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This is my first attempt at a deep sky object after a long cloudy winter so go easy on me! This is the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 258). Taken with a Celestron 9.25″, Hyperstar, ASI 1600 cooled. Two exposures of 15s merged using DeepSkyStacker and an auto levels adjustment in Photoshop. I didnt use any filters, and this was with an almost full moon. It’s taken all night to get something and I’ve so much to learn, but I suppose I
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I used to run the site way, way back. I’ve put some sub pages up for you to reminisce about what used to be. Leave comments if you know what the vehicles are called. I have long forgotten. People have blogged about it here and here This is the official story: 26 November 2003 BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO SOUTH AFRICA TERMINATES ITS SPONSORSHIP OF THE HEIDELBERG MOTOR MUSEUM British American Tobacco South Africa has announced its decision to close
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I think one of these is a flamingo. But which one…
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Tonight’s conditions were supposed to be good according to ScopeNights yesterday, but deteriorated throughout the day. I managed to get a quick RGB of Saturn in after some visual of Venus and Jupiter’s conjunction. Conditions must have been reasonable, given the detail I got. This is 1000 frames each of RGB (thanks +Kevin Franklin for the suggestion to increase the frames), stacked in AutoStakkert 2, and then processed in Photoshop. +Dylan O’Donnell you’ll enjoy that the colours are closer
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A long time ago I created a site for fun – betterlotterynumbers.com I’ve now migrated the code to my site: http://terencelegrange.com/lottery/ Here you can search for the following charts. Clicking on the link will take you to a pre-generated image. The sum of numbers – how often do all the numbers drawn add up to say, 150? Sum of numbers by zones – if you add up all the numbers in each draw, you’ll find the highest occuring totals will
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This is a list of NGC object I have photographed.
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This is a list of all my Messier objects that I’m keeping track of
Read moreI’ve started a kind of log book for astrophotographer resources that might help. Light pollution – if you’re looking for places where there are dark skies, this site helps alot. It gives a reading of the radiance of your air. http://www.lightpollutionmap.info ISS flybys – this site provides great times of when it’ll fly by your city. https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/view.cfm?country=Australia®ion=Victoria&city=Melbourne#.V2aYSKJOzEI For a 5,000 megapixel view of the milkyway, this site has to be up there as a great resource: http://skysurvey.org/blog/2011/2/17/for-all-the-nights-stars
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Here’s how I’m progressing with some of my imaging of Saturn from a little over a month ago to today. It’s feels good to be heading in the right direction.
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This is my work in progress list. There are obviously others, but this is what I use: For planetary capture via an AVI file, SharpCap – http://www.sharpcap.co.uk/ For stacking the often-thousands of frames in the AVI file – AutoStakkert – http://www.autostakkert.com/ For stacking RGB images – I have the Adobe Creative Suite – http://www.adobe.com/au/products/cs6.html For my DSLR photography – BackyardNikon – https://www.otelescope.com/ I am slowly moving to SGP – mainsequencesoftware.com/
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Tonight’s been the first in over 3 weeks where we’ve not had a cloud in the sky! Despite near freezing temperatures it was a good night. I tried my 3rd attempt at deep space stuff, and failed miserably again, but given conditions were reasonable I got a couple of nice shots of Saturn. 2,000 frames, top 20% stacked in AutoStakkert2, color combined in Photoshop, no further processing. Taken on a Celestron EdgeHD 9.25″ using a ZWO 120mm on an NEQ6
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