Comet 103P/Hartley

Comet 103P/Hartley 2 was discovered on March, 15th, 1986 by Hartley, Malcolm at U. K. Schmidt Telescope Unit, Siding Spring.
It is 1,5 km across and will pass some 18.000.000 km away from Earth, on October, 20th.
Image:
FS102NSV + ST2000XM + CLS Astronomik IIc
35x 45" bin 2x2 @ -20ºC
Darks & Flats
MaxIm & CS4
Leiria, October, 14th - 22h55m-23h43m UT
Low transparency, 98% RH and, almost quarter Moon... :(

Jupiter, GRS, Calisto & Io

Lots of detail on the planet and on the moons...
Io is transiting and casting a shadow on Jupiter, while Calisto is quietly taking its tour around the planet.
Best picture ever of those moons. :-)

details

Jupiter, GRS, Calisto & Io

Night of multiple avi recording.

details

Jupiter reprocessed (9/9)

Managed to reprocess some "old" files and came up with this "new" picture...
Image #1:
reduced to 80%
still needs some work over right limb and Io (not shown).

image #2
original processed image (reduced to 70%)

Jupiter, Sep 28th

One lucky shot between the clouds...
C11 f/30
TV 3x
DMK21AF icx618
RGB Astronomik IIc
Leiria, 23h45m UT

NGC281, Sep 12. 2010

Reprocessed my previous image.
This time I have dark subtracted the frames and have also removed one Ha and one SII frames that were not good.
5x 600" Ha & SII
5x 700" OIII

full resolution

NGC281, Sep 12. 2010

Fisrt time Ha, SII, OIII imaging.
Image: FS102NSV + ST2000XM + Astronomik filters
Guiding: SW 70mm + DMK + PHD
6x 600" Ha
6x 700" OIII
5x 600" SII
No Darks nor Flats.