More of M42 + M33

Some more of Orion's Nebula (each 20 exposures at 5.6s), plus a bit of the M33 galaxy (200 exposures at 8s). At last I am able to somewhat get some details on the "arms" of the galaxy, although not great yet

First attempts at Deep Sky Imaging, using B&W deep sky camera.

Below is M42 (Orion Nebula)'s core region 27 5.6 seconds exposures stacked in DeepSkyStacker.




Below is the core of M31 (Andromeda's galaxy). 26 20-seconds exposures.

23rd of December, ~3:20AM: Moon and Saturn

Europa moon shadow crossing

Europa's shadow crossing Jupiter, pictures 120 seconds exposures taken at the following times (PM, JST):
7:17
7:21
7:56
7:58
8:02
8:20
8:31
8:44
8:49











Animaated GIF here: http://i.picasion.com/pic33/ee7174e1297dc90fcec07f6f47df8d60.gif

Jupiter ~7:40PM. Black spot under the band not caused by CCD (in multiple images, each with a different area of CCD used), but by image processing? - can also be seen in single unprocessed frames though, so not sure what the reason is...





Jupiter ~11:30PM

20101015 ~6:50PM, the moon through the clouds







No luck with Jupiter or Saturn in the early morning: too cloudy.

Reprocessing of one of the 20101011 Jupiter picture, with drizzling method to double the resolution, and less aggressive on the wavelets. Less detailed image but more natural colors.

Today's pictures:

1) The Moon, ~6PM














2) Albireo, binary star

Single frame with Webcam, no post-processing. Taken ~9PM



3) Jupiter

- ~6:30PM



~9:30PM

Second astrophotos

Target: Jupiter
Time: ~9:30
Barlow X2
Location: Tokyo, Japan
ToUCam 180s exposures at 5FPS, stacked with Registax

First Astrophotographs

Target: Jupiter
Time: ~9:30PM
Location: Tokyo, Japan





No barlow, composite of 2 images, one focusing on the planet, the other on the moons. Denoising done manually, so not pretty.



Picture with Barlow X2, black stop is a spec on the CCD sensor.