Session Data Date: 23/06/2020 Time: 23:01 – 23:44 UT Seeing: II Mostly Stable, Transparency: Clear, Temp: 13.9C, Air Pressure: 1021mb, Humidity: 92%, Dew Point: 12.4C, Wind Speed: 2mph Scope: TMB 80mm APO Refractor at f/4.8 Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro, Filter: Ha 35nm, Processing: Dark subtracted and Flat fielded in Pixinsight. NGC7000 ( North American nebula) and IC7070 ( Pelican nebula) – both of which are named for blindingly obvious reasons are both…
Imaging Session: 14, May
Session Data Date: 14/5/2020 Time: 20:37 – 02:05 UT Seeing: Unknown Transparency: Unknown Temp: 7 C, Air Pressure: 1023mb Humidity: 82% Dew Point: 4C Wind Speed: 10mph Average Seeing: Average SQM: Scope: TMB 80 f/4.8 Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro, No Filter. Darks and Flats applied. Image rotation 268 degrees A two for the price of one observation in that we get NGC4214 in the FOV as well. This is one of those forgotten…
Imaging Session: 31, March
Session Data Date: 31/03/2020 Time: 21:50 – 22:45 UT Seeing: II Mostly Stable, Transparency: Mostly Clear, Temp:3.1C, Air Pressure: 1028mb, Humidity: 75%, Dew Point: 0C, Wind Speed: 8mph Scope: TMB 80mm APO Refractor at f/4.8 Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro, No filter, Dark subtracted, No Flats. NGC 5457 – M101 I shot a total of 60 x 30 second subs, but by the time the time the rejects had been removed I had…
Imaging Session: 23, March
Session Data Date: 23/03/2020 Time: 20:53 – 23:22 UT Seeing: II Mostly Stable, Transparency: Mostly Clear, Temp:5.5C, Air Pressure: 1023mb, Humidity: 85%, Dew Point: 3.5C, Wind Speed: 8.5mph Scope: TMB 80mm APO Refractor at f/6 Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro, No filter, Dark subtracted, No Flats. NGC 3031-M81 A total of 73 x 60sec light frames which have been dark subtracted. I wasn’t really worried how this turned out as this session was more…
First Light
Fist Light with the new ZWO 1600mm pro camera….
It’s on
Well I have coupled everything up. I’m not an amazing fan of OAG’s but I had one in the spares box and just thought it was simpler to try it out. In the end it was all for nothing as I couldn’t get both the camera and guide camera into focus at the same time. I should have got loads of spare spacers and adaptors when I got the camera so would have…
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