Posts Made By: Tyler Allred

Hi all. I have been working on the processing of this image for a while now, and I guess I am about done with it. This was imaged over a couple of clear sky windows on two nights in March. Exposure info and a full version can be seen on the "Latest Images" page of my website at:

http://www.allred-astro.com/gpage8.html

You can also see a previous version of the image, which I was unhappy with and decided to reprocess. This was imaged with my AP130 EDF F/6 and Starlight Xpress SXVF-H16 camera. Comments and suggestions are always welcome.
Cheers,
Tyler

Hi all. I finally got a decent night, so spent the night collecting luminance data on M51. I ran the camera all night and got 80 frames at 5 minutes each, for a total of 400 minutes. I kept the background pretty light to show the extended portions of these interacting galaxies. Take a look and let me know your thoughts, comments, and/or suggestions.

Here is a link to the "Latest Images" page of my website. Be sure to click a few times to get the full version.

http://www.allred-astro.com/gpage8.html

Cheers,
Tyler

Hi all. I got another good night and decided to image M101. Again, I spent the entire night collecting luminance, but this time I went for 10-minute subs. I combined 34 for this image. I attached a reduced version. For the full version, take a look here...

http://www.allred-astro.com/gpage8.html

Be sure to click the image a few times to get to the full version. I think this one is worth taking time to look around. There sure is a lot to look at in this image.
Cheers,
Tyler

Hi all. I ran luminance again last night, this time pointing my scope at the Hercules Galaxy Cluster, Abell 2151. I managed to get 29 frames of 10 minutes each. I attached a full resolution crop of a particularly dense portion of the frame, but the full frame is worth seeing as well. The link is below. Click a few times to get the full version. There is also a Black-Eye Galaxy shot that I never posted to this forum. If you like, take a look at that while you are on the website.

http://www.allred-astro.com/gpage8.html



Cheers,
Tyler

Hi all. I have been absent from this forum for some time now, but I check the images now and then and I really enjoy them. I recently put out my hummingbird feeders, and the little buggers have arrived. Mostly I get Black-chinned and Rufous, but I have had a Caliope hanging around too. I decided to go for a shot tonight using my 300mm F/2.8 VR Nikkor with 2X teleconverter. Here is a reduced version of one frame from tonight.
Cheers,
Tyler

Here is another from this last week. The Lazuli Buntings have been moving through and the feeders have been very busy locations. I have a nice crabapple tree near the feeders that makes for good photos. Here are a couple.

Hi all. Here is a reduced version of my recent image of M27. I imaged two nights to get the data: one night for Ha and OIII, and another for RGB. The full image can be seen by clicking the thumbnails on the "Latest Images" page of my website, at this link:

http://www.allred-astro.com/gpage8.html

Feedback is always welcome.
Cheers,
Tyler

Hi all. Last night was one of the best seeing nights that I have experienced in my life, despite the bright moon. The skies were very stable. I decided to try a little hydrogen alpha imaging of NGC7822. I like this object because of the exquisite detail in the nebula and all the dark lanes. This image was stacked from 20 images, each of 20 minutes duration, for a total of 400 minutes. I couldn't be happier with the result. There are only a few night that allow my AP130 to really shine, and this was one of them. Please take a moment to look around this image... it is about as good as I will ever get. I hope to add some great OIII and SII data sometime soon, to complete a narrowband color version.

Here is a link to the full resolution version on the "Latest Images" page of my website

http://www.allred-astro.com/gpage8.html

Click the thumbnails a couple of times to see the full version.


Here is the image info:

Scope: AP130 Starfire EDF F/6
Mount: Losmandy G11/Gemini Level 4
Camera: Starlight Xpress SXVF-H16
Filter Wheel: Finger Lakes Instrumentation CFW-2-7
Filter: Optec Ha
MaxIm DL, PixInsight, and Photoshop

Hi all. Here is LBN 442 and a bit of Sh2-126, a dark cloud with emission nebula in the 10 Lacertae Complex. I have chosen to keep the red areas very subtle, which is true to the object, but I may have left them too subtle. I would appreciate comments that may help me to fine tune the image. As is, the overall scene is dusty and appears to be backlit with red emission, which I quite like.

Here is a link to the "Latest Images" page on my website.

http://www.allred-astro.com/images/1%20HD213835%20AA.jpg


Comments and suggestions are always welcome.
Cheers,
Tyler

Hi all. I am mostly a deep sky guy but couldn't pass up the chance to capture this eclipse. I was in St. George, Utah to help my parents move home for the summer and caught the eclipse in full annular mode. What a sight. I couldn't get the whole thing because the sun set behind the hills before the exit was complete, but I like the sequence none the less. The color change was really amazing. Take a look. The full resolution version has detail in the sunspots but it was much too big to post here. Maybe I will add it to my website soon and post a link to the full version. Holy Cow! What a sight.
Cheers,
Tyler

PS - Captured with a Nikon D700, Nikkor 300mm VR F/2.8 with TC20EII 2X at 600mm effective focal length. Processed in Photoshop.