Picture of the Month February 2022

[philjay]

What a stormy month that was, just a bit wetter than last month but still some folks managed to grab some photons, well done to them. Some good images again this month

 

Comets, Meteors etc

Graham gave us his results from January

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20875-januarys-detected-meteor-hits/

 

Deep Sky

 

The Rosette has been a popular target this month with a few of our imagers

 

Glafnazur

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20884-a-rosette-from-20th-january/

Bottletopburly

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20660-rosette-nebula/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21085-rosette-nebula-7hrs/

Mostlycloudy

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21096-rosette-nebula/

 

Glafnazur gave a collection of clusters

 M44

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20899-m44-the-beehive-cluster/

plus my favourite cluster M35

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20923-m35-ngc-2158/

M37 & 38

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20935-m37/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20941-m38-ngc-1907/

67

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20949-m67/

 

 

Bottletopburly gave us Thors Helmet

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20921-thors-helmet/

 

Graham gave us IC 1848, not one I am too familiar with I must admit

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20924-ic-1848/

M42, I,m a bit more familar with this object J

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20945-m42-from-last-night/

M82 and M81

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21049-m-82-in-lrgb/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21067-m81-in-lrgb/

M51

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21082-m51-in-lrgb-testing-the-new-set-up/

 

RonC was out there with

M1

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21039-m1-from-last-night/

NGC 2246

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21046-ngc-2264/

NGC281

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21091-ngc-281/

and Monkeyhead

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21072-ngc-2174-the-monkeys-head-nebula/

 

Derbyshire Dave

A bit of Barnard Loop

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21035-orions-belt-and-barnards-loop/

Another I am not too familar with Lowers Nebular

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21038-lowers-nebula-in-ha/

 

Lunar

Hats off to Brady for collimating his CC and producing this image.

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20966-stellalyra-f12-cc-after-collimation/

 

 

Solar

Ibbo and Graham were the only ones sun bothering this month and gave us a fine set of images

 

 

Ibbo

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20927-sol-7-2-22-ha/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20937-sol-9-2-22-ha/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20953-sol-10-2-22-ha-cak/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21032-sol-22-2-22-ha-cak/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21086-sol-27-2-22/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21092-more-from-27-2-22/

 

Graham

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20946-solar-from-today-11022022/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21047-time-lapse-of-tonights-sunset-24022022/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21053-solar-from-today-25022022/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21056-how-i-image-our-local-star/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21083-solar-from-today-27022022/

 

 

Widefield

Sunrise and sunset images seem to be popular this month, perhaps because of the lack of sun these days

 

DerbyshireDave gave us a few

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20907-sunrise-suite/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20954-one-night-two-sunsets/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21045-sunset-thursday/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21070-sunrise-over-the-manor/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21058-another-night-another-sunset/

 

Ibbo

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21059-sunset-in-3-stages-25-2-22/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21073-sunset-26-2-22/

 

Finally an Aurora shot from ChrisP

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/21097-aurora-iceland/

 

 

So, despite the wind, rain and clouds folks have managed to give us a good show of some superb images this month, well done all and keep them coming.

 

One image made me go WOW as soon as I opened it and this is Brady's image of the Moon through his Classical Cassegrain. Not only does it look like he has the collimation smack on but the processing is tastefully done. So this gets my vote for POTM this month

 

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20966-stellalyra-f12-cc-after-collimation/

 

 

[+RonC]

Congrats Brady, great Lunar image! 👍

[+Glafnazur]

Well done Wayne and thanks Phil 👍

[Sheila]

Nice one 👍

[Mark Harper.]

Some wonderful images here and a lot of time invested. Great work everyone.

 

Congrats for POTM Waynes, incredible detail.

 

I'm still waiting for a lunar view with my new scope.

[+Ibbo]

Congrats Wayne.

 

Thanks Phil

[BAZ]

Congrats Wayne, it is an amazing shot.

Many thanks to everyone, an excellent standard as always.

Thanks Phil.

 

[Brady]

Cheers Phil and all, great images as usual, I'm looking forward to getting some time in on this scope..weather permitting 🤠

Edited March 2, 2022 by Brady

[Stephen]

Well done Wayne a very nice image

[Brady]

Cheers Stephen 👍