Star Discovery

Sky-Watcher Australia shared a post.

4 days ago

Great all-round telescope package from authorised Sky-Watcher dealer, Astro Anarchy in QLD.Designed for Intermediate and Advanced users, the 102mm refractor will give great views of the moon, planets, stars, double stars, star clusters, globular star clusters, and some bright nebulae and galaxies.
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Sky-Watcher Australia

1 week ago

Paul Shorttt recently posted this image to the Sky-Watcher Australia Facebook group. NGC 3324 in the southern constellation of Carina. This open cluster and star forming region is also commonly called Gabriela Mistral.

Taken using a Skywatcher Esprit 120ED APO refractor on a Sky-Watcher EQ6 mount using a ZWO 1600mm camera. About 4hours worth of narrowband exposure. This stunning image was captured in Whakatane New Zealand.

Thanks for sharing this beautiful work Paul.

Another fine example of astrophotography as art!

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Sky-Watcher Australia

1 week ago

Stephen MacMahon has just finished assembling the new Sky-Watcher 400P (16") Collapsible GOTO Dobsonian telescope that will be installed in the observatory at The Tea Gardens and Hawks Nest Astronomy Group.

Think that ladder is going to get used a fair bit!

Thanks for sharing this Stephen. Hope it won't rain too much ...

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Sky-Watcher Australia

2 weeks ago

Near edge-on galaxy, NGC 4945 shared by Jim Mitzas to the Sky-Watcher Australia Facebook group. Jim used a Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED and a ZWO 183MM Pro camera. A great result on a tricky to image object. Over 18 hours of exposure was captured to produce this image.

Thanks Jim!

Complete specs:

Details:
63 x 360s Lum
28 x 420s Red
27 x 360s Green
28 x 360s Blue
11 x 1200s Ha
18.7hrs total integration time

Equipment:
Epsrit 100 OTA
ZWO 183mm Pro
ZWO 290mm Mini
ZWO Mini Guide Camera
ZWO Elec Mini Filter Wheel
Astronomik Deep Sky RGB and 6nm Ha 1.25" Filters
Celestron CGEM 2

Calibrated and processed in Pixinsight.

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