Leo Triplet.
Leo Triplet with a crop of the frame to show the galaxies in more detail. The galaxies are, clockwise from the top NGC3628 (sometimes known as ‘The Hamburger Galaxy’, M65 and M66. I took this on Monday night (22nd March, 2010) from 21:30 to 23:30, 10 exposures of 240 seconds with the modified Canon EOS300D
and the William Optics 80II FD refractor. Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker and processed in Photoshop.

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This image is a wide field Bubble Nebula shot to put in too, this one was taken on Sept 11th. The details are,
 
10 x 180 sec Luminance exposures binned 1x1, R+G+B exposures were 10 x 90 sec binned 2x2 each. Calibrated (darks and flats) and combined in Maxim DL 5, saved as a 16 bit tiff and then processed in Photoshop CS3.
 
 Telescope - WO Megrez 80II FD
 Camera - Atik383L+, cooled to -15 deg C
 Filter Wheel, SX UFW-2S
 Filters - Baader 2" LRGB

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Subject – M42, The Orion Nebula
Telescope – William Optics Megrez 80II FD
Camera – Atik383L+ mono CCD, with SX Filter Wheel and Baader LRGB filters.
Guiding – guided using my finderscope with a QHY5 camera and PHD Guiding
Exposure – 40 minutes (10 x 4 minute subs) in each channel (LRGB).
Stacking – Maxim DL5
Processing – Photoshop CS3, plus Noels Actions and Peters Actions and Noise Ninja.



Subject – NGC2264 The Cone Nebula
Telescope – William Optics Megrez 80II FD
Camera – Atik383L+ mono CCD, with SX Filter Wheel and Baader LRGB filters.
Guiding – guided using my finderscope with a QHY5 camera and PHD Guiding
Exposure – 30 minutes (3 x 10 minute subs) in each channel (LRGB).
Stacking – Maxim DL5
Processing – Photoshop CS3, plus Noels Actions and Peters Actions and Noise Ninja. Then also made a mono image from the colour one.



Subject – NGC2264 The Cone Nebula
Same details as the Cone Neblua above but now made the mono image.



M35 First light of a new 100 mm F6 APO.
First light image just to try things out. Stack of 5 x 30 second exposures in LRGB filters (so only 150 sec in each colour).
Taken 6th March,  2011