It's been a long while since my last posting, mainly due to weather and equipment--when one was good the other was bad. ( AP900 was always good.) Anyway, I got this one in fits and starts over Jan and

This is a nice little (5') galaxy that I took over the last new moon. It's a bit off the beaten track. Seeing was goodish--around 2.5" FWHM, but transparency was woeful and the exposure was quite shor

Just another globular cluster, but with a difference. My guide camera bit the dust, so I had to go unguided and the AP900 did its job.. At 2500mm focal length long unguided exposures of galaxies and n

Thanks Christian. Glad you like it. Geoff

Thanks Rolando. As regards the good stuff: It's always on the far side of the equator, no matter which side of the equator you are on. Geoff

This is just a short grab, but it's a promising candidate for more data. Telescope: 12.5" Plane Wave Mount: AP900 Camera: FLI Proline 16803 Exposure: 130min LRGB FOV: 49' x 49' http://www.astrobin.com

I had something similar a while ago. Nice guiding for a few minutes, then a sudden blip. Replacing the usb cable from the lodestar fixed the problem. Geoff

This was taken over the last new moon weekend. Big galaxy, but really faint surface brightness. I had to push quite hard to bring out decent colour. Here is the link: http://www.astrobin.com/189640/.

I have an AP900 at my dark sky site. I connect the mount to Maxim. My normal starting point is Park 1, which for me in the Southern hemisphere is scope pointing south on the WEST side of the pier. The

This was taken over 2 new moon periods at my dark sky observatory (May and June 2015). I had about 8 hours data, but the seeing was a bit up and down so I tossed out an hour and a half or so. It's a n

I've just updated and now get Astro-Physics Command Center-Pro(elevated) rather than the old Astro-Physics Command Center-Pro(administrator) on the top of the window. Is this safely ignorable? Thanks

This pic was taken at the Astronomical Society of NSW star party in Australia. It shows a dusty nebula (Sarah's Nebula) in Apus near ic4633. It's pretty faintand I really had to be very aggressive in

http://www.astrobin.com/150681/ This was taken over the last new moon period. Exposure: R G B L-> 70 60 60 100 Mount AP900 Telescope: 12.5" Plane Wave CDK Camera: FLI Proline 16803. I did my usual thi

Thanks Jerry. The Proline is great: I can image at -30 all year round, whereas with my previous camera I was often at -10 on warm summer nights. Astrobin is very convenient, although I still intend to

http://www.astrobin.com/150225/0/ This is a pretty little galaxy in Hydra. It's quite faint, so really needs much more exposure than the 4 hours I've given it. Still, after looking at the raw images d

Thanks John. I think I've managed to send you a private email. Let me know if you don't get it and we can try other options. Geoff

Here is a seldom imaged galaxy--NGC908. It's not large--6' x 3', so I'vecropped the real estate from 4096 x 4096 pixels down to 1960 x 1660pixels. http://www.astrobin.com/146460/ It is a starburst gal

These two renditions of the Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070) are the first ones to come from my Proline 16803. There is an LRGB image http://www.astrobin.com/143681/ with the red and green channels boosted

Thanks Ray, I'll poke around a bit more and see what I can find. Geoff

Hi Ray. I right clicked the executables in C:\Programs(x86)\Astro-Physics\APCC Pro. None of them show up as "run as administrator" under compatibilities. Is this the directory you referred to, or shou