Full Disk September 2021

Full disk in Hydrogen Alpha. Scope: Lunt LS60PTHa/B1200CPTCamera: ZWO ASI174MM, FireCaptureMount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6Capture: 1,417 frames using best 25%Processing: AutoStakkert! 3, PixInsight 1.8Date: 5th September 2021 14:18UTC

Full Disk October 2021

Full disk in Hydrogen Alpha. Scope: Lunt LS60PTHa/B1200CPTCamera: ZWO ASI174MM, FireCaptureMount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6Capture: 1,331 using best 70%Processing: AutoStakkert! 3, PixInsight 1.8Date: 3rd October 2021 13:32UTC

CED 214 / NGC 7822 In Cepheus

CED 214 / NGC 7822 is an emission nebula and star forming region approximately 2,600 light-years away. Acquisition: William Optics GT81, WO Flat 6AIII 0.8x reducer, ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool, Atik EFW2, Astronomik Ha, OIII, SII 1.25″Mount/Guiding: Orion ST80, QHY 5, PHD2, Sky-Watcher NEQ6, EQMod, Sequence Generator ProProcessing: PixInsight 1.8Dates: 30th – 31st March 2021, 10th December 2021, 5th January …

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Meteor 28th Feb 2021 20:27:23UTC

Meteors April 2021

Meteors captured during April 2021. Acquisition: Raspberry Pi 4, Pi HQ Camera, Fisheye LensProcessing: Allsky Camera (https://github.com/thomasjacquin/allsky)Exposure:  60 seconds

V1405 Cas Annotated

Nova V1405 Cas

  Acquisition: William Optics GT81, WO Flat 6AIII 0.8x reducer, ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool, Atik EFW2, Astronomik R, G, B 1.25″Mount/Guiding: Orion ST80, QHY 5, PHD2, Sky-Watcher NEQ6, EQMod, Sequence Generator ProProcessing: PixInsight 1.8Dates: March 30th 2021Lights: R 5 x 60s, G 5 x 60s, B 5 x 60s, Unity Gain, -15CDarks: 300Flats: 30 per filter

Finite State Machine Diagram of Meteor Scatter Comprehensive v8 conditional actions

Radio Meteor Scatter – Improved Spectrum Lab Conditional Actions V8

Following on from my original post about radio meteor detection, I have produced a new set of conditional actions with additional features and improvements: Works with current versions of Spectrum Lab (tested with 2.96 b2). Bandpass filtering now works properly. Second spectrogram display now configured. Conditional actions can automatically upload image captures and log files …

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Meteor 28th Feb 2021 20:27:23UTC

Meteors Feb-March 2021

Meteors captured during late February and early March 2021. Acquisition: Raspberry Pi 4, Pi HQ Camera, Fisheye LensProcessing: Allsky Camera (https://github.com/thomasjacquin/allsky)Exposure:  60 seconds