Reinhold Wittich

Hello,

IC 1396 is always a very nice object to image. Here is my new version with a lot of field around the trunk.

Imaged in with the Moravian G2-8300 at my Takahashi FS 60 @ f=264mm with the original reducer. L:R:G:B:HA=160:60:60:60:170 minutes. Subexposures were 10 minutes for HA and L and 2 minutes for RGB. Total exposure time was 8.5 hours.

Reinhold

Hello,

M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, was always to large for my CCD. But with the Takahashi FS 60 the galaxy fits the chip.

Imaged in with the Moravian G2-8300 at my Takahashi FS 60 @ f=264mm with the original reducer. L:R:G:B:HA=230:100:100:100:380 minutes. Subexposures were 10 minutes for HA and 2 minutes for LRGB. Total exposure time was 15 hours.

Reinhold

Hello,

here is another widefield with my Takahashi FS 60. It shows te area from the the Bubble nebula to the Cave nebula.

Imaged in with the Moravian G2-8300 at my Takahashi FS 60 @ f=264mm with the original reducer. L:R:G:B:HA:OIII=320:100:100:100:300:300 minutes. Subexposures were 10 minutes for L, HA, OIII and 5 minutes for RGB. Total exposure time was 20 hours.

Reinhold

Hello,

this is the area around Sadr in constellation Cygnus.

This is my second image with the Takahashi FS 60 and now I know a little bit more about using this tiny telescope.

Imaged in with the Moravian G2-8300 at my Takahashi FS 60 @ f=264mm with the original reducer. L:R:G:B:HA:OIII=160:60:60:60:200:200minutes. Subexposures were 5 minutes for HA, 10 minutes for OIII and 2 minutes for LRGB. Total exposure time was 12hours.

Reinhold

Hello,

this is the area from NGC7000, the North America Nebula, to IC5070, the Pelican Nebula.

This is the first image with my Takahashi FS 60, which I bought in November last year. So you can imagine the time for setup with electric focuser and adapter from the telescope to the camera.

Imaged in with the Moravian G2-8300 at my Takahashi FS 60 @ f=264mm with the original reducer. L:R:G:B:HA:OIII=200:72:72:72:360:360minutes. Subexposures were 30 minutes for HA, OIII and 2 minutes for LRGB. Total exposure time was 19 hours.

Reinhold

Update:

Replaced RGB by new frames, each channel focused seperately, to improve the stars and remove the blue halos. Added 100 x 2 minutes of HA to improve the details in HA.

Here you can see how many layers I use in Photoshop to get this result:

Hello,

this is SH2-174, also called the Valentine Rose, in Cepheus

This is a very faint object and you will not find much images of this nebula. Some people say this is and old planetary nebula, but also some people say it is not a planetary nebula.

Imaged in  April 2015 with the Moravian G2-8300 at my 12″ f/4 Newtonian with L:R:G:B:HA:OIII=20:20:20:20:840:840 minutes. Subexposures were 30 minutes for HA, OIII and 5 minutes for LRGB. Total exposure time was 29 hours.

Reinhold

Hello,

this is M109 in Ursa Maior.

Imaged in March and April 2015 with the Moravian G2-8300 at my 12″ f/4 Newtonian with L:R:G:B=540:210:210:210 minutes. Subexposures were 30 minutes for luminance and 30 minutes for RGB.

In February 2014 I imaged the same galaxy with L:R:G:B=160:160:160:160 minutes. Subexposures were 10 minutes for luminance and 10 minutes for RGB.

So now I got a total exposure time of 30 hours.

Reinhold

Hello,

this is M13, The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
Imaged with the Moravian G2-8300 at my 12″ f/4 Newtonian with L:R:G:B=230:80:80:80 minutes. Subexposures were 10 minutes for luminance and 10 minutes for RGB and L:R:G:B=214:120:120:120 minutes. Subexposures were 2 minutes for luminance and 2 minutes for RGB.

So the total number of frames in this image is 335. So I processed 5.3 GB of data  with CCDStack, PixInsight, NAFE and Photoshop for this image.

Reinhold

Hello,

this is the Iris Nebula or NGC7023 .
Imaged with the Moravian G2-8300 at my 12″ f/4 Newtonian with L:R:G:B=1230:240:240:240 minutes. So the total exposure time was about 32 hours. Subexposures were 30 minutes for Luminance and 10 minutes for RGB.

Reinhold

Hello,

here is my final processing of the image of the total solar eclipse from svalbard.

Reinhold