11 September 2018

I’m an amateur astronomer, a passion since I’m a child. I own a Celestron C9.25 CPC Deluxe EdgeHD. I’m still a beginner in astrophotography, here you can find some images I took, you should be able to see the improvements as a gain experience :)

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Images

The Rosette Nebula, december 2, 2019

2019 12 02 rosetta

The Pleiades, december 2, 2019

2019 12 02 pleiades

The Orion Nebula, december 2, 2019

2019 12 02 orion v1

NGC 7000, North America Nebula, 1st June 2019

For my 2nd attempt with the Hyperstar lens, I decided to go with a much harder target: NGC 7000 aka the North America Nebula. This time I worked around USB connection issues on my old laptop by using a new one, and capturing from a Windows VM on my Linux host :) Anyway, I could capture 467 images, 30s each. Processing the result turns out to be a challenge, and I’m pretty sure I have enough data to get a much nicer image. Anyway, here’s the initial result:

2019 06 01 ngc 7000

M27, Dumbbell Nebula, 31 May 2019

For my 40th birthday, I offered myself a Hyperstar lens. This allows a f/2.2 aperture on my C9, making it very suitable for deep-sky imaging, with relatively short exposures. For my first attempt, I took a shot at the Dumbbell Nebula. Due to hardware issues, I could only stack 80 images of only 15s exposure, and the result is already promising. I’m looking forward for more images with this lens!

2019 05 31 dumbbell

M101, 11 April 2019

This is a combination of 35 times 4 minutes exposure (total 140 minutes).

  • Celestron CPC 9.25 Deluxe EdgeHD

  • Equatorial table Celestron WedgeHD Pro

  • Focal reducer 0.7x

  • CCD: QHY8L

  • Celestron Off-Axis guider

  • Guiding CCD: QHY5L-II-C

This is also the first time I’m using flat frames (not because I’m lazy but because it’s not super simple to do). I could have gathered more images, but f* Windows decided to reboot for an update in the middle of the night, a few minutes after I had decided to go to bed to try to get some sleep during the night (it was 2am and I wanted to gather 1h more of data). Anyway, here’s the result, I think I can get a little more from raw data with experience with PixInsight:

m101 2019 04 11

And an annotated version:

m101 2019 04 11 annotated

M64, the Black-Eye galaxy, 10 April 2019

This one gave me troubles for processing. I should have used flats, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to. It’s a combination of 23 images of 4 minutes pause, using autoguiding.

m64 black eye 2019 04 09

M3, globular cluster

First attempt with autoguiding.

m3 2019 03 30

Needle Galaxy, 17 March 2019

First clear night after days of rain.

ngc 4565 2019 03 17

NGC 2903, 25 February 2019

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A slice of Rosetta, 24 February 2019

Given my setup, I can’t have the full nebula in a single field, so this is just a slice :)

rosetta 2019 02 24

The Horsehead Nebula, 22 February 2019

I’m still a beginner, this picture shows some artifacts, but I’m pretty happy with it!

horsehead 2019 02 22

The Eskimo Nebula, 21 February 2019

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M101, 14 February 2019

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M65, 13 February 2019

m65 2019 02 13

Mars, 11 September 2018

Better seeing, better collimation, better images :)

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Mars, 9 September 2018

Animation of Mars. 40 videos of 30s. 1 minute between each video. Preprocessing with PIPP. Stacking using AS!3. Processing using Registax 6, cleanup using Gimp, and animation created with PIPP.

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Mars, 8 September 2018

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Saturn, 10 August 2018

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