Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Nightscapes of Orion

Clouds play a nice role of below nightscape with constellation Orion.



22° Halo around the Moon

It's still very cold outside but the tiny clouds high up in the sky are responsible for a beautiful 22° Halo around the Moon.


Whirlpool M51a and M51b


NGC5194 or M51a and NGC5195 or M51b are interacting galaxy pairs located about 25 million lightyears away. The galaxy pairs can be seen in the constellation Canes Venatici (hunting dogs).
The pictures are taken using TAL200K with Nikon D7500. Manual stacking of 10 pictures and editing using CS4.

Whirlpool Galaxy M51

Stacking 4 pictures of 30s with different ISO values of M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy. Final editing done using CS4. Pictures were taken on Feb 23, 2018 (-4°C).

Sunday, February 25, 2018

M82 Galaxy

Galaxy M82 (in Ursa Mayor) with TAL200K and Nikon D7500. Editing using CS4, single shot.


Whirlpool Galaxy M51

Whirlpool Galaxy taken with TAL200K and NikonD7500 on Friday Feb. 23, 2018. Single shot 30s and editing using CS4.


Orion Nebula M42 with TAL200K

Temperatures around -4°C, clear sky (Moon First Quarter) and very good seeing provides bright pictures of the Orion Nebula M42. Pictures are taken with Nikon D7500 on TAL200K.Stacking using CS4 of 4 pictures, all 30s but different ISO values (800-3200).