What a big difference the CLS filter makes, almost looks like I did hargb. I was lucky enough to get 5 hours on this target from a green zone. DSLR cooler (thanks Stephen!) helped big time with the noise. Image Location and Date: OCA dark site @ Anza, CA Object: Sadr and surrounding nebulosity. Mount: [...]
Posts tagged ‘Anza’
Sadr Region, central Cygnus.
August 29th, 2012
NGC7023 – The Iris Nebula
August 24th, 2012
Recently took a week off work and since I’m trying not to spend too much money right now I decided to take my vacation at my club’s dark sky site. This is the first of many images I grabbed… nice thing about having six-seven nights to image is that I have no problem focusing on [...]
Cocoon Nebula
July 28th, 2012
Finally got a clear night to image (since I live in socal that means we had some clouds for 2 or 3 day). Temps were very nice for me, not so much for the camera. I need to finish that cooler box! Image Location and Date: OCA dark site @ Anza, CA Object: Cocoon Nebula [...]
Omega Centauri from Anza, CA
March 25th, 2012
I had gone out to my clubs dark site for several nights to work on a widefield mosaic of the Orion/Gemini area, once that set I had some free time to shot a few objects I’ve always wanted to go for. I noticed Omega Centauri was barely above the mountains to the south around 1 [...]
Markarian’s Chain
March 5th, 2012
This is always a fun target, good test to see how deep I can push the new camera. Pretty damn deep it looks like! You can easily pick out M 84, Ic 3303, Ngc 4387, Ngc 4388, Ngc 4402 , M 86, Ngc 4407, Ngc 4425, Ngc 4435, Ngc 4438, Ngc 4461, Ngc 4473, Ngc [...]
M78 – Reflection Nebula in Orion
March 5th, 2012
This sure was challenging! Two out of the three nights I arrived late and couldn’t start work until Orion well into the light pollution of north San Diego county. Taking stuff out of the car, polar alignment, mount alignment, focus and framing really eat up my dark sky time but I don’t have much of [...]