Jupiter 3rd March 2016
Jupiter imaged on 3rd March 2016
Omega Centauri 17th May 2015
Located at a distance of 15,800 ly in the constellation of Centaurus, Omega Centauri is the largest globular cluster in the Milky way galaxy with a diameter of approximately 150 ly and is estimated to contain 10 million stars with a total mass equivalent to 4 million solar masses.
Moon 23rd May 2015
There was blue skies for a change at sunset this evening so I dragged the gear out and set up expecting (hoping) to have a good clear evening for practicing a few things. Straight out of the gate things didn’t go too well as it took forever (60 min) to repeatedly do the star alignment…
Jupiter May 2015
So on the 11th the clouds parted and I was able to get the scope out for a play. After setting up and aligning, the first target for the evening was of course Jupiter. This was also the first chance to try out the ASI120MC-S camera “in the wild” so I was definately interested in…
M42 – The Great Nebula in Orion
My first attempts at imaging the M42 nebula during a visit to a client minesite on Halmahera Island, as well as a comparison from downloaded data.