Sun in h-alpha line, April 3, 2019
Equipment:
–Coronado PST H-alpha 40 mm
-filter Deepsky IR-cut 1.25″
-mount Meade LX85
-camera QHY5III178m.
Stacking of 250 from 1800
Location: Russia, Anapa, backyard.
In the galaxy M51 “Whirlpool” appeared an interesting star – AT2019ABN. This is a possible supernova, or “imposter”. The star has already dropped the outer part of the shell, but the nuclear reactions are still burning. It is possible that in a few tens of days its magnitude will increase by 2-4. At the moment, its magnitude in the R-filter is about 16.5m. In principle, it is available for shooting from an aperture of 100 mm or more. I recommend astrophotographers to take pictures of this star – the data may have scientific value, and there is a great chance to photograph a supernova explosion.
M51 galaxy, March 25, 2019.
Equipment:
-telescope Sky-Watcher BKP150750
-Baader MPCC
-camera QHY5III178m
-mount Meade LX85.
-autoguider 50 mm + ZWO 290 MC
184 frames per 20 s.
Calibration and stacking with DeepSkyStacker, waveletes with Registax 6.
Location: Russia, Anapa, backyard.
AT2019ABN, 25\03\2019
In the evening, the weather was good, I decided to take a little picture of the Moon in color. I tried to shoot a few dozen frames for stacking – I used to get the color from a single frame. I shot through several telescopes – Sky-Watcher BKP150750 and Celestron Nexstar 8 SE, but so far I have processed images only from Sky-Watcher. A little more I admired the Moon through binoculars JJ-Astro 22х100 – big, bright, large.
Color Moon, 21 march 2019
Equipment:
-telescope Sky-Watcher BKP150750
-mount Meade LX85
-coma corrector Baader MPCC
-camera Canon 5D mark II (59 frames, 1\400, ISO 50).
Processing: PIPP (align, crop), Autostakkert (stacking), Astra Image (deconvolution), Registax (color balance).
Location: Russia, Anapa, backyard.
Special thanks to the company “Pentar” for the provided mount Meade LX85.
