Some recent astrophotography

Only getting around to posting these here now,
what with FB & Twitter etc blah I'm a bit jaded from all the
social network stuff,..
Nehow.
Small images below with links to larger versions under them.
Any comments or Q's welcome.






Uranus & four of it's moons Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon



Supernova Sn2011fe in M101

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Pleiades

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Ring Neb

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M13

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Dumbell Neb

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All taken using

GRAS-020, New Mexico;
Design: Takahashi FSQ-ED 106mm 530mm / f5
Camera: SBIG ST-8300C single-shot-color
FOV 87 x 116 arc minutes
Resolution (Arc secs/pixels): 2.1 Arc Secs Pixel
Pixel Array: 3326 x 2504
Megapixels: 8.3 megapixel
Pixel Size: 5.2um
Filters: None One Shot Color

Except Uranus & Neptune (one second exposures)
taken using;
GRAS-007 Nerpio, Spain Deep Space - CDK17 17"
(0.43 m) f/6.8 FL 2939mm (115.71 inch)
Camera: SBIG STL1100M CCD camera
FOV Arc mins: 42.27' x 28.18
Resolution (Arc secs/pixels):0.63
Pixel Array: 4008 by 2672 pixels
Pixel Size: 9um
Filters: Luminance, Red, V, Blue, Ha, Oiii, SII, I

All images processed in Maxim DL & Photoshop.

Hi Frank
Those images are just fantastic, it`s because of seeing images like those that got me interested in astronomy in the first place. Your M45 showing the young hot stars behind the dust cloud is stunning, M57's dead star at it`s heart great and one of my own favorite clusters M13 showing hot blue stars with the white and yellowish stars fab. You should be extremly proud of these images.
Aiden.

Those are pretty good Frank.
Love the Pleiades!
Widem ranges of objects, in terms of image scale.
Do GRAS have a scope designed around high-frame long-focall-length planetary imaging by any chance?

Thanks Aiden, Mike.
No, they don't have a dedicated planetary system,
It'd be very popular though if they did!
You've just nudged me to emailing them to find out!

Nice work Frank.
Taking shots without the hassle of local clear skies, heavy mounts, alignment, collimation, batteries , cameras and a four hour drive. I think you have it sussed :y32b4: !

Hi Frank,

Nice work and good processing. I won a voucher for GRAS a few months ago now and still haven't used it. How did you find it to set up and so on? It's just the video tutorials make it seem less than straight forward. Did you have any trouble with getting it up and imaging?

Well done again,
Brendan
www.DonegalSkies.com