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M95
Credit: Fred Stevenson
Taken: 2 May 2006 from Andalsnes Observatory, Amersham, Bucks, UK using a Meade 14" SCT, Meade DSI Pro at f/5. 40 minute exposure. M95 is a barred spiral type SBb - a member of the Leo group of galaxies. Sky condition was poor with a misty 4 day old Moon interfering. |
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M100
Credit: Fred Stevenson
Taken: 4th April 2006 from Andalsnes Observatory, Amersham, Bucks, UK using a Meade 14" SCT, Meade DSI Pro at f/5. 40 minute exposure of 40x1 minutes stacked images. |
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M96 (NGC 3368)
Credit: Fred Stevenson
Taken: 3rd/4th March 2006 from Andalsnes Observatory, Amersham, Bucks, UK using a Meade 14" SCT, Meade DSI Pro at f/5. 120 x 2 mins stacked images. M96 is an Sa-type spiral galaxy in Leo having a large amorphous central region and many faint spiral arms. |
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Supernova 2006X in M100
Credit: Chris Rowland
Taken: 1st March 2006 from High Wycombe using a NexStar 11 GPS and a modified webcam. The exposure is 96 frames of 15 secs each. Processing: Subtract dark frame, register and add all frames in IRIS. Use Gamma curve in Registax. It needs a flat field to remove the brightness variation across the frame. The supernova is shown by the two short white lines. |
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M109
Credit: Fred Stevenson
Taken: 17 Jan 2006 from Andalsnes Observatory, Amersham, UK using a Meade 14" SCT, Meade DSI Pro at f/5. 30 minute exposure.
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NGC 7331
Credit: Fred Stevenson
Taken: 22nd September 2005 from Andalsnes Observatory - Amersham using a Meade 14" SCT, Meade DSI - Pro at f/10. 20 minute exposure. NGC 7331 is a 10th magnitude Sb type spiral galaxy in Pegasus. Sky conditions were poor and not helped by a 75% illuminated Moon! A LRGB image processed with Astro-Art and Adobe Photoshop.
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M61
Credit: Fred Stevenson
Taken: 12 May 2005 from Andalsnes Observatory, Amersham, UK using a 14" SCT and a Meade DSI in b/w mode. 60 x 1 min stacked images at f/7. M61 (NGC 4303) is a 10th - magnitude face-on spiral galaxy in Virgo.
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NGC 891
Credit: Fred Stevenson/Phil Hodgins/Trevor Searle
Taken 18th September 2004 from Perruche Du Buis, France using a Meade 14" LX200 GPS and an Apogee AP6 CCD camera at f/10. The image is a composite of 16 x 2 minutes taken under average seeing. Processing was done with Mira and Maxim DL.
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M82
Credit: Wycombe Astronomical Society Observers
Taken 15th February 2005 at The Chiltern Observatory, High Wycombe, England using a Meade 10" LX200 and a Meade Deep Sky Imager with a focal reducer giving f/5. 99 frames at 10 seconds each.
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M51
Credit: Wycombe Astronomical Society Observers
Taken 15th February 2005 at The Chiltern Observatory, High Wycombe, England using a Meade 10" LX200 and a Meade Deep Sky Imager with a focal reducer giving f/5. 34 frames at 15 seconds each.
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IC1629
Credit: Fred Stevenson
Taken: 31st August 2004 from Andalsnes Observatory - Amersham using 14-inch LX200 and a Starlight X-press MX516 CCD camera. The exposure lastest 21 minutes at f/6.6. An extremely faint magnitude 13.9 galaxy. Taken on a night when the moon,just past full, was rising! |
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Supernova SN2004et
Credit: Chris Rowland
Taken: 2nd October 2004 from Chiltern Observatory in High Wycombe using an 10-inch LX200 and a webcam with a focal reducer at f/4. 35 images of 15 seconds each. This is an image of the recent Supernova in the galaxy NGC6946. The galaxy isn't really visible here but the centre is in the top right of the image. The SN is indicated by the two lines, the numbers are the magnitudes of some stars with the decimal point omitted, so 126 is magnitude 12.6. The image was processed by applying a dark frame and flat field to each sub image, then registering them and adding. Gamma was increased slightly to make the fainter stars more visible. |
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M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy
Credit: Chris Rowland
Taken 29th March, 2004 from High Wycombe using NexStar 11 GPS on AltAz mount and a Philips Vesta, modified for long exposure. Exposure time was 80 x 15 seconds at f/4. The image was taken using K3CCDTools, and processed using IRIS to apply a dark frame, compensate for image shift and rotation and apply an artificial flat field. Image Analyzer was used to apply curves and convert to jpg. |
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M81 (Ursa Major)
Credit: Phil
Hodgins & Trevor Searle
Apogee AP-6 on 16" f/5 Newtonian |
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NGC 1055 (Cetus)
Credit: Phil Hodgins
& Trevor Searle
Apogee AP-6 on 1 metre, Puimichel, France.
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