Jupiter 3rd March 2016

Jupiter imaged on 3rd March 2016

Solar Eclipse 9th Mar 2016

March 9th 2016, Partial solar eclipse of the Sun as seen from my backyard in Jakarta

Horse Head complex in Ha

Taken on the 8th Jan 2016 this was my first attempt at capturing the Horse Head Nebula (B33) complex.

HEQ5 Belt Mod

In Progress

M42 10 December 2015

After a drought of imaging opportunities it was finally time to try out the gear on M42 for the first time.

Moon 31 Aug 2015

I am a little behind in uploading this one. This was from the night following the full moon at the end of August, 31/8/2015. I was wanting to get a higher resolution image so decided to do as a mosaic . The above image is comprised of 15 panels where each panel was created using the Canon 70D attached to the GSO 6″ RC with a 0.75x reducer.

M57 The Ring Nebula 18 Sep 15

The first attempt at imaging M57, The ring nebula on 18 Sep 2015. The opportunity was taken to image this when it appeared from between trees in the middle of doing the pointing model for EQMod. Given that it is listed as +8.8 apparent magnitude and was in the worst quadrant for LP, I was sceptical of being able to pick it up, but it actually came through the LP OK due to it’s compact size.