Lunar eclipse time-lapse 2015

This so called Blood supermoon eclipse started at 01:11 and finished at 06:22 wit a midpoint at 03:47.
This time-lapse Giff consists of 227 images @ISO100. The exposure was controlled from indoors using Backyard EOS and ranged from 1/500 second to 8 seconds.
The video was put together in Photoshop and condenses 2.5 hours into about 18 seconds. That's 500 x actual speed. The moon is quite difficult to track as it moves slower than sidereal rate and seems to move north all the time. I had to put the 227 images into Photoshop layers and manually align them which too some time.

Bubble Nebula and M52 Open Cluster

The Bubble nebula or Caldwell11 (bottom right) was discovered in 1787 by William Herschel. Located  in the constellation of Cassiopeia its about 11,000 light years away and totally unrelated to M52 (top left). The bubble is caused by the stellar wind from a massive, very hot, young star which disturbs the giant molecular cloud that surrounds it, making it glow. It seems to sit in a fan shaped void.
M52 or NGC7654 was discovered in 1774 and is about 5,000 light years away. Its relatively young at 35 million years and contains 200 stars with a diameter of just 19 light years. It also contains another very small cluster HIP115521 and a white giant star HIP115542.
The image is rich with stars as the view is through our own galaxy, the Milky Way
The image was generated from 20 light frames, 10 dark 10 Flat and 10 Bias frames. exposure was at ISO 1600 for 150 seconds giving 50 minutes. Scope was an ED80 @ 510mm focal length. I'm really please with this image as its very faint and small, taken with an unmodified old dslr.

Messier 33 Triangulum Galaxy

M33 Triangulum galaxy or the Pinwheel galaxy is 2.3 million light years away in the constellation of Triangulum. Containing about 40 billion stars its a small faint deep sky object. Difficult but rewarding to photograph at last. Captured over 2 nights using 32 Light frames, 16 Dark, 11 Flat and 10 Bias. Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, finished in Photoshop CC. Guided using PHD2 and ZWOasi120mc camera. The 0.85 field flattener is great at making round stars right to the edge of the frame and making the scope faster, from focal length 600mm f7.5 to 510mm f6.4. Backyard EOS is a great software program for Canon and Nikon cameras. I used 120 second Exposures @ISO 1600 with an 8 second mirror lockup to settle the scope then a 20 second pause between shots to cool the dslr sensor. BYEOS also enables PHD2 to Dither between shots, helping to reduce noise when stacking.

M31 the Andromeda Galaxy 11th Sept 2015

M31 contains a Trillion stars.The image also contains 3,320 stars (counted by deepskystacker) which must be in our galaxy the milky way.

The image was made using my skywatcher ED80 600mm refractor with a 0.85 field flattener making the scope f6.3. Guided with Phd2 using a zwoasi120mc ccd camera through a Skywatcher ST-80 refractor.
I used Backyard EOS to focus the 40d dslr camera and take the Lights, darks, flats and Bias calibration frames. I also use BYEOS to drift align the mount.
Cartes du Ciel was used to slew and sync the scope via EQASCOM and EQMOD.
The image is made from 21 Lights@ 180seconds and 8 dark frames@iso800, plus 20 flat and 10 Bias frames. A total of 63 minutes exposure. I also used 8 seconds of mirror lockup and 15 second pause between images to allow the sensor to cool down a bit. This is probably my favourite image so far, I cant wait to take some more frames of this wonderful galaxy and bring out more detail.