Images taken with the SXV-H9 camera

M31, the great Andromeda galaxy. Four frame LRGB mosaic. FSQ-106 and SXV-H9. Total exposure of 8 hours, from montes de Toledo (Dec 2006) and Bonilla (Sept 2007 and Oct 2007).    Clic for 50% in size    

The Pleiades (M45). From dark skies in Piornal (10/11/07) and Bonilla (16/11/09). FSQ-106 and SXV-H9. Filters: LRGB. Total exposure of 3h 45m.

Reflection nebulla  NGC 7023 ( iris). From Bonilla, September 2007. FSQ106 and SXV-H9, LRGB filters. Total exposure: 2 h 40 m.

Comet Holmes, October 28th 2007, 21 h TU. C8 at f:6 and SXV-H9. Ten second subexposures with filters G (x30), R (x5) and B (x5). 

CLIC over the image above for a "four colors" image with filters B, G, R and Infra-red (Astronomik IR Planet). Respectively, the following colors were asigned to each filtered image: Dark blue, Light Green, Orange and Dark red.

Nebulla surrounding Rho Ophiuchi, from Bonilla (40º North), on May 14th 2007. FSQ106 and SXV-H9. LRGB filters. Exposure: 90 minutes. Altitude over the southern horizon of Rho Ophiuchi:  25º.

Galaxies M81 and M82. From Las Navas del Marqués on March/17/2007. FSQ106 and SXV-H9. Filters: L(RHalfa)GB. Total exposure of 4 hours

Total lunar eclipse on March 3-4th 2007, as seen from Las Navas del Marques (Spain). Images obtained with afocal projection, Takahashi FSQ-106 refractor and a 26 mm eyepiece.  Sony DSC-P150 digital camera, with zoom (3x) and without zoom, 5 second exposures each.

 Cone and fox fur nebullae in NGC2264 in monoceros. From Bonilla on january 2007. FSQ-106 and SXV-H9. H alpha, R, G, B filters. Total exposure 165 minutes for the color image, and 2 hours for the H alpha image. Color processing: luminance = H alpha+R+G+B; red channel = H alpha+R; green channel = G; blue channel = B.

NGC6960, veil nebulla (east fragment). From Bonilla, August 26th 2006. FSQ-106 and SXV-H9. Filters: L,R,G,B. Total exposure of 2 hours. Some cirrus clouds present.

Galaxy M 101 in Ursa Major. From Montes de Toledo, april-june 2005. FSQ-106, SXV-H9 camera, autoguided. Filters: LRGB, total exposure 2.5 hours.

Galaxy M 33 in Triangulum. From Bonilla (Cuenca), october 2005. FSQ-106 on Losmandy G-11 mount, SXV-H9 camera. Filters: LRGB, total exposure 100 minutes. Premio Pleyades 2005 in digital astrophotography, Agrupacion Astronomica de Madrid (AAM).

Crescent nebulla NGC6888 in Cygnus. From Bonilla (Cuenca), october 2005. FSQ-106 on Losmandy G-11 mount, SXV-H9 camera. Filters: H-alpha, RGB, total exposure 110 minutes.

Sequence of  the annular eclipse in Madrid, October 3th 2005. 270 mm lens with solar filter, 18 mm eyepiece, and Sony P-150 digital camera.

Veil nebulla NGC6992-6995 in Cygnus. From Montes de Toledo, june 2005. FSQ-106 refractor and SXV-H9 camera, autoguided. Fiters: RGB, total exposure 75 minutes. No Dark Frames nor Flat Fields.

Galaxy trio M65, M66 and NGC3628 in Leo. Obtained over two nights (april 9 and 12, 2005), from Montes de Toledo and Pozuelo. FSQ-106 at f75 and SXV-H9 camera, autoguided. Filters: LRGB and CLS, total exposure 5 hours.

Comet Machholz. From Pozuelo, January/17/2005. Takahashi FSQ-106 with SXV-H9 camera, autoguided. Filters: LRGB, total exposure 88 minutes.

Planetary nebulla NGC 7293. From Montes de Toledo, October/16/2004. C-8 at f6, SXV-H9 autoguided. Filters: clear, red, green, and blue. Total exposure: 88 minutes

M27, from Pozuelo, 2004. C-8 at f:6, SXV-H9 autoguided. Filters: red + CLS, green + CLS, blue + CLS, and OIII. Total exposure: 88 ninutes.

North America nebulla, from Vilancosta (Pontevedra), july 2004. 80 mm achromatic refractor at f:5, SXV-H9 autoguided. Filters: red + CLS, green + CLS, blue + CLS (CLS filter from Astronomik in all exposures ). Total exposure: 90 minutes. 

NGC 5907 from Pozuelo, 2004. C-8 at f:6, SXV-H9 autoguided. Filters: unfiltered, red, green and blue. Total exposure 3 hours.

M57 from Pozuelo, 2004. C-8 at f:10, SXV-H9 autoguided. Filters: unfiltered, red, green, blue and OIII. Total exposure: 90 minutes.

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   Saturn in opposition, December/30/2003, from Pozuelo. C-8 and Quickcam VC at f:30. Average of 70 selected frames of a three minutes AVI sequence, processed in Registax 2 and Photoshop.

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   Mars in opposition, August/30/2004, from Pozuelo, Quickcam VC at f:30. Processed in Registax and Photoshop from a five minutes AVI sequence.

Images taken with the Cookbook 245 LDC camera:

    M27, planetary nebulla. From Pozuelo de Alarcón, september/27/2002. C-8 at f:5, Cookbook 245 camera. Color image obtained combining 30x1 minutes red, 10x1 minutes green and 10x1 minutes blue filtered images. Red and blue images were summed for providing the luminosity in Adobe Phososhop.

   M17, emisión nebulla. From Pozuelo de Alarcón, July/16/2001. C-8 at f:6.3, Cookbook 245 camera. Color image obtained combining 70x0.5 minutes red, 10x1 minutes green and 10x1 minutes blue filtered images. The red filtered image was employed for luminosity in Adobe Photoshop.

 
    M57. Image taken from Las Navas del Marques on 9/2/2000 with the CB245 camera and the C-8 at f10. Multiple sixty second subexposures, totalling 3 minutes unfiltered, 3 minutes cyan, 3 minutes magenta and 3 minutes yellow. 

  
    NGC4565, on-edge spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices. Image taken from Pozuelo on 6/10/200, with the C-8 at f5.5. Stack of twenty 60-second subexposures.