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Saturn10 viewsUsing a Philips Toucam Web Camera the image was taken with a Celestron 11" SCT and x2 Barlow lens.May 17, 2012
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Saturn and Satellites10 viewsSaturn along with a few of its moons - Iapetus, Titan, Dione, Tethys, Rhea, and Enceladus.
- a wider field-of-view composite of the previous two shots.May 16, 2012
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12 viewsYesterday morning I used the Harvard MicroObservatory Telescope in Arizona to image Cygnus X1 a strong X-Ray source in the Constellation of Cygnus near Eta Cygni. The Black Hole and its binary companion HD 226868 (a 9th mag supergiant ) are believed to have a rotation period of 5.6 days. Of course you cannot see the black hole only the companion.
Len AdamMay 16, 2012
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Video - Sun Spot 147615 viewshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt-NWKS7Rzg
The sun emerges from cloud as it sets, revealing the largest sunspot I personally have ever seen - AR1476May 13, 2012
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Saturn's Satellites22 viewsA 4 second exposure reveals Saturn's Moons:-
Titan Dione Tethys Mimas Rhea Enceladus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedavewalker/7191536332/May 13, 2012
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Saturn28 viewsA 4 second exposure reveals Saturn's Moons:-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedavewalker/7191536332/May 13, 2012
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Saturn29 viewsTaken with Sky Watcher 5" Newtonian Reflector EQ5 Mount and x2 Barlow lens while camping at Bala Lake Wales. My polar alignment was far from perfect but managed to keep Saturn in the field of view long enough to get 500 frames.May 13, 2012
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Globular Cluster M322 viewsJust a quickie exposure last night before the clouds rolled in. I needed it for Tuesday's talk on the constellations and their best deep-sky objects.
DRMay 13, 2012
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Crescent Venus16 viewsThe result from the previous photoMay 13, 2012
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Photographing Crescent Venus18 viewsSet up to capture Venus as it hurtles toward the sun.May 13, 2012
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Saturn may 201223 viewsSaturn captured using c8 and phillips webcam and 2x barlow lense. 120 frames stacked in registaxMay 12, 2012
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M323 viewsM3 Globular Cluser taken on the 05th March 2012. Twevle images stacked in deep sky stacker. 15sec per frame at ISO 1600.May 11, 2012
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Ring Nebula21 viewsRing Nebula taken on the 15th January 2012. Sixteen images stacked in deep sky stacker. 40sec per frame at ISO 800.May 10, 2012
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Owl Nebula20 viewsOwl Nebula taken on the 21st March 2012. Twenty five images stacked in deep sky stacker. 35sec per frame at ISO 1600.May 10, 2012
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Peculiar Galaxies Arp 1 and Arp 285 21 viewsOriginally published in 1966, The Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies is a catalogue of peculiar galaxies produced by Halton Arp. You would imagine that the first entry in his list, Arp 1, would be the most peculiar of all but not so. It is a perfectly regular face-on Sc type spiral (just above middle). Arp included it because he thought it was of low surface brightness. It is compared to the interacting pair Arp 285, NGC 2854 and 2856, (lower right) but these are the "peculiar" ones, not Arp 1. DRMay 08, 2012
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Running Man Nebula29 viewsSeven images stacked in deep sky stacker. 2min 45sec total at ISO 1600May 04, 2012
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Sun33 viewsSunspot AR1429 on the 5th March 2012 before releasing the CMEs on the 6th March 2012. Image processed in Registax.May 04, 2012
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Eskimo Nebula33 viewsFive images stacked in deep sky stacker. Quick capture of this planetary nebula as I wanted to see what I could get. This is the final image after I had processed it in GIMP. 2min 30sec total at ISO 1600.May 04, 2012
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M8227 viewsThirty stacked images of M82. I used lights, darks, flats and bias to create this image. 35sec per image at ISO 1600.May 04, 2012
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Saturn43 viewsSaturn the night before opposition. Processed in Registax from one of the four AVIs from that night. Couldn't feel my fingers at this point as I'd spent several hours imaging Mars and it was COLD.May 03, 2012
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Mars31 viewsMars captured on the 14th April 2012. Image processed in Registax (still learning how to use this freeware properly). 3x Barlow Lens and IR Filter.May 03, 2012
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Moon Craters33 viewsCopernicus and Eratosthenes Craters on the surface of the Moon.May 03, 2012
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The Great Orion Nebula29 viewsEighteen images of M42/M43, stacked in DSS. 5min 10sec total at ISO 1600May 03, 2012
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Jupiter with Transit of Europa41 viewsI was very luck that on one of the first times I imaged Jupiter I managed to capture a transit of one of the moons. I think, looking from the LHS yoiu can see: Io on the limb, Europa shaddow, Europa then GanymedeApr 29, 2012
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Open Cluster M6728 viewsIn contrast to the nearby Beehive Cluster, M67 comprises mainly yellow-red giants with very few blue stars (known as blue stragglers). This gives away its age as one of the oldest open clusters known at around 4 billion years.
