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Mars Opposition
18 May 2016
© 2016 Richard Edmonds

Mars
18 May 2016
© 2016 Richard Edmonds

Meade 10" f/6.3 at prime focus with 2X barlow. Captured by Canon 60Da shooting in Movie Crop Mode 60 fps.

Stack of 80 frames from 60 sec video clip. Stacked in Registax processed in Photoshop 6.0. 18 May 2016

Jupiter April 2nd 2016
© 2018 Richard Edmonds

Meade 10" f/6.3 LX200/GPS at prime focus with a 2X barlow. Captured with Canon 60Da shooting in Movie Crop Mode 2 Apr 2016. 135 frames stacked in Registax and processed in PhotoShop 6.0.

Dumbbell Nebula, M27
© 2019 Richard Edmonds

M27, the Dumbbell Nebula, a bright planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1227 light-years. Stack of five frames, ISO 1600.

Meade 10" LX200 f/6.3 at prime focus
Stack of four frames, ISO 1600, IDAS V4 nebular filter
Total exposure ~ 780 seconds.

Sculptor Galaxy, NGC 253
© 2019 Richard Edmonds

NGC 253, the Sculptor Galaxy, has very bright dust lanes and star forming regions. Stack of six frames, 4 to 7 minutes each at ISO 3200. Meade 10" f/6.3 SCT at prime focus. Stacked in Registar processed in Photoshop 6.0. 26 Oct 2019

Comet Neowise
© 2020 Richard Edmonds

Comet Neowise: 14 July 2020

Canon Rebel T5i
Minolta 50mm f/1.4 lens, 8 sec at ISO 1600

Looking NNW toward HWY 89 coming down off the pass west of Wupatki National Park and Sunset Crater

I was going for and can see a faint secondary blue tail just above the primary. Few people have been able to capture this split tale. Some reviews are tracing the tail out to nine degrees in length and claiming that this is the brightest comet in 23 years.

Richard Edmonds

The following was retrieved from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2020_F3_(NEOWISE)

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a retrograde comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers using the NEOWISE space telescope. At that time, it was a 10th-magnitude comet, located 2 AU away from the Sun and 1.7 AU away from Earth.

Meade 10" f/6.3 LSX200/GPS
Prime focus with a 2X barlow - Canon 60Da shooting in Movie Crop mode (60 fps,) ISO 800

May 18, 2015 - After our late last week rain and snow storms I was surprised to see how good observing was last night. I went out around 8:30 PM and began capturing images of M101, M100, M98, Jupiter and Saturn. I waited for Saturn to get up higher in the sky but by the time I got to it, around 11 PM, the wind was picking up. I shot two quick 60 second video clips hoping to pull something out worth stacking. This is what I got. It it is a bit amazing to see these considering how much the image was dancing around. I'm still processing the Messier and Jupiter images.