David Hough

NAS vice-president II

David Hough

Queensland Astrofest 2008

Club Profile by David Hough

Houghy Observatory

David Hough interview ABC radio

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Partial Lunar Eclipse 26th June 2010

This image is of the partial lunar eclipse that occurred on Saturday Night (26 June). I was lucky to get the image as it was raining and cloudy at the start of the eclipse but it somehow cleared by 9.20pm and I managed to get this shot at maximum coverage at 9.38pm. I took images ranging from 2.5 sec through to 1/2000 sec all within 40 seconds, then stacked the raw files using Photomatix Pro, saved as a 16 bit TIFF then straight into Pixinsight to remove the background glow and expose the stars, then Photoshop for resizing. Taken 127ED refractor with the cooled Canon 40D on a losmandy G11 mount in my Doghouse Observatory at Wallsend NSW.

Partial Lunar Eclipse 26th June 2010

M83-imaged May 2010

Total time 3 hours and 18 minutes with the 127Ed, hotech Field flattener and the canon 350D. This is the first ever time I have taken this galaxy. (66 x 3 minute stacked in DSS)

Newcastle Obelisk with Moon, Venus Conjunction 2007

Comet McNaught, Mt Disappointment January 2007 IISAC

Comet McNaught January 2007

Pleiades

Moon over Newcastle

Venus and Moon over Newcastle

Dumbel Nebula

Eta Carinae

Milky Way

Comet McNaught January 2007

Comet McNaught

Comet McNaught setting January 2007

Comet McNaught January 2007

Pleiades

Lostock Star Party

Orion and running man nebula

Trifid Nebula

Orion Widefield image

Dumbel Nebula

Veil Nebula- Imaged from Duckadang Queensland 2007

Eta Carinae Nebula

The crescent Moon, Mercury and Jupiter on 24 October 2006 from Wallsend NSW. Three Jovian Moons are just visible.

7th July 2008, Crescent Moon, Mars, Regulus and Saturn - David Hough

Solar Flare 12.02.2005 - David Hough

Sunspot group 733, 734, and 735 as taken in H alpha through a 40mm PST H Alpha telescope by a 40mm projection eyepiece with a Minolta Dimage 7 digital camera. I received this scope just last week, and as supervised by Alan Meehan, had its first light on a 44 gallon drum. The views through this little scope are unbelievable and the photo included does by no part show its clarity and definition of features. It shows sunspots and solar flares.

Comet McNaught January 2007 - David Hough image

Comet McNaught, 'Great Comet of 2007' and given the designation C/2006 P1, is a non-periodic comet discovered on August 7, 2006 by British-Australian astronomer Robert H. McNaught and was the brightest comet in over 40 years. The comet was easily visible to the naked eye for observers in the Southern Hemisphere in January and February 2007.

4 main nebulae areas within the Orion complex with interstellar dust between them

The image comprises of 2 hours worth of data taken at IISAC2009 at Lostock NSW on the morning of 17 October 2009. Processed with Pixinsight 1.56 and individual images stacked with Deep Sky Stacker. The camera was a Canon 20D that has been modded and 200mm Canon L lens stopped to F3.2 guided on a eq6pro mount. This shot requires more data but it shows that the region is rich in materials and gases. Due to a lack of short exposure data the M42 complex is blown out - hope to rectify that in the coming months.

Belt of Venus

May of 2007 just after sunset

The Belt of Venus or Venus's Girdle is the Victorian era name for an atmospheric phenomenon seen at sunrise and sunset.

Totality Lunar Eclipse 2007

Total Lunar Eclipse sequence 2007

2007