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Thursday, April 2, 2020
Comet C/2019 Y4 Atlas with ZWO224MC
Two nights ago I was not able to find the comet using TAL200K with ZWO224MC. So I changed my strategy and used stellarium planetarium software. After star allignment of the mount a connection was made with Stellarium. The comet was uploaded in Stellarium and the mount was guided towards to comet. Next I used my 34mm ocular to see if the comet showed up. The very faint comet did show up and was set central in the ocular. The eyepiece was changed by the ZWO224MC camera and gain and exposure tme was increased untill the comet showed up.
As a result different pictures were made with different setting. I was not blown away with the result but still I'm proud of the results.
Venus and Pleiades
Venus and Pleiades on April 1, 2020. Setting with Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6 ISO800, 45s exposure.
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Venus and Pleiades
Still two days to go before we can observe Venus within the Pleiades. But today I was able to get Venus and the Pleiades in one frame. Picture taken with Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6. Setting ISO 1600 and 30s exposure time. Limited editing using CS4.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Sunspot of Cycle 25
Next to the sunspot some huge prominences can be seen.
AutoStakkert!2 was used to stack AVI movies; final editing with CS4.
Comet C/2019 Y4 Atlas Widefield
Sunday, March 29, 2020
M109 Galaxy
Messier M109 Galaxy is located in constellation Ursa Major and about 83million lightyears away from Earth. Picture was taken with Nikon D7500 and TAL200K f/8.5. Setting : ISO6400 and 26minutes exposure, each picture 30s.
Raw data converted to DNG format and stacking using Deepskystacker with final editing in CS4.
Raw data converted to DNG format and stacking using Deepskystacker with final editing in CS4.
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