The Moon with Sony E10 and ZWO ASI 533 Montage: Using a Sony ZV-E10 Vlogging camera fitted with a 70mm lens, a single portrait mode image was taken of the Moon as it appeared low over the Gower Peninsular with its reflection shimmering on the high tide of Loughor estuary. A further 41 ARW closeup images of the Moon 's were then taken using a 350mm lens. At the same time I was getting my Altair 60 EDF doublet refractor fitted with a 0.8 x FR scope ready for some DSO imaging, so I first slewed the scope to the Moon for focusing and took the same amount of images with my ASI 533MM Pro camera using a luminance filter with the camera set to its shortest shutter speed and minimum gain. Some 75% of each of the image data sets were then stacked using Autostakkert! 4 and then sharpened in Pixinsight and finished off in Adobe Photoshop 2024.
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The Moon
Blaze Star (T CrB): In order to check on the status of the so called "Blaze Star" in Corona Borealis that is due to go nova shortly, I took another set of 16 mins LRGB with my ASI 533MM Pro camera using my Altair 60 EDF doublet refractor fitted with a 0.8 x FR, to check with previous captures made in recent weeks. No change was seen to the Blaze Star which is eagerly awaited a rapid brightening and day now!
The Blaze star
NGC 6826 (Blinking Planetary Nebula): Some 50 minutes of RGB data were taken with my ASI 533MM Pro camera attached to my Altair 60 EDF doublet refractor fitted with a 0.8 x FR. Despite the targets small size, the planetary nebula was able to be resolved to show a pale blue disc surrounded by a greenish shell of gas. The wide field image was cropped to show the object in more detail in the centre of the frame. The various DSO images were then annotated using Pixinsight.
The Blinking Planetary nebula
Annotated image
Chris Bowden
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