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 The following celestial images were taken by Graham Cole.

All images are copyright of the individual and may not be used or reproduced without their express permission.

 

Above: M83 Galaxy - 120mm Sky-Watcher ED refractor


 

Saturn 20th April 2011 Afocal mounted Lumix Digital Compact camera  & SkyWatcher ED120mm.

 

M104 Sombrero Galaxy
10 mins each LRGB-  120mm ED Refractor - Camera Orion Starshoot II Mono

 

 

NGC5139 Omega Centauri
in the constellation of Centaurus
This picture taken using refractor and afocal mounted compact camera using long exposure mode.

 

 Lovely image of Jupiter & one of its moons taken in August 2009 using a 120mm Sky-Watcher ED refractor and compact camera mounted afocal.
 
Jupiter taken in late September 2010 using a 120mm Sky-Watcher ED refractor and compact camera mounted afocal to a 4mm eyepiece.

NGC55 -32 minute exposure Orion Starshoot camera
   
NGC 3242 - Ghost of Jupiter in Hydra using 120mm refractor and compact camera mounted in afocal configuration. Camera was set to long exposure mode.

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

M57 - Ring Nebula in Lyra using 120mm refractor and compact camera mounted in afocal configuration. Camera was set to long exposure mode.
 
 

Venus taken in late 2008 with 120mm refractor and compact camera mounted afocal.
 

 

 

Saturn taken in April 2009 with 120mm refractor and compact camera mounted afocal.
 
   

Great shot of the Moon shows prominent craters Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina - they are easily seen in small telescopes. The dark floor crater near top centre is Fracastorius bordering the dry lava filled basin of Mare Nectaris.

 

Copernicus and Eratosthenes. Camera: Lumix DMC-FX12

Camera: Lumix DMC-FX12

 
Graham is one of the 3 original founding members of our society and has enjoyed a life long love for astronomy. Geared up with some nice large refracting telescopes on driven equatorial mounts, Graham has produced some really nice results with only a small digital camera used in afocal mode to produce deep sky images. He now uses a HEQ5 German equatorial mount with auto-guider and piggyback guide scope with peltier cooled large format CCD camera.

Hervey Bay Astronomical Society