Mars, Orion, and wide field Christmas tree to Rosette

[chuckp]

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 used hdr composition in Pixinsight to bring out the trapizium. The wide field rosette to Chrismas tree was shot with a 100mm canon macro lens with the ASI1600mm and HA, Olll and SII filters. Mars was taken with the 9.25 Edge, 2.5 Powermate, and ASI224 camera. 30% of 4000 frames. I was surprised how good it came out considering the seeing in Oregon isn't as good as Florida.

 

[AlanLichty]

Hope you enjoyed the dry spell - that was quite rare for our area. I was quite disappointed in the lack of clouds for sunrises and sunsets but from the looks of it you were a prime beneficiary and took good advantage of the event. I like this series of images and the detail and colors of the last one in particular.

 

[chuckp]

Hope you enjoyed the dry spell - that was quite rare for our area. I was quite disappointed in the lack of clouds for sunrises and sunsets but from the looks of it you were a prime beneficiary and took good advantage of the event. I like this series of images and the detail and colors of the last one in particular.

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.

 

[Comet Hunter]

Wow, you've been busy, nice set of astro imagery

 

[JimFox]

Hey Chuck, I was wondering how you were doing. I am glad to see you got some clear nights in a row, you made the most of it.

You got some really great images here, I do like how Mars came out, even if not quite as sharp as from Florida, I think it looks good. And you did good on Orion, not only the Trapezium, but you got a lot dust surrounding it.

Ed (Comet Hunter) is up in Oregon, and he puts out some amazing work from up there. Is the difference in seeing just mainly affecting planetary for you?

 

[chuckp]

Hey Chuck, I was wondering how you were doing. I am glad to see you got some mostly try galaxiesclear nights in a row, you made the most of it.

You got some really great images here, I do like how Mars came out, even if not quite as sharp as from Florida, I think it looks good. And you did good on Orion, not only the Trapezium, but you got a lot dust surrounding it.

Ed (Comet Hunter) is up in Oregon, and he puts out some amazing work from up there. Is the difference in seeing just mainly affecting planetary for you?

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 also. I'm still useing my solar scope every chance I get but only image when there is a larger prominence. I have two more images I have to process. I am running out of objects to do because I've been doing this so long. I will get out to a dark sight in the spring and summer and focus on broadband shots with a color camera.

 

[chuckp]

Wow, you've been busy, nice set of astro imagery

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