Astronomy

Various astronomy pictures I’ve taken with with my telescope.  I’m going to move to a more chronological list of pictures in the astrophotographical blog but I’ll try to link to the best of them from here.

Planets: Jupiter Moon

Galaxies: M31 M33 M45 M51 M66 M81 M101

Nebula: M27 NGC281 NGC7023

Clusters: None yet

I use a Sky-Watcher Explorer 130P-DS OTA.  Some of the older pictures were taken when it was mounted on an unguided Sky-Watcher EQ3 PRO Go-To astronomy mount.  Nowadays I use an EQ6-R Sky-Watcher mount.

130PDS with original Eq3 mount

I used an unmodded Canon 550D to take the earlier pictures. Then I acquired a ZWO ASI 2600MC-PRO which I now mostly use.  Planetary camera and guide camera is a ZWO ASI 120MC-S.  The whole thing is controlled by astroberry.

130PDS on EQ6-R mount

Stacking and post processing is in  Siril and StarTools.  Unless otherwise noted I used ISO 800 with the  Canon 550D and gain 100 offset 24 with the ASI 2600.

 

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