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Keith Bramley

@keefbram.bsky.social

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Astrophotographer and Electromagnetics Engineer. Interested in Astronomy, Technology, Astrophotography and Space Flight 🔭 📷 🚀

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · Nov 16

Here is #NGC7000 imaged with my 190MN and #ZWO ASI 2600MM, in the SHO palette, each filter (SII, Ha and OIII) was a total of 6 hours integration for a total of 18 hours. #astrophotography #nebula #astronomy

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 20h

I’m on a free trial so trying it out on a few different data sets. I’m very impressed, it works wonders on edge of field stars where I tend to suffer from abberations.

Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 21h

Interesting question, generally the darker nebulosity that is back lit is in front of the ionisation sources and brighter nebulosity. The stars most likely have Gaia data available which would allow you to determine their distances too. I have seen stereograms made but not sure how accurate they are

Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 21h

That’s an excellent image of Mel-15 too, I do like the colours. There is so much interesting nebulosity all around the Heart and Soul nebula region.

Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I ran BlurXterminator on the starless image and on the stars only image before stretching.

Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 1d

Had a go processing some of my older narrowband data in Pixinsight of Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula. I feel this is a better result this time, more finer structure and better stars. This was 18 hours data with Ha, SII and OIII using Atik 383L+ and 190MN #astrophotography

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent shot Mike

Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 6d

Its raining again so here is an image from earier this year. M81 and M82 galaxies. 6 Hrs Lum and 2 hrs total R,G,B using 190MN and ZWO 2600MM. 100% crop of each galaxy and the full image rescaled. This is another Pixinsight re-process, still learning but very happy with this :) #astrophotography

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 6d

Wow look at those colours, great job.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 8d

Re-processed my M106 image with Pixinsight, wish I had taken the leap earlier to PI, much improved, although had to crop a portion to avoid poorly calibrated frames. This is a LRGB image, total of 19 hours exposure with 190MN and ZWO 2600MM camera, click left image for 100% crop #astrophotography

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 10d

Here is my SH2-125 The Cocoon Nebula, imaged in HaLRGB. Total of 3 hours each R,G,B 3 hours Lum and 3 hours Ha. Imaged with a 190MN and ZWO 2600MM camera. This is my first try at using Pixinsight, so far I'm super impressed :) full resized and 100% crop image #astrophotography

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 15d

After an extended summer break from Astrophotography I am back in the saddle and capturing photons again. Amazingly everything fired up first time, although many critters have been evicted. Tonight’s target is SH2-125 The Cocoon Nebula, might take a couple of nights.

Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · Apr 12

After a decent haul of clear nights here is some new images. This is my NGC 4631 The Whale Galaxy and its buddy NGC 4656 The Hockey Stick Galaxy. With crops of each at full resolution. A total of 10 hours using LRGB filters with my 190MN scope and ZWO 2600MM camera. #astrophotography #galaxy 🔭

The NGC 4631 Group is a poorly defined group of galaxies, about 25 million light-years from Earth in the Coma Berenices and Canes Venatici constellations.

The NGC 4631 Group is one of many that lie within the Virgo Supercluster

NGC 4631 (also known as the Whale Galaxy or Caldwell 32) is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 30 million light years away from Earth. It was discovered on 20 March 1787 by German-British astronomer William Herschel. This galaxy's slightly distorted wedge shape gives it the appearance of a herring or a whale, hence its nickname. Because this nearby galaxy is seen edge-on from Earth, professional astronomers observe this galaxy to better understand the gas and stars located outside the plane of the galaxy

NGC 4656/57 is a highly warped edge-on barred spiral galaxy located in the local universe 30 million light years away from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. This galaxy is sometimes called the Hockey Stick Galaxy or the Crowbar Galaxy. Its unusual shape is thought to be due to an interaction between NGC 4656, NGC 4631, and NGC 4627

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · Apr 11

Thank you ☺️ Wow bortle 1 is pretty wild, I would expect the full Moon may have less impact especially if well off axis. Would be interested to see the results, I imagine gradient will be the challenge.