November 2025

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.

I combined the two images, as the moon was overexposed in the second one.

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.

November 2nd 1040 GMT Sun 

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.

November 2nd 0005 GMT Jupiter's moons and M42

 I photographed Jupiter's moons with my DSLR camera at 300mm focal length, ISO 6400 and 2 seconds exposure.

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 stacked 10 images tom show the constellations of Taurus and Auriga.

I did not catch any meteors.

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.

November 1st 0840 GMT Sun 

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.