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NexStar Images - NexStar 80GT, NexStar 5i, and a NexStar 5i with a short tube 80

 

Imaging Diary - reverse chron. more or less

Details about what I've been doing and what I've learned (or not as the case may be) - see end of page for earliest images which were just point and shoot into the EP

 

2004-February 13 NexStar 5i mount at F6.3 EQ with Starlight Xpress MX916 CCD Camera

Object List : M15, M53, M106, NGC4565

2003-December 28 NexStar 5i mount at F6.3 EQ with Starlight Xpress MX916 CCD Camera

Object List : M31 mosaic

2003-December 22-23 NexStar 5i mount at F6.3 EQ with Starlight Xpress MX916 CCD Camera

Object List : Comet Linear C/2002 T7, M101, M36, M42, M46, M47, M50, M65, M66, M67, M84, M86 and some NGCs which share the frame with Messier objects

2003-November 15 Short Tube 80 on NexStar 5i mount EQ with Starlight Xpress MX916 CCD Camera

Object List : Eastern and Western Veil, M33

2003-November 1 NexStar 5i EQ with Starlight Xpress MX916 CCD Camera

Object List : Vega learning about guiding using Star2000 self-guiding and Maxim DL CCD

2003-October 30-31 NexStar 5i EQ with Starlight Xpress MX916 CCD Camera

Object List : M42, M38

2003-October 24 NexStar 5i ALTAZ with Sony Mavica FD-92 Hand-held to 35mm Ultima

Object List : Sun

2003-July 17 NexStar 5i F6.3 EQ with Starlight Xpress MX916 CCD Camera

Object List : M3, M11, M13, M26, M27, M92

2003-June-24/25 Tasco 80 OTA (80mm, F5) on NexStar 5i mount EQ with Starlight Xpress MX916 CCD Camera

Object List : M3, M11, M31, 39, Double Cluster, M51, M57, M101, NGC 6888, NGC 7082

NexStar 5i and Vesta 675 SC or Mavica

2003-March-15 Jupiter (Jessica's), the Moon, M44 and M48

2003-Jan-18 M42 with MV1 filter

2003-January-12 Saturn, Jupiter and M42

2003-January-11 Saturn

2002-December-20 Moon

2002-December -01 M82, NGC 869 and M42

2002-November-24 M31 - a brief tracking experiment

NexStar 80GT and a Vesta 675 SC

2003-April-12 Sun

2002-October-14 and 21 Double Cluster, Ring Nebula, M103

2002-October- 7 and 8 Andromeda Galaxy, M13, M15, Mizar, Alcor & Polaris

2002-October-02 The Moon

Short Tube 80 on NexStar 5i mount
using Ray's Brackets

2003-April-15 M13, M5, M81, M82

2003-April-19 M51

The Slippery Slope

It all started with the NexStar 80 and these images from a Sony Mavica FD-92 Digital Camera.

and even my daughter is getting into the act with the Mavica - it is afterall, her NexStar 80GT!

 

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