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Nene Valley Astronomical Society Nene Valley Astronomical Society - a free to join local amateur astronomical society based in East Northamptonshire UK.

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Saturn imaged on Wednesday evening using a Celestron C9.25. Best frames of a 2 minute exposure extracted with PIPP then ...
08/10/2026

Saturn imaged on Wednesday evening using a Celestron C9.25. Best frames of a 2 minute exposure extracted with PIPP then processed in Astrosurface.

Never been that happy with my efforts at Saturn in the past.Tried a new tack here. Only used the best 3% of 30000 frames...
08/10/2026

Never been that happy with my efforts at Saturn in the past.
Tried a new tack here. Only used the best 3% of 30000 frames. Seems to have worked🙂
8" newt. ZWO 224, 3x Barlow sharpcap, autostakkert & registax
David B

An image of Saturn taken last night through a Skywatcher 180mm Mak and ASI462 MC camera.
04/10/2026

An image of Saturn taken last night through a Skywatcher 180mm Mak and ASI462 MC camera.

An image I made of the Dumbell nebula using an RVO60 ED telescope, ASI533MC camera on an equatorial mount. Around 2 hour...
04/10/2026

An image I made of the Dumbell nebula using an RVO60 ED telescope, ASI533MC camera on an equatorial mount. Around 2 hours of exposure live stacked with ASIAIR Pro.

Our October picture of the month is of the Owl Cluster in Cassiopeia. Taken by Steve Williams using a Seestar S30 on 24...
30/09/2026

Our October picture of the month is of the Owl Cluster in Cassiopeia. Taken by Steve Williams using a Seestar S30 on 24th September, 1.5 hours worth of 20 second exposures, the Owl is an open star cluster, many examples of which can be found within Cassiopeia.

The famous Andromeda galaxy, M31. Probably the most imaged of all galaxies! This was three hours of images combined ...
21/09/2026

The famous Andromeda galaxy, M31. Probably the most imaged of all galaxies! This was three hours of images combined into a mosiac taken with a SeestarS30 last night. Steve

With not much activity in white light at present, today I turned the Acuter 40 h-alpha scope onto the Sun.
20/09/2026

With not much activity in white light at present, today I turned the Acuter 40 h-alpha scope onto the Sun.

A recent image of the Firework Galaxy and the open cluster NGC 6939 taken with a Dwarf 3 smartscope. Stacked .png file f...
18/09/2026

A recent image of the Firework Galaxy and the open cluster NGC 6939 taken with a Dwarf 3 smartscope. Stacked .png file from Dwarf cropped with post processing in Pixinsight.

Wide field image of the Cocoon nebula in Cygnus. The dark dust lane Barnard 168 snakes off to the right. Exposure time a...
09/09/2026

Wide field image of the Cocoon nebula in Cygnus. The dark dust lane Barnard 168 snakes off to the right. Exposure time around three hours with a Dwarf 3 smartscope, and post processing in Stellar Studio and Pixinsight.

This morning's solar view. A bit more activity than the end of August.
06/09/2026

This morning's solar view. A bit more activity than the end of August.

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