Wednesday 17 April 2013

Comet Panstarrs with the Andromeda galaxy and the Cone Nebula


This image of Comet Panstars 4 was taken from Angle on the Pembrockshire coast using a Canon 50D with a 70 mm lens. The camera was set on ISO 400 with an exposure time of 3 minutes. An Astrotrac mount was  used, mounted on a Manfrotto tripod:



NGC2264, the Cone nebula .This faint emission nebula lies at a distance of about 2,700 light years in the constellation of Monoceros . Five minute sub frames and matching dark frames were captured making total exposure times of 90 minutes using a hydrogen alpha filter and ten minutes for each colour filter. A ten inch F4.8 reflector was used, PHD auto guiding software and an Atik 383L mono CCD camera: