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The Great Foot of Sagittarius. Starting with M8 as the heel and finishing with IC4685 as the toes, it really does look a giant foot wearing a flip flop (or thong for we Aussies) Info 42x5min subs, imaged through a Takahashi FS78 using a .8x focal reducer. Canon CDS1100D modified/cooled camera. Captu...

Hi, I've always had a passing interest in space and astronomy, fueled by my relentless consumption of science fiction books and tv shows. But it came to a head when my two youngest boys studied Astronomy in Primary school in 2004. The school had an Open Night with an amateur astronomer giving tours ...

A starless, Great Orion Nebula. A run of cloudy nights has led me to this. But I do like how you can see the image from a slightly different perspective now. The original image was taken through my ED127 and captured with a CDS1100d. 3hr and 20min of exposure time. Stacked in DSS and processed in CS...

And here is this season's obligatory M42. 3hrs and 20min of data, not including the 10sec and 30sec subs I took for the core. Sadly the seeing has been atrocious so the stars in the Trap aren't as nice as I would have liked them. Scope - ED127 Camera - CDS1100D Stacked in DSS and processed in CS3. T...

I thought with Halloween just around the corner, I'd share this photo I captured in March 2012. I have a fruit bat colony just up the road from me, and the night before Full Moon they take to the air just at the right time to coincide with the rising Moon. To capture is as simple as sitting on my fr...

The Eta Carina Nebula. http://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_jjj_unprocessed_data/8468800091/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Jewel of our Southern Skies. Imaged through my new camera/scope combo. An ED127 APO and a CDS1100D. Just 1 hour and 24 minutes of data were captured, using 3 minutes subs. (flooding rain...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8515/8395667587_8e2f3524cd_c.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_jjj_unprocessed_data/8395667587/in/photostream/lightbox/ Comet Lemmon, strolling through Crux. :) Imaged on January 19th 2012. Camera Camera Canon 550D @ ISO1600, lens Tamron 90mm @ F3.5. Just over 7 m...

:) Hi Everyone, My name is Jeanette, I'm from a small town in Queensland, Australia. My interest in all things spacey started when our primary school class was led to a near by house to watch the first Moon Landing. RIP Neil :( Since then I've fed my interest with copious amounts of sci fi. Heinlein...