By Chuck's Astrophotography 2017.9.3 SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBED UNSUBSCRIBE I was capturing the Fish Head nebula (IC 1795) over the past couple of nights. I used a script in the new version of PixInsight (1.8.5) called the Color Mask. It helped get the colors I wanted. I show how to use the Color Mask in this video. Here is more…

By Chuck's Astrophotography 2016.11.10 SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBED UNSUBSCRIBE The weather has been terrible lately as an invisible fog has been rolling in and getting more dense as the night went on. But last night was very clear, so I went after the Elephant Trunk nebula again (IC 1396). I plan to add OIII and SII at a later date.…

By Chuck's Astrophotography 2016.10.23 SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBED UNSUBSCRIBE This is my first attempt with a Newtonian telescope (I showed the telescope off in my previous video). Today's target was the Pacman nebula. This telescope has a focal length of 750mm compared to over 1200mm with my SCT, so now larger objects may fit a little better in the picture.…

By Chuck's Astrophotography 2016.10.14 SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBED UNSUBSCRIBE Tonight I captured the Pacman Nebula (NGC 281). The plan is to start producing color images again as soon as I can get a string of clear nights together. I'm still trying out my narrowband filters, but since they require longer exposures - it will now take more time to get…

By Chuck's Astrophotography 2016.10.13 SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBED UNSUBSCRIBE Tonight I captured IC 63 primarily as a narrowband test. This nebula does not emit sufficient light in the broadband range which consists of the Red, Green and Blue base of colors - so I used the Orion H-Alpha Extra-Narrowband Filter on it. 14 images were captured tonight - each one…

By Chuck's Astrophotography 2016.10.11 SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBED UNSUBSCRIBE The Heart Nebula was way too big for my telescope. I'm starting to think my telescope, the Celestron 8SE, is only good for small objects like the Ring Nebula or Dumbbell Nebula, but telescopes with a shorter focal length are better suited for large targets like the Heart Nebula. It may…

By Chuck's Astrophotography 2016.10.9 SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBED UNSUBSCRIBE This is M76 - the Little Dumbbell. It's my third attempt at imaging with the ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool Mono camera. It still came out very grainy, no matter how much I lowered the gain and offset. But I did notice that I was not properly setting the cooling on the camera. If…

By Chuck's Astrophotography 2016.10.7 SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBED UNSUBSCRIBE This is the Bubble Nebula (also known as NGC 7635, Sharpless 162, or Caldwell 11). It's my second attempt at imaging with the ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool Mono camera. It came out very grainy - so next time I will try and increase the duration and lower the gain and offset. I captured…

By Chuck's Astrophotography 2017.12.1 SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBED UNSUBSCRIBE I've captured Melotte 15 and the Fishhead Nebula, but this is the first time I captured the entire Heart Nebula in color. It wasn't easy with only 12 hours of data to work with, but I gave it a go. Here is more info: Target: Heart Nebula (IC 1805) Imaging Telescope: Orion ED80T CF (480…

by Cooler 2016.7.27 SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBED UNSUBSCRIBE Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Telescope: 254 mm dobsonian (10 inch) movies/photos: Camera ASI120MC and digital camera This movie was made during the last 2 years, I didn't get good images of uranus and neptune, that was the best I could to at this point. Thank you!…