M8 22nd June 2020
M8 imaged from backyard Lesmurdie in June 2020
M83 29 April 2020
First attempt at M83 from the new house in Lesmurdie
Horse Head 31 Dec 2019
New Years 2019, what better target than the Horse Head ?
M16 14 July 2016
A revisit of this target on a night without cloud interference enabling better data collection.
M16 8th July
Taken on 8th July, this was to be my first attempt at capturing M16 – the famed Eagle nebula ! Things didn’t quite work to plan however 🙁
M42 10 December 2015
After a drought of imaging opportunities it was finally time to try out the gear on M42 for the first time.
Widefield of M8 (Lagoon) and M20 (Trifid)
Widefield of the M8 and M20 region in Sagitarius taken with the ED80 and canon 70D imaged on 20th July 2015
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…