Starship Asterisk*

SunRise in the Himalayas - AmaDablam-6856m - 28-04-2014

Great Carina Nebula
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The Jewell Box (NGC4755) - wide
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NGC 3576 (The Statue of Liberty Nebula) + NGC 3603 in Ha
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Late-Season M42 and Running-Man

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EtaCarina @ 200mm – my NB pallete
Personally, I don't like the Hubble palette.
So by mixing channels in PixelMath, I implemented my own composition.
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Eta Carina @ 135mm

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Eta Carina @ 50mm
21x5min with 60Da and 50mmF1.4(@2.8) on CGEM (unguided)
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ROSE(tte) for Valentine's Day
This was taken with ED80Tx0.8 (with Moonlight Focuser) and SBIG STT-8300m (with self guiding filter wheel) on CGEM.

Large Magellanic Cloud with Canon 60Da, 50mm lens and Polarie ...
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Orion @ 50mm Ha(clip12)+RGB (60Da + Polarie)
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Orion @ 50mm

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Pleiads and Hyades - wide field

M42 and a touch of Ha

CPC925+60Da
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CPC925+60Da+clipHa

Small Magellannic Cloud and 47Tucanae

Yellowish 47Tucanae & Small Magellanic Cloud
60Da and 170mm

Horsehead and Flame Nebula
This is a combination of the broadband RGB (60Da) from late-Feb 2013
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/show ... p?t=103484
and the currently acquired images in Ha (60Da+Ha-clip).

Milky Way Core’s Red Halo Actually, I intended to take another shot of the TeaPot, but then I saw quite interesting data during processing the Ha series of images. The red halo appeared after combining the RGB image with the Ha image in PixInsight using the N[arrow]B[and]-RGB script. All data taken ...

Venus approaching Antares with a touch of Ha ..

Venus, Antares and the old buddy - The Fish-Hook
Photo taken on the 5th of October 2013 ..

Antares is slowly going away, so here is one of the last shots this season of the wide-field between Antares and Corona Australis (just fitting into the frame).

Here is the spring Milky Way in the southern hemisphere, around 31deg-S, at 8pm

A Spark from A Samovar
A Spark from A Samovar (TeaPot)
This is single frame worth 40 sec @ ISO800 captured with 60Da on the Polarie and 24mm/F2.8 lens.
Minimum processing in PixInsight and a lot of noise …
Thanks for looking!

Fish Hook, Teapot, and the magnificent Centre of the Milky Way

"TeaPot" and a lot of M-s: image shows the asterism TEAPOT pointing at the center of the Milky Way and a lot of Messier-Objects.
Captured with Canon 60Da on Polarie tracker.