Images

M83

Taken early evening with Meade Planetary Colour filters.  LRGB with the  LX200 10" at f/3.4 with the MX716 Camera.

L=240, R=240, G=360, B=480

Aligned and scaled with ImagesPlus but colour combined with an ancient version of MaxIm.  Colour layer was then combined with the MX516 mono image of M83 below using photoshop

Centaurus A

Taken mid evening with Meade Planetary Colour filters.  LRGB with the  LX200 10" at f/3.4 with the MX716 Camera.

R=240, G=360, B=480

Aligned and scaled with previous MX516 Mono image in Photoshop

Omega Centauri

This image was captured on the 10" Meade SCT at f/4.3, a Starlight Xpress MX516 Camera and is the result of 15 x 1 second integrations median combined and post processed using ImagesPlus.

This shot represents 15' x 11' or 1/4 the size of the moon.

M16 Eagle Nebula

Taken at f/3.4 on the LX200 with my new MX716 Camera.  Comprises 30 x 240 second integrations median combined then post processed in AIP4WIN.  (2-3 Images would have done)

Considerable coma is visible around the outer 1/3 of the field 

Check the resolution difference between this image (MX716) and the one below it (MX516)

M42 and M43 in Orion

This image was captured on the 4" Meade SCT piggybacked to the 10" LX200GPS.
Consists of LRGB where the RGB involved the use of Meade Red, Green and Blue Planetary filters.

Filters were changed by hand each frame so I had to re-align and focus each integration.  5 minutes at each of LRGB with the SX MX516, aligned and stacked using ImagesPlus

GRB 030329

This is my first Gamma Ray Burst.  Object (OT) was at magnitude 16.47R taken on the night after the object was first detected.

The brightest object in this image is 13.1R (Bottom Centre)

0.25m SCT at f/4.3, SX MX516 CCD, single 240 second guided integration.

Jupiter
28 March 2004

These images were captured with the Meade LPI and Autostarsuites Image capture software through my 14" LX200GPS SMT at f/10. 
Post processed in Photoshop - AutoLevels (50%) and Unsharp Mask (Minor)

Seeing was a little mushy and I was not able to get a sharp focus even with the 26mm EP.

Saturn
05 February 2004

This image was captured with the Meade LPI and autostarsuite software through my LX90 at f/20.  The image was post processed in MaxIm DL to sharpen.  It's a little 'flat' but better than I have been able to achieve before.