Not the usual holiday snaps................. North American Nebula added 22 Mar

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I go to the Algarve for two reasons only - to do astrophotography using kit I don't have at home, and to image deep sky objects I can't easily see from home. This year I went towards the end of August and came back with subs for 16 images, plus sun spots, plus the partial solar eclipse that we were able to see from there. Processing is going to be slow as I'm very much a beginner at the software I'm using and it's not exactly easy to learn.
I will add images as they're ready but just a taster for now
This is M8, an emission nebula known as the Lagoon. 60 subs in all - all the details on Flickr. I haven't imaged this since my days of 35mm, when I probably spent about 40 mins lying under the scope manually guiding it. How times have changed. I couldn't physically do that now, but the computer stuff that's taken over is just as hard in a different way.

M8 - the Lagoon Nebula by Jannyfox, on Flickr
 
alan72 said:
Very impressive, I imagine this is just a tiny dot in the sky to look at.
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In even a small telescope it's lovely although visually you only see the brightest bits in the image. It's pretty big. The image is the full frame from a 200mm telescope, which is fairly small and so quite low magnification, albeit with a crop sensor. Sadly Sagittarius only ever gets very low from the UK as the area has some of the best deep sky objects in the northern sky, but on a dark enough night it's worth a look around with binoculars. It's in the Milky Way, too, hence the field full of stars.
 
Jannyfox said:
In even a small telescope it's lovely although visually you only see the brightest bits in the image. It's pretty big. The image is the full frame from a 200mm telescope, which is fairly small and so quite low magnification, albeit with a crop sensor. Sadly Sagittarius only ever gets very low from the UK as the area has some of the best deep sky objects in the northern sky, but on a dark enough night it's worth a look around with binoculars. It's in the Milky Way, too, hence the field full of stars.
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I'm not based in the UK these days (see my other posts), and where I am we are blessed with very dark sky locations relatively close by. I've been taken by the night sky photography bug this summer, maybe need to explore some of the more specific objects of the sky whilst I have this opportunity.
 
alan72 said:
I'm not based in the UK these days (see my other posts), and where I am we are blessed with very dark sky locations relatively close by. I've been taken by the night sky photography bug this summer, maybe need to explore some of the more specific objects of the sky whilst I have this opportunity.
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I had to look that one up - Azerbaijan, yes? If you can get access to a telescope, even a fairly small one, you'll be blown away by what's out there. If you have a long lens and a tracking mount of some sort then the larger, brighter deep sky objects are within your reach without a scope. I use a 600mm on a crop sensor at home as my little scope isn't suitable for photography. Keep the exposures short and at low magnification any inaccuracies in the tracking won't show. Be careful though. If you get seriously bitten by the bug the GAS is like nothing you've ever known................:(
 
Lovely. What kind of focal length / aperture does your 200mm telescope equate to? Is it something like 800mm f/4 or 1000mm f/5?
 
StewartR said:
Lovely. What kind of focal length / aperture does your 200mm telescope equate to? Is it something like 800mm f/4 or 1000mm f/5?
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That's a good question Stewart. The honest answer is I don't know as it's not my scope and I've never asked, but I would think somewhere around 1000mm. I think it's too long to be 800mm.
 
I don't usually come into this forum,Jan. I didn't realise you did this. I'm mightily impressed. Beats locos on a dull and sometimes wet day..Lol.

I used to go storm chasing in the US and one of the guides has an observatory in his garden..back yard as they say. I thought you'd like to take a look.He lives in Pennsylvania and a well-respected chaser too.

As you see in the left side headings list it's at the bottom end...but the rest are worth a look too http://www.stormeffects.com
 
Funny what you learn about people, isn't it, John? My partner and I are both astronomers, but he likes wires and gadgets - I couldn't be bothered with it. He's on Flickr username GordonWRT though he hasn't put up any of his stuff from Portugal yet.
Back yard observatory - that'd be nice. First you need a big enough back yard. I did like on one of the images I looked at he said his subs were shot over 4 consequtive nights - this is why the best astro imagers don't do it in the UK................
Storm chasing.........hmmmm.........you can probably get therapy for that ;) Very impressive (scary) clouds though.
 
Excellent work, keep posting ;)
 
Excellent stuff, thanks for posting these deep sky images are really interesting to look at and knowing what effort my friend has put into his I can appreciate the lengths you go to.
 
3rd instalment..................
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Messiers 20 & 21. I like the way I can get these both together in the 200mm scope

Messier 20 & 21 by Jannyfox, on Flickr

Messier 11

Messier 11 by Jannyfox, on Flickr

Messier 17. For some reason I haven't imaged this since my 35mm days.

Messier 17 by Jannyfox, on Flickr
 
I'm resurrecting this thread as having dealt with a new computer and a few other issues, and finally have a bit of time on my hands, I've finally got round to looking at my images from last year's holiday again. Oh the joy of not having to go and get a coffee while the computer struggles to apply a process, and of being about to have two pp applications open at the same time...............:)
Anyway, here's NGC7000 aka the North American Nebula (for obvious reasons) in Cygnus. This is huge, too big for a telescope but very suitable for the 300mm end of my Tamron 70-300. Click through to Flickr for more details.

NGC7000 by Jannyfox, on Flickr
 
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