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Saturday, November 1, 2025

The lobster claw nebula region

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AstroDMx Capture was used with an SV605CC OSC colour CMOS camera and an Altair Starwave ASCENT 60ED doublet refractor with 0.8 reducer/flatt...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

The Garnet star region

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This wide field image of the Garnet star region was taken with a 1300D DSLR Canon camera with a Rokinon 135mm prime lens. The camera was mou...

51.1% waxing Moon

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 51.1% waxing Moon. 25% of a 7 minute RAW AVI from a Seestar S50 was stacked in Autostakkert!4, wavelet sharpened in waveSharp and finished ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

The Sun in white light

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The Sun in white light with a Seestar S50 in EQ mode using a Baader solar filter.  50% of a 6 min RAW AVI stacked in Autostakkert!, wavelet ...

Pacman nebula

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In a new processing method of dualband OSC data I combined all of the S2O3, HaO3 dualband data (HaO3 and S2O3) on the Pacman nebula into a s...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Seti Astro Suite Pro and Multi-Frame Deconvolution Stacking (Image MM)

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Seti Astro Suite Pro Seti Astro Suite Pro is developed by Franklin Marek. It is written in Python with Qt6 and is open source donationware. ...
Friday, October 24, 2025

Comet R2 Swan and the Sun

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Clear skies were in short supply last night, with just 30 minutes of data captured on my DSO imaging before we were clouded out. I did manag...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Reprocessing of a wide field image of the North America and the Pelican Nebulae

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Reprocessing of a wide field image of the North America and the Pelican Nebulae taken with a 1300D DSLR Canon camera with a 135mm Rokinon pr...

Comet C/2025 R2 Swan and the Sun

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Click on an image to get a closer view Animation of comet C/2025 R2 Swan: On the night of the 20th October we were able to locate comet C/20...

The Sun in white light

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The Sun in white light with a Seestar S50 in EQ mode using a Baader solar filter on Oct 22.  50% of a 6 min RAW AVI stacked in Autostakkert!...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Images from an SAS field trip to Alentejo Portugal:

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Click on an image to get a closer view Sun in White light and Ha montage: Two images of the Sun taken on the 16th October; the white light ...

M7, M9, M19, M28, M54, M55, M62, M70 and M75

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Click on an image to get a closer view M7 M9 M19 M28 M54 M55 M62 M70 M75 Jim Startup
Sunday, October 19, 2025

M52 star cluster region

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My wide field image of the M52 star cluster region in Cassiopeia taken with my 1300D DSLR Canon camera, my Rokinon 135mm prime lens at f/2. ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (LEMMON)

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Comet C/2025 A6 (LEMMON) from last Saturday 11/10/2025 at 9pm. 17 images at 60 seconds processed in PI. AsI2600 Pro colour camera on William...
Friday, October 17, 2025

Wizard Nebula and M76

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It was clear last night so I had my Seestar out. I'm still using AltAzimuth as I haven't got the hang of Equatorial mode yet (but I...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Making sense of the Cosmic Background Radiation: Dr Andrew McLean (SAS) live and Zoom talk

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Dr Andrew McLean (SAS) gave a live and Zoom talk about making sense of the Cosmic Background Radiation. The talk was particularly important ...
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