← Opposite
M33
Triangulum Galaxy — Paul Owen
Hampton, NB“This target was chosen because
when we were at one of our Royal
Astronomical Society of Canada —
New Brunswick star parties, I saw this
through a telescope for the irst time.
I knew it would be a great object to
image, and I wanted to see how well
I could capture it so I could show it to
the amateur astronomer I was with
that night. This turned out to be my
longest integration image to date at
140 x three minute subs. 50 darks, 30
lats. I used a ZWO ASI294MC Pro one
shot colour CMOS camera through aStellarvue SV105-3FT 105mm
triplet refractor triplet refractor
on a Sky-Watcher EQ6 mount,
guided with PHD2. Stacked in Deep
Sky Stacker, Processed in PixInsight
and Photoshop. It was taken from
my backyard."← LeftM3
Globular cluster — Marc Ricard
Pointe-Claire, QC“Located in Canes Venatici, M3 can be found by
looking about halfway between Cor Caroli and
Arcturus. This sixth magnitude globular cluster
is visible in just about any sized scope, but with
a six-inch scope or larger you would be able to
resolve some of the outlying stars. This image was
taken from my backyard through my eight-inch
Ritchey-Chrétien telescope. I captured a total of 158
x 120-second exposures through LRGB ilters with
my QSI 683 camera, which were then calibrated
and combined with Astro Pixel Processor and then
processed in PixInsight.”Below right ↘
M20
“The image was captured from the Arches
National Park on June 12, 2018. The skies
were dark and still, something we rarely get
from our home in Calgary. At this time, my
husband and I were new to astrophotogra-
phy and PixInsight. We chose this particular
object as we thought it was an interesting
multi-color target. As we were at a more
southern latitude in Utah, it was also high
in the sky. Our setup was: a Canon 5D Mark
II modiied camera, a Celestron CGEM II
mount, and an eight-inch EdgeHD scope.
We took 30 light subs at ISO 800 for 240-
second exposures, and 10 dark subs with
the same ISO and exposure. The images
were compiled using PixInsight and inished
in Photoshop.”
Triid Nebula — Kimberly Sibbald, SpacePaparazzi.com
Moab, UtahSKYNEWS • MAR/APR 2020