Sun WhiteLight 20131006-15h54UT

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Sun in white light with Taka 4" + Lunt 1.25" SolarWedge (ND3; Ha 6nm; Baader IR/UV) + DMK41.

First snapshots.

There is a gradient on the picture that needs to be sorted out; probably one of the filters is not properly attached.

M33 September 2013

 

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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy

52x200", no filters

FS102NSV f/8; ST2000XM selfguided

DDP; levels, curves, unsharp & noiseware

Increasing integration time and using scaled Darks.

M27 & M33 September 13

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FS-102NSV f/8; ST2000XM selfguided.

M27: 10x600sec; Flats, Bias, Dark Flats. No Darks...

M33: 20x200sec; Flats, Bias, Dark Flats. No Darks...

Losmandy G11 back in business

G11 back on pier after complete relube, ready to rock & roll. Waiting for some clear night sky to polar align (damn fires).

AR running nice and smoothly as never seen.

G11 degreased & relubed Ago24

First disassembly ever, to degresase and relub my 2008 mount.

Easy to do,  though degreasing is quite boring and time consuming.

Done with isopropil alcohol. Waiting for superlube delivery, which is due on Monday.

Then, hope no parts are left on the table after full assembly :-)

Saturn 20130725@20:53UT

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I just cannot believe this...
What a beautiful 2013!
Red channel between clouds.

C11 + Powermate 2x + Astronomik IIc (R) + DMK21AF
AutoStakkert 2 - drizzle 1.5x

Saturn 20130723@21:13UT

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Can't remember the last time I imaged Saturn... 

First Saturn of this 2012/13 season.

This has been a very long and cloudy winter, spring and summer and I was just lucky enough this evening, just before the clouds rolled in once again... the Blue channel was recorded with very low transparency due to clouds rolling in.

I just can't believe this!

Seeing: better than average around here, but not able to go to f/30.

C11 + powermate 2.0x + RGB Astronomik IIc + DMK21AF

Autostakkert (alignment and stacking)

Registax 6 (wavelets)

CS4