shawnhar Astroblog: 2013

Monday, February 18, 2013

Partial Lunar Mosaic

Missed a few corners!
High res here: http://www.astrobin.com/full/33231/?mod=none

Friday, February 8, 2013

Poor attempt at flame nebula

Too many issues to list...79 subs at 40 seconds, no darks no flats

Monday, February 4, 2013

Saturn 1.4.13

Update 2.8.13 - After seeing some recent Saturn captures I processed my best vid again to see if I could get the Polar Cap to show up...think I got it.

Got up at 6:00am and tried for Saturn even though the conditions were not good. Saturn will remain pretty low in the sky this year so I'll take what I can get.
It was about 40 degrees altitude and was already daylight by the time I got these, 2 best of 10 vids, seeing was awful.
Canon XS, 2x Barlow, 10" SCT, best 1000 of 4000 frames

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Moon 1.23.13

I wasn't going to image at all, just work on my polar alignment, but the wind/seeing made it impossible, so what the heck, try the moon anyway.
Meade LX3 10" SCT .63 Focal Reducer
Canon XS
Best 750 of 4000 frames, Captured with EOS Mov Rec, Stacked in AutoStakert, Wavelets in Registax and Final Adjustments in Photoshop

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

M81/82

M81 and M82 are 12 million light years away, and that's real close as far as galaxies go.
In the Big Dipper, so they are visible almost all year.
ST80, Canon XS -76 subs @ 90 sec
Full version:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/30510/?mod=none

Orion and Running man Composite

250 subs @ 90 sec for the widefield using the ST80 and 76 subs @ 30 sec using the 10" SCT for the core.
The blending came out pretty good, bit of a challenge to layer it in correctly.
Stacked in DSS processied in StarTools and layer masks in Photoshop.
Full version here:
http://www.astrobin.com/30594/

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