Eltham Skies Observatory

Hello and welcome to the home of Eltham Skies Observatory in Melbourne, Australia.

This site is a way of displaying some of the astronomy pictures I have taken from my home observatory using my own equipment. With each image I also provide a small description of the object and the details of the image capture.

I currently have only a few pictures in this site under Solar System Object and Nebula (Nebula is my favourite) and I have finally added some Galaxy pictures. I will be adding more as I take them, but the way the weather has been of late who knows when that will be.

I have also included some shots from my previous telescope. Look in the Old Telescope for the Nebula pictures using my first telescope. All of the Solar System Objects were taken with the old telescope too.

If you like you can subscribe to the RSS feeds in the ALL Recent Update section, so as soon as I add something new you will be notified automatically.

Please enjoy!

Con Ioannou

con@elthamskies.com.au

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Last Update:

31st December 2013

• It's been a while!
• I was in Melbourne, wasn't buggered, the moon was away as were the clouds and the wind, so I decided to finally use my telescope again. - the stars were aligned!
• Mount: G11 with Gemini
• Scope: Meade 10" LX200 ACF @F6.3
• Camera: QHY8 Color
• Processing: Stacked with Deep Sky Stacked and processed in Photoshop. No Darks, Flats or Bias frames used.
• Exposure: 32 x 5min (3.1 hours) @ F6.3

5th November 2010

• It's Orion Season!
• Mount: G11 with Gemini
• Scope: Meade 10" LX200 ACF @F10
• Camera: QHY8 Color
• Processing: Stacked with Deep Sky Stacked and processed in Photoshop. No Darks, Flats or Bias frames used.
• Exposure: 30 x 5min (2.5 hours) @ F10

17th September 2010

• With some more assistance I have turned a couple of images of the Lagoon Nebula into a video and added some music. The two pictures are at F6.3 and at F10. Unfortunately I havent had a chance to add more data to these pictures because the weather has been so bad over the last 6 weeks. Not single fully clear night in almost 6 weeks!