Mel's first go at the Rosette Nebula on Sunday Night with his little Megrez 72mm, He left the camera exposing for two hours in the garden whilst he watched Wonders of the Solar System in the warm. Lots of time spent stacking the 44 x 3 minute exposures but he is quite pleased with it, and so he should be, a fantastic bit of Astrophotography.

After some cloud Mel Gigg did manage to get this snap (18x 100 seconds actually) of M42 the Orion nebula.

This is the first time of trying out his auto guider, a very frustrating half an hour setting it up under beautiful clear skies timed perfectly to finish just as a batch of cloud arrived. No filters used, just the canon 500D on the 110 mm refractor at 800 iso.

On Tuesday 8th December , 20 CNAAG members were privileged to spend the afternoon in the company of Sir Patrick Moore at his home in Selsey , W.Sussex - a full report will follow soon. photo Mel Gigg.

Bryan' Photo of his Fullerscope.

'This photo is a stack of 20 exposures of only 40 seconds each at 1600 iso on a Canon 500D. The scope was my little Megrez 72mm with FFIII flattener reducer, shot from the back garden in Witney with no filters. It's amazing what the camera brought out, I couldn't even see the galaxy by eye.'  Mel Gigg

 

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Two photos of the activity at the Rollright Stones Observing Night Thursday 4th March 2010

This photo taken for the Oxford Mail & Witney Gazette

With cnaag member Bryan Hunt at the eyepiece of his 305mm mirror focal length 1500mm Dobsonian Telescope.

A quick shot of the waxing Moon with my Sony a350 and a 6" Ta1 reflector.

Orion Nebula M42 a single shot of 20seconds at ISO 800 by a Sony a350 DLSR using my Russian Tal 1 6" Reflector with a simple motor drive

showing a small amount of camera noise and back glow from a local sodium street light .... Both the above Pictures by Bryan Hunt.

Bryan Hunt's Picture of Vega



PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE – Friday 1^st August

Tom Smitton's Partial Solar Eclipse Photo


Bryan Hunt's Solar sequence

Three photos of Discovery & Fuel Tank by Mel Gigg

Jupiter & Moons taken last night  (18th August) using 8" Orion with Bresser elec eyepiece direct from mirror ( 1000mm focal length0 17 uasble frames out of 300 as the mount wasnt very good (alt-az) and there was a lot of turbulence

  

  



Robin gets to grips with his new Camera




Space Shuttle taken on a time exposure by Robin at 21:42 on 9th August 2007



This is another picture of Robin's - Summer Triangle/Brocchis Cluster.  Taken from Long Compton
with a D50 DSLR - 30 second exposure.



CNAAG Meets Sir Patrick 080706  Selsey, West Sussex
 


One of Sir Patricks Telescopes



Studies of the Moon
Moon just passed 1st qtr – South at top with Tyco crater prominent
Taken by Bryan Hunt of Milton under Wychwood

 


Taken by Tom Smitten 03/05/06 – afocal method

Copernicus by Tom Smitten on his Modified Webcam May 2010

Clavius by Tom Smitten on his modified webcam May 2010

The Moon and Venus taken by Bryan Hunt of Milton under Wychwood


The Eclipse Crew + homemade 6.75” reflector & stand

Mark, David and Richard at Long Compton

Picture by Bryan Hunt    Sunspots 27/03/2008

Pictures by Robin & Tom Smitton       Sunspots

Picture by Robin & Tom Smitton Comet 17P/HOMES on 28th OCtober 2007 in Perseus

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Iridium Flare Picture  by Robin Smitton


**New** Life on Mars?
Chance movie of the moon and plane from a cheap Webcam.
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Now included (click on playlist):-
Bryan Hunts excellent videos of Jupiter, The Moon taken with a simple webcam at focal point.
Jupiter & Saturn taken with camcorder at eyepiece - all from a 6" Newtonian F8 Telescope