Sunday, 27 February 2022

Evolution of my Astro Imaging

 I would say I have been electronic imaging since 2005 with my first Canon camera that was
purchased in 

2005 Canon 300d a 6.3mp. 

2007 updated to a Canon 40d.




2014 Starlight Express Sxvm25



2019 Zwo ASO 294Mc Pro



2021 ZWO ASI1600mm



Sunday, 6 February 2022

Simies 147 Part 2

 A restart to the project of Simies 147, the previous below 4 pane mosaic was captured using data from the fantastic Telescopius website. It suggested that the 4 panes would work and stich together, as you can see further down that didn't work. So I have re planned a 6 pane mosaic with a greater 30% overlap. I ran a test with 2 frames and with a stretch and alignment in Photoshop and Bingo it works. I would like to run with more data looking at 4-5 hours on each frame, more data equals more signal and less noise. So below is the first run of 50 minutes data per frame. So far with so little data I am very pleased that there is the full shell on view. Shown in negative here you can see the joins and the noise is very apparent. Very happy so far.



Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, C/2023 A3 , Comet A3,

  A cosmic wanderer, Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas or more commonly known as Comet A3 has traced its elliptical path through the solar system, a j...