Saturday 13 May 2023

Astrophotography

It's been a while since my last post here, there's a lot to catch up on. I've got back into astronomy after a break of many years, so this post shows you a few pictures I've taken through a telescope in the past few months. It's a Skywatcher dobsonian 200mm reflector, the photos are taken with a DSLR camera in prime focus, which means effectively using the telescope as a huge camera lens. You have to take quite a few photos and then combine them using a computer to produce good images. Here's my best so far:

Andromeda galaxy

Andromeda 25 Feb 2023 

Pinwheel Galaxy

Pinwheel 18 March 2023

Pleaides

Pleiades 8 Jan 2023

Comet c-2022 e3 

Comet c-2022 e3

More posts on other topics to follow soon...


Mike

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