Welcome to the
Cowichan Valley Starfinders
The Cowichan Valley Starfinders are a non-profit society who’s mandate is to promote and enjoy amateur astronomy in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
m27crop
M16 Eagle Nebula
Conditions - clear and very dark, dry and 15 deg C.
Equipment - 300mm Canon L series lens with modifed Canon T1i camera on Astrotrack mount.
Exposure - 37 - 2min lights at ISO 800 with darks and flats used for calibration.
Processing in Images Plus and Photoshop.
Image of the Wild Duck Cluster taken in very dark skies at the Island Star Party.
Details
2010-09-04 at the Island Star Party - Bright Angel Park, Vancouver Island.
Conditions - clear and very dark, Moist and 10 deg C.
Equipment - WO 105mm refractor with modifed Canon T1i camera on HEQ5 mount.
Exposure - 56 - 1min lights at ISO 800 with darks and flats used for calibration.
Processing in Images Plus and Photoshop.
Wide field study of the Cygnus region using a 50mm lens to obtain 5 images covering the whole constellation and surroundings. Following the fifth image is a mosaic obtained by combining the individual images.
Details:-
Equipment - Modified Canon 350D on Astrotrack mount.
Exposure - each image is a stack of 5 to 19 light frames taken at f/4 and ISO 200 for 4 min each.
Processing - Frames were aligned and digitally developed in Images plus and the mosaic was done in Photoshop.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Image of M22, the other great globular cluster (along with M13) in the northern sky. It was taken in very dark skies at the Island Star Party.
Details
2010-09-04 at the Island Star Party - Bright Angel Park, Vancouver Island.
Conditions - clear and very dark, Moist and 10 deg C.
Equipment - WO 105mm refractor with modifed Canon T1i camera on HEQ5 mount.
Exposure - 33 - 1min lights at ISO 800 with darks and flats used for calibration.
Processing in Images Plus and Photoshop.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Monthly Club Socials
Meeting have been canceled until further notice
Astronomy & Space News
- Astronomy’s Decades-Long Quest To Understand Cosmic Topology
- Researchers Develop a Way to Check the Weather on a Exoplanet
- A Zombie White Dwarf Star is Born Again. Hallelujah!
- Catching 2026 Jovian Moon Mutual Eclipse Season
- Little Red Dots Are The Seeds of Quasars and Supermassive Black Holes
- Once-in-a-Century Impact Made a “Cold Spot” on the Moon
- Join the World in Observing the Moon on September 19th
- A $100 detector can see invisible particles raining down from space
- Astronomers just found the youngest known planet ever
- JWST’s mysterious little red dots may be black holes growing at incredible speeds
- Genetically Engineered Yeast Could Build the First Martian Outposts
- NASA’s New Horizons spots signs of liquid nitrogen flowing on Pluto
- The Sun May Have Swallowed a Planet
- Mercury is Shrinking, But Faster Than Previously Thought
- When Stars Engulf Rocky Planets, Beryllium Gives It Away