Monthly Archives: February 2007
Astronomy Now Magazine (March 2007 Issue)
The accompanying image made Picture of the Month in the March 2007 issue of Astronomy Now! You can find this one on page 92. The image taken with the Sky 90/M25C combination and shows the Cone Nebula, Christmas Tree cluster region in … Continue reading
Curdridge Observatory Use Our Bode Nebula Image
Tom How over at Curdridge Observatory dropped me a note to say that he has just finished some interesting work with our image of M81 [Bode’s Nebula]. We produced our single frame Hyperstar image with the SXV-H9C one-shot colour cmaera which gave us a … Continue reading
EPOD: Pleiades Open Star Cluster
Fantastic! Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) have chosen our extremely deep image of the Pleiades open star cluster taken on the Sky 90/SXVF-M25C as today’s picture. This is the famous Pleiades open star cluster in the constellation Taurus, also … Continue reading
Dorset Society Magazine (February 2007 Issue)
Faith Eckersall has written a great article for the February issue of the Dorset Society Magazine titled “Twinkle, twinkle” using a set of Hyperstar/SXV-H9C images. If you see the magazine, you will find the article on pages 48-49.
M25C Horsehead Area
Managed to get a few good images these last couple of months (despite the terrible weather). However, this one was above expectations. A total of over a dozen hours exposure using 15 minute and 5 minute RGB subs as well … Continue reading