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Thank You! It looks like this week will be clear so I might do some narrow band imaging this week and if there are nice prominences on the sun I will do that also.

Thank You! I like the fact that it is constantly chaging.

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...

Thanks, yes it was nice to get that many clear nights.

Thanks Jim, the transparency in Oregon is much better for deep sky which also helps for light pollution. The seeing is pretty bad most of the time, this was a pretty good night so I think Mars came out pretty good. Mars is also a lot smaller than in previous years so that makes a difference...

Thanks Alan, yes I sure did enjoy the clear nights. I still have a couple more targets to process. Looks like back to the clouds and rain.

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...

Thanks Jim, I just used a dslr . It will be higher tonight but I will have clouds the next two days. I think I will use my 28-105 lens next time because the tail is really long and probably will not fit at 70mm on my Canon 80 at a dark site.

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...

Thank you! Thanks to other people who found it and star removing software. I might go though more of my shots remove the stars and stretch the heck out of it to see what other objects will show up.

Thanks Jim!

Thanks Mike, I wasn't trying for it because I didn't know it was there until I saw some other shots of it. removing the stars have really helped out on my processing.

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...

Jim, yes it is still up and in a good position to image. i wish I could have used a astro camera instead of the old canon camera.

I was at a dark site at the end of April and I should have tried it again but I was fixed on galaxies.

Thank You, Sorry to say I did not capture this, I processed the data from Telescope Live.

Thanks Jim, I forgot I did this at a Bortle 2 site in New mexico which I used my 70-200 Canon lens with an old Canon 1000d that was modified. I remember having all kinds of guiding problems at the time using my friend mount. Here is the shot I took in 2019. It came out OK for just about 1.5...

Thanks Alan!

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...

Thank you Marcy!