: Photoshop CS6e, NIC Collection, and Boundry Noise reduction.
10 x 300sec. axposures @ 1600iso.
This image needs a bit more work, but not to bad for now.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Thursday, April 10, 2014
The Sun in Ha. March 2014 |
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Who would have guessed, that March would end on a good note. 2 clear evenings in a row. I spent both of them in the Observatory imaging Galaxy's. I decided to dust off my C8 which will help with the small galaxies.
Both Images where captured early March 31st.
Celestron C8 @f6.3
Canon T3i
8 x 300sec exposures @1600iso
All image stacking and processing was done using Adobe CS6 extended.
M64 The Black Eye Galaxy |
Celestron C8 @f6.3
Canon T3i
8 x 300sec exposures @1600iso
All image stacking and processing was done using Adobe CS6 extended.
M104 The Sombrero Galaxy |
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