Monday, December 17, 2018

December 18, 2018: Comets, Nebulae and a Galaxy

A progress report on my astrophotography adventure.   

I'm slowly overcoming obstacles.  Among them are mechanical stability, vibration control (iOptron Sky Guider Pro),  (delay shutter opening by 2 sec), equatorial mount polar alignment (in order to take longer exposures).

Here are results over the past month:
46P with the Pleiades in the upper left.   90mm Tamron 2.8 lens

46P Annotation from astrometry.net
46P   200 mm f2.8 lens
M31 - Andromeda Galaxy
M42, Orion Nebula

M42 annotation from nova.astrometry.net

NGC 2024  (Flame Nebula) and Barnard 33 (Horsehead Nebula)  The bright star is Alnitak

Track of a geostationary satellite passing Alnilam

Artifact: Aircraft approaching Orion

Maybe artifact:  a strange object in a wide angle photo of the east

Cropped image of the strange object

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