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Saturn just after opposition in 2012338 viewsNot a good night for imaging: just occasional gaps in the clouds, but my first opportunity to image Saturn this year.
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Moon south316 viewsTaken 31st of March with a 102mmAPO and a focal length of 4000mm, with a 3x teleconverter (Barlow lens) and ext tubes. GB
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The Double Bubble Nebula, NGC 2371-2186 viewsPlanetary nebula in Gemini which is also known as the Peanut or Gemini nebula but looks more like a humbug sweet to me!
Discovered by William Herschel and catalogued as two separate entries. Presumably he saw the two bright spots in the inner zone and these are what he recorded as two objects. The two outer lobes, from bi-polar jets, are probably far too faint to have been what he observed. The central star has a temperature of over 100,000K.
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Another sunny day!251 viewsThis was taken using all BAS kit (EQ2 mount, Coronado 'scope & Trust webcam) - I just needed to add my own computer (inside a big cardboard box, to provide some shade!)
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SunJet263 viewsWhile I was waiting for the ISS this flew across.
Makes your hairs stand on end when a plane flies into the field of view of your 'scope while sun spotting.
Video version:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28W7IenGVH8
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Planetary Nebula, Abell 74 235 viewsLocated in Vulpecula, this planetary nebula is a very old, very large, very round and very faint! It took 14 hours exposure over 4 nights to drag it out of the sky background! The red elliptical fuzzy above centre (half way from the centre to the top north edge) is background galaxy PGC66471.
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Pleiades M45288 viewsTaken with a 66mmAPO,Canon350D and a UHC filter,Exp 17x300secs. GB
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Jupiter and Io367 viewsOver the course of a few hours while adjusting the camera to the get the best image I watched Io begin transiting across Jupiter. To start the animation click on the image.
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Veil Nebula261 viewsTaken 19thOct with a Canon350D,66mmAPO and a UHC filter,Exp 8x600Secs. GB
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Weather Map290 viewsImage downloaded from Satellite NOAA 19 as it was passing northbound over Europe. Sound was captured using WXtoImg and a modified 400 Channel Pro 2006 (Ross Wilkinson) plugged into the sound card of PC
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Good seeing from Bolton240 viewsThe high-pressure area had left us with calm air overnight, so the seeing was very good. And with bright Moonlight, the sky was not dark enough for imaging faint objects anyway.
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C/2009 P1 Garradd on 24-Aug197 viewsDespite some wispy clouds, I managed to locate and image the comet for around an hour, taking advantage a period of thicker cloud to take my dark-frames. :-)
I've also made an animation of this sequence: see our Forum.
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The Needle Galaxy, NGC 4565 272 viewsThe classic edge-on galaxy - hence its common name, the Needle Galaxy. It is a giant galaxy and is slightly warped - note the dust lanes forming a very shallow cross. Exposure 5 hours total.
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The Hamburger Galaxy NGC 3628248 viewsThis is the faintest but largest member of Leo Triplet of galaxies – M65 and M66 are the other two. This edge-on spiral galaxy is split by a highly disturbed dust lane which is believed to have been caused by a close encounter with M66.
8 hours total exposure over 2 nights. DR
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Planetary Nebula Abell 31 (Sh2-290) 539 viewsAbell 31 is perhaps the largest planetary nebula. It has a larger apparent size than the Helix Nebula yet Benedict at al. (2009) using the HST found it to be 3 times further away at around 2000 light years. They used parallax to determine its distance. Biggest or not, this ancient planetary nebula is seriously faint!!!!!
Exposure: 7 hours over 3 nights. DR
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The Sun254 viewsFirst attempt at imaging the sun
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Galaxy Group NGC 3190, Hickson 44220 viewsLocated in Leo, NGC 3190 is the near edge-on spiral galaxy at the centre of galaxy group Hickson 44. Estimated to be around 80 million light years away, the other 3 main group members are the featureless elliptical, NGC 3193, a faint but striking spiral galaxy NGC 3187 and at the bottom (south) is NGC 3185, a barred spiral with an outer ring. Many background galaxies complete the scene. Exposure 5.5 hours. DR
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NGC2685236 views
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Sun282 viewsImaged with a 40mm Solar Telescope and a Canon350D. GB
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