For July 2020, the entries displayed below.
Eastern Veil Nebula by Ramon Goldfried
Date: 18/08/2020
Location: Govetts Leap Lookout up at Blackheath.
SW ED80 with x0.85 reducer/flattener.
HEQ5PRO belt mod.
Nikon D5300 unmodified.
ZWO mini guide scope with ZWO ASI120MM and a x2 barlow.
21 x 120sec, ISO 200
30 x flats
30 x Bias
ISS Lunar Transit by John Sandoval
Location: Mt. Colah
Equipment:
Celestron EdgeHD 9.25
Losmandy GM11G
Nikon Z7 FX mode
Exposure: 5 frames per second at 1/1600 second ISO 1250
The duration of the transit was less than 1 second, and was to occur at 01:51:12.00 am. I started taking photos at 5 frames per second from 10 seconds before the anticipated event time up to 20 seconds after the event time, producing some 150 individual photos. I managed to capture the ISS transiting the moon in 3 photos. This is a composite of those 3 photos.
Lagoon Nebula and Trifid Nebula by Gary Jones
Location: NSAS, Terrey Hills, NSW, Australia
Date & Time: Saturday 29 August, 2020 @ about 8pm-ish
Equipment:
OTA: SkyWatcher Esprit 80/400mm APO Triplet
Mount: Skywatcher EQ5
Camera: ZWO ASI-071-MC Colour CMOS
Computer: ZWO AISI-Air Pro + iPad for Polar Alignment and image capture
Target:
M8, NGC 6523 (Lagoon Nebula)
M20, NGC6514 (Trifid Nebula)
RA: 271.127895 °
DEC: -24.3749 °
Image:
Mode: 16-bit colour
Exposure: 1 x light frame @ 5 seconds.
Size: 4,944 x 3,284 pixels
Processing: Cropped and colour balanced using Photoshop
NGC7293 (Helix Nebula) by David Stevenson
Photo taken from Back yard in Turramurra
Skywatcher EDO 120mm Apochromatic Esprit
Skywatcher AZEQ6 GT Mount
390 Light Frames – 240 mins or 6 hours capture time
90 x 60 sec Lum
87 x 30 sec Red
90 x 30 sec Blue
76 x 30 sec Green
47 x 30 sec Ha
Processed in PixInsight
Jupiter by Bill Kaloudis
- Jupiter with red spot transit & visible Moons
- Backyard, Inner West Sydney - Lucky Imaging
- Acquisition time - 2020-08-28 at 7:15pm.
- ASI290MM Monochrome camera with LRGB Filters
- Celestron EdgeHD 800
- Televue 2x Powermate
- Saxon AZ-EQ6 GT Mount in EQ configuration
- SharpCap Pro, Autostakkert!, Registax, Photoshop