Category Archives: Astrophotography and Astronomy

So, given the previous post, what does all that get you? Here’s 80 minutes of M27, through the AT8RC: 80 minutes (16x300s lights kept, 5x300s darks), Celestron CGE-Pro, Astro-Tech 8″ RC in ADM side-by-side config, with the Astro-Tech FF., Orion … Continue reading →

Took some quick iPhone shots of my setup this past Sunday (6/20/10). Overall shot, at Camp Highroad. Mount on left obviously, imaging laptop, 85 amp-hour battery setup in foreground. Closer shot of the imaging laptop, battery with inverter atop and … Continue reading →

I took this 105 total exposure time thru the 8″ SCT, guided with the 80mm shorttube and guidecam with PhD. The wind was up around 10mph, and slightly higher, and I think I started out of focus and it might … Continue reading →

Taken at Camp Highroad, Middleburg, VA on 04/14/2010. I used a Celestron CGEM mount. Atop that a side-by-side ADM setup with a 80mm Orion StarShoot scope and guidecam combo, and a Celestron 8″ SCT. In back of the SCT was … Continue reading →

Went thru the stuff I’ve imaged, and did a little processing on them. Next time I’m out, I’ll do things with *much* more imaging time. In order of when I did them… 11-29-2009 – M42: 12-11-2009 – M42 (processing done … Continue reading →

Gonna do some quick screencaps in Starry Night Pro Plus 6 about future possible targets and what hardware I might use to shoot them with. Also, this is a good exercise in looking up targets and keeping them here to … Continue reading →

Bob Long from the AAA_Imaging group on Yahoo did the post-processing of my M42 data in Photoshop CS. We figured out that the 120s and 180s subs weren’t really useable (I’ll go into more detail later why), but here’s the … Continue reading →

Okay, here’s M42 again. This is 10x60s, 5x120s, and 3x180s subexposures, with dark subtraction for each set. Then I combined each of the 3 sets. I didn’t do any stretching as I’m pretty clueless about that stuff. But I was … Continue reading →