It looks like completion of the new observatory happened at just the right time. While I’m writing this in July – and the weather at the moment has been awful by the way – first light took place in early June, where like the Spring of 2020, we had a run of about six weeks of clear sky nights. This run was so consistent that you didn’t really need to look at a weather…
Imaging Session: Pelican Nebula IC5070
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…
