Right in the heart of the Milky Way lie a few popular nebulae. The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae are so close together, that even at 510mm they fit into a crop sensor field of view. This was a quick and dirty imaging session. Guiding was horrible (up to 3.5 arcsec) and I had very little […]
Monthly Archives: June 2017
M13 – The Hercules Cluster
Not very happy with the guiding during this session. The weight of the C6N along with the overweight guidescope (ST80) presented a lot of issues getting good RMS. In addition, my reflector’s focus and/or collimation was a hair off. But it is what it is 🙂 GEAR USED Celestron 6″ NewtonianAVX MountH-alpha modified D5300ST80/QHY5L-II-M IMAGE […]
Saturn in all its glory
After imaging Jupiter, my next planet in the list is obviously Saturn. The only planet in the solar system with a prominent ring system, this one needs no introduction. My first tries imaging this with the low quality 80mm chromatic telescope produced a very tiny and yellow dusty colored oval patch. I did not have […]