A collection of astronomical photos taken by Adam Lundie at Eatons Hill Observatory.
Equipment Used:
- Telescope 1: Celestron 1100 Edge HD
- Telescope 2: Skywatcher Esprit 120ED
- Telescope 3: Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
- Mounts: Skywatcher EQ8 Pro
- Imaging Cameras: QSI 683ws-8 Monochrome, ZWO ASI290MM
- Filters: Astrodon Tru-Balance Gen 2 LRGB, Astronomik CLS-CCD, 6nm Hα, 6nm SII, 6nm OIII, ProPlanet 742nm IR-pass
- Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2
- Guiding Optics: Innovations Foresight ONAG, Starlight Xpress Large Format Active Optics
- Focusers: Starlight Instruments Feather Touch + Posi Drive Motor
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Recent Work:
23-Nov-2019
The Sculptor Galaxy, also known as the Silver Coin or Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253, is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. The Sculptor Galaxy is a starburst galaxy, which means that it is currently undergoing a period of intense star formation.
07-Nov-2019
Perhaps too tough of a target for light polluted skies, elliptical galaxy NGC 474 still managed to show some tidal tails / shells from interacting with the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 470.
25-Oct-2019
IC 5267 (left) is a spiral galaxy 79 million light years away.
13-Oct-2019
Messier 15 is a very old and tightly packed home to over 100,000 stars. It is 33,600 light years from Earth, and is visible to the naked eye in areas with little light pollution.
08-Oct-2019
NGC 7083 is a spiral galaxy located about 134 million light-years away.
24-Sep-2019
At 180 million light years away, spiral galaxy NGC 6962 dominates this field of galaxies.
10-Sep-2019
10600 light years away, Messier 22 is one of the closest and brightest globular clusters visible from Earth.
04-Sep-2019
The dark molecular clouds of Barnard 92 (center) and 93 (left) are superimposed over the Messier 24 Sagittarius Star Cloud.
27-Aug-2019
The Lagoon Nebula is an active stellar nursery spanning 60 light years across. This false color photograph shows the interplay of three gasses: hydrogen-alpha in green, sulfur-II in red, and oxygen-III in blue.
13-Aug-2019
One of the few Messier objects difficult to observe in the northern hemisphere, M55 is a globular cluster 17,600 light years away, comprising of around 100,000 very old stars.
07-Jul-2019
The Butterfly Cluster, Messier 6, is an open cluster of hot blue stars with the brightest member being an orange giant star. Behind the cluster is the orange light of the Milky Way, and a beautiful cloud of excited Hydrogen alpha gas.
02-Jul-2019
4200 light years distant, NGC 6164 is a bipolar emission nebula was created by a massive O-type star, 40 times as larger than the Sun.
27-Jun-2019
NGC 5713 (right) is a peculiar, asymmetric galaxy, interacting with NGC 5719 (left) in the constellation Virgo.
23-Jun-2019
Shown in this animation is the movement of Ceres over 8 hours, on the night of 4th June 2019, as it passed by the outer edge of IC4592, the Blue Horsehead Nebula.
27-May-2019
A trio of interacting galaxies. NGC 5560, which is stretched out from interacting with the large galaxy NGC 5566 (yellow). NGC 5569 is the small, blue galaxy below NGC 5566.