NBAPhotography

Well it has been a while. Life has been happening. Finally dusted the camera off yesterday afternoon. The weather has always enchanted me. The Storm fronts were to enticing not to take some images of it coming in. Would have been a banging storm if it had hit us. But either way the clouds certainly put on a awesome show.
Enjoy :)

Sunday night saw a surprise Astro night. The weather had changed so much it was now going to be clear all night :) Bonus!! Thankfully someone prompted me to actually check. Next was to choose a new subject, that's the hard part. While letting the darkness appear better I had found a section of sky while getting some calibration done. I had not tried this area since I got my new camera months ago. It was on a whim on what I would get in post processing but the images I was seeing had some nice colour. I hit the go button and let it run.
Here is an image of RCW 131 showing NGC 6357 The War and Peace Nebula.
It consists of 57 x 300 second exposures.
Equipment:
GSO 8" F4 Newtonian Telescope
Skywatcher EQ-6R Mount
Baader MPCC
ZWO Asi 294 MC Pro Camera
Arduino Ascom Focuser Pro2 DIY Auto Focuser
QHY 5L II Off Axis Guide Camera
Orion Thin Off Axis Guider
Hand Made Dew Heaters / Power Boxes and Adapters
Acquisition:
N.I.N.A
Sharpcap
Stellarium
PhD 2
ASCOM
Editing:
PixInsight Pleiades Astro
RC Astro
I hope you enjoy and clear skies 🙂

Friday night saw the Scope in action, did some fine tuning. Still have a little bit of work left to do for the next session.
Here is an image of the Eta Carina Nebula NGC 3372.
It consists of 45 x 300 second exposures.
Equipment:
GSO 8" F4 Newtonian Telescope
Skywatcher EQ-6R Mount
Baader MPCC
ZWO Asi 294 MC Pro Camera
Arduino Ascom Focuser Pro2 DIY Auto Focuser
QHY 5L II Off Axis Guide Camera
Orion Thin Off Axis Guider
Hand Made Dew Heaters / Power Boxes and Adapters
Acquisition:
N.I.N.A
Sharpcap
Stellarium
PhD 2
ASCOM
Editing:
PixInsight Pleiades Astro
RC Astro
I hope you enjoy and clear skies 🙂

Last night saw the Scope in action, some fine tuning was required before hitting the go button. Finally have things sorted and am ready for another session tonight :)
Here is an image of the Eta Carina Nebula NGC 3372.
It consists of 40 x 300 second exposures.

Equipment:
GSO 8" F4 Newtonian Telescope
Skywatcher EQ-6R Mount
Baader MPCC
ZWO Asi 294 MC Pro Camera
Arduino Ascom Focuser Pro2 DIY Auto Focuser
QHY 5L II Off Axis Guide Camera
Orion Thin Off Axis Guider
Hand Made Dew Heaters / Power Boxes and Adapters
Acquisition:
Sequence Generator Pro
Sharpcap
Stellarium
PhD 2
ASCOM
Editing:
PixInsight Pleiades Astro
RC Astro

I hope you enjoy and clear skies 🙂

A closer look at Tassie's Alpine Flora. Mother nature does restore but in alpine areas it takes a very long time. Plenty of evidence from the fires 2016.