A morning at Pondicherry

This Gaddi dog accompanied us along whole trek down the mountain with his name changing more than 4 times on the way

Meet a Friend
from the Mountains

Was pretty good at posing with killer looks
Knew pretty well to carry itself, taking a nap at breaks, asking and giving love, doing the usual things dogs need to do
Seemed like he knew the best places for a good view

Solar system objects and events

Lunar Eclipse 31 Jan 2018
Mercury Transit 2019
Solar Eclipse 21 Jun 2020
Comet C/2020 F3 Neowise

4 Vesta ( the brightest of the asteroids ) passing through Cancer 🦀

Orion Nebula, Canon 1200D 250mm f/5.6 6400 ISO Total Exposure: 198 second (153 frames each of 1.3 second)
Orion Nebula, Canon 1200D 250mm f/5.6 6400 ISO Total Exposure: 198 second (153 frames each of 1.3 second)
M8 (Lagoon Nebula), M20(Trifid Nebula), M21, ISO 6400 Total Exposure: 225second (173 frames each of 1.3 second) used dark and bias frames (no flats) Canon 1200D 250mm f/5.6
M8 (Lagoon Nebula), M20(Trifid Nebula), M21, ISO 6400 Total Exposure: 225second (173 frames each of 1.3 second) used dark and bias frames (no flats) Canon 1200D 250mm f/5.6
Cigar Galaxy, ISO 6400 TotalExposure: 294second (147 frames each of 2second) used dark and bias frames Canon 1200D 250mm f/5.6
Cigar Galaxy, ISO 6400 TotalExposure: 294second (147 frames each of 2second) used dark and bias frames Canon 1200D 250mm f/5.6
Sombrero Galaxy , ISO 6400 Total Exposure: 167second (129 frames each of 1.3 second) used dark and bias frames Canon 1200D 250mm f/5.6
Sombrero Galaxy , ISO 6400 Total Exposure: 167second (129 frames each of 1.3 second) used dark and bias frames Canon 1200D 250mm f/5.6

Untracked Deepsky

These images are attempts to capture the deepsky objects. I just had a tripod mounted DSLR so no tracking to counter the motion due to rotation of earth. The images were captured mostly at 1.6 sec or 1.3 sec whichever best for the object, though a bit of trailing of stars is visible and noise due to high ISO, background signal and vignetting. 


Building a tracker still remains as an unfinished project.

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