Hi thanks a lot friends, IC 2944 has the name running chicken nebula in the Sky software
Suresh

http://tinyurl.com/d22t8c   is a pic of IC 2944 or Running chicken Nebula about 10 degrees above my south horizon and http://tinyurl.com/aab9m4 is pleiades. hope u like them both.Running chicken was too hard to get
Suresh

Thanks friends
Suresh

Hi last night we were at a farm house ,under transparent skies. We could see the milky way in cassiopea and andromeda with naked eye. Iwas dissapointed with crab nebula and was faint on my lx 200 10 inch for some reason. http://tinyurl.com/a94nqo   is the link to rosette
EQ
Canon 350D
orion 80 ED
ISO 1600x3 minutes x 15 subs out of 25 (unguided)
Thanks for looking
Suresh
         

http://tinyurl.com/5vawbu
another orion (Same image but blended differently) and i sincerely hope u like this one better
Suresh

Brian u must be the iceman -) here we feel cold when the wind blows in the low 80 s ,im sure u must be amused
Suresh

Dear friends,
thanks a lot for looking and appreciating as it really helps to  do a better job here the skies are absolutely clear these days and hoping this would continue for more weekends, when we go out to shoot we always think of u people when a cool breeze hits us as tempeerature would fall to the mid 80 s and wonder what true dedication to astronomy might be when temperature goes close to freezing
Suresh
         

i all its been quite some time and last weekend i shot two objects ,the heart nebula and the orion nebula both for about 90 minutes but realised it wasnt enough for the heart nebula ( being so low in the sky from Chennai)
http://tinyurl.com/5daguj  heart nebula
http://tinyurl.com/6sash4    orion nebula

Thanks for looking
Suresh

Thanks again and i must say to all the groups im in,ive found so many masters to learn from
Suresh

Hi i had taken a pic of mars using my webcam and lx 200 10 inch http://picasaweb.google.com/drsureshmohan/SolarSystem#5246087218680737410
sorry for the long link, the seeing was so good that night and everything else went right ! for a change
Thanks
Suresh

hi this was the last mars pic i took at 0005 hrs on 6th jan this year(pls check with calsky from Chennai) but seems to have come better than my expectation and my conclusion is nothing beats seeing (if collimation and focus are right)    http://tinyurl.com/69ra67
Thanks
Suresh\
LX 200 10 inch f6.3 scope x 2x barlow
1600 frames stackes in Registax

Hi paul the first link took u to dumb bell bcos im that-)thanks for all the compliments it appears i couldnt bring out the galaxy in the image looks like i need some more exposure or better processing.The news is ive been given a chance to give a talk on astrophotography(being an amatuer) at http://nehruplanetarium.org/taarewiki/pmwiki.php?n=Site.ListOfInvitedSpeakers
Thanks to Martin, John, Carl and John for looking thro my images
Suresh

That is indeed a beautiful image of bubble nebula,reaaly cant wait to see in colour
Suresh

http://tinyurl.com/5mkqrq
seems to be working better for some reason the other link takes to u to all the images. Im trying to process mercury. thanks for the appreciation
Suresh

Friends,

 Here is Ring Nebula which I shot from a  farm house with approaching thunderstorm and lightning . We also stopped by  on the roadside to photograph mercury with the 10 inch.We saw clouds approaching us,accuweather predicted a thunderstorm. We went to the farm house set up scope and we were covered by black clouds. It cleared however and I was able to image ring nebula. Next I aimed my scope towards helix nebula but clouds came again, this time we packed up and on the return journey visibility due to rain was 10 feet for a few minutes.

http://tinyurl.com/5vblsu


 

Suresh Mohan

EQ6 autoguided with PHD using HC

LX 200 10 inch f 6.3 ( native )

Canon 350D modified

ISO 800x2minutesx28

Aligned and stacked in images plus