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I was able to get 52 minutes on M101 last night before the clouds came in. I used an Optolong L-pro light pollution filter in Bortle 8 skies at f8 with my FSQ106 and the 1.6 extender. The supernova is really bright. That would be great if one happened in our galaxy.

This is a one 180 second shot from my light polluted back yard with a satellite going though on the only shot I took before the clouds ruined the night. I at least had a chance to get it. My ASI 533 is acting strange, I am getting a lot of hot pixels for about the first 10 minutes and then they...

This morning I got set up in time to capture this crazy long prominence. This was the longet prominence I've ever protographed. You can see how small the earth looks. By the time I was done with the session the long prominence disappeared.

This shot is a total of 7 hours so far. It is very faint object, I could barely see it with a 6 minute shot. I am imaging in Bortle 8 skies and using a 5nm Ha filter. I tried some O3 shots but could not see anything but I will get more O3 to get a color image.

These shots were taken with the Lunt 60 and ASI 1600mm. The close-up was with a 2x barlow and I over exposed the surface to show the prominences better. I find using a mono camera and adding false color with a photo editing software produces the best images.

I finally had a couple of clear nights so I was able to get 4 more hours added to the other 4 hours I got back in 2018. This is from my backyard in a bortle 8 zone with my neighbors patio light shining towards me., thank you narrow band filters. I used the Takahashi FSQ106 with a 0.73 reducer...

#1 Super large Solar Prominence from 12-06-2022 with Earth shown to to show how insignificant we are. #2 flower and spider. I did not see the spider until I got home to process photos. #3 Mars captured in the month of December showing all of the surface. #4 I did a Burrowing Owl survey...

The Jellyfish Nebula is a Type II supernova remnant about 5000 light years away in the constellation of Gemini. This one took me a little over 4 hours to shoot over 3 days. I used S2, Ha and O3 filters. Here is a link to a little better resolution. https://pbase.com/hobbynaut/image/173320334

I took these shots of Mars from the last 2 weeks. These were taken with the Celestron 9.25 Edge with a 2.5 Powermate and the ASI 224mc camera. Each shot was scaled up 1.75 times and taken at the resolution of 320x280 Here is the finished project. I started this on 12-01-22 and took the last...

There was a nice large prominence on the sun today. I added the earth in to show how large it is. I think I'm pretty close on the size.

The atmosphere was pretty steady last night and I have several shot of the same surface features of Mars so decided to shoot the moon.

I finally put all my equipment back in the observatory. I got in an imaging slump ever since Hurricane Ian. I took this shot with the Celestron 9.25 Edge , 2.5 Powermate and the ASI 224mc camera. The seeing was pretty good last night a little above average. I processed most of it in...

I tried something different on this shot. I combined a HOO processed image and a SHO processed image and used the luminosity blending mode in Affinity Photo. I also used starnet 2 in Pixinsight to remove the stars and processed the nebula seperately. This was taken with the Celestron 9.25 edge...

Well hurricane Ian came roaring through last week with a vengance. My yard was really hit hard, but only had a few roof shingles missing. My observatory only had slight damage. Here are a few photos. I don't know when I will be up and running with the telescope but I still have the solar scope...

It finally cleared up to get a second shot of Saturn. The seeing was very good and the transparency was very good for florida standards. I used the celestron 9.25 Edge and a 2.5 Powermate, ASI224mc camera.

I've been trying different stacking sofware for processing the sun, moon and planets. ZWO came out with ASIStudio. It is all basic and very simple to use. I put together a short tutorial on processing Jupiter. This is excellent for beginners who want a simple program without all the different...

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I got another clear morning with jupiter in a good position. Celestron 9.25 EDGE with 2.5 Powermate. I used Astrosurface to stack and process most of the image and final adjustments in Photoshop. 30% of 3000 frames

I got up early this morning to take this shot of Jupiter. The seeing was about 9/10. This was taken with the Celestron 9.25 EDGE, 2.5 powermate and the ASI224mc camera. I used 30% of 2000 frames.

I was able to get out in the heat and humidity to get these shots of the sun. It was as hot as the pics look. I used the Lunt 60 Hydrogen Alpha scope. On the one shot, I blocked the surface out in post processing. I took a video using 60% of 1000 frames.