White light image taken with 80mm Skywatcher telescope and Canon 700D camera, (Ha) image taken with 60mm Lunt solar telescope and Canon 700D camera, images stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.
The Sun is very quite on the surface at the moment with only a couple of very small sunspots as seen looking through my white light telescope. But looking through the Lunt (Ha) solar telescope was Wow… on show were dark filaments, prominences around the limb and a little bit of activity around that small sunspot AR 3372 :-)
White light image taken with 80mm Skywatcher telescope and Canon 700D camera, (Ha) image taken with 60mm Lunt solar telescope and Canon 700D camera, images stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.
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SAS club members supported this wonderful lunar event by bringing along there telescopes and camera equipment for the public to enjoy looking at our amazing Moon. As an added bonus the beautiful planets Saturn and Jupiter were also on display to the delight of the people who came along to enjoy the evening.
A few Stardust Junior Astronomy Club families came along also and were thrilled to see real night sky objects in the telescopes, including our incredible Moon :-) My lunar images were taken at the event with the Meade LX50 8-inch telescope and a Canon 700D camera plus an added 2x Barlow lens for the close up picture. (Please note: When I get there permission I'll post more pictures of members with telescopes) ~ Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) Planetary nebula in Aquarius 655 light years away ~ About 10,600 years ago a star like ours exploded and this is what it looks like today…awesome isn’t it, but there’s no need to worry as our life giving star still has 4.5 billion years to go! The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) was formed when a massive red giant star exploded, resulting in a white dwarf star forming at the nebula centre, expanding band of gases and dust can be seen surrounding the whole area as the star shed its outer layers into space. The Helix Nebula is the closest planetary nebula to Earth and can be found very easily at the moment in a dark sky with binoculars or telescope in the constellation of Aquarius. Image taken at my Stardust Observatory with Meade 10inch LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope and Canon 6D Mark11 camera attached. 35X3 minute images captured with dark frames and ISO 2500, stacked in DSS and processed in PS. German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered the Helix Nebula in about 1824. It is estimated to be about 10,600 years old when the explosion was created and the star could have had planets, moons, comets and other celestial objects orbiting around it just like our Earth. To read more about this spectacular celestial object please go to the links below: https://theplanets.org/nebula-facts/helix-nebula/ ~ International Astronomical Union (IAU) constellations ~
https://www.iau.org/public/themes/constellations/ |
AuthorI just love being under the heavens, come on a journey with me and I’ll share some of the amazing wonders of the Universe with you. Noeleen :-) Archives
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