Welcome to the homepage of David Gloistein.
WhatsNew:
New Website
March 2012, 2011
I am still fighting to get my mount running correctly. As long as it behaves and I can find objects, it is great for photography - however it plays up on a regular basis !
Astrophotography:
News from my observatory
March, 2012
The past few months have had poor weather
I have done some photography and hope to upload to the gallary soon
Am still waiting to test automatic focusing
Visual astronomy:
What have I been looking at
March, 2012
I have only recently begun viewing again, as the weather was so poor. Now is the time for galaxies and I have viewed quite a few recently. Also seen the comet Garrad, Jupiter and Venus and sadly the last views of my old favourite, The Orion Nebula
Aim of this website:
The aim of this site is to make public some of my astrophotographs and to pass on some of my experiances during the first few years of taking astrophotos. It is aimed at people also beginning to work in this field and intended only to be a guide to getting to the end result faster with less problems.
Recently found, a cool App for Webpages :
CURRENT MOON
I have also recently made some 3D viewable photos of my observatory
View from entrance
View from interior
On this page :
New Photos
New Photos
Whilst testing my new mount I have taken a few new photos
The Horsehead Nebula (mono)
The famous dark nebula, the horse's head is a cloud of dark dust blocking out the light. This pic is my initial hires mono photo witha two hour exposure
The Horsehead Nebula (colour)
A few days later I managed to take about 3 hours of colour data and combine this with the above shot
M81 Bode's Galaxy
This local galaxy, some 12 million LY away is really nice to photograph. This is a relatively short exposure at two hours
M1 The Crab Nebula
an exposure of some 10 hours showing the remains of a star which exploded on July 4th, 1054 and was documented independently by Arabic, Chinese and Japanese astronomers at the time.
M33 The Triangulum Galaxy
This is one of our closest neighors at some 2.5 million lightyears. It was a test exposure of 2 hours, a very cold, dark night
M42 Orion Nebula
This is an older photo which I have reworked using the new PixInsight program. it is by no means complete there is a lot more that I can do to it, I just need to learn how !
