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We had a couple of nice nights to get a shot of comet Lemmon. There were trees in the line of site so it was still a little bright when taking the shot. Ioptron 30pro ASI 533mc Canon 100mm f2.8 macro Lens 39 60 sec subs Pixinsight and Photoshop

I finally had a very good night for shooting the planets. I was ready to give up on my planetary imaging since moving to Oregon from florida over two years ago. This was taken with the Celestron 9.25 Edge with a 2.5 Powermate and the ASI 224 camera. I stacked 20% of 2000 frames in Autostakkert...

ASI 1600mm Celestron 9.25 edge with 0.7 reducer. AP Mach 1 mount 20-300 sec Ha 43 300 Sec OIII 56-300 sec SII Pix insight, Photoshop, Topaz denoise

The sun had much activity this late afternoon. This is taken with the Lunt60 and ASI1600mm camera. Best 80% of 600 frames.

I thought this one was pretty interesting. Looks like a football or a kids drawing of Saturn. Celestron Edge 9.25 w/reducer 30-120 sec Ha and 30-120 sec OIII ASI 1600mm camera.

I took this shot with the Celestron 9.25 Edge and 0.7 reducer. ASI 1600 mm. 40 - 60 sec subs for each color filter. I did not do luminance subs. The shot is cropped considerably. Bortle 7

I combined the rgb from the ASI 533 MC with the Ha and OII of the ASI 1600mm using the NBRGBcombine script. I did 42-360 sec Ha, 30 -360 sec OII and 90-60 sec subs rgb. I wish I would have done less time on the narrowband because it was difficult to bring out the core.

I haven't taken very many shots lately. I have been doing more solar than deep sky. I'm starting to do some deep sky again and hoping to get out to a dark site. M27 was taken from my backyard which sorry to say it the most light polluted area of the sky, Bortle 7. I used the 9.25 edge with the...

It's been a while since posting here. We finally had clear nights for a record ammount of days in Portland area. I was able to set up and leave my scope set up for days. I shot the Orion Nebula with the Tak FSQ106 w/0.73 reducer and the ASI533mc and shot 60 second subs and 10 second subs and...

I'm surprised there arn't that many shots of the comet. I'm sure they will be coming. I've been in a slump for imaging, I've been doing it for so long I needed to take a little break. I did get inspired by this naked eye comet. It did get a little cloudy but the tail was still visible through...

This is an image I took a couple of years ago and decided to reprocess it. I did not notice the soap bubble until I removed all the stars in Pixinsight. It was really faint and hard to bring it out. I processed most of it using masking in photoshop to bring out the soap bubble. I do better...

This is the Blue Horsehead Nebula IC 4592. This is a reflection nebula close to the top left bright star in Scopius, Beta Scorpius. I tried to image this object in Florida but it is a summer object and we very seldon had a clear nights from June until October so I did not get enough exposures...

I couldn't pass up taking a shot of the sun today. I think that is one of the largest prominences I've seen so far. I used the Lunt 60 with the ASI 1600mm camera.

It's been a while since I imaged anything astro. I would look at the sun, moon and planets every chance I got but just got lazy to do any astrophotography. I think I'm ready to start imaging again. I did try Jupiter and Saturn this year but the seeing in Oregon is nowhere near the seeing I got...

I processed this data I obtained from a 27.5" scope in Spain through Telescope Live. I joined Telescope Live because I wanted to get shots from the Southern hemisphere but also in some cases where I wasn't happy with the shot I got from my location.

This is the first shot of Saturn from the Pacific Northwest and I am really missing the steadiness of the skies in SW Florida for shooting the planets. The planets were also high in the sky which makes a difference. I was at 26° lat before now at 45° Seeing is everything when doing the planets...

It's been a while since i've been able to take a shot of anything. I've been busy moving across the country. SW Florida to Oregon was a stressful move but we made it and I started to take some shots again. I miss my observatory I had in Florida but I'm able to image from my back yard. Here is my...

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.