December 3rd 1020 GMT Sun
I shot a video of the sun with the Seestar S50. I stacked using Registax and removed the colour saturation to leave a cleaner image.
December 3rd 0545 GMT M51
I woke up early, so I photographed the galaxy M51 with the Seestar S50. I did a 21 minute integration run before dawn interfered.
As part of the moon was missing from the last shoot, I
recorded another video with the Seestar S50.
November 30th 1510 GMT Moon
I had trouble finding the moon with the Seestar S50 and was about to give up when it finally appeared on my phone screen. I took both still shots and video. The video did not stack well,
I restacked using Registax 5 and thought it was a bit better.
November 30th 0925 GMT Sun
I took some still shots and video of the sun with the Seestar S50.
November 29th 1715 GMT Moon and Saturn
I started off with the moon with the Seestar S50, shooting both still images and video.
I repeated the same with Saturn.
I used Stargazing mode to try to capture Saturn's moons but
only caught Titan. Or so I thought! I found two more moons when I processed the image.
I combined all four photos into one.
November 28th 1700 GMT Moon
The weather had been poor since lunch but the moon was
showing and I was able to photograph it with the Seestar S50. I shot still
images and a 30 second video. Spot the difference!
November 28th 0935 GMT Sun
I took some still shots and a 30 second video of the sun with the Seestar S50. This is the processed video.
November 27th 2145 GMT Pleiades
I did a few integration runs on the Pleiades with the Seestar S50 in Framing mode. I stacked 5 runs for a total integration time of 182 minutes.
November 26th 1005 GMT Sun
I photographed the sun with my Mak telescope and DSLR camera at 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure.
November 25th 1805 GMT Mixed Session
I tried to take a longer exposure of the Iris Nebula but did
not seem to capture much. After a lot of processing, I only caught the central part and not that well.
I had better luck with the Barbell Nebula (M76). I stacked 5 integration runs, the longest being 58 minutes and finished in GIMP.
I then caught Comet SWAN R2, although it was quite faint. I took 3 integration runs for a total of 49 minutes, stacked in Sequator and finished with GraXpert and GIMP.
I had a long go at M34. I stacked 3 integration runs for a total time of 62 minutes.
I finished with Jupiter, trying a variety of methods.
My first attempt was at 1x zoom in Scenery mode to capture the moons.
The first attempt at stacking a video of Jupiter showed a bland disc.
I attempted to stack a video of the moons but when I tried to edit it, it showed double moons.
November 25th 0920 GMT Sun
I did a solar session with the Seestar S50. I took some
still shots at normal settings and 4x zoom but also tried shooting video for
the first time.
November 23rd 1925 GMT Pleiades
There was some clear sky in Taurus, so I photographed the Pleiades (M45) with the Seestar S50. I only managed 12 minutes integration time before it rained.
November 22nd 2300 GMT Mixed Session
I started off with the Orion Great Nebula (M42). After about 28 minutes, cloud rolled in and I was unable to capture what I wanted to. I processed a single frame and boosted the blue light to give a slightly different look to a familiar object.
November 21st 1025 GMT Sun
After 8 days of hurt, due to illness and bad weather, there was some clear sky. Unfortunately, the Seestar S50 could not find the sun. I tried my binoculars and the sunspots were below the resolution of my instrument.
November 13th 0845 GMT Sun
I photographed the sun with my Mak and DSLR at 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure.
November 10th 2155 GMT Moon and Jupiter
There was a lot of thin cloud around but the moon and Jupiter were close.
I photographed the moon with my DSLR camera at 300mm focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure.
I photographed the moon with Jupiter using my DSLR camera at
70mm focal length, ISO 800 and 1/50 second exposure.
November 8th 2225 GMT Moon
I photographed the moon with the Seestar S50. Not much else
was visible.
November 6th 0930 GMT Sun
I photographed the sun with my Mak and DSLR at 1540mm focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure.
November 6th 2000 GMT Mixed Session
It was the first clearish night for 4 days and it was
surprisingly warm.
I took a few shots of the moon with the Seestar S50.
I tried for Saturn's moons with the Seestar S50.
I caught Neptune against the stellar background with the
Seestar S50.
I tried Uranus but it was too close to the moon.
I captured the dwarf planet Ceres against the stellar background. It is about a third of the way from the top and slightly to the left.
I ended with the double star Kappa Ceti with the Seestar
S50.
I awoke to clear sky for the second day running. Was it really November? I used the same method to photograph the sun as the day before.
I used the same settings to photograph M42.
November 1st 2215 GMT Meteor Hunt
I set a camera trap for Taurid meteors with my DSLR camera
set to take photos automatically at 18mm focal length, ISO 6400 and 6 seconds
exposure.
I also did a phone camera shot of the moon with Saturn.
November 1st 1910 GMT Moon and Saturn
The moon and Saturn were close in the sky. I photographed
the moon with my DSLR camera at 300mm focal length, ISO 100 and 1/800 second
exposure. This did not work, as the image was out of focus.
I used 70mm focal length, ISO 6400 and 1/15 second exposure to capture both objects together.
I do not normally associate November with solar viewing and photography. Yet, I woke up to clear sky and photographed the Sun with my Mak telescope and DSLR camera at 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure, my usual settings.
