Crop of the month from Petts Wood

[Roberto]

Well, really two months September and what October has given so far... DSOs acquired with the tandem refractor rig.  Solar and planetary this month, with the large Maksutov only.

Barnard 174, 171, Sh2-135, LBN 486 and many others in Cepheus - LRGB - Mosaic 2x1

Details here:  https://www.astrobin.com/85nj07/D/

Dates: 31 Aug 2022 ·  16 Sep 2022 ·  17 Sep 2022 ·  24 Sep 2022 ·  25 Sep 2022 ·  27 Sep 2022 ·  28 Sep 2022 ·  29 Sep 2022
Frames: OSC - 168×300″(14h) bin 1×1
L - IDAS LPS-P2 50 mm: 94×600″(15h 40′) bin 1×1
Integration: 29h 40′
Avg. Moon age: 13.97 days
Avg. Moon phase: 20.20%

Another very rich area in Cepheus full of small clusters, several dark Barnard regions and LBN and LDN nebulae.  Taken during late August and September in between clouds and showers with the usual tandem setup controlled by Voyager Advanced.  Mosaic of 2x1 panels.



Animation and still - Jupiter - 6 October 2022 - 21:52 to 23:19 UT

Details here:  https://www.astrobin.com/pr9nce/C/

Acquired with the 10" f/20 Maksutov.





Sun WL - 9 October 2022 - AR13112 and 3116 - 09:33UT

A large spot region spent the best part of last week facing our way.  There was a good morning to image it last Sunday:  https://www.astrobin.com/v3wfmi/D/

Also acquired with the large Maksutov. When the seeing cooperates, granulation can show some fine detail.

AR3112


AR3116


Jupiter and Io - 22:06UT - 11 October 2022

Another Jupiter in similar seeing, this time with Io after transit.  https://www.astrobin.com/7dj5n8/B/



LBN 762, 753 in Aries

An image that started in January and finished just now.
 Heavy use of denoise as very faint and not acquired under the best conditions. https://www.astrobin.com/bwvi33/D/

A wispy pair of LBN objects amongst some bright stars.  Difficult to image from London as rather faint.  Plenty of use of NoiseXterminator to compensate.  Check the annotated image for numerous PGC background galaxies.

Dates: 5 Jan 2022 ·  7 Jan 2022 ·  25 Sep 2022 ·  28 Sep 2022 ·  29 Sep 2022 ·  6 Oct 2022 ·  7 Oct 2022
Frames: OSC - 107×300″(8h 55′) bin 1×1
L - IDAS LPS-P2 50 mm: 52×600″(8h 40′) bin 1×1
Integration: 17h 35′
Avg. Moon age: 9.58 days
Avg. Moon phase: 34.14%



And annotated:


And finally!

Sh2-187, LDN 1317, LBN 630 and many more in Cassiopeia - LRHaGB

A beautiful region in Cassiopeia that often gets missed given the other more famous targets in the constellation.  There's even a little trapezium at the centre of the Sharpless object!  It rides high in the sky to the North above the light pollution dome of London for me but fortunately there's enough signal to capture the contrast of dark lanes and bright nebulae.
https://www.astrobin.com/uovupc/E

Dates: 2 Oct 2022 ·  5 Oct 2022 ·  6 Oct 2022 ·  7 Oct 2022 ·  10 Oct 2022
Frames: OSC - 133×300″(11h 5′) bin 1×1
Ha - Astrodon H-alpha 5nm: 20×1200″(6h 40′) bin 1×1
L - IDAS LPS-P2 50 mm: 53×600″(8h 50′) bin 1×1
Integration: 26h 35′
Avg. Moon age: 11.15 days
Avg. Moon phase: 80.03%



Roberto

[Carole]

A very nice Crop there Roberto.  One could only spend these amount of hours per target with an automated system such as yours.  Yours processing is beautiful including the fine detail on Jupiter.

Carole

[Roberto]

Thank you Carole! I can't wait for Jupiter (and Saturn) to climb higher in the sky next year and those after. 

Roberto

[MarkS]

Great pictures as usual.  I'm still amazed at how you obtain such deep images with your light pollution.

Mark

[Carole]

I'm still amazed at how you obtain such deep images with your light pollution.

Me too which is why I had a go at WR134, so how does Roberto do it?

Carole

[Roberto]

You are welcome to stay up with the telescopes as they acquire the data! 😉

Shoot after midnight for the very faint objects. And lots of data, only keeping the top decile. That really makes a difference.