Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Widefield picture (camera only, no scope), using a hand made tracking device: turn the screw once per minute to follow the stars! 3 * 3 minutes

Not great yet but I'll do other tests soon !




Saturday, July 9, 2011

Nice night yesterday - some more pictures of the same objects, rephotographed with longer exposures



M27, the Dumbbell Nebula
I wonder what that is!

Albireo, twin star
M5, globular star cluster










M17, the Swan/Omega Nebula

M11, Wild Duck Cluster



Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Reprocessed directly from the RAW files using dcraw with DSS - much better without the noise reduction.