Half Moon - Sharp Details using Celestron 70 with ASI224MC Camera

Open sky for about 10minutes. Enough time to set up  my equipment again. Celestron 70 400mm with ASI224MC camera. The results are stacked using Autostakkert2! and edited using CS4. The result is beautifull and very sharp. Great!

Half Moon

Today it's half moon. Picture taken with my Celestron 70 D400 using ASI224MC camera. After stacking using AutoStakkert2 picture was edited with help from CS4. Seeing was poor.

10.000 Visitors. Thank You!

Achieving 10.000 Visitors on my blog orionxt12.blogspot.be. Thank you !

Orion Nebula M42 using ASI224MC

The avi movies taken with the ASI224MC on my Dobson OrionXT12" are stacked using AutoStakkert2! and afterwards edited using CS4. The result using AutoStakkert2! is better then RegiStax6. And the result show colors which I did not expect. So more practise will be needed and awaiting cloudfree sky.

ASI224MC and M42

A month ago I received an astrocamera from a friend to test. The astrocamera is from ZWO type ASI224MC. This ASI224MC has a 1/3" sensor with 1.2Mega Pixels type IMX224 with Sony Exmor and NIR technology;  extremely low read noise and very sensitive, especially in IR.

I use FireCapture as the software controlling the camera.

My first images are the Orion Nebula using my non guided Dobson OrionXT 12"

Video's are captured in AVI, stacked using Registax6 and edited using CS4v11.

 

Orion Nebula M42 with False colours

Orion Nebula - Not Edited

Source : Google

Moon, Venus and Saturnus

This morning the moon 2% and Saturnus south of Venus one hour before upcoming sun.

Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina

Comet Catalina good visible through my dobson 12". However tail not visible, only the core is seen.

Weather Summary for the 2015

December 2015 Weather Summary

Happy New Year 2016

I wish you all a great astronomical 2016!