Boon Hill Amateur Astronomy   

The night of November 6th, I setup a run to acquire data of 6 different comets throughout the night. This required staggering the run so that the objects were up far enough to move to the next one during the night.

The comet list was as follows but not necessarily in this order

• Comet 4P (FAYE)
• Comet 29P Schwassmann-Wachmann
• Comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko
  
• Comet C-2021 A1 (Leonard)
  
• Comet L3 (ATLAS)
  
• Comet_132P_Helin_Roman_Alu
  

We headed to the Okie-Tex star party which was held October 1-9, 2021

It is located near the village of Kenton, Oklahoma.

Here is the album of astrophotos taken during that week.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/141833769@N05/albums/72157720051948070

I've been using a 300mm f/4 prime lens that I'm borrowing for a bit, with my ZWO asi071mc pro camera.

Some interesting results

https://www.flickr.com/photos/141833769@N05/51251172481/in/datetaken/

The Trifid and Lagoon Nebulas. 2 hours of data taken on June 15-16, 2021 at the Northern Cross Observatory

November 8, 2020 

Comet C/2020 M3 (ATLAS) near closest approach to Earth.

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45 x 30 second frames, stacked on the core of the comet.

In addition, a short video.

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While at the Boon Hill Observatory I setup to take images of Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)

Data taken on 7/23, 2020

Location: Boon Hill Observatory

Processed 7/26, 2020. First stack of 9 x 90 second frames (cropped)

Stacked on the core only so there are trailing stars.

No darks, so there is a lot of noise.

Canon T3i, 75mm @ f/4.5, ISO 1600, 90 second subs

Ioptron SkyTracker

https://www.flickr.com/photos/141833769@N05/50156616726/in/datetaken/

https://www.facebook.com/NorthernCrossObservatory/photos/a.391372320961654/2648244518607745/?type=3&theater

I've made a collage of some of the galaxies I've imaged this past year or two.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/141833769@N05/49215190128/in/dateposted/

On October 25, 2019 I imaged asteroid 162082 1998 HL1 for about two hours.

This was through high cirrus clouds. I've made a video of the event.

Segment 1 is the Asteroid 162082 1998 HL1, segment 2 is the sky I was shooting through.

Segment one: 10" f/8 RC, ZWO asi071mc PRO camera cooled to -5C, 30 second frames at gain 500.

Segment two: Canon T3i w/10mm lens at f/5.6, 30 second frames at ISO 1600.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfMwnPdfUPg

Doug Bock

I've been imaging over the past few months, some galaxies, abell clusters and the summer Milky Way nebula.

Check out the images here at my FLICKR site.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/141833769@N05/