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The same section of the Sun in two very different wavelengths of light.
As imaged on May 30th around 11:30am

Both images taken last Saturday
Small refractor telescopes
Monochrome webcam
DeepSky Stacker/Registax/Photoshop

That's awesome, Roger.
Nice job with the processing!!

That's great!!
Thanks for sharing, Henry.

Skies are looking to be crystal clear later tonight for a rather unusual event. From nightfall until the wee hours of Monday morning, we can watch minor planet, Ceres, pass in front of a spiral arm of galaxy M100. This event occurs high in the sky, just trailing the hindquarters of the constellation...

Ahhhh, SPRINGTIME!! When we reach the spot in our year-long orbit that puts us in the front row for galaxy-viewing. M51, The Whirlpool Galaxy, can ben seen dramatically cannibalizing poor little NGC 5195. This first image of M51 was taken on March 26, 2011. SBIG ST-8300 CCD camera on a 5" Takah...

Tom,

You even caught some of Barnard's Loop and all three of Orion's belt stars!!
But that makes me want to rotate the image to give the mid-waist accessory the proper slope.

Steve

I think that last night's image is spectacular.
Nice work.

Steve

Hi Roger, I ran into this problem with USB 3.0 a couple of years ago. With the purchase of two ZWO webcams (color & mono), I wanted too be able to hook up the camera out in the dome and run the signal into my basement office. I've used a powered USB 2.0 powered extender for years to send CCD sig...