Sunday 21 April 2013

NGC4567 and NGC4568

NGC4567 and NGC4568 . These to galaxies are situated in the constellation of Virgo and are commonly named the Siamese twins. This pair of galaxies shine at magnitudes 11 and 12 and lies at a distance of about 80 million light years. A ten inch f/4.8 reflector was used with PHD auto guiding and an Atik 383L mono CCD camera. Five minute sub frames and dark frames were captured with total exposure times of 40 minutes for each colour filter ( RGB filters):


Wednesday 17 April 2013

Comet Panstarrs with the Andromeda galaxy and the Cone Nebula


This image of Comet Panstars 4 was taken from Angle on the Pembrockshire coast using a Canon 50D with a 70 mm lens. The camera was set on ISO 400 with an exposure time of 3 minutes. An Astrotrac mount was  used, mounted on a Manfrotto tripod:



NGC2264, the Cone nebula .This faint emission nebula lies at a distance of about 2,700 light years in the constellation of Monoceros . Five minute sub frames and matching dark frames were captured making total exposure times of 90 minutes using a hydrogen alpha filter and ten minutes for each colour filter. A ten inch F4.8 reflector was used, PHD auto guiding software and an Atik 383L mono CCD camera: