Casey Robbins Astrophotography

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Heavens Above

Orion wide field

Scope: WO 81mm for Orion

Lens: Canon 70-200mm 2.8L @ F4

Camera: SBIG STF8300m with Canon EOS lens adapter

Camera: Canon T3i for RGB

the Western Veil nebula

NGC 6960

Scope: Tele Vue NP 101 F5.4

camera: SBIG STF8300

Mount CEM60

20x1800sec H-alpha 7nm

7x1200sec OIII 8nm

13 hours

Sunday, March 8, 2015

So after some saving and begging my wife I was finally able to buy my narrow band filters for my monochrome camera. Oh what an exciting day it was when those packages arrived on my doorstep, thank goodness I was home because you know how our lovely delivery services are, they just drop them on your doorstep and you hope for the best! This image was created with Baader 7nm H-alpha filter, 8 nm OIII filter, 8.5nm SII filter. It is roughly 6 hours of data, 2 hours on each filter.

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

First Time with a Monochrome Camera

So, it has been somewhat exciting for me lately when it has come to Astrophotography. I recently contacted a seller on craigslist about an ad and have seemed to have found a new friend and fellow astronomer Abraham. After numerous text messages to whom our wives were calling our "mistresses" we finally met up and eventually decided to combine our equipment. He had a monochrome camera (I have/had a color one, explanation coming later), I had a good mount and he had a larger telescope than mine and together we produced this image of the Elephant Trunk in a very limited amount of time. Needless to say this was amazing for the both of us since neither of us have produced anything like this before in such a short amount of time.

Elephant Trunk

With this came along my own desire to own my own monochrome camera and with help from others and a very understanding, wonderful, beautiful most incredible wife, did I mention she is beautiful? (I love you Krystal lol), I sold my SBIG STF-8300 CCDcolor camera and I was able to purchase the SBIG STF-8300 CCD Monochrome camera and 8 position filter wheel with H-Alpha filter to produce this image of the Rosette Nebula. I am slowly saving up to buy more filters, first on the list are the R-G-B filters followed by others eventually. I am having so much fun!