Deeps sky and Solar imaging

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A lonely Lyrid: During the night of the peak of the annual Lyrid meteor shower, I set up my Sony ZV-E10 camera on a fixed tripod to take some time lapse images in the hope if getting a lucky image. As usual, despite taking many hundreds of images I had but one meteor amidst the many hundreds of satellite trails.

IC4592 the Blue Horse nebula: With a couple of more clear nights I was able to add more RGB data to this target that never rises very far in our skies. This is a 2 hour 50 minute composition taken with my 80 mm triplet refractor.

The Sun in Ha light: Using a Player One Apollo-M Mini camera with a Lunt LS50F Hydrogen-Alpha Front-Mounted Etalon System B600 on a WO refractor I captured an SER of the Sun using real time flat field adjustment in Astro DMx Capture. Some 50% of a 1049 frame SER were stacked in Autostakkert!4, wavelet processed in Registax and further processed in Pixinsight using Solar Toolbox. Final adjustments were done in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop 2026. The montage shows the imaging setup, with a cloak used to shield the light off the laptop taking data.

Chris Bowden