Cardiff Astronomical Society

katherine.compton@virgin.net

Gallery of members' images

The images below were all taken by members of the Society.

Bode’s Nebula Could do with longer exposure Object: Bode’s Nebula Date And Time Imaged: 24 January 2010 01:51:27 Location Imaged: Barry Telescope: Takahashi TOA-130F Mount: Astro Physics 900GTO Camera: SBIG ST-2000XCM Exposure: 5 x 1min / 1 x 5min / 1 x 20min -30deg C Filters: Astronomik IR/UV blocker and Astronomik CLS Processing: Deep Sky Stacker / Photoshop CS4 Image stats. : 1024 x 768 pixels. 392Kbytes

Object: M1 Crab Nebula Date And Time Imaged: 10 January 2013 22.35-2.30 Location Imaged: Barry Telescope: IKHARUS 10" Ritchey-Chretien: 2000mm FL at F8 Mount: Astro Physics 900GTO Camera: QSI 683WS 3326x2504 pixels Exposure: See above Filters: Astronomik RGB and Ha Processing: CCDSoft, Maxim DL, Photoshop Copyright Holder: Ed Cloutman Image stats. : 1346 x 1138 pixels. 1371Kbytes Image by : Ed Cloutman

Elephant’s Trunk Nebula I took this in LRGB, but the results were not very good as there was a lot of light pollution and the moon was up. So I processed only in Ha. Object: Part of IC1396 with the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula Date And Time Imaged: 26/07/2011 23:50 Location Imaged: Barry Telescope: Takahashi TOA-130F (1000mm FL at F7.6) Mount: Astro Physics 900GTO Camera: SBIG STL-11000M Exposure: 3x10min bin1x1 -20C Ha Filters: Ha Processing: Maxim DL5 and Photoshop CS4 Image stats. : 1024 x 683 pixels. 567Kbytes Image by : Ed Cloutman

Object: IC 434 Horsehead Nebula Date And Time Imaged: 11 December 2012 11.35-3.30 Location Imaged: Barry Telescope: IKHARUS 10" Ritchey-Chretien: 2000mm FL at F8 Mount: Astro Physics 900GTO Camera: QSI 683WS 3326x2504 pixels Exposure: Data acquired over several nights Filters: Astronomik RGB and Ha Processing: CCDSoft, Maxim DL, Photoshop Copyright Holder: Edward Cloutman Image stats. : 1520 x 999 pixels. 1446Kbytes Image by : Ed Cloutman

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