Some Moon processing of March 2006
The following shots have been taken long time ago, in 2006, probably with my Newton 114mm and Webcam Vesta Pro.
Unfortunately I didn’t save any information about the registration process.
M5 with SBIG ST-237 July, 2009 New Processing
M3 with SBIG ST-237 2009 New Processing
Abell56 in Aquila on July 27, 2009
Abell 56 Star Field with no sign of the nebula at the center.
This is a composition of 55 images taken with a Newton 200mm f10 and CCD SBIG ST-237.
Aligned and stacked with Iris
2012 DA14 – tracking with binocular
Really beautiful day was on February 15th, 2013.
I got up at 3 am and with my binocular 20×80 and tripod I went to a schoolyard near my home. I got ready for the event until 4 am, when finally I caught the little dot.
I started with star hopping from Minkar, Epsilon Corvi, and I went down until Xi Hydrae, where at 4 am I would have seen the asteroid.
The problem was that the altitude was really low, just 15 degree and a high building would have screwed up my day, so I decided to go up a little more until the building would not have been a problem.
It wasn’t really easy because the seen in Seoul, South Korea, is REALLY BAD! anyway, no moon, sky really clear from clouds, so was kind of perfect day. So I was able to put my view between Gamma and Beta Crateris, and at 4 hour and 18 minutes I saw this little dot of mag. +7.9 running really fast on the field of my binocular.
Really Exciting! I followed the asteroid for an hour, and was really a beautiful night. At around 4:40 it passed by a beautiful and rich field of stars between Crater, Virgo, Leo and Sextans constellation, and at 5 o’clock it passed by a rich field of faint NGC galaxies that unfortunately I was unable to see.
For the accurate position of the asteroid I used SkySafari Plus on my Ipod, where I was able to see in real time the exact position with a small error in Right Ascension but totally permissible.
However I wasn’t able to use my pc software, Cartes Du Ciel, to track the path of the asteroid, where on the contrary the ephemerides were totally wrong.
UCAC4 482-078944 – high proper motion
The first image is from the US Naval Observatory’s archive, the second is a composition of three images of 20 second each, with a Newton Ziel Galazy2 8′ with SBIG ST-247 camera at f/5.
The star has a proper motion in RA of -1.15″ per year, really fast!
Go to VizieR reference page
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This research has made use of the USNOFS Image and Catalogue Archive
operated by the United States Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station
(http://www.nofs.navy.mil/data/fchpix/).
Messier 10 – 22 July, 2009, Rome
Messier 10 in Ophiuchus, Rome, Italy, 22 July 2009.
Details: Composition of 30 images ( 10 images for each channel RGB ). Every image has an exposure of 20 second at f/5, with telescope Newton Ziel Galaxy2 8′ on Skywatcher HEQ5 Syscan with SBIG ST-237 CCD camera.
RGB:
pseudo color:
Messier 12 – 22 July, 2009, Rome
Details: Composition of 30 images, 10R/10B/10G, exposure of 20s for each image, f/5, focal 1M. Newton Ziel Galaxy2 8′ on mount HEQ5 Syscan with camera SBIG ST-237.
Processed image:
In pseudo color:
Original fit image:
Messier 14 on 22 July, 2009, Rome
Details: Sum of 10 images for each channel RGB with 20s for each image, f/5, focal 1M. Newton Ziel Galaxy2 8′ on HEQ5 Syscan with camera Sbig ST-236.
Original fit file: