The beautiful Leo duo M65 and M66 on the same field of our C11@F7 with the ASI294MC-Pro camera.
This is an image of around 18 hrs worth of data.
M65 and M66 in Leo, a work in progress
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First light of my new ASI294MC Pro. NGC891 from Home
Here is a quick processing of NGC891, with my new ASI294MC Pro. It is only one, very stable, night worth of data, 8.52hrs, using the C11@F7 guided with a Starlight Xpress Lodestar.
Hope you like it.
Beautiful NGC7129 reflection nebula from UANL Observatory in Itubide
Well, my 2 followers, i thought the Lagoon (below) was the last of the objects that my son astrophotographed in his stay at the UANL observatory, but i was mistaken. This object here is the last one, it is a beautiful reflection nebula in Cepheus.
For this one, Mau used the AT66 over the CEM70G and the QHY183C camera for 130 – 3minute exposures for a total for 6.5 hours in total exposure time.
Again i did my processing in Pixinsight, hopefully doing some justice to such a beautiful object in the sky.
hope you like it
M8 The Lagoon Nebula from UANL Observatory in Iturbude by Mau
This is the last object my son Mau took on his week stay at the UANL Observatory
It is a bright nebula in Sagittarius called Laggon Nebula, also known as M8. For this one, it only took Mau 3 hours with the AT66 over the CEM70G mount, this is what 3 hours can do under a very dark sky, around bortle 2.
Hope, again, i’m doing it justice with my processing in PixInsight 🙂
M101 the Pinwheel from UANL Observatory in Iturbide by Mau
Good day my astrofriends, here is yet another object astrophotographed by my son Mau from his week stay at the UANL Observatory in Iturbide.
It is Messier 101 also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy. A beautiful face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major some 21 million Light years away.
For this one he used the AT66 over a CEM70G mount with the QHY183C camera, it is composed by 5.8 hours worth of 3 mins exposures. Processed by yours truly in Pixinsight, hopefully i’m doing some justice to his work. He might come out with a better processing specially if he does a Drizzle full resolution crop of the Galaxy :).
Click on the image for full glory high resolution, Hope you like it…
The whale Galaxy and friends from UANL observatory in Iturbide by Mau
Good day my 2 followers :). This is another of the several targets that my son Mau took from his week stay at the UANL Observatory in Iturbide.
It is the Whale Galaxy and companion also known as NGC4631 and NGC4656 respectively. The Whale is about 25 million Light years away in the area of Canes Venatici constellation
This image is composed of 6.5hrs worth of 3 minute exposures using the AT66 semi-APO over a CEM70G mount using a QHY183C @ -10°C. Processed by yours truly in PixInsight.
Hope you like it, more to come….
IC63 The Phantom Nebula in Cassiopea from Iturbide UANL Observatory
Here is another object that my son Mauricio was able to capture last month from his week stay at the UANL observatory in Iturbide N.L. (Special thanks to Dr Eduardo Perez for accommodating my son on the facilities),
It is the Phantom Nebula, known as well as IC63, it is located on the constellation Cassiopeia.
This image is composed of 84 frames of 3mins taken with the AT66 over a CEM70G mount. Automated with NINA, Guided using PHD2 and processed in PixInsight.
More to come….
M63 Sunflower Galaxy from Iturbide / UANL Observatory
Last month my son Mauricio Villarreal spent a week at the UANL Observaroty in Iturbide, N.L. (Special thanks to Dr. Eduardo Perez for allowing this to happen).
Among the objects that Mau was able to capture was the beautiful Messier 63 object also known as the Sunflower Galaxy. This galaxy is located at the constelation of Canes Venatici and it is 37 millions lights years away.
The image is composed of 107 images of 3 minutes taken with SemiAPO AT66 refractor over the iOptron CEM70G mount, using the QHY183C camera @ -10°C
Processing was done in PixInsight. Hope you like it.
*: Mau is working on a high resolution / Drizzle crop of the the Galaxy, so stay tuned 🙂
Dolphin Nebula SH2-308, a work in progress
Hello my Astrofriends, these past weeks we have been accumulating time at home on the beautiful Dolphin nebula also known as SH2-308.
This nebula is placed in the center of the constallation canis major. The nebula is bubble-like and surrounds a Wolf-Rayet star named EZ Canis Majoris.
So far we have 99 x 10mins subs totaling 16.5hrs of exposure.
This time we are using the AT66 with a Baader NBZ filter over our very new and fantastic iOptron CEM70G, guided via an SvBony mini guide scope equipped with a QHY5L-IIM. The main camera is a QHY183C@-10°C. Processed in Pixinsight.
Hope you like the image, i will be updating it with more and more exposure time, maybe we’ll stop at 20hrs or so.
Clear skies.
Andromeda Galaxy M31 from Iturbide
Hello my astrofriends, here is what a modest equipment can do under an almost perfect night sky and good knowledge 🙂
We took this one last October from UANL Observatory in Iturbide N.L. with the AT66 refractor over a Celestron CG5 mount. We were able to accumulate 5.3 hrs worth of data.
Guided using an SVBony mini guider with the QHY5L-II camera
Main camera was the QHY183-C @ -10°C
Processed in PixInsight with the newest tools by my son Mau (Follow him on Instagram @austromauvillarreal)
Hope you like it, click on the image for medium resolution and then click again for full Res.
Javier Villarreal 