These shots of the Crab Nebula (M1) were made a year ago (11/11/2010) but we had no time to process them before.

Last October 2011 one of our Jupiter photos (that has previously won an award) has been published in the journal Espacio. Here we post a copy of the page in which it has been published with some of our comments about it (in Spanish). We want to thank the editorial board for their interest in publishing the photo.

Last October 8th we went to Sierra Nevada to observe the Draconids meteor shower. Although the night began quite badly (with some clouds covering all the sky) later on they dissapeared and we could observe around 60 meteors in about 2 hours. We attach a composition of the event and a time lapse video of that period of time.

Some time ago we wanted to start making a deepsky object with a focal greater than 600 mm of a 80ED Skywatcher .

After a long period without any new updates, we show you a timelapse of the comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd). The images were taken from 20:38:21 until 22:52:22 (UT) of September 4th, 2011.

• Telescope: Meade LX200R 8” Reductor f/6.3
• Camera: Atik 314 L+, Sin Filtro
• Guided with: Lunático guiding solution, QHY5
• Capture Software: Artemis ATK Capture
• 125 takes of 60 seconds no binning
• Place: Granada, España (Albaicín)

After the campaign of Jupiter, Saturn takes over the night and  is now around its oposition. Good forecast for this weekend and the possibility of testing a Lumenera Skynyx  encouraged us to make an observation and thus inaugurate the good weather.

Last Friday we made the following mosaic of all the terminator of the Moon. The image is composed of 35 individual images. Each of them has been obtained from a 60 seconds videos (around 350 frames, QHY-5 monochrome camera). Seeing that night was fair to bad and all the recordings where made in an hour timespan.

With Jupiter being increasingly difficult to photograph, Saturn replaces it as the most interesting planetary object in the night.

We have taken our first photographs with the observatory. We took two 5 minutes takes of M42 to test it (no darks or flats) and later we took 40 shots of 5 mins to NGC 891, in this occassion using darks.

The M42 is almost without processing (the two takes added up and some curve adjustements). The NGC 891 photo does not have any flats becuase we do not yet know how to take them properly or how to apply them. In fact we did took the flats, but the obtained results are worse than without using them :-(