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With travels to India and Norway in the early part of the year I did not get a chance to do astrophotography until March. By then the winter Milky Way and its nebulae were descending in the western sky and we were into 'galaxy season'. Most galaxies appear rather small at the focal length (600mm) of my refractor. That, together with the likelyhood of impending Trump tarrifs on telescopes from Japan gave an excuse to buy a new long focal length (2000mm) telescope; a Celestron C8 EDGE. The three photos below show my first decent results with this 'scope', using a rig otherwise identical to the one above. My AM3 hendled the extra weight fine after the addition of a couterweight.
Pinwheel galaxy with added Ha
OSC no filter 6hrs at Bortle 2 site in Mojave Desert with added Ha using dual narrowband (7 nm Ha) filiter, 3 hrs in our driveway (Bortle 9).
Whirlpool galaxy
OSC no filter, 6hrs at Bortle 2 site in Mojave Desert
Crescent Nebula
Dual narrowband filter (7nm Ha and OIII) from our front driveway (Bortle 9)
First attempts at imaging some classic targets for beginning astrophotographers. As compared to landscape and wildlife photography there is a lot to learn of the technical aspects of both iage acquisition and post-processing.
Rosette Nebula
Ha narroband; 90 min integration; ZWO FF80 with reducer; taken from outside our front door.
Our first visit coincided with the new moon, and the skies were truly dark, so I could use the color astro camera without any filters..
