Steve Paxton's photos

The shot here is cropped out of the panorama as the light from Orion is just so bright that area is almost white and totally blown out compared with the Running man Nebula. QHY 183C -10c 138 shot 2 min MeLE Mini PC Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box Prima Luce Essato Focus Optolong LeNhance filter, Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro SVbony 50MM Guide scope QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera Guided PHD2, Nina Pixinsight, Ps PTGui.

What was one of my fav places has been totally killed with homes. Thank you for who had my back with opening HFF a very long day helping my brother in law I just went to bed....... to do it all again next few days.

At The Duke Of George Clara 's two Nephews put on a live jazz night with a mix of songs from Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. This was music I grew up with with my father.

At The Duke Of George Clara 's two Nephews put on a live jazz night with a mix of songs from Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. This was music I grew up with with my father.

At The Duke Of George Clara 's two Nephews put on a live jazz night with a mix of songs from Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. This was music I grew up with with my father.

At The Duke Of George Clara 's two Nephews put on a live jazz night with a mix of songs from Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. This was music I grew up with with my father.

It good to see the turn around from the rundown building we use to park next to. www.perthnow.com.au/local-news/perthnow-fremantle/royal-george-hotel-redevelopment-to-open-in-2023-c-4442908

This is a bit of an odd ball as it does not follow anthing like I have done before. I found this Dark looking structure on Stellarium but it was not named so could not select it by writing the name. I was able to use the cool feature in Nina Select it in Stellarium and it brings it into Nina as a target. The star is HIP 54413 at least I knew that part from Stellarium This is two nights worth of shots and about 5 goes at trying to edit this which is so different to how I have done all the others. This is the 6th edit this looks more like what the shot should have from the start a lot of editing to get to this point. telescope.live/gallery/cederblad-111-1 I think this is pushing the limits of the ED 80 with all this very light dusty part of the sky. The mount performed flawlessly so really happy with the two upgrades. ZWOASI071MC Pro -10c 90 shot 10 min MeLE Mini PC Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box Prima Luce Essato Focus Optolong LeNhance filter, Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro SVbony 50MM Guide scope QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera Guided PHD2, Nina Pixinsight, Ps PTGui.

Part of the Large Magellanic Cloud area but a part I have not taken before. N70 is the unmistakable Circular nebula top right. this was taken over two night to test out the New power supply box and how stable it is. The other effect of the power box was to reduce the number of cords that have to go from the top to the bottom to lessen the weight on guiding. the number of cord has reduced to two a far cry from the heavy load of the original 9. Now its fine tuning PHD2 to get the very small movement of guiding and better round stars. ZWOASI071MC Pro -10c 90 shot 10 min MeLE Mini PC Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box Prima Luce Essato Focus Optolong LeNhance filter, Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro SVbony 50MM Guide scope QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera Guided PHD2, Nina Pixinsight, Ps PTGui.

The addition of the small Pegasus power box was the last bit of my up grade to remove cables. The unit sits on a piece of flat aluminum that the Velcro fixed to the supports of the scope and some on the back of the small unit. It was not without work it was case of Solder new fittings and make a whole new power cable extension from the power adapter to the unit (Not plugged in). To the right of the blue box is all the power plugs to the computer (just below) , the red focusor right end of the photo and the camera outside of view. Below I had to remove USB fittings and replace with RCA for both the heaters. to the left the computer cable for the unit( see two screens Below) and just below the 12 V 10A power inlet. Then it was fix and tie all the cables so everything it tied up and tight. Also has auto dew heater tied up to the unit from the top cable and is the top part of the screen I prefer to have heaters on low full time, not auto. Blue , Red line and the large green part. This shows the heaters powered up and camera powered. Net result even more cables removed from the bottom of the mount to the top. Now its only two cables so far less weight than the 9 cables the mount had before. So far guiding has improved immensely. The effort has been worth while. Photo to follow from two nights note red and blue lines following the center line for a TOT bottom left corner 0.63 deviation.

The afternoon was spent with family and my wife's brother. The doctors have told him there is nothing left they can do to combat the cancer he has but to get things prepared. I have for a very long time not taken my camera to family gatherings but on this day I took my camera to capture what I could of the family together. It was not the whole family but a big portion of it. this photo kind of summed up the whole day, now we have to wait .

The Cockburn Cement tower's stands out in its Sunset colours against the dark Cloud Bank to the East. the next set of photos was wait for the moon to rise above the clouds.

When I got home I took a photo of the full Bright moon. Below the Shots I took from the Coast so I could get as Much distance from the Cloud bank to try and see the moon as soon as I could. I can not get over how much detail of the Surface of the moon is captured. Well worth a look large. .

The last little bit of the Earths Shadow

The Surface of the moon starting to show.

The Earths shadow starting to get Smaller

It was close to 8pm when the moon started to come out from behind the heavy bank of clouds.

To the West I had a Sunset to the east a Huge Bank of clouds.