Tuesday, May 21, 2024

The Night of May 19th: SAS members at the Brian Stokes Cygnus Observatory

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 Montage:

On the night of the 19th May quite a few members enjoyed some warm conditions at the Brian Stokes Cygnus Observatory to use a range of telescopes to view and image the Moon and some deep sky objects. Some shared learnings were enjoyed including sky navigation, equipment optimisation and imaging techniques.

Deep sky images:

Captured in NINA using an ASI 533MM Pro camera attached to an Altair EDF60 doublet refractor fitted with a 0.8 x FR. Images stacked and processed in Pixinsight and Adobe Photoshop 2024 

M101 full wide field image (with NGC 5474 lower right, NGC 5422 top left)  – 2 hrs of LRGB/Ha data



Pelican nebula and Cygnus wall: 1 hr of HOS data processed also in SHO and OSH palettes

HOS palette


OSH palette

SHO palette


Chris Bowden

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