DR
Apr 29, 2012
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The Milky Way in Sagittarius30 viewsThe same image from yesterday, but after rotation, cropping and manual gradient removal in IRIS (see the "very wide field images" section in the tutorial http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/iris/tutorial4/doc14_us.htm)Apr 27, 2012
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Saturn36 viewsStill struggling to get good focusApr 26, 2012
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Saturn 14.4.1231 viewsSkymax 127 goto, Phillips webcam. Another attempt at processing, using 203 of 1002 AVI frames in Registax 6. Apr 26, 2012
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The Galactic centre from Tenerife37 viewsJust testing the BRT's "Constellation Camera", looking towards the centre of our Galaxy in Sagittarius, with Scorpius also in view.
Clearly this camera has a wider field of view (40 degrees) than the aperture in their dome!Apr 26, 2012
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Saturn just after opposition in 201262 viewsNot a good night for imaging: just occasional gaps in the clouds, but my first opportunity to image Saturn this year.Apr 25, 2012
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Saturn April 201242 viewsView of Saturn taken just before midnight on 15 April. Just bobbing over the top of my neighbours 2 Oak trees.Apr 24, 2012
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The Beehive or Praesepe Cluster, M4442 viewsVisible to the naked eye from dark skies as a misty patch but it is all but invisible from Bolton. Note the two red giants and two small background galaxies – one right of centre, the other at left edge.
DR
Apr 22, 2012
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M1334 viewsFirst reply from Bradford Robotic Telescope.
Much better than the MicroObservatory.
Paul MiskiwApr 21, 2012
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M97-M10839 viewsTaken on the 14th of April, Two Hrs exp with a UHC filter. GBApr 17, 2012
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M101 Pinwheel Galaxy45 viewsMy first attempt at this, another holiday pic:-) stacked 9 x1.5min exposures, processed in nebulosity and tried out Iris too, slowly getting used to it...Apr 16, 2012
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M82 Cigar Galaxy46 viewsMy second attempt at M82, Much more pleased with this than my first, taken with next to no light pollution, I was surprised at the difference. 5x 1.5min exposures stacked.Apr 16, 2012
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M81 Galaxy39 viewsMy second attempt at this, this time taken on holiday with much less light pollution so it's actually visible now :) 5 x 1.5 min exposuresApr 16, 2012
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Saturn 14.4.1242 viewsAnother try!Apr 16, 2012
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Horsehead Nebula - V237 viewsThe same 20 frames as before, just different tweaks in DeepSkyStacker. Still very noisy, guess I'll add more lights when it returns next winter.
( V1 here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedavewalker/6850838500/Apr 15, 2012
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Ring Galaxy NGC 2859 and Quasar U133 viewsNGC 2859 is classed as a (R)SBO galaxy, SBO denotes a barred lenticular galaxy and the R a ring.
However, probably the most interesting aspect of this galaxy is the quasars found by Arp that lie close to NGC 3859's companions, one of which lies inside my image. This 19.2 magnitude quasar, designated U1, has a redshift of 0.23. This equates to a distance of 3 billion light years - approximately 12 times that of the galaxy. It is one of the objects Arp used to dispute the reality of quasar's redshifts. These views are almost universally discredited now and quasar's redshifts are accepted as a true indication of distance and the expansion of the universe.
DR
Apr 15, 2012
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Montage of Orion, lagoon and Crab Nebulae39 viewsAll taken with the MicroObservatory Robotic Telescope. My intention is to try the Bradford Robotic telescope next.
Paul MiskiwApr 12, 2012
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Eskimo Nebula37 viewsI may have bitten off more than I can chew with this first attempt at NGC2392Apr 11, 2012
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This is why you need a Bahtinov mask44 viewsMy eyes are simply not good enough to focus my telescope without one.Apr 11, 2012
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41 viewsM42 using MicroOservatory Robotic Telescope
Paul MiskiwApr 10, 2012
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Face in Space37 viewsM78 - Reflection Nebula in OrionApr 10, 2012
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Sharpless Nebulae Sh2-254, 255, 256, 257 and 25846 viewsContinuing on the trail of the Sharpless nebulae this relatively unknown group in Orion caught my eye and with 5 objects for the price of one it was too good to miss.
3 hours H-alpha + 3 hours RGB.
DRApr 08, 2012
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Venus and the pleides46 viewscouldnt miss this opportunity, taken on Wednesday evening with canon 1000d. 3 seperate shots, two for m45, one for venus with star point filter on, put together in deep sky stacker and played about with in gimp. 2x30 second for m45 and 1x6 second for venus. iso 400 + lpr filter on 300mm zoom lense.Apr 06, 2012
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The Apo and Acturus53 viewsQuick shot with canon, acturus is the star to the right of the dew shield...... Apr 05, 2012
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M5149 viewsfinally got my image of m51 !! ......... ok, ok, nasa's micro observatory found it and imaged it for me but its a start, and they didnt have a full moon to contend with this evening !!Apr 05, 2012
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M20 Triffid Nebula53 viewsMy First Try using MicroObservatory Robotic Telescope
Peter.Apr 05, 2012
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