Images of M 13, M 51 and M 11 taken with the new club refractor

On Saturday, June 1, 2019, several club members gathered in my backyard for an astrophotography night. We used the new 80 mm refractor, that the club purchased at the end of 2018, with a Canon DSLR camera to take these next images.

The first one was M 13, the Great Hercules cluster. We took 60 images of 120 seconds each which I processed in AstroPixelProcessor.

Next we took again 60 images of 120 seconds each of M 51, the Whirpool Galaxy. And again I processed them in AstroPixelProcessor.

Finally the weather found out about our imaging session so we were only able to take 11 images of 120 seconds each of M 11, the Wild duck cluster.

I think we can conclude that the telescope performs really well, even on such wide fields. The stars are round (but unfortunately unsharp due to inaccurate focussing done by us) from the center all the way to the corners and no annoying blue or red halos are visible around the stars.

Hell Fest (2018) The one that almost got away.

I love me a great slasher film, and here's yet another that almost slipped right past me, ironically arriving just before Halloween (my favourite time of the year)



I try not to get caught up in the hype of film trailers, but nevertheless, the trailer to Hell Fest does look very promising, so I thought I'd share this one with you all.



Synopsis

A masked serial killer turns a horror-themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show.

The much anticipated trailer for Pet Sematary has arrived!

I must say I'm not a huge fan of remakes, but there are some which are very surprising (and some that are just down right horrible!) After many years of being stuck in development and having a number of different directors reportedly attached to the film, the very first trailer for Paramount’s big screen remake of Pet Sematary is finally here. While the film doesn't hit theaters until April 2019, Paramount has decided to take advantage of the Halloween season's increased demand for horror entertainment and get Pet Sematary's trailer out now! What do you guys think of the trailer?