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DEEP SKY

Image Date Taken by Notes
       
m42.jpg (7488 bytes)
06.02.07

 Frank Ryan Jr

The great Orion Nebula. M42.
Simple 10 second exposure starts to show the complex veil structure
and the red and green colours.

Etx-125
Canon 350D
Prime focus
pleiadeshyades.jpg (103352 bytes)

10th of October 2004

David Lillis

The star clusters of the Pleiades and Hyades. It is a montage of two images taken with a canon 300D set at ISO1600, F5.6, 120 second exposure. The camera was piggybacked on a LX200 and processed in photoshop.

altair.jpg (97239 bytes)

August 2004

David Lillis

Altair. This is from stacking 6 frames at ISO 1600 for 30 seconds, Equip = Meade 12”LX200 + canon EOS 300d + registax2d+ photoshop.

Note how bright Altair is compared with the background stars.

alcor.jpg (2254 bytes)

April 2003

Michael O'Connell

Alcor, Mizar and Ludwig in a 1 second digital camera exposure. This is a close-up photo of the double-star which can be seen to the naked eye in the "handle" of the Plough

dl8.jpg (94000 bytes)

April 2001

David Lillis

Orion. If you look very closely you can see the glow from the horsehead nebula, This was a 5 minute picture with a 50mm lens piggybacked on an LX200. The skyglow to the bottom of the picture is from Limerick.

dl4.jpg (39598 bytes)

March 2001

David Lillis

The picture of the double cluster in Perseus was taken using ISO100 film with a 500mm camera piggybacked on an LX200 for 5 minutes

swan.jpg (21183 bytes)

March 2001

David Lillis

Perseus and Cyngus, taken with IS100 film using a 50mm lens piggybacked on an LX200 for over 10 minutes. The California nebula and M34 are clearly visible.