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ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY
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 | M27 Dumbell nebula
By Colin Dutton
Taken from Manchester.
in narrowband 30 mins of exposures in 1 min increments iso800
dark and bias subtracted
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 | M2 globular cluster
On skywatcher 130PM, 2 x barlow , iso800 40secs x 100 , dark frame subtracted but misty conditions
Colin Dutton
Manchester
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 | M13 Globular cluster
Colin Dutton Manchester
Taken with the Skywatcher 130pm on heq5 equatorial mount.
24 x 60 sec's iso800/300d 05/06/07
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 | Saturn April 2007
Skwatcher130pm/ 2x barlow / toucam pro webcam / 1500 frames from 18/04/2007
Colin Dutton Manchester
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 | M42 Nebula in Orion
Colin Dutton
Taken with Canon 300D and Skywatcher Startravel 80
60X 30 second exposures. ISO 1600. Processed in photoshop.
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 | Jupiter.
David Mottershead
Jupiter. Taken through a Meade LX90, using a 2x Barlow lens and
Philips Toucam Pro 2. AVI file acquired using the software that comes with
the Toucam. Images stacked, aligned and wavlet processed in Registax ver 2.
Final processing in Adobe Photo Deluxe Home Edition ver 3. Taken on 14 May
2005 at 23:05 local time. Seeing was reasonable.
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 | Saturn.
David Mottershead.
Saturn. . Taken through a Meade LX90, using a 2x Barlow lens and Philips
Toucam Pro 2. AVI file acquired using the software that comes with the
Toucam. Images stacked, aligned and wavlet processed in Registax ver 2.
Final processing in Adobe Photo Deluxe Home Edition ver 3. Taken on 25 March
2005 at 20:07 local time. Seeing was reasonable.
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 | Mare Nectaris.
David Mottershead
Mare Nectaris. Taken through a Meade LX90, using a Meade LPI. Single shot
acquired through the LPI software. Final processing, (contrast, brightness
and unsharp mask), in Adobe Photo Deluxe Home Edition ver 3.
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 | Moon Crater Copernicus.
David Mottershead.
Moon Crater Copernicus. Taken through a Meade LX90, using a Meade LPI.
Single shot acquired through the LPI software. Final processing, (contrast,
brightness and unsharp mask), in Adobe Photo Deluxe Home Edition ver 3.
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 | Craters Piccolomini, Stiborius, Metius and Fabrici
David Mottershead
Craters Piccolomini, Stiborius, Metius and Fabricius. Taken through a
Meade LX90, using a Meade LPI. Single shot acquired through the LPI
software. Final processing, (contrast, brightness and unsharp mask), in
Adobe Photo Deluxe Home Edition ver 3.
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 | North American Nebula (NGC7000)
Single shot 10 mins exposure on Fuji Sensia transparency film.
motor driven camera with 50mm lens taken from Goyt Valley
near Buxton Derbyshire.
Tony Hill
Stockport Binocular & Telescope Centre
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 | Comet Hale Bop
Medium format camera with standard 50mm lens
45second exposure.
Note visibility in spite of extensive city light pollution.
Tony Hill
Stockport Binocular & Telescope Centre.
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 | Saturn
David Mottershead
Saturn. Taken at 00:32hrs local time on 22nd January 2006, using a Meade
LX90, 2x barlow lens and Phillips Toucam Pro 2 with Bader UV / IR filter.
Processed in Registax and Iris. Seeing was poor. Location is on the East
side of Manchester, 53 48 30 N 2 24 59 W. Apart from the Toucam, all the
equipment used was purchased from the Stockport Binocular and Telescope
Centre.
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 | Mars
John Bradbury
Taken with 8" schmidt cassegrain and Phillips toucam in the star diagnal, and took about 200 frames making an avi, i then used k3ccd image processor to stack the frames,
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 | Mars Jan 06
Mars. David Mottershead
Taken at 19:53 hrs local time on 16th November 2005, using a Meade LX90, 2x
barlow lens and Phillips Toucam Pro 2 with Bader UV / IR filter. Processed
in Registax and Iris. Seeing was poor. Location is on the East side of
Manchester, 53 48 30 N 2 24 59 W. Apart from the Toucam, all the equipment
used was purchased from the Stockport Binocular and Telescope Centre.
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 | Copernicus
Crater Copernicus photoghraphed by Colin Dutton
2/11/06. Using a Skywatcher Explorer 130PM + 2x barlow
and a Canon 300d. 250th sec at iso 400. 7/10 light
pollution from Manchester
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