| shawnhar Astrophotography |
~ Cygnus ~
- Galaxies
- Nebula
- Constellations
- Planetary
Cygnus with a HA filter and camera lens Taken with a cheap 22-55mm camera lens, this picture covers 17 degrees of sky and many of the popular targets in Cygnus can be made out. Click Here for an annotated version marking a few of the targets. Taken 08/11/2015 Scope: Camera lens 22-55mm piggybacked on main scope Camera: QHY8 Color CCD Mount: EQ6 pro (Same as Orion Atlas) Guiding: PHD2 with OAG and Meade DSI color 13x600 seconds Filter: Astonomik 12nm HA EOS Clip 2.2 hours total integration Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, processed in Pixinsight and tweaked in Photoshop |
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| The Crescent Nebula Also known as NGC 6888, Caldwell 27 and Sharpless 105, the Crescent is an emmision nebula 5,000 light years away. Created by the immense stellar winds from the gigantic Wolf-Rayet star at it's center that is nearing the end of it's life. It is expected to go Supernova soon. (If you can call 300,000 years "soon") This star first shed massive amounts of it's mass when it became a Red Supergiant around 200,000 years ago, now (technically 5,000 years ago), the super fast winds from the star have caught up to the material and are shaping it into the shell we currently see. Taken 06/05/2014 and 06/28/2014 Borrowed Meade SN6 (Thank You Roy Morrow!) EQ6 pro Self Baader modded Canon XS Guided with ST80 and Meade DSI (ratchet strapped to the scope) Captured with BYEOS premium HA - 40 subs at 5 minutes, iso 400. Astonomiks 12nm HA clip in filter Color 9 subs at 2 minutes, iso 400 Stacked in DSS and processed in Photoshop CS2 Full resolution Here |
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| North American Nebula
in HA with Modified DSLR Scope - Meade SN6 Mount - EQ6 pro Camera - Baader Mod Canon XS (1000d) Guiding: PHD2 with OAG and Meade DSI color 30x900 seconds with 12nm HA filter Full resolution Here |
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| Beside the star Sadr One of the 1st images taken after upgrading from DSLR to CCD, half of the Butterfly Nebula near Sadr. The blue part at the top is actually caused by Sadr, I didn't have it far enough out of the field and that blue thing is what's known as a "Schmidt Ghost", it's caused by the corrector plate on the Schmidt Newtonian producing reflections on bright stars. One of the drawbacks of imaging with a $200 telescope. Taken 06/25/2015 Meade SN6 with OAG EQ6 pro mount QHY8 camera 9x600 seconds and one at 300 seconds Pixinsight Full resolution Here |
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| Sadr Area with a
cheap refractor What do you get when you mix a $100 refractor with a decent color CCD camera and a HA filter? A pretty decent result I think, well it was fun anyway. The black specks all over are from my attempt at "Tone Mapping", a process where you remove the stars for processing, then add them back in later. The Orion Short Tube 80mm is mostly used as a guide scope or for widefield visual but you can actually take some decent images with it, you can get them used for $100 or less and with some tweaking they are surprisingly good scopes, that makes this one of the best scopes you can you can get for the price in my opinion. Taken 08/01/2015 Imaging scope: Orion Short Tube 80mm piggybacked on main scope EQ6 pro, guided with OAG through the SN6 QHY8 Astronimiks 12nm HA EOS clip in filter Pixinsight/Photoshop 5 exposures at 1200 seconds, then the clouds got me Full resolutionHere |
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| Cygnus with a cheap
200mm lens Like the picture above, I used a HA filter but this time with a cheap 70-21mm zoom lens I got off keh.com for 20 bucks. The lens is an old Nikon manual focus that I added a "Nikon to EOS" bayonet adaper to. Not bad for a $20 lens huh? (I know, the focus is off) Taken 08/24/2015 Imaging scope: Tokina SD 70-210mm Nikon manual zoom lens at 210mm F4.5 EQ6 pro, guided with OAG through the SN6 Camera: SBIG STF-8300c 39x600 seconds 6.5 hours total integration Full resolution Here |
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| The Veil Nebula The Veil Nebula is a supernova remnant Only a small portion of what is known as the Veil Nebula Complex, this image is of the "Western Veil" and only comprises a small section of the larger complex. Taken 08/13/2015 Meade SN6 with OAG EQ6 pro mount QHY8 camera 13x600 seconds 2.2 hours total integration Full resolution Here |
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| North American and
Pelican Nebulas Again with the HA filter and cheap 200mm lens Taken 08/24/2015 Imaging scope: Tokina SD 70-210mm Nikon manual zoom lens at 210mm F4.5 EQ6 pro, guided with OAG through the SN6 Camera: SBIG STF-8300c 55x1200 seconds 8x2400 seconds 23 hours total integration Full resolution Here |
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