Moon by Terry Cuttle
Taken at Urban Observers Holland Park (Brisbane) 18 Sept 05 2118 Hrs Local Time (9 and a quarter hours after full moon)Equipment: TeleVue TV-76 480mm f6.3 refractor with 4x powermate and Canon EOS 350D Digital SLR camera at prime focus. Exposure 1/125sec, f25, ISO 400, Daylight white balance. Composite of two images each less than full frame. Image levels adjusted with Adobe Photoshop to effectively enhance contrast and reduce brightness. This adjustment was made to show more clearly the difference between the "seas" and the highlands, and to highlight the rays from Tycho (centre right)and several other craters. The image is orientated to appear as the moon is seen to rise in Brisbane (N to the left).
B Crucis and carbon star
Vixen 4" refractor Prime focus ISO 800
15 sec exposure
Eta Carina Nebula
Vixen 4" refractor Prime focus ISO 1600
2 min exposure
M6 Butterfly cluster
Vixen 4" refractor Prime focus ISO 1600
30 sec exposure
M57 Ring Nebula
Vixen 4" refractor Prime focus ISO 1600
2 min exposure
Moon
Vixen 4" refractor Eyepiece projection ISO 100
1/8 sec exposure
Swan Nebula
Vixen 4" refractor Prime focus ISO 1600
2 min exposure
Magellanic Clouds
Piggyback photography ISO 800
4 min exposure
Milky Way
Piggyback photography ISO 800
4 min exposure
NGC5139
Vixen 4" refractor Prime focus ISO 1600
90 sec exposure
NGC 253
Vixen 4" refractor Prime focus ISO 1600
2 min. exposure
M27 Dumbbell Nebula
Vixen 4" refractor Prime focus ISO 1600
3 min exposure
Comet Linear 2002 t7
Vixen 4" refractor Prime focus ISO 1600
90 sec exposure
Tarantula Nebula
Vixen 4" refractor Prime focus ISO 1600
2 min exposure
Conjunction of Venus, Mercury and Saturn
27th June 2005 at 5:29pm
Taken by Keith Law
With a handheld Panasonic Lumix digital camera
Conjunction of Venus, Mercury and Saturn
27th June 2005 at 5:30pm
Taken by Keith Law
With a handheld Panasonic Lumix digital camera
Keith Law's observatory Armidale
Copernicus
By Jim Barclay
32cm F16 Cassegrain working at F32
Cannon digital IDs camera
Exposure 1/30 second
ISO set at 50
Full Frame 24 x 36 mm image no processing
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Full Moon
By Jim Barclay
Exposure 1/250 second
ISO set at 50
No processing
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Close up of Clavius Region
By Jim Barclay
32cm F16 Cassegrain working at F32
Cannon digital IDs camera
Exposure 1/30 second
ISO set at 50
No processing
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Image by Brian Gilby
Image taken by Jo Sester at Urban Observers Indooroopilly with mobile phone camera held at the eyepiece of Celestron Nexstar 11.
Taken by Peter Bester at Urban Observers on Sunday 23rd April 2006 through a 10 inch reflector on a Dobsonian mount (unguided). Camera - Celestron Neximage CCD camera used in combination with a Celestron Ultima 2x barlow and a Baader Neodymium skyglow filter. AVI image was take at 30 fps for 10 seconds giving 300 frames. Registax was used to align, stack and process 155 of the 300 frames.
Same as above but reprocessed in Registax.
First attempt by Peter using the Neximage camera on 22nd April 2006.
M83 by Dave Larkin using Celestron Nexstar 11 with G-Star Video Camera and processed with Registax. Image taken at Hazeldean.
Small Magellanic Cloud by Terry Cuttle
11 Feb 2007. From Mitchell, Qld
Canon 350D at prime focus of Televue TV-76 with FR (384mm, f5), ISO 1600. 4 mins
Comet 2006 P1 McNaught by Terry Cuttle
19 Jan 2007 1003UTC (8:03PM EST) from south of Toowoomba, Qld
Canon 350D with 28 - 200 zoom lens @ 50mm f4.5, 30 sec, 800 ISO.
Comet 2006 P1 (McNaught) & SMC by Terry Cuttle
6 Feb 2007 1001 UT (8:01PM EST) near Oakey, Qld. (IMG_5939)
Canon 350D, 18-55 lens @18mm, f3.5, ISO 1600, 193 secs.
The Orion Nebula (M42) with M43 and NGC 1981, 1975 & 1977, by Terry Cuttle
10 Feb 2007 from Mitchell, Qld.
Canon 350D prime focus of Televue TV-76 with FR (384mm, f5)
ISO 1600. 4 exposures of 1 sec, 10 secs, 2 mins and 6 mins combined.
Comet McNaught by Geoff Johnston
Sunday night 21 January from Amity Point on Stradbroke Island
Exposure time 2 secs. prime focus through a 66mm refractor.
Comet McNaught by Geoff Johnston
Sunday night 21 January from Amity Point on Stradbroke Island
Exposure time 2 secs. prime focus through a 66mm refractor.