The Sun is very active at the moment. The inverted Ha image below (PST plus Solarmax II) shows the swirling maelstrom of magnetic fields that are producing X-Class flares ( the darker the areas in this image, the more intense the emissions). I’ve also included that white light image of today’s Sun, as well as a crop that shows an interesting tiny ring sunspot structure near the middle of the image.
The trials, tribulations and small triumphs of a Charlotte, NC astronomer imaging under Bortle 8/9 skies.
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The Pelican Nebula with the Dwarf 3
This is a 4.5 hour integration of the Pelican Nebula, taken with a Dwarf 3 scope. Stacked and processed in Stellar Studio and Photoshop PS.
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I had a couple of emails asking how to defork an ETX telescope. The ETX 90 and ETX 125 were optically superb scopes, but the mounts left a...
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M17, the Omega Nebula (among other names). M17 is one of the brightest and most massive stellar nurseries in the galaxy. The open cluster o...
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The ZEQ25 doing its stuff on a cold night--imaging the Orion Nebula with an 8 inch f/4 astrograph. Note the lovely Christmas rug :) As ...



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