Dec 10

Monkey Head Nebula / M35

Yet again a wide field shot 😀 M35 (top left) IC443 (bottom left, very poor visible) Monkey Head Nebula NGC 2174 (bottom right, looking up) Details

Nov 28

Illuminator Problem

The Skyatcher Star Adventurer Polar Scope illuminator unfortunatley is not usable while the L-bracket is mounted. To use it with the attached L-bracket, I customized a 25mm PVC-tube as adapter for the illuminator. Hope it works as desired 😀 BTW: I was inspired by this forum post: http://www.astrotreff.de/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=174928

Nov 19

M81 and M82

This time I ventured back to M81 and M82 (and of course NGC 3077) with the 200mm f/2.8. Details

Nov 17

Horsehead Nebula

This evening I focused on IC 434 – Horsehead Nebula. One of the most beautiful objects in the sky IMO. Details

Nov 16

Orion & IC434

For this session my goal was to catch the Great Nebula in Orion together with IC 434 (Horsehad Nebula). Details

Nov 13

M45 Pleiades

I did a re-stacking and re-processing of the RAW files of the Pleiades with PixInsight. What a difference 🙂 Faint cloudy structures around the Pleiades group are visible now. Details  

Nov 7

M31 Andromeda 2h

This image is a combination of 2 nightly sessions (1. and 6. November 2015). Total exp. time 2h See here my DeepSkyStacker settings. Details