Welcome to AstroWorkBench, Keith Ehren's astronomical web siteThe focus of my site is to provide a platform for sharing my astronomical software, articles, images and videos that I have produced over the years. Please have a good peruse around and I hope you find the contents interesting and useful.
Keith.
Recent Updates / Images / Activity
October 2023 - New software AWB USB Relay released. This software allows
Windows USB relays to be switched on/off to control attached devices.
November 2023 - New software AWB Collimation Aid released. This software assists in the collimation of your scope.
10th May 2024
A huge Sun spot group (3664) fired off a bunch of CME's that resulted in a very rare G5
magnetic storm that in turn resulted in the major Aurora of the 10th May. My Ha (Hydrogen Alpha) image below shows the sun spot group and one of my aurora images. Also included is my all sky camera time lapse video of the aurora.
Click here for time lapse video
15th April 2024
The total solar eclipse of the 8 April 2024. Imaged from Dallas USA. The eclipse from first to last contact was from 12:23 to 15:02 CDT and totality lasted 3 mins 52 secs. Absolutley spectaular! Click on the montage image for full size.
The three images following the montage image below show (i) the Corona (ii) taken at a faster shitter speed to show the solar flares and (iii) the diamond ring at the end of totality.
6th March 2024.
Quasar APM 0827+5255. At a distance of 12.1 billion light years and a magnitude of 15.1 this must be one of the most distant objects amateurs can image. It's only visible at this huge distance as it is one of the brightest objects in the cosmos.
20th August 2023. NGC6960 or Caldwell 34. The Western Veil Nebula.
Stephan's Quintet
September 2023
26th December 2022. Winter favourites; M42 and Horsehead Neb (B33).
25th October 2022. Solar eclipse from UK (through hazy cloud)
10th Aug 2022. Caldwell 27 (NGC6888) - The Crescent Nebula
October 2023 - New software AWB USB Relay released. This software allows
Windows USB relays to be switched on/off to control attached devices.
November 2023 - New software AWB Collimation Aid released. This software assists in the collimation of your scope.
10th May 2024
A huge Sun spot group (3664) fired off a bunch of CME's that resulted in a very rare G5
magnetic storm that in turn resulted in the major Aurora of the 10th May. My Ha (Hydrogen Alpha) image below shows the sun spot group and one of my aurora images. Also included is my all sky camera time lapse video of the aurora.
Click here for time lapse video
15th April 2024
The total solar eclipse of the 8 April 2024. Imaged from Dallas USA. The eclipse from first to last contact was from 12:23 to 15:02 CDT and totality lasted 3 mins 52 secs. Absolutley spectaular! Click on the montage image for full size.
The three images following the montage image below show (i) the Corona (ii) taken at a faster shitter speed to show the solar flares and (iii) the diamond ring at the end of totality.
6th March 2024.
Quasar APM 0827+5255. At a distance of 12.1 billion light years and a magnitude of 15.1 this must be one of the most distant objects amateurs can image. It's only visible at this huge distance as it is one of the brightest objects in the cosmos.
20th August 2023. NGC6960 or Caldwell 34. The Western Veil Nebula.
Stephan's Quintet
September 2023
26th December 2022. Winter favourites; M42 and Horsehead Neb (B33).
25th October 2022. Solar eclipse from UK (through hazy cloud)
10th Aug 2022. Caldwell 27 (NGC6888) - The Crescent Nebula
31st March 2022. Solar Cycle 25 - This week has been the most active so far for this cycle including an X1.3 flare from region 2975.
Caldwell 19 - The cocoon nebula
Messier 1 - The Crab nebula
Messier 27 - The Dumbbell nebula
Solar cycle 25 started late 2019
