I am still being lucky with the clear weather

I am keeping up with my schedule of a picture every other day.

Another Moon imaging session.

Tonight was a bit tricky as there was a veil of high cloud.

Another clear night for Lunar imaging

1/100th second at ISO640 Canon 40D at prime focus of f10 20cm SCT. Mirror lock was used for exposure. Some post processing using Photo Plus X3.

Moon tonight

ANother picture of the moon taken tonight 19.56. Canon 40D at prime focus of the Meade LX10 20cm SCT.

Conjunction of Mercury Venus and The Moon

Nice grouping of Venus Mercury and the Moon, taken form the Great Orme Llandudno.

Moon March 22nd

Picture taken using a Canon EOS 40D attached to a Meade LX10 SCT using a T mount adapter.

Update

Haven't really had much time this year for astrophotography, this has been as a result of family and work commitments and also the uncooperative weather! Managed to image the ISS a few times early on this year. The idea behind the picture was to try and get the ISS in the path of an arrow as shot by Orion, didn't quite work but its a nice image anyway.

Partial eclipse of the Sun - August 1st 2008

Typically the morning of August 1st was cloudy and slightly rainy. Just before the eclipse was due to start it was dry but 100% cloud cover. Rather than setting up the scope I decided to fit the Astrosolar filter to my 200mm lens on the 40D, then if the cloud did clear I could get some images. The cloud did clear a bit during the last 10 minutes allowing me to get some images. I think the cloud adds a bit of interest to the images especially as the sun has no feature visible in white light at the moment.

Monn and Mars over our chimney pots

Another pic taken a few hours later with our chimney pots in the foreground.

Moon and Mars close pairing

Took this earlier on this evening after seeing a message from www.spaceweather.com about the pairing shortly after sunset. I grabbed my 300D and tripod to take a picture with Hercules in the foreground.

Location Map for Comet 17P/Holmes

Go to www.spaceweather.com for updated maps

Comet 17P/Holmes update

Here is another shot of the comet this time I have inverted one image, this sometimes brings out subtle details that are not visible in normal viewing. The comet is in the constellation of Perseus at the moment and will offer good views to UK and Europe for a few weeks to come.

Comet 17P/Holmes

Saw holmes for the first time last night through my Lidl 10X50s only a 10 minute clear slot though! Very impressed with the view what an unusual sight! Tonight was forecast cloudy but at 8ish a clear spell developed I got the LX10 out and observed visually first - what a sight in a low power eyepiece, I then coupled my DSLR at prime focus to try some imaging with the scope only very roughly polar aligned! Here is one of my unprocessed results. I will look forward to more developments with this comet.

Cassiopeia wide field view

I was out last night untill 02.30hrs trying to get a picture of a perseid fireball. I managed to catch 4 or 5 on the camera but they were not very bright, all the bright ones were always in the wrong place. At 01.40hrs approx there was a very bright fireball streaking through the Cassiopeia region, it was greenish in colour and left a trail that was still visible upto 30 seconds later, the camera was pointing in a diffrent direction. I decided to stack some of the images from last night. This is a stack of 7 images of between 25 and 60 seconds exposure using the 300D with a standar zoom set to 18mm, the images were stacked using DeepSky Stacker (DSS).

ISS GLIDES PAST HERCULES AND LYRA

This is my first go at imaging the ISS. Just point the camera at the right bit of sky and open the shutter at the right time.

Did some imaging tonight

This is just one of the images taken tonight. Taken with an 18mm lens attached to a 300D Iso800 114secs at f5. Image has been processed using Noels actions and PSE3.

Still chucking it down!!!

The rain looks like its set in for good, I am giving up - better luck next time!

Pleiades Moon Occultation

Its 00.47 Tuesday 7th waited up to take some images of the Occultation, weather looked promising at 23.30 but its now chucking it down!!

Milky Way wide field

Took this image the other night (first for a while!) It shows the Mily Way, Andromeda Galaxy is also visible.

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