Atik Infinity Photos (March 14, 2018)
Introduction | Photos | References
On this page I present photos taken with the Atik Infinity camera on March
14, 2018.
Introduction
The following photos were my ninth attempt with the Atik Infinity camera.
- Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer 150PDS
- Accessories: Celestron StarSense
This was my fourth attempt with the Explorer 150PDS and my third successful
with the StarSense module for automatic alignment.
Details
On March 14, 2018, the sky was clear again, so that I built up my Explorer
150PDS with GoTo mount once more. Aligning the mount with the StarSense module
was successful, and I looked at a few deep sky objects (M 41, M 42, M 50,
M 93). Then I attached the Atik Infinity camera to the telescope and looked
at these and a few more objects (M 41, M 42, M 50, M 93, IC 434/Alnitak,
M 1, M 45).
With respect to M 41, M 50 and M 93, I saw something and took photos,
but I don't know whether I hit the objects at all. Using All sky plate solver (April
10, 2018),
I was able to verify that I missed the DSOs.
Regarding M 78, IC 434/Alnitak,
and M 1, I did not see anything, and for M 42, I could not find the nebula
itself (I did not have enough time...). Therefore, two photos of M 45 (Pleiades)
and a few unconfirmed "finds" of
M 41, M 50, and M 93 appear here, but the latter are probably not real finds...
The Pleiades are too large to be captured as a whole. One photo shows the left
side, the other the right side.
Photos
The following photos were taken with the Explorer 150PDS on the Star Discovery
AZ GoTo mount (with StarSense module) and saved as 16-bit TIFF files. For
the photos of M 41, M 50, and M 93, the DSO could not be verified - the software
application All
sky plate solver and the Website Nova Astrometry.net confirm, that I
missed the targets.
 |
|
 |
|
 |
M 41 (Canis Major)*, unprocessed |
|
Ditto, post-processed |
|
Ditto, post-processed and sharpened |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
M 50 (Monoceros)**, unprocessed |
|
Ditto, post-processed |
|
Ditto, post-processed and sharpened |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
M 50 (Monoceros)***, from replay, unprocessed |
|
Ditto, post-processed |
|
Ditto, post-processed and sharpened |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
M 93 (Puppis)****, unprocessed |
|
Ditto, post-processed |
|
Ditto, post-processed and sharpened |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
M 45 (Taurus), left, unprocessed |
|
Ditto, post-processed |
|
Ditto, post-processed and sharpened |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
M 45 (Taurus), right, unprocessed |
|
Ditto, post-processed |
|
Ditto, post-processed and sharpened |
italic: target missed
*) probably about 2 degrees off (too far to the east) according to All
sky plate solver (RA J2000: 06:53:44, Dec: -21:02:58 for the center of
the photo, 06:46:01/-20:45:25 for M 41)
**) probably less than 0.5 degrees off (too far to the east and too high)
according to All
sky plate solver (RA J2000: 07:03:57, Dec: -08:11:57 for the center of
the photo, 07:02:48/-8:20:16 for M 50)
***) probably less than 0.5 degrees off (too far to the east and too high)
according to All sky plate solver (RA J2000: 07:03:59, Dec: -08:11:40
for the center of the photo, 07:02:48/-8:20:16 for M 50)
****) probably about 0.5 degrees off (too far to the west and too low)
according to All sky plate solver (RA J2000: 07:43:08, Dec: -24:00:31
for the center of the photo, 07:44:30/-23:51:25 for M 93)
References
On this Site
