NGC6826 Blinking planetary and UGC11465 galaxy

Here's the blinking planetary (the green dot in the middle), it is a planetary nebula you only see when looking with averted vision, otherwise you see the star in front of it. This is a testexposure to see how long I could autoguide with a half moon. This is a combination of 7 20min exposures @ ISO800, corrected with 4 dark and 4 bias frames.

After studying the picture more closely I found a very small galaxy, UGC11465. It is a very small galaxy with a magnitude of 12.7. Nice that it was also on this astrophoto.

After stuying the picture more closely it became clear that I managed to capture the outer layers of the Blinking nebula, you have to look very closely to see it, it is the halo around the bright center.

I also found PGC 2384842, a very small galaxy of magnitude 16.94, this is a new deep-record for me.

NGC6960 Veil nebula

This is the Veil nebula, also known as NGC6960. It is a supernova remnant. The full moon was shining but I thought: let's give it a try. It looks good, next time I will try to improve this result.

Balloon launched in our backyard.

Yesterday evening a balloon was launched on the meadow behind our living block.

1st light observatory

This is the 1st picture I took from my new observatory. It is an exposure of 1hr15min of M27. There were many high clouds, and the wind was blowing quite hard. Apart from the initial autoguiding problems I was able to make 5 subs of 15min @ ISO800 resulting in this picture. See the crop with more details below.

Observing the sun

This afternoon I observed the sun from my backyard observatory, here are some pictures.

 

Backyard observatory first light

This evening my backyard observatory got it's first light, observed M57, NGC6811, M56, M27, M71, M13 and M92. The good thing about the observatory is that you can open it in 5min and close it also in 5min....