Ryld wrote: taken afocally with an orion ST80 and a finepix s5200 camera.... The saturn shot looks a lot like my first Saturn shot though a 60mm...

Just noticed I almost missed your post. My main computer has a filter that allows only posts with ASTRO: in the subject line to block porn when I'm viewing...

....retry

With the lousy weather and now full moon I'm reprocessing some I did last year about this time. Back then I didn't have access to PhotoShop nor know how to...

Hi - Io and the GRS were in view together after twilight in Florida. Our winds were still up, cutting significantly into the seeing. I ramped up the frames...

This is a 30 minute shot of M31 taken in the early 50's using a double arm barn door "mount" driven by wind up alarm clock gears. The "Scope" was a 400mm...

Hello, Here my attempt to catch M27 with LRGB filterset. SBIG ST8-XME - c11 with FR of 0.63 cheers, Erik Bryssinck - Belgium www.eisystems.be/astronomy/

Last night at 9pm pacific time. Seeing was horrible as usual. This year's Jupiter apparition has been really swimmy. Nonetheless, thought I'd share this...

I added more exposure time to the veil: now am at 65x20minutes previous checkpoint was at 22x 20minutes. the background is less grainy and there is a bit...

I already have a decent version of this field in Draco containing NGC 5905 (face-on) and NGC 5908 (edge-on), but because of lack of better objects in the...

I shot M27 from my backyard in mag 3 to at best mag 3.5 skies. I am in the san francisco bay area near the Oakland airport (less than 10 miles...

I began this over the July 4th holiday and took my most recent data last night, Aug 3 This is 12 hours of , 10 hours of and 7 hours of Halpha It was shot...

Hi to all, here is a very compressed image of one of my last deep sky images using the following equipmets : Fabio Acquarone Imperia -Caramagna ...

Back in June one of my only clear nights was a bit past half moon. So I decided to try for it though my planetary results are mediocre at best. So I set...

With the first clear night in ages I had to take something even if it was only a couple days from full moon. So I put in the H-alpha filter and went after...

Fabio's image reminded me that I have taken some images of M13 in May when I couldn't think of another target to finish the night. I combined the new images...

I was hoping to catch some Perseid's but got this, not a bad trade. This is a 30 Second Exposure taken with the Lens set to 22mm fl. The Camera is a Nikon...

It may be a bit boring to image M57 for the 100th time, but it is a good target for short summer nights. I did 6x2 minutes and 18x5 minutes, both at f/10, on...

this is just getting started but looks pretty interesting to me. There's the big bright nebula in the middle but there's lots of faint dark nebulosity all...