Comet 103P/Hartley

Comet 103P/Hartley is still very faint. I could not see it visible, so I decided to try it photographically. This is a combination of 4 20min exposures at ISO800. The green-blueish color that is very common to Comets is clearly visible. Next months it will become more bright.

NGC7331 and Stephans quintet: realm of galaxies

Last night I photographed NGC7331 and the Stephans quintet, a group of galaxies approx 300 mln lightyears distant. This is a combination of 5 20min exposures @ ISO800 with an eos400d in the primary focus of my 200mmF5 Newtonian.

I also added 5 extra exposures of NGC7331 from the previous night, this is a total of 10 20min exposures........

This is an enlarged part of the Stephans quintet itself.

IC10 and NGC7662 with the webcam

This is IC10 captured with the modded SPC900 in primary focus of my 200mmF5 Newtonian. It is a combination of 12 180sec exposures.

And here's the Blue Snowball NGC7662, also captured with the webcam.

NGC7635 Bubble nebula with the modified webcam

This is NGC 7635, better known as the Bubble nebula. I wanted to try my modified webcam again on deepsky objects. This is a combination of 10 90sec exposures with my SC3 modded SPC900 (fitted with ICX-424 B/W CCD) in the primary focus of my 200mmF5 Newtonian. Autoguiding was done with a separate 90mmF10 fitted with a standard TouCam webcam.