September 2025

September 5th 1000 GMT Sun 

 

The Sun was low enough to use my Mak/DSLR combination to photograph it, just! I used 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure, except that I'd left the exposure at 1/4000 second. The result was better but the images did not stack.

September 4th 2215 GMT Hebe and Deep Sky 

 

I aimed the Seestar S50 at the asteroid Hebe but was unsure whether I had caught it. I did, as it is the faint "star" in the middle of the image. I stacked two integration runs, each of 5 minutes.

I aimed the Seestar S50 at the globular cluster M72. I took 7 images for a total integration time of 116 minutes.

 

I aimed the Seestar S50 at the open cluster M39. I stacked 5 images for a total integration time of 55 minutes.

I stacked 4 integration runs for a total of 35 minutes on M29 with the Seestar S50.

September 4th 1930 GMT Moon 

I took some full disc shots of the Moon with the Seestar S50.

I took some closeups of the Moon with Seestar S50 at 4x zoom.

September 4th 1005 GMT Sun 

Just my luck! I had a bit of unexpected clear sky but the Seestar S50 could not find the Sun, as it is known to do at times. I used my DSLR camera with a solar filter at 300mm focal length, ISO 100 and 1/2000 second exposure. To make matters even worse, I forgot to set the ISO to 100 so ended up with a very overexposed sun and no processing could reveal any sunspots.

September 4th 2305 GMT Miscellaneous Session 

 

I went out with the Seestar S50 and photographed M72 before it went out of range. I only managed 4 minutes of integration time before I lost it.

 

I tried to photograph the asteroid Hebe but failed as it was too low.

I snapped Neptune with the Seestar S50.

 

I snapped Uranus with the Seestar S50.

 

I retried NGC 752 in Framing mode with the Seestar S50. I stacked 4 integration runs, for a total time of 135 minutes and caught the whole cluster.

I caught four, maybe five of Saturn's moons but one and the maybe moon were caught in the glare. I used 4x zoom in Scenery mode.

I photographed Saturn at a lower exposure to catch it with the rings.

I tried to combine the photos without success.

September 3rd 2245 GMT Moon 

 

I finally managed to photograph the Moon with the Seestar S50. I took some full disc and regional closeups at 4x zoom.

September 1st 2230 GMT Deep Sky 

 

I had a go at finding some faint galaxies in Pegasus with the Seestar S50.

I stacked 5 integration runs for a total of 38 minutes on NGC7457.

I did 5 integration runs for a total of 39 minutes on NGC 7497.

I did 7 integration runs with the Seestar S50 on NGC 7626 for a total time of 100 minutes. There are 10 galaxies in this image but most are too small and faint to distinguish from background stars.

I did 4 integration runs for a total time of 34 minutes on NGC 7814 with the Seestar S50. Like, NGC 7233, it is one of the brighter of the galaxies in Pegasus.

I finished the session with 4 integration runs for a total of 31 minutes for NGC 7678.

September 1st 2315 GMT Deep Sky 

 

This was a continuation of the Deep sky session from August 31st. As cloud had rolled in, I moved from my previous targets to some galaxies in Pegasus. 

I stacked 4 integration runs with the Seestar S50 for a total integration time of 43 minutes 0n the pair of faint galaxies in Pegasus NGC7332 and NGC 7339.

Pegasus then clouded over, so I moved to NGC 752 in Andromeda where I did 4 integration runs with the Seestar S50 for a total time of 61 minutes. I felt I would need to revisit it in Framing mode.