Noel Carboni processed the Leo Trio data taken a few days ago (see post below) and added some old data of ours taken with the Hyperstar 1 and a little H9C one-shot colour camera.  You can see the result here.  The bright star bottom right is Chertan and North is to the right in this image.

We had an unexpectedly clear night last night and I managed to get a full 3 and a half hours total imaging time on the M53 region with the Sky 90/M25C.  There’s a bonus of another globular cluster at the top of the image.  200-second sub-exposures, and 63 of them in total produced this deep-sky image of the area.  I did the processing on the version shown here – Noel will do a much better job on the data when he gets round to looking at it 🙂

Here is a very quick and nasty Greg Parker process of some data captured over 4 hours last night – Noel will be able to do a far better job with this.  Very good news is that I got rid of a load of very annoying dust bunnies which turned out to be on the surface of the CCD chip.  Luckily I had some proprietary paint-on polymer to do the cleaning.

Had a decent clear night last night and managed to grab 3 and a half hours of 10-minute subs.  This time I was galaxy hunting in Leo and set up on the region that contains M95, M96 and M105.  Quite a few other galaxies can be seen in this image as well.  Image taken last night and processed by Noel Carboni in Florida U.S.A. today – how’s that for a fast turn around?