May CAS Meeting

The May 2010 meeting will be held on Tuesday 25th May at 7.30pm in St Jospeh's Church Hall, Cockermouth.

The agenda for the evening is as follows:

• News Update for May (10 mins)
• CAS Annual General Meeting (20-30 mins)

COFFEE

• Stellar Evolution - Chris Darwin (45 - 60 mins)

Regards
Jeremy

Recent images

The night was so clear on Monday that I was out from 11pm to 3am. The milky way was gorgeous and I took the following two pics.

M17 in Sagittarius
Skywatcher MN190 on EQ6
Canon 300D modified
4 x 5 mins @ ISO800

M17 is located at a declination of -16 degrees so it's pretty close to the horizon from northern England. The shot is only 4 combined images so very short. I only managed to steal a few images as the dawn was breaking.

I spent most of the night imaging parts of the North America and Pelican Nebulae (NGC7000). The following image combines 45 minutes of white light plus 100 minutes of Hydrogen-Alpha data.

NGC7000
Skywatcher MN190, EQ6 + Canon 300D modified
10 x 10mins H-alpha + 9 x 5 mins RGB
ISO800

Cocoon Nebula

I got about an hour of exposure time on the Cocoon Nebula (IC5146), located in the constellation Cygnus.

The nebula sits at the end of a great dark nebula B168, the tip of which is just visible at the top of this shot.

IC5146 - Cocoon Nebula

MN190 (1000mm f5.3)

Canon 300D modified

EQ6 PHD

12 x 5mins @ ISO800

plus

1 x 10min Hydrogen-Alpha frame