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A range of images from our members
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Comet C/P1 MacNaught 2006 imaged by John Bell 10 Jan 2007 17:19 using a Canon EOS Digital Rebel X/T
Noctilucent Cloud Display captured July 15th, 2006 by Pierre Girard using a Kodak 7630
n.b. These are 6 megapixel images - time to get that 21" monitor...

Images from the 2006 appearance of Jupiter by Mark Greene

Aurora Pictures from Gordon Bradbury (thanks to Brian Brooks for the slide scanning and John Hoad for the notes, references and matching times to slides).


Date of event - Saturday 22nd January 2005
Location - Guisborough.
Film - Kodak Ektachrome 200ASA transparencies 35mm
Lens - 24mm @ f3.6 @ 40sec./pic
Brief history. Gordon was asked by his nieces to take them, their friends and a teacher to look through a telescope at Saturn and the Moon. However, the evening had a suprise in store. By 1830 an Aurora had started to build. The likely source of this Aurora was the X7 class solar flare Jan 20 (see Astronomy Now March 2005 page 13, and July 2005 page 9).
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The latest selection from Gordon Bradbury in Yorkshire.
M13 M51 M57
M13 M51 M57
M13 - 5th February at 01:30.  30x180 second images taken through a 200mm telephoto lens at f15 piggy-backed to telescope stacked together using Astorart and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop.

M51 - 10th March 2005 at 01:30.   MXC5 colour camera and 8inch LX200 at f6.3. 20x120 second images stacked together using Astroart and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop.

M57 - 10th March 2005 at 02:30.   MXC5 colour camera and 8inch LX200 at f10. 30x120 second images. Astroart used for darkframe subtraction, bias frame, & stacking the images, Adobe Photoshop used to alter the contrast and colour balance.
Mag 15 galaxy IC1296 at top right of image again 30x120 second images stacked together using Astorart then stitched together using Adobe Photoshop.
M57 + M51 scaled up in size by 125%, M13 scaled up by 150%


A selection from John Hoad

SOLAR ECLIPSE
Film Ref. 74427/2M.
Time/Date. 05:10 on 31/5/03
Location. From Durness on A838
Film Boots Trans. 200ASA 35mm
Exp. Time 1/500. f/No 8.
Lens 500mm x 2 		IRIDIUM FLARE
Film Ref. 73823/2M
Time/Date. 21:10 on 4/10/02
Location. Craven Arms.
Film. Fuji Sensia. 35/400
Exp. Time 3m f/No. 4
Lens. 55mm 		WIDE ANGLE SKY VIEW
Film Ref. 74702M
Date 29/9/03
Location Craven Arms
Film. Fuji Sensia. 35/400
Exp.time 4m f/No. 4
Lens. 8mm

By John Knight - Handheld digital camera and 6" reflector, Sept 7th 2003.



Brian Brooks' deep space collection from CDEPA near Tavira in the Algarve (early May 2002). All images about 20 seconds with MX9 ccd and F6.3 focal reducer.
Let the mouse hover over the picture for NGC / Messier numbers, and click for the full size image in a new window.

More from Gordon Bradbury (Jan 27 2002)

Gordon Bradbury's Moon selection:
(8" Meade LX50 with CCD.) with annotation by Brian Brooks.

Gordon Bradbury's Jupiter & Saturn pictures:
(8" Meade LX50 at f10 and x2 Barlow with CCD.)

All images had dark frame and flat frame correction before converting to colour.
Working top to bottom the exposure time decreases, and left to right shows the effect of chromatic adjustment and sharp/smooth filters.

0.5 sec
0.3 sec
0.2 sec
0.1 sec



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