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

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/

Timelapse through the skylight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvywYwwAbHA

4 hours of 30 second exposures, tripod no tracking, 22-55mm lens set to 22mm F 5.6

01/07/13 Comet C/2012 K25 Linear

3 hours of 90 second subs
Orion ST80
Canon XS
 Movie of 85 frames here:
 Youtube animation of 3 hours

01/03/13

1st image of the year Horsehead and Flame Nebulas in the constellation Orion
 Orion ST 80
 Canon XS
 Piggybacked on LX3
 163 exposures @ 90 seconds over 2 nights, darks and flats

M42 taken with Orion ST80

New to me ST80, traded an original Meade DSI color for it, the dsi would not update the screen fast enough to use it for manual guiding.
Canon XS prime focus, no filters, 75% Moon, this is cropped due to the bad gradients...stupid moon...
58 exposures @ 1:00
Deep Sky Stacker and StarTools

Orion, Running Man, Flame and Horsehead Nebulas

Canon XS, Tokina SD 210mm lens, DSS ansd StarTools
60 exposures @ 1:00
Larger version here: http://www.astrobin.com/full/24783/C/?

Pleides - M45 - 11/14/2012

M45, Pleides, 7 Sisters
Canon XS 210mm Tokina SD lens
60 exposures at 1:00 DSS and StarTools
Larger version here:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/25055/0/?mod=none&real=

Jupiter 11/10
 Canon XS 10" SCT 2x Barlow
EOS Mov Rec Autostakkert!2, Registax and Image analyser
Animation can be seen here:
http://www.astrobin.com/24645/

Jupiter 10.24.12 6:00am

Canon XS, 2x barlow, 10: SCT 5000mm Focal length

Orion 210mm lens

Only 13 frames at 5:30am, got up to get Jupiter and couldn't resist trying this

Andromeda 10.17.12

Finaly, been having balance issues pointing East so this has been a long time coming.
Andromeda galaxy, M31
Canon XS with Tokina 70-210mm @ 210mm and F5.6
150 - 30 second exposures, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and processed with StarTools.

10.4.12 The Eagle Nebula

Focus was bad, so I got big ol bloated fat stars, tried to fix em but only so myuch I can do.
40 1:00 exposures

9.20.12 Dumbell

Up to 1:00 subs unguided, whoohoo!
Now using StarTools Alpha for processing

My Original Orion Nebula Redux

March 2011 I borrowed a DSLR from a co worker and 28 exposures at 30 seconds, plus darks and flats. I have been using the StarTools beta program and went back and reprocessed the data.

Swan and Eagle

Canon XS with Tokina 70-210 manual lens @ 210mm
15 2:00 subs with 15 darks, stacked in DSS

Jupiter 9.11.12

Getting a little better I think

Andromeda 8.25.12

30 minutes of exposure - 50 second subs.

Jupiter 8.22.12 and Worst Jup Animation Ever

But it was my 1st one, so can't complain.
 Had average seeing, and problems with seams in Registax, but hey, live n learn.

And 2 moons, one with shadow and Great Red Spot

Cygnus 8.11.12

Saw 60 meteors between 119m and 2:30am, got 13 5:00 exposures at 22mm, used scope for tracking. Higer resolution here:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/17231/?mod=none

1st Jupiter with DSLR

I really did not have good conditions, it seemed clear at 5:30am, I got focused on a star, and waited for Jup to clear the tree, Stellarium told me it would be 6:08...wrong, I did discover up has to be almost 50* to clear the tree, by that time it was 6:30 and daylight and clouds were a comin!
I couldn't figure out why is was so fuzzy, like a double image, no matter what I did with the focus, then realized I still had the mask on....doh! So that didn't go well. The seeing was horrid, but once the clouds flew by I got a couple of vids.
Anyway, here is my best Jupiter ever, all I had tried before this was afocal digital camera.
Meade 10"SCT
Canon XS with 2x barlow
EOS Movie Record @ 5x
Registax and Fitswork

Copernicus Crater

It is 57 miles wide and 2.3 miles deep...it's a big freakin hole in the moon. It's not a good picture, but the weather has been killin me lately so I had to image something. I had tried for Saturn but the battery died and the only image I got was horrid.

Bah! Clouds and Moon...

Sagittarius Widefield

Canon EOS XS 22-55mm lens @ 55mm
ISO 400 F6.3, 2 exposures of 5:00 stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, edited with Fitswork and Paint.net

I really wanted more exposures but the dew was relentless, couldn't keep it off the lens.