Yearly archives: 2020

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: NGC 5457 – M101

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. I guess I’m safe to say that this is the first true first light image for the new camera setup. Clear skies, a bit of a breeze…


Imaging Session: Galaxy NGC5194 M51

Session Data Date:  02/04/2020   Time:  21:40 – 23:44 UT Seeing: II Mostly Stable,  Transparency: Clear,  Temp:3.9C, Air Pressure: 1020mb,  Humidity: 88%,  Dew Point: 3.9C,  Wind Speed: 5mph Scope: TMB 80mm APO Refractor at f/4.8  Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro,  No filter, Dark subtracted and Flat fielded. Still more testing tonight. A stack of 53 x 60 sec lights. I didn’t shoot any flats at the time, but realising that I had not touched…


Comet C2019 Y4 ATLAS

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. Just a quick hop over to see if I could pick up comet C2019 Y4 ATLAS. Managed to take 60 x 30sec lights. I kept the subs…


NGC 3031-M81

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. 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 of a…


First Light

Fist Light with the new ZWO 1600mm pro camera….