Thursday, March 26, 2026

From our members viewing night on the 18th March

Horsehead and Flame nebulae: Some 269 5s images stacked to give a 22 minute total exposure taken with the Pegasus SmartEye in standalone mode attached to a SW Esprit 80. The images were stacked in DSS and processed in Pixinsight and Adobe Lightroom; cropped and centred on the bright star Alnitak. 

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Horsehead and Flame nebulae

Some timelapses of the activity during the viewing and imaging night were captured using a Sony ZV-E10 milc camera fitted with a Sony E PZ 18-105mm F4 G OSS lens on a fixed tripod 

Hard standing taken whilst using the Pegasus SmartEye and the Celestron C11 ~ 1 hour with zoom lens set at 21mm with 6s exposures at ISO 5000 with images taken every 30s. 

Main Observatory roof/night sky ~ 1.5 hours with zoom lens set at 18mm with 3s exposures at ISO 4000 with images taken every 30s. 


Chris Bowden


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