Astronomical Images - the best from 2015/16
Featuring:
Clicking on some images won't do anything, and on others might toggle you through an image sequence.
Just gone midnight and I'm at Berry Fen taking some wide angle shots of Mars, Saturn and the early summer constellations. I had a fixed tripod, so limited the exposure to keep the star trails very short.
The first picture below shows a single 10 second exposure, the second is a stack of 40 x 20 second exposures using AstroArt6 (my first go with this software).
Mercury transit day.
Just inside the disc:
The best single frame (post processed by Pete) :
You can see a low resolution animation (with clouds etc.) here.
5th May
Another go with the Starlight Xpress camera. Galaxy M63 in the constellation Canes Venatici (a not very recognisable constellation, visually it's the two stars between the Great Bears tail and Coma Berenices).
The picture is a stack of 17 180 second frames, and 16 150 second frames (91 minutes total).
The very end of April, and some images of Jupiter with the Great Red Spot to the fore.
Click on the image to cycle through thirty images taken from quarter past eleven to half past midnight.
Io scoots behind Jupiter from the right.
20th April
A big moon this evening (morning), so why not take some pictures of it.
To give a sense of scale, crater Schickard in the detailed image is said to be 227km in diameter (Wikipedia). That's big enough to fit Lancashire in it.
10th April
I had another go with the Starlight Xpress camera, and remarkably this was the night that I didn't bring it back into the house under a cloud of expletives and disgruntlement. There's a bit of gap while all the expletives and disgruntlement were bubbling close to the surface, but this picture of M104, the Sombrero Galaxy in Virgo, is a stack of 15 pictures taken between around 02:00 and 02:50 BST.
It's now three years since I 'published' my first attempt at a picture of the Horse Head Nebula in Orion. At the time I thought I'm not going to do this again without a pucker Astro-camera, or at least a modified DSLR.
I've bought a pucker Astro-camera, and am really struggling with it, so lets give the old DSLR another try....
Looking at this you may be surprised to learn that this is a huge improvement on my previous attempt.
The summer constellations, Ophiuchus, Scorpius, Libra.
The transit of Mercury.
The Sun, Moon and Jupiter.
M63, M104 (Sombrero galaxy) and Barnard 33 (the Horse Head nebula).
Clicking on some images won't do anything, and on others might toggle you through an image sequence.
June 2016
6th JuneJust gone midnight and I'm at Berry Fen taking some wide angle shots of Mars, Saturn and the early summer constellations. I had a fixed tripod, so limited the exposure to keep the star trails very short.
The first picture below shows a single 10 second exposure, the second is a stack of 40 x 20 second exposures using AstroArt6 (my first go with this software).
May 2016
9th MayMercury transit day.
Just inside the disc:
The best single frame (post processed by Pete) :
You can see a low resolution animation (with clouds etc.) here.
5th May
Another go with the Starlight Xpress camera. Galaxy M63 in the constellation Canes Venatici (a not very recognisable constellation, visually it's the two stars between the Great Bears tail and Coma Berenices).
The picture is a stack of 17 180 second frames, and 16 150 second frames (91 minutes total).
April 2016
14th/30th AprilThe very end of April, and some images of Jupiter with the Great Red Spot to the fore.
Click on the image to cycle through thirty images taken from quarter past eleven to half past midnight.
Io scoots behind Jupiter from the right.
20th April
A big moon this evening (morning), so why not take some pictures of it.
To give a sense of scale, crater Schickard in the detailed image is said to be 227km in diameter (Wikipedia). That's big enough to fit Lancashire in it.
10th April
I had another go with the Starlight Xpress camera, and remarkably this was the night that I didn't bring it back into the house under a cloud of expletives and disgruntlement. There's a bit of gap while all the expletives and disgruntlement were bubbling close to the surface, but this picture of M104, the Sombrero Galaxy in Virgo, is a stack of 15 pictures taken between around 02:00 and 02:50 BST.
February 2016
11th FebruaryIt's now three years since I 'published' my first attempt at a picture of the Horse Head Nebula in Orion. At the time I thought I'm not going to do this again without a pucker Astro-camera, or at least a modified DSLR.
I've bought a pucker Astro-camera, and am really struggling with it, so lets give the old DSLR another try....
Looking at this you may be surprised to learn that this is a huge improvement on my previous attempt.
Comments
Post a Comment