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Monday, December 31, 2007
Autum 2007 H-alpha images
H-a 4h Elephants trunk nebula in IC 1396
LX200 GPS 12" f6.3 + SXV-AO (Active Optics system)
The core of IC 1805 4h of H-a
LX200 GPS 12" f6.3 + SXV-AO (Active Optics system)
Bubble nebula 4h of H-a
ED80, guided with LX200 and QHY5 camera+PHD-guiding
2h of H-a



SXV-AO, Active Optics sytem first light

On the left side Bubble nebula 4h HaRGB image, guided with SXV-AO.
On the right side, older, 2h UHC RGB image from spring 2007.
Right side image is guided with traditional sytem, ED80+QHY5 camera and PHD-guiding.
4h H-a + 2h RGB with UHC-filter


STEREO 3D tests, just fof fun!
Images from Autum 2007 part II



ED80 + QHY8, guiding LX200+QHY5
UHC-filter 5h+flats+bias
Labels:
nebula
Images from autum 2007


Veil nebula, Western part.
ED80 + QHY8, guiding LX200+QHY5
UHC-filter 4h+flats+bias
Labels:
nebula
DS images from 2004-07

Older DS images from 2005-7
M31 is beautiful and very problematic target.
Large angular size, low surfage brightness and large dynamic range
combined to heavily light polluted location, is not a good combination.
Anyhow, here is the result this time.
I really need a darker location.
SW80ED and QHY8
guiding LX200+QHY5+PHD-guiding
4h total exposure time.
M33 is adifficult target from light polluted evnironment.I use four hours of exposures for this. Noise porblem and very low S/N are coused by LP. SW80ED QHY8, guided with LX200+QHY5+PHD-guiding
I had some extra time, so i went trough my archives.
Here it is famous 17P/Holmes.
At the time it was easy to spot with naked eye.
Two hours of exposures with QHY8 and SW80ED.
M13



I was very proud, that I was able to see spiral arms
in my picture! Image is taken in Alt/Az mode acd there was
only 12x30s subs, no guiding.

Labels:
galaxy images
Moon Images from 2004-2006
I have had few images in famous LPOD
http://www.lpod.org/

I have had an article about Moon 3D transformation in Sky & Telescope.
(J-P Metsavainio, A New Way of Looking at the Moon. Sky & Telescope, Jan 2005, p 142-146.)
Here is a few sample images from the past.

Moon at day time


Eclipse serie from 2007
Below last three images at 50% scale.

One more sample about 3D transformation of the Moon.
The limb of the Moon is seen from abowe in upper part of the image
Labels:
moon images,
publications
Planetary images from 2004-2006
Collection of "old" images.LX200 GPS 12" and SW 80ED.
Cameras: Canon 300D, QHY8, various Webcams
Jupiter
Our Sun with few tiny Sun spots


Labels:
planetary images
Equipments
List of my astro related equipments,
Telescopes,
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Meade Lx200 GPS 12"
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Sky Watcher 80ED
Camera lenses for astrowork,
Canon FD 200mm f2.8
Tokina AT-X 300mm f2.8
Canon 200mm f1.8 (World fastest telelens)
Mounts,
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HEQ5
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Meades original fork mount on the Mega Wedge Pro http://www.astro-engineering.com/LX200/megawedgepro.html
Cameras,
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QHY8 Cooled 6mb clor astro camera http://www.qhyccd.com/QHY8.html
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Canon 300D
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Lodestar Guider camera http://www.starlight-xpress.co.uk/Lodestar.htm
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QHY5 guider camera http://www.qhyccd.com/QHY5.html
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Fusion Webcam from logitech
Accessories,
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SXV-AO, active optics unit from Starlight Xpress http://www.starlight-xpress.co.uk/SXV-AO.htm
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DIY heating traps for various elements of the telescope http://www.dewbuster.com/heaters/heaters.html
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Losmandy Dowetail ringsystem
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Losmandy 3D Counterweight system
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Filter drawer system http://www.gerd.neumann.net/v2/english/eng_filterdrawer.html
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TCF-s temperature compensated focuser http://www.optecinc.com/optec_015.htm
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Telrad finder with home made dew shield
- cable managment system, yep lots of cables there
Celestron f6.3 focal reducer/flattener
lots of small stuf.....
Filters,
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7nm 2" H-alpha from Baader
- 8,5nm 2" O-III from Baader
8nm 2" S-II from Baader
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UHC-s from Baader
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IDAS-LP filter
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various planetary filters
Software,
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MaximDL http://www.cyanogen.com/
PoleAlignMax
RegiStax http://www.astronomie.be/registax/
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Cartes du Ciel http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/index.html
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PS
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Lots and lots of other, supporting, astro related software
Labels:
equipments
Sunday, December 30, 2007
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