For May 2021, the entries are displayed below.
Plane Flyby Moon by Peter Nosworthy
On May 26th, I was livestreaming the Lunar eclipse on Youtube from my backyard observatory at Hazelbrook in the Blue Mountains. At 22:47, near the end of the partial phase, a plane flew through the field of view of one of my scopes.
The plane was a DHL Boeing 777 owned by Kalitta Air and was flying at 11,600 ft.
Equipment: 100mm f/10 Schmidt Cass. with 25mm Plossl eyepiece and iPhone 11 Pro mounted at the eyepiece.
The phone itself was not recording but was acting as a web cam feeding into my live streaming software which was recording the video feed. The image is therefore a cropped frame from the video livestream recording. That's why it has "LIVE VIEW" superimposed on it.
Lunar Eclipse by John Sandoval
Location: Terrey Hills
Equipment: Takahashi FSQ106edx4, Losmandy G11, Nikon Z7 DX mode
Exposures: 400 frames, 5 fps, 1/20 sec exposure at ISO 2000, stacked in RegiStax
The Moon by Jacinta Nicholson
Taken with iPhone and scope (with a shaky hand).
Reflection Nebula in Corona Australis by Greg McCall
NGC6726, NGC6727, NGC6729 & IC4812 Nebula
NGC6723 Globular Cluster
The image was taken on our first night at our new club observation site, about a 40-minute drive north from the centre of Sydney.
L 17 x 240s Bin 1x1
R 26 x 240s Bin 2x2
G 11 x 240s Bin 2x2
B 17 x 240s Bin 2x2
No guiding. Astro-Physics APPM model of 135 points (above 43 deg altitude)
SQM readings ranged from 20.03 to 20.15
Temperature from 6.4 to 5.4 degrees C
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Sky-Watcher 120ED APO 120mm Refractor
Imaging cameras: QHYCCD QHY600M-PH
Mounts: ASTRO-PHYSICS Mach2GTO German Equatorial Mount (MACH2GTO)
Software: Sequence Generator Pro
Dates:May 16, 2021
Frames: 71x240" (4h 44')
Lunar Eclipse by Gary Jones
Camera ZWO ASI-071-MC
OTA Skywatcher Esprit 80 400mm f5
Mount Skywatcher EQ5
Exposure 1 second
Date 26/05/2021
Time 21:06:21