I managed to process my photographs today. So here we go:
Delphinus, in the Summer Triangle, had a nova go off last week. Naturally, my students are working on higher-magnification images, but it's somewhere in here:
Note: For comparison, I took a photograph of the same patch of sky in Bintan.
Delphinus is the diamond-shaped patch on the right-hand part of this image, and the top right corner in the other one. The nova should be... somewhere below it. The bright stars on the left-hand side of the image in both cases are the same star: Vega. Deneb is the bright (but dimmer) star near the centre of the image.
On to more exciting photos!
Orion:
I should really crop it.
Pleiades (top left) and Taurus) (bottom right):
I'm sorry for the crappy orange glow. I need a sodium filter.
And Pleiades, by itself:
Also, not so exciting sky-wise but definitely more busy pictures:
The bright star over the building on the left is not a star. It is Jupiter.
Orion, top right:
Again:
I guess it's often going to be a question of balancing aesthetic photographs and useful photographs. Especially in Singapore; the sky is too light-polluted to get aesthetically interesting in and of itself.
So here's one to finish that I think does the job:
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