The colourful double star Iota Cancri in Cancer, one of the spring sky’s best doubles,. at the top of Cancer. This is a stack of 8 x 8-second exposures at f/10 with the Celestron C9.25-inch SCT and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 1600. Taken March 27, 2019.
The double star Epsilon Bootis in Bootes, or Izar, one of the spring sky’s best doubles. It is also known as Pulcherrima. However, the tight separation of only 3 arc seconds means they are not resolved here at this focal length. This is a stack of 8 x 8-second exposures at f/10 with the Celestron C9.25-inch SCT and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 1600. Taken March 27, 2019.
Kemble’s Cascade and the star cluster NGC 1502 in Camelopardalis. The northern portion of the Cascade of stars is cut off at left here. The field includes the southern portion and the star cluster NGC 1502 at the south end of the chain of stars. Taken from home Nov. 25, 2016 with the 130mm AP f/6 apo refactor with the 6x7 field flattener and Canon 6D at ISO 800 for a stack of 4 x 6 minute exposures. Named for Father Lucien Kemble, an ardent deep-sky observer from Canada. Natural haze added some star glows, plus additional glows added with a Gaussian blur layer.
