Sunday 12 May 2013

NGC4435 and NGC4438: The Eyes

These galaxies lies deep within the Virgo cluster at a distance of about 52 million light years . This image was taken using a ten inch f/4.8 reflector with PHD auto guiding .This is a composition of two images taken using two CCD cameras. An Atik 314L was used for the core luminance and the surrounding luminance with an Atik 383L mono camera  . The exposure times was 60 minutes using 60 second sub frames using the Atik 314L camera and 30 minutes for each colour filter with five minute sub frames using the Atik 383L camera .





Wednesday 8 May 2013

M53 and M100

M53. This globular cluster lies at a distance of about 60,000 light years in the constellation of Coma Berenices. Five minute sub-frames were captured with total exposure times of 30 minutes for red , green and blue filters .  An Atik 383L mono CCD camera was used with a ten inch f/4.8 reflector and PHD autoguiding:



M100. This spiral galaxy lies in the constellation of Coma Berenices at a distance of about 50 to 55 million light years . This image was taken using a ten inch f/4.8 reflector with PHD autoguiding and an Atik 383L mono CCD. Five minute sub-frames were captured making total exposure times of 30 minutes for each colour filter: