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Monthly Archives: March 2008
The Veil nebula – reloaded
Noel reprocessed the Veil nebula data making the stars less obtrusive and sharpening up the nebulosity a little to emphasize the filaments. It’s a personal choice as to which version you prefer – I like the down-played stars myself.
The last Sir Arthur C Clarke EGOGRAM – 2008
The last Egogram to be sent out by Sir Arthur came to me on the 30th January 2008. As you can see he was anticipating the next big milestone – 2010 – the year we make contact. Sir Arthur Clarke … Continue reading
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Sir Arthur C Clarke 16th December 1917 – 19th March 2008
I have just heard the terrible news that Sir Arthur C Clarke died today. Sir Arthur transformed my life at age 19 when I started my first job at Harwell and began reading his mind-expanding Science Fiction. As I told … Continue reading
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The Veil nebula in Cygnus – a supernova remnant
Today is a landmark day for the New Forest Observatory. After a marathon processing session involving a lot of blood, sweat, tears, and a hallucination-inducing lack of sleep – Noel Carboni has just finished processing the Summer 2007 mega-project, the … Continue reading
St. Patrick’s day party at Farthings Selsey
Sir Patrick Moore threw a party at Farthings yesterday – St. Patrick’s day! We even saw a few moments of clear sky after a week of being totally overcast – I think Selsey is famous for being able to see … Continue reading
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The whole of the Veil nebula in Cygnus
The last few days Noel has been working right through the night to get the images sorted for Star Vistas. As I write this, Noel is working on the mammoth Veil Nebula data set. In a previous post you can … Continue reading
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The Rosette nebula in the infrared
The accompanying image shows the Rosette nebula in the infrared (720nm – 1,000nm) part of the spectrum. The image is composed of 7 subs at 1600 seconds per sub, just over 3-hours total exposure time – and – there’s virtually nothing … Continue reading
Abell 1367 galaxy cluster in Leo
The first image where I carried out multiple re-focuses during the imaging session was with this image of Abell 1367, a galaxy cluster in Leo. This image was taken on the night of Tuesday 4th March 2008 using the IDAS … Continue reading
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Robofocus first light
I used the Robofocus for the first time last night. Beautiful clear Moonless night, not what you usually get when you are trying out a new piece of astro gear. There is an auto Wizard jobby that comes with FocusMax … Continue reading
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PEC training and Robofocus
Last night I PEC trained the Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS (wedge mounted altazimuth) mount for the first time. The Celestron software made a 5-average learning run very easy to carry out. Since a worm-gear rotation is around 8-minutes this exercise … Continue reading
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