June 2026

June 22nd 0740 GMT Sun

I photographed the sun with my Mak and DSLR at 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure. I stacked 29 images in Autostakkert and finished in GIMP.

June 21^st 0820 GMT Sun

I photographed the sun with the Mak and DSLR at 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure in hazy conditions. Despite stacking 25 images, I could not find any detail.

June 20th 2220 GMT M107 and M16

I did some short integrations on M107 and M16. M107 took 12 minutes before it disappeared behind a house. M16 took 9 minutes before I had to end the session prematurely.

June 20^th  2125 GMT Moon

I had a lot of trouble finding the moon and I needed to use Arcturus as a sighter then manually find the moon in Scenery mode. I took full disc still shots and a video that I later stacked.

June 20th 2110 GMT Moon and Venus

I tried to photograph the moon with Venus with a phone camera but they were quite far apart. Against all odds, it worked!

June 18^th 2230 GMT IC4665

I photographed the open star cluster IC4665 with the Seestar S50. I processed a single integration of 73 minutes and finished in GIMP. For some unknowmn reason, GraXpert did not work.

June 18^th 2100 GMT Moon and Venus

I was out walking our dogs when I saw the moon and Venus in the dusk sky. I don't think I got them the first time but I did 10 minutes later, with the phone camera.

I saw Jupiter near the horizon but could not capture it with Venus.

I then captured Venus and the moon (separately) with the Seestar S50 but it took a lot of manual finding and using Arcturus as a sighter. I took still images and videos, which I later stacked. For Venus, the still image produced the better result. With the moon, the stacked video and still shot were almost identical.

June 14^th 0125 GMT Sun

I took a full disc  video of the sun with the Seestar S50, which I later stacked.

June 13^th 2210 GMT Deep Sky Session: M14

I tried to image the globular star cluster M14 with the Seestar S50. I had problems with star trailing and confirmed this when |I tried to capture M5.

I set the exposure time to 5 seconds and tried M14 again.

June 13^th 2110 GMT Venus and Jupiter

I photographed Venus with Jupiter with my phone camera.

I photographed Venus with the Seestar S50 but did not detect a phase change from 100% until I removed the red and blue channels and adjusted the contrast..

June 13^th 1145 GMT Sun

The sun was a full 61 degrees high in the sky, far too high for my Mak/DSLR combination, so I had a go with the Seestar S50. I took a full disc video and some still closeups.

June 10^th 2125 GMT Venus with Jupiter

I took some phone camera shots of Venus with Jupiter.

June 10^th 2100 GMT Venus with Jupiter

I took two photos of Venus with Jupiter with my phone camera at dufferent zoom levels.

June 9^th 1700 GMT Sun

I used my Mak and DSLR combination at 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure. I stacked 18 frames in Autostakkert and finished in GIMP.

June 9^th 1050 GMT Sun

I had a few minutes in between cloud to take a full disc video of the sun, with the Seestar S50, which I stacked later.

Cloud rolled in when I tried a closeup video, so a no result there..

June 8^th 2105 GMT Venus and Jupiter

I took some photos of Venus with Jupiter with my phone camera.

I tried to find Venus with the Seestar S50 but it did not work.

June 8th 1530 GMT Sun

I photographed the sun with my Mak and DSLR at my usual settings of 1.54m focal length, ISO100 and 1/500 second exposure. I stacked 19 images in Autostakkert and finished in GIMP.

June 8th 1130 GMT Sun

I made several attempts to find the sun using the Seestar S50 but they all failed, partly due to cloud.  I did a drawing from binocular observatiobs, instead.

June 4^th 2135 GMT Venus with Jupiter

I photographed Venus with Jupiter from an upstairs window with my phone camera.