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  All these images were taken with a  GSTAR-EX CCD video camera  attached to a
  31.5 cm f/4.5 Newtonian reflector (unless otherwise noted).
  Black and white images use the camera unfiltered.
  Colour images are created by exposing through red, green and blue coloured filters
  combined with an IR block filter (unless otherwise noted).
  The image magnification of the camera is roughly equal to a 7mm eyepiece, so, much detail is revealed.

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31.5 cm f/4.5 and 20 cm f/4 Newtonian reflectors on a Parks equatorial mount,
housed in a wheat silo observatory.


  The targets are recorded as full resolution, uncompressed AVI files directly to a PC hard drive using
  either Winfast PVR (video capture card bundle) or GSTAR2 software (freeware).
   Registax  software is used to stack each frame from the avi recording and remove dark frames.
  Photoshop CS2 is used to carry out a variety of image processing techniques such as
  histogram stretching, gradient removal, noise reduction or unsharp masking.

 

  Clusters

* Click thumbnails to view full image *            

  NGC 6520 + B 86 NGC 6441 UKS 1
Globular Clusters AM 1

  Nebulae

  Messier 1   Messier 8   Messier 20
  Barnard 33   NGC 6729  
  RCW 38   CG 4   NGC 2261
  RCW 40   IC 2220  
  Messier 57 NGC 7009 NGC 7293
NGC 6302 NGC 5189
  Shapley 1  

  Galaxies

  NGC 253   NGC 5128   Messier 83
    Messier 87   Messier 104  
  NGC 4565   NGC 1365   Cartwheel
NGC 520 NGC 7814
  Graham's Object Fourcade Figueroa   ESO 138-ig29

  Miscellaneous

  3C273 Dwarf Planet Eris Comet McNaught