Lunar Imaging Session - March 13, 2025

The sky this evening is clear and the beautiful Full Moon (almost 99.3%)is rising beautifully from the eastern horizon thus I just made a quickie shot of it using Dwarf 3 Smart Scope at Astro Mode with VIS Filter at AZ mode. 50 stacked imaged with 1/1000 sec exposure at Gain 0.

Deep Sky Imaging Session - March 10, 2025

The sky this late evening is clear so I quickly setup to image the small but beautiful SH2-274 Medusa Nebula in the constellation of Gemini. Unfortunately I was only able to image around 60 minutes only before clouds started rolling in block target object. It later cleared but the object is laready low in the western horizon only. Nevertheless, still quite happy with the result despite a short integration time.

Lunar Imaging Session - March 6, 2025

The sky this evening is partly cloudy and I use Dwarf 3 Smart Scope to image the beautiful Quarter Moon at Astro Mode with VIS Filter at AZ Mode with 50 stacked image at 1/500 sec exposure at Gain 0.

Deep Sky Imaging Session - March 4, 2025

The sky this evening is clear so I setup my telescope to try imaging the faint SH2-261 Lower's Nebula or Eye of Ra in the constellation of Orion. I was able to capture a total of 120 minutes exposure using ZWO ASI294MC Pro Astro Camera on Borg 76ED Refractor with 1x Flattener with SVBony SV220 Duo Band Filter at -5 deg C. I also use the Dwarf 3 Smart Scope to simultaneusly image old favorite M42 Great Orion Nebula also in the constellation of Orion with a total exposure of 60 minutes at Astro Mode with Astro Filter at EQ Mode at Gain 60.

Solar Imaging Session - March 3, 2025

The sky this morning is partly cloudy but seeing is good. AR4004 / AR4007 Region has grown a little more from yesterday's size and is a little more complex in structure. AR4008/AR4009 Region is decaying fast while the new AR4012 region is also growing in size as well. The large NE eruptive prominence is decaying and getting a little fainter than yesterday view.

Solar Imaging Session - March 2, 2025

The sky this late afternoon is partly cloudy and seeing condition is poor. Nevertheless, I still proceeded to capture for data purposes. There is a nice large NE eruptive prominence while AR4009 and AR4007 regions are the ones that are large on the Sun's disk. Seeing is very poor that it was very hard as well to focus as images looks jelly like when focusing. Hope the next few days the seeing will improve.

Deep Sky Imaging Session - February 27, 2025

The sky this evening is clear and I setup my Dwarf 3 Smart Scope to try IC 434 Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion using Dwarf 3's Astro Filter which is a broad band filter to try to get some other colors other than all red when I use the Narrowband Duo Filter. I was able to get 120 minutes total exposure (120 x 60 sec) at Gain 60. I was also planning to test the stellar studio feature of Dwarf 3 new beta update but I forgot to log in thus missed out updating the firmware to version 1.3 thus wasn't able to test the feature. Anyway, use my standard image processing on my computer instead.