Last night I could capture a few light frames of M27. The 3 individual small narrow filtered images were combined in Hubble-Palette colorization
M27 in Hubble color
Makarian Chain and Iris Nebula
Even though the dark night in June is quite short, I could capture these images of Makarian Chain around M86 in Virgo and the Iris Nebula.
Images captured near Sommeralm, 30km north-east of Graz. Night sky still suffers from light pollution. The milky way was visible, but not crisp and clear.
M57 LiveStack vs longer exposures
This eveneing I tested the capabilities of live-stacking in SharpCap and compared the results to a set of longer exposures. The results of the extremely short live-stacking are stunning!
Live-Stacking: 19×2.7s = 51s
Normal stacking: 25x30s = 750s
Found my planetary camera and tested on Moon
As the nights are really short right now, I set up my scope at home and took a look at the moon. Seeing was not too good, but in moderate magnification, the moon still was pleasant to look at. So I thought, I did not shoot the Moon or the planets for a while. Why not give it a shot? I took my my planetary camera which was stored in their box for more than 2 years and set up for imaging…
For the “first” results, I am really pleased. Now I think I have to optimize and go for it again soon 🙂
Image properties:
102mm f7 APO, ASI120MM-S, RGB+IR Filters
Copernicus: 10% of approximately 5000 frames
Plato: 10% of approximately 11000 frames
My astrophotography (Comet 46/P Wirtanen) session in local news
My saturday night astrophotography session (see last post) got some attention in local news. Two folks from Kleine Zeitung accomanied me and a friend to the observing location. They created a video report, showing us freezing the ***** off for a nice photo.
Kudos to the journalists, as they endured the -10° until 2:30am!
View video here…
Hint: Video is in german language