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Archie

Photos from 2023

Eagle Nebula – 90 minutes, Esprit 100ED – Taken 16/7/2023, processed with Pixinsight on 1/08/2023

Photos from 2022

Rosette Nebula – 100 minutes

Eta Carina Nebula – 45 minutes, Esprit 100ED

Leo Triplet – 74 minutes, Esprit 100ED

Lobster Nebula – 85 minutes, Esprit 100ED

Photos from 2021

New camera! 🙂

New Telescope !

First light

Carina Nebula (capture details in photo)

Lagoon Nebula

Trifid Nebula

Orion Nebula

Omega Nebula

Flame Nebula with Horsehead in Orion

ZWO EAF Focuser

Comet Leonard

Carina Nebula (from city suburb)

Orion Nebula (from city suburb)

Going out tonight for the last time this year. Watch this space!

Photos from 2020

Trifid & Lagoon nebula, 80ED, 93min

Carina Nebula, colour palette applied

Photos from 2019

Carina Nebula, Canon 6D, Orion 80ED, 1.2hr, 800ASA

Trifid & Lagoon Nebula, Canon 600D, 80ED, 64min, 800ASA

Andromeda Galaxy, 100min

Catching up….

I have not posted anything for almost three years now but that does not mean that I have stopped taking photos. I will try to catch up by posting some of my pics since Jan 2020.

Rosette Nebula (NGC 2252)

Rosette Nebula (NGC 2252), taken on 5 Jan 2019 at Meldanda, South Australia.

Taken with a Canon 6D through an 80mm EON ED Refractor on a EQ6-R mount.

99 x 1 minute light frames calibrated with dark and bias frames.

Processed with Deep Sky Stacker, PS CS2 and LR4.

River Murray Dark Sky Reserve

We are lucky to have a new dark observing site relatively close, about 90 minutes drive away, east of Adelaide towards the Murray River.

I have been there three times since New Year and its been very good.

I have a few photos to show and will keep adding more as I complete their processing.

Orion Nebula, taken on 13 Jan 2019 at Meldanda, South Australia.

Taken with a Canon 6D through an 80mm EON ED Refractor on a EQ6-R mount.

21 x 2 minute light frames calibrated with dark and bias frames.

Processed with Deep Sky Stacker, PS CS2 and LR4.

Large Magelanic Cloud, also taken on 13 Jan 2019 at Meldanda, South Australia.

Taken with a modified Canon 600D through a Canon EF-S 60mm lens on a iOptron Skytracker on my camera tripod.

40 x 3 minute (2 hours) light frames calibrated with dark and bias frames.

Processed with Deep Sky Stacker, PS CS2 and LR4.

New lens – Samyang 50mm f/1.4

I got a new lens (2nd hand but very good condition) today. The Samyang 50mm f/1.4 AS UMC lens is a fully manual lens for focus and aperture. As I will mostly be using it for astrophotography on a tracking mount for long exposures the manual operation is not a problem.

I was worried that the lens will not reach focus at infinity on f/1.4 but I tried it tonight and it can get slightly past infinity which is a good result.

This lens should be quite sharp and I look forward to testing it out in the near future. I will hopefully have some results to post here soon.