NGC1514, M31, M32 and M52

NGC1514, The Crystal ball nebula. This bright planetary nebula lies in the star constellation of Taurus the bull at a distance of about 600 light years. I was using my ten inch F4.8 reflector, PHD auto guiding and an Atik 383L mono CCD camera. I captured five minute sub frames with matching dark frames and combined them with flat field frames to reduce the effect of vignetting in the final image.The total exposure times was sixty minute using an O111 filter, twenty five minutes using a blue filter and twenty five minutes using a red filter.

NGC1514

M31 and M32. This image of M31 clearly show its dust lanes all the way in to the galaxy's core. I was using a ten inch F4.8 reflector, PHD auto guiding and an Atik 383L mono CCD camera. I used five minute sub frames combined with making dark frames and flat field frames to reduce the effect of vignetting in the final image. The total exposure times were twenty five minutes using a red filter, twenty minutes using a green filter and sixty minutes using a blue filter.

M31 and M32

M52. This open star cluster lies in the constellation of Cassiopeia the Queen, at a distance of about 6,000 light years. I was using my ten inch F4.8 reflector, PHD auto guiding and an Atik 383L mono CCD camera. I captured five minute sub frames and combined them with matching dark frames and flat field frames to reduce the effect of vignetting in the final image. The total exposure times were 20 minutes using a red filter, 20 minutes using a green filter and 60 minutes using a blue filter.

M52