Clavius re-processed using AviStack.

OT: Track the bag...

Click on the image to track the bag (you may have to wait a minute or so for it to appear).
Here's the Story.

AviStack

Everyone seems to be talking about AviStack recently so I thought I'd give it a whirl.
The differences are very subtle.
I'm still trying to get my head around using it.

M1 Crab nebula

This is a work in progress. 63 frames, 1hour 3mins data.

Crab supernova 24th Nov 2008

Lots of problems tonight with guiding, but here it is anyway.
24 x 1 min exposures @ 1600 ISO. C9.25 prime focus.

Uranus 24th Nov 2008

Imaged with C9.25, DMK, 2.5x TV Powermate and Astronomic filters. 700 frames per channel.

ISS - 10 years

ISS 10 year anniversary.

I've just gleaned a couple of facts from the STS-126 mission status briefing. The ISS since it started has had 164 visitors and travelled 1.3 Billion miles. Time flys.

From this...

to this:-

NASA Restores Historic Lunar Orbiter Image

This is great, old images restored at McMoon's Here's the story.

Video
Credit
MoonViews

Thanks guys.

The Moon 12th Nov 2008

34 image mosaic, taken with C9.25, f6.3FR, Astronomic red filter, DMK21AF04AS.
Processed in Registax and mosaiced in CS3.
Click here for fullsize image.

Below; Close to the edge... round by the corner.

2.5x TV Powermate mosaic of the Southern edge.

M42, M13 & M92 - re-processed from earlier this year.

Horsehead Nebula in Orion.

Another version using Noel's tools.

M45

M45 again using Noel's tools, with and without starbursts.

M31 ...and others - processed with Noel's actions.

Been playing ...I bought a copy of Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools today for Photoshop.
I'm still getting my head around them, but they're easy to use, and I can highly recommend them.

The actions used above are; Light pollution removal, Make stars smaller, Increase star color, Soft color gradient removal and a small amount of Star diffraction spikes (not really visible in this image).
Warning: Be prepared for loads of pretty pictures with star spikes all over them ;-)
Like these... hehe.

M51 re-processed from earlier this year.

Horsehead Nebula in Orion... bit more data.

1 hr, 40 min, 73 frames.

M45 - with more subs.

3 hrs, 7 mins, 273 frames.

M31 with sharpening techniques.

Boy! you just can't leave it alone.
Using high Pass filtering technique from here.

M31 - 273 frames, 5 hours and 24 minutes, ISO 800.

Picture in Sky & Telescope.

I got a pciture in Sky & Telescope December issue.
Thanks to Sky & Telescope and a big thanks to Charles Wood.


Here's the original image.

Horsehead Nebula in Orion.

28 x 2 minute frames.
I need a lot more subs on this one.
I am actually amazed that anything came out on this, I couldn't even see this feature in the scope!

Below is a crop of an unprocessed single frame.

Here's the 32 bit tiff file straight out of DSS. If you fancy having a go at processing the image, be my guest. Let me know how you get on.
Beware: the file is over 95Mb.

M42 ... with a bit more data.

1 hr, 20 min, 76 frames.

M45 - 22nd Oct 2008

Double Cluster in Perseus - 21st Oct 2008

Another go at the double cluster. This time using my C9.25 and 6.3 focal reducer.
16 subs of 1 minute at 800 ISO, darks, flats & bias applied.

Re-processed Moretus from 20th Sept 2008

Here is the Moretus from 20th Sept re-processed using 48 x 64 MAP per image, 6 image mosaic.
Registax and CS3.

Another image published in Astronomy Now Magazine, Nov 2008 issue.

Big thanks to Astronomy Now.


Here's the image from September.

Reiner Gamma Formation.

C9.25, 2.5x TV Powermate, Red filter and DMK21AF04AS. best 300 frames from 1200.

Here's some info from The Moon Wikispaces.

Below is a Lunar Orbiter Mosaic from Map-a-Planet Explorer

A magnetic map of Reiner Gamma obtained by NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft in the 1990s

The peaks of Petavius 16th Oct 2008

The Moon 15th Oct 2008

Taken with a DMK21AF04AS and ED80 APO. 6 image mosaic.

Colour image taken with Canon EOS 400D.

DMK and Colour image layered.

Full Moon 14th Oct 2008

The Moon is so bright when viewed through a scope. That's another thing that is impossible to re-create with any camera.
The human eye is so good.

Silvery Moon in an inky sky 13th Oct 2008

This picture is really beginning to grow on me, (even though I do say so myself)
I like the way the clouds look as though they are behind the Moon, good trick eh?
But it gives a view of the Moon that I've been trying to capture for ages... the idea that the Moon is a ball suspended in space by a piece of string. That's the nearest that I can get to an explanation of the feeling. Oh well.
Haven't been drinking either, I've just been in the shed too much!!

Larger version here.

Airborne crew captures video of ATV re-entry.

Amazing video, click image below for video... I wonder what is was like on-board?? :-0