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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

September, 2014 Images

Its been a long time, but now that the nights are getting longer and getting dark earlier, I now have the time to image the sky.  On 9/5 I did a composite of the moon using 15 individual videos and stitched the segments together to get an image of the entire visible moon.

 Then took a few closeups... Crater Copernicus.



Schiller to Clavius 


Tycho


The Iris Nebula (NGC 2023) was imaged on 9/13.  Here is a full frame and a cropped closeup.



9/16.  Albiero, probably the prettiest double in the northern hemisphere....


NGC 6946, the Fireworks Galaxy.  This one is always a difficult one for me due to light pollution.


On 9/23, I got the CCD out and imaged  the Deer Lick Galaxy Group in LRGB.



9/24 it was the Cocoon Nebula's turn, but this one was shot using the Hα filter.

Then on 9/29, I imaged NGC 6939 and M15.   I also imaged the Fireworks Galaxy again, but the transparency wasnt as good as earlier in the month, so I wont duplicate it here.


and finally, M15.