New CCD camera
Monday, June 29, 2015
We received our new CCD camera! We're still missing a few adapters and configuring the system to use it properly, but I got some nice pictures. All of them are monochrome (we can't use colour filters just yet...). They were produced from ~100 x 10 seconds exposure (guiding doesn't work just yet...). These were my first trials, so the quality might not be the best, and the Moon was very bright (95% illumination) so, again, the results could be better.
Starting with Messier 57, the ring nebula,
Then, Messier 101, the Pinwheel Galaxy,
Another Galaxy, Messier 51, the Whirlpool Galaxy,
And finally, a globular cluster, Messier 92
