Monthly Archives: June 2008

3-frame mosaic of the Markarian Chain region

Noel added the 3rd frame