Comet C/2021 A1 Leonard imaged on December 9, 2021, from my remote observatory in Àger... Read more
Deep Sky astrophotography from Fosca Nit Observatory (Àger, Montsec, Spain)
Dec 13, 2021
Nov 25, 2021
LBN 762 (MBM 13)
LBN 762 (from Lynds Catalogue of Bright Nebulae, and being part of much lager cloud known as MBM 13 after the name given later by Magnani, Blitz and Mundy), is a "bright" nebula in the constellation Aries... Read more
Oct 24, 2021
LBN 576 in H alpha - Oxygen III - RGB
LBN 576 (also known as Abell 85 and CTB 1) is a large supernova remnant in Cassiopeia.
It was initially catalogued by George Abell as a planetary nebula, but it soon became clear that it was an SNR. It was also recognized as a radio source and thus given the designation CTB 1... Read more
Jul 23, 2021
Talk at Agrupación Astronómica de Málaga "Sirio"
On 21 July 2021, I gave a talk to the friends of the Agrupación Astronómica de Málaga "Sirio" about the experiences gained during the process of Automation / Remotization / Robotization of my observatory:
Documentation (in Spanish): PowerPoint of the presentation (pdf) Video of the talk (1h20min)
El 21 de juliol 2021, vaig donar una xerrada amb els amics de la Agrupación Astronómica de Málaga "Sirio" sobre les experiències adquirides durant el procés d'Automatització / Remotizació / Robotizació del meu observatori.El 21 de julio 2021, di una charla con los amigos de la Agrupación Astronómica de Málaga "Sirio" sobre las experiencias adquiridas durante el proceso de Automatización / Remotización / Robotización de mi observatorio.
Jun 12, 2021
M101 in LHaRGB
This is the final version of the M101 image after incorporating Halpha data and reprocessing it from scratch.
The incorporation of Halpha data has been done according to the formulation indicated.... Read more
May 30, 2021
May 16, 2021
M101 LRGB
This image of M101 is the first taken with two cameras working simultaneously.
One camera, STL-1000M, on Takahashi TOA-150 @ f/7.3 for luminance data and the other, Canon 60Da, on Takahashi FSQ-106N @ f/5.0 for RGB data.
The main camera is the STL. It is controlled by CCDCommander and CCDSoft, with the main chip used for luminance acquisition and the secondary chip for guiding (and dithering). Read more