The sky this evening is clear and seeing condition is very good. Took this opportunity to image the Pink Full Moon using Canon EOS M6 mirrorless camera on Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS L lens set at 400mm f/11 mounted on Vixen Porta II mount with 1/1000 sec exposure at ISO 400.
The sky this afternoon is clear and seeing condition is very good. 3 sunspot groups are visible on the Sun's disk with AR2818 Sunspot Group being the more complex of the 3 groups. AR2816 and 2819 Sunspot Groups are small pore group. Lots of solar activity on the Sun in Ha wavelength. Numerous solar prominences are also visible on the Sun's limb as well. I was able to image them both in Ha and white light wavelength.
I also took some time to process the 3 above large prominences again by using an overexposed prominence to show them more clearly than through the single HDR image I made earlier and they can be seen below.
The sky last night was surprisingly clear but M42 Orion Nebula is starting to get low as I only have a small window to get more subs for this object. Nevertheless, still happy with the result and I will try to work on the blown out core in the days to come. Image taken using ZWO ASI294MC Pro astro camera with Borg 76ED refractor on Vixen GPDX mount. Total of 60 minutes exposure was made on the subject.
The sky this morning is clear and seeing condition is very good. The rising Sun has shifted now back to the NE thus letting me image the Sun in the morning rather than in the afternoon. No sunspot regions visible on the Sun's disk. There are 3 prominent eruptive prominences in the NE, SE and SW limb. The one in the SW is huge and beautiful while the one in the NE limb is huge as well but slightly dimmer. The NW large prominence might become bigger tomorrow from what I view on this prominence. There is also a long dark filament near the northern disk area.
The sky this evening is initially clear so I setup my scope to image M42 Orion Nebula but as expected, clouds is there to ruined my session ! As a consolation, I only was able to image a few frames through passing clouds and just processed it anyway... :{ Not that great and due to frustration, I settle to image M44 Beehive star cluster before packing up. Fight another day as they say it... Images were taken using ZWO ASI294MC Pro astro camera with Borg 76ED refractor on Vixen GPDX mount. a 10 minute total exposure was made for M42 while I exposed for 30 minutes for M44.
The sky this evening is a little hazy and I initially didn't plan to do any imaging tonight but the urge to do DSO imaging while in lockdown time forced me to still setup despite the bad weather condition. I also got into strong wind trouble this session as well so I have to almost throw away more than 30 minutes of subs exposures. I also decided not to use the latter part of my 30 minutes more subs as I can see more haze and gradient noise on the frames. Nevertheless, result still came out ok a bit but again fighting the horizon glow as well as haze this session. Image once again taken through my ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera with Borg 76ED refractor on Vixen GPDX mount. A total of only 60 minutes exposure was made to make this image.
The sky this evening is clear and yesterday haze and thin clouds is almost gone so I reattempted again IC434 Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion with my usual setup of ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera with Borg 76ED refractor on Vixen GPDX mount. Total of 60 minutes exposure was made on the subject. I also remove the UV filter in front of my Borg 76ED refractor that was causing internal lens flare on bright stars.
The sky this evening is not good as there is a thick haze that is near the western horizon that hampers my attempt to image IC 434 Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion. I try to get more data for this object but unfortunately, I got lots of trash subs cause by wind vibration and , haze and horizon glow that I had to trashed more than 50% of what I captured. Nevertheless, I use the remaining usable data and force process the image thus ;pts of noise and gradients. Anyway, will retry this object again this week as another 1 week extension of ECQ (Enhance Community Quarantine) has been announced. Image taken using ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera with Borg 76ED refractor on Vixen GPDX mount. Total of 30 minutes exposure was used on this object.
The sky this early evening is clear so I setup my scope to image M42 Great Orion Nebula in the constellation of Orion. I got into trouble early as had power problem that run my mount properly but after I got to troubleshoot the cable problem so when I'm about to image , M42 is slightly a little low already in the western horizon but I still proceeded not to waste the opportunity to image it. I was also in a hurry that the subject was off center a bit so I just crop the image to center it a bit. Nevertheless, I'm still satisfied with the initial result . I hope to reimage it again in the days to come. Image was taken using ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera with Borg 76ED refractor on Vixen GPDX mount. Total exposure of 60 minutes was made for the image.
The sky this afternoon is very cloudy and I had to fight thick slow passing clouds for more than 1.5 hours before I was able to start imaging the Sun in Ha wavelength. AR2812 and remnant of AR2811 Sunspot Groups are about to exit the western limb and there is also a nice large eruptive prominence in the SW limb.
