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M1 – Crab Nebula

Crab Nebula in H-Alpha 5 stacked images 600s exposures each, slightly noise reduced.

Astronomy class tidbits

“One teaspoon of white dwarf matter would weigh as much as a fully grown elephant! “ “In looking for life, you are destroying the very life you are looking for”

M82 Processing

Here’s my first attempt to process M82 on my own. I used the University’s website to download stacked images for the R G B frames. I opened each frame respectively in FITS liberator to noise reduce. After noise reducing, I opened the red image in GIMP. I colourified them into red, green and blue […]

Penultimate Observatory Session

This week on Wednesday was the penultimate (but my last) observatory session and it was by far the best one. I got there a bit early to these views: There were only a few of us there, and about 6.15 PM Theo asked if we wanted to see Mars and Venus. I’d never seen either […]

M82

Next on the robotic telescope list of objects to target is Messier 82. This one is particularly special as this is where the supernova was discovered by Steve Fossey and his students at the ULO observatory. Here is the observing plan: I am yet to download all of these images. I have managed to download […]

M44 Beehive Cluster

Next Target on the robotic telescope list is the Beehive Cluster. This one went awry. Too long an exposure. Although some of the images turned out ok.

Scrabble during the Astronomy lecture break

Moon

Viewing the Moon

I actually got to use my Celestron Powerseeker 114EQ telescope after over a year of having it. It was really cool, although too bright to see the craters and surface properly. I also used my Celestron 10 x 50 binolculars too.

Femma's Astronomy

Reach for the Stars