Astrophotography - Horsehead Nebula (B33)

19th December 2012 / Carsten / Leave a comment

	Date	2012/12/19
	Location	Böblingen / Germany
	Object	Horsehead Nebula (B33)
	Camera	Atik383L+
	Guiding	yes, DMK31AU03.AS via OAG
	Telescope	8
	Barlow lens	none
	Mount	EQ6 Syntrek
	Cooling	-15°C
	Luminance	6x 400s, 2x 800s, bin: 1x1
	Red	4x 100s, 2x 200s, bin: 2x2
	Green	4x 100s, 2x 200s, bin: 2x2
	Blue	4x 100s, 2x 200s, bin: 2x2
	Dark	3x
	Flat	-
	Total exposure	~1h46min.

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Last updated: June 4, 2019 at 11:09 am

Astrophotography - Orion Nebula (M42 & M43)

30th November 2012 / Carsten / Leave a comment

	Date	2012/11/30
	Location	Böblingen / Germany
	Object	Orion Nebula (M42 & M43)
	Camera	Atik383L+
	Guiding	yes, DMK31AU03.AS via OAG
	Telescope	8
	Barlow lens	none
	Mount	EQ6 Syntrek
	Cooling	-15°C
	Luminance	4x 5s, 4x 10s, 4x 30s, 4x 60s, 4x 100s, 4x 300s, bin: 1x1
	Red	4x 3s, 4x 10s, 4x 30s, 4x 60s, 4x 100s, bin: 2x2
	Green	4x 3s, 4x 10s, 4x 30s, 4x 60s, 4x 100s, bin: 2x2
	Blue	4x 3s, 4x 10s, 4x 30s, 4x 60s, 4x 100s, bin: 2x2
	Dark	4x
	Flat	-
	Total exposure	~1h15min.

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Last updated: June 4, 2019 at 11:11 am

Jupiter and some of his moons

18th November 2012 / Carsten / Leave a comment

Tonight I imaged Jupiter and some of his moons - a relatively bright spot in the sky - with my DMK31AU03.AS "The Image Source" camera. This was the first time I saw Jupiter through a telescope. Fantastic! First I could not believe that the other bright spots around are some of his moons! Unfortunately I too excited to note down the camera setting this time... 🙂

One of the images below has been taken without a barlow lens and one with a 2x Powermate TeleVue barlow lens. For stacking the images I used the Registax tool.

Last updated: December 20, 2015 at 17:42 pm

Astrophotography - Imaging the Triangulum Galaxy (M33)

17th October 2012 / Carsten / Leave a comment

	Date	2012/10/17
	Location	Böblingen / Germany
	Object	M33 (Triangulum Galaxy‎)
	Camera	Atik383L+
	Guiding	yes, DMK31AU03.AS via OAG
	Telescope	8" GSO Newtonian
	Barlow lens	none
	Mount	EQ6 Syntrek
	Cooling	-10°C
	Luminance	5x, 300s, bin: 1x1
	Red	5x, 100s, bin: 2x2
	Green	5x, 100s, bin: 2x2
	Blue	5x, 100s, bin: 2x2
	Dark	5x
	Flat	none
	Total exposure	~50min.

Last updated: December 20, 2015 at 15:20 pm

Astrophotography - California Nebula (NGC1499)

12th October 2012 / Carsten / Leave a comment

	Date	2016/03/09
	Location	Böblingen / Germany
	Object	Messier 44 (Star cluster)
	Camera	Atik383L+
	Guiding	yes, DMK31AU03.AS via OAG
	Telescope	8
	Barlow lens	none
	Mount	EQ6 Syntrek
	Cooling	-15°C
	Luminance	6x 300s, bin: 1x1
	Red	3x 100s, bin: 2x2
	Green	3x, 100s, bin: 2x2
	Blue	3x, 100s, bin: 2x2
	Dark	4x
	Flat	-
	Total exposure	~45min.

California Nebula (NGC1499) - 2012/10/12

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Last updated: June 4, 2019 at 11:12 am