Category Apogee U8300

Emission Nebula IC 1795 – November 2020

IC 1795 – A star forming region in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. Hubble Pallet Emission line imaging from Clinton, TN. Poor seeing conditions over several nights in Nov 2020 but almost 33 hours of total exposure time. AP130GTX with Apogee U8300 camera riding on AP1200GTO in backyard observatory.

M94 – Spiral Galaxy

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Galaxy M94
AP130GTX Telescope, Apogee U8300 CCD, AP900GTO Mount
50x5min exposures from Clinton, TN (Moderate Light Pollution)

Galaxy NGC 5033 and Company

NGC 5033 and Holmberg VIII (UGC 8303)
AP130GTX, Apogee U8300 CCD, AP1200GTO
10.5 hours of exposure time across 3 nights
From Light Polluted Clinton, TN

M106 – LRGB from Home

Due to a moisture breach of my camera causing frosting issues which caused me to throw out all but 4.5 hours of data out of 18 I figured I might as well post this as it’s not going to get much better. Image scale was 1.31 arcsec/pixel which seems to give fairly decent sampling for the average seeing here in East Tennessee. Imaging location just outside Clinton, TN with average SQM measurements ranging from 20.1 to 20.4 mag/arcsec^2.

M106 – 4.5 hours AP130GTX, Apogee U8300, AP1200GTO

Rosette Nebula Test Shot

I’ve temporarily pulled the portable (read small) rig out onto my back patio by the pool which has a narrow window allowing imaging of the southern sky.  Since the move to TN I haven’t had a lot of time to do any astronomical imaging but the bug to get out do some imaging finally got to me.

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Rosette Nebula, Atlas EQ-G Mount, Stellarvue SVQ100 APO, Apogee U8300, 6x20min exposure with 3nm Astrodon Ha Filter.

C/2014 Q2 Comet Lovejoy – January 9th & January 10th 2015

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Animation of Comet Lovejoy over a span of about 60 minutes. Canon 6D, 70-200mm @ 200mm, 30sec exposures.

 

Luminance Animation of Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2
Luminance Animation of Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2

 

Comet Lovejoy 2014 Q2 – January 10th 2015, Atlas EQ-G Mount, Stellavue SVQ100 (100mm f/5.8 APO), Apogee U8300 CCD, 5x3min each L,R,G,B filters. (Clinton, TN)

 

 

First Luna of 2014

Working on a redesign of my imaging rig to incorporate an AP130EDT f/8 refractor for narrowfield imaging alongside the FSQ widefield setup.  This was a test shot through the scope using an Apogee U8300 and Baader Ha filter to prevent saturating the chip.

Luna 14-Jan-2014