That is a nice image John. Interesting to have a diffuse nebula in the "middle" of an open cluster -- are these related objects or just optical coincidences?...
Hi Serena, It is a neat subject. The open cluster is loose and not very well condensed, and there is a definite dark nebula visible strong in the northern...
Another nice clear night with reasonable seeing lead to this image. This is the Swan Nebula, one of my favorites, because in the eyepiece, it actually looks...
Serena, I have an older shot of the same nebula/cluster taken with the wider field of view of the FSQ-106n at f/5. The camera was essentially the same. The...
Hello John, I guess because of the blooming you stacked a number of < 60 sec exposures. Or did you remove the blooming in post-processing. Easy for me to...
Hi Serena, Is it winter now, yet ;-) We are in a heat wave here: 26.5C out now and it is only 9:30 in the morning! Thanks for the kind words on the Swan...
This is an image from last night's efforts on a dozen or so variable stars. I took a series of shots of M-33 and combined them in MaxImDL and Photoshop to get...
Hello, Happy New Year! Here is a new image of comet Machholz... which is naked eye now in the southern sky and headed up to M-45. Check it out. The comet has a...
Two new images from the past week. M42 (yeah, again), and the Horsehead/Flame area. Both were my first shots at using H-Alpha for color luminance portions of...
Well there is very little genuine activity on this site but now that a little problem with Yahoo and cookies seems to have gone away I'll be taking more action...
Wow! Serena! How are you? I have not seen anything posted here is quite some time. Maybe with Mars coming into an attractive spot, we shall see some cool...
Here are a couple of Mars images. All were taken using a ToUCam, stacked and sharpened in Registax. Scope: Tak CN-212 at f/12.4 with 2.5x barlow (so... f/31). ...
Hi All, Well, looks like there is more noise than signal to this group these days. it's a sad thing, but that is the way of things. I will be lurking about on...
Three images of the comet McNaught have been added to the comet album. These were taken with a Sony HDR-FX1E high definition video camera (only camera I had...
I've added a small image of NGC3132 to the 2nd Nebula album. This nebula is near the Vela constellation 10h07m and -40 deg 26'. This planetary nebula measures...
This group endeavors to prevent spam being posted and our observation is that spammers have strange email addresses. So if you are actually interested in...
Hi Richard, that's what this group is supposed to do and I guess there are so many alternative sites that members graduated to those as their expertise...
It is good to see some activity here again. This group has been pretty quite for a while. My name is John aka CCD-Freak and I started out with a CB-245 then...
Hi John, Be good to see your astro images. Sounds like you have a good set up. I have to admit to being a little quiet on the astro front and am aiming to get...
... there ... their ... of ... shots ... is ... I have several different OTAs, cameras and a pair of AP1200GTO mounts so I set up different configurations...
... with ... well. ... to ... local ... in ... I guess you will not make it to the Texas Star Party this week then, huh John? Sounds like a nice site out there...
I wanted to go to TSP but was not able to squeeze it into the work schedule. I have not been since 1995 and I want to go back. I started going to the Davis...
Richard, I wish I could select any of my images to go up against any of your randomly selected! I just don't put in enough time, and possibly enough money ---...
Awwww - :-} I'm honored Serena. Richard - nice shots! It is good to see this group active again. I left for a while when the spammers hit hard and the...
Welcome back John. Yes I'm trying to impede spammers, so we'll see how that works. For some time I had cookie problems and couldn't do my job on this site and...
Is anybody out there getting any images? It has been cloudy and rainey here in Texas for the last 90 days. We had a few almost clear nights around full moon,...
No, been quite cloudy here as well. Further north the drought has been transmogrified into dangerous floods, but only drizzle here. Not good for astronomy but...
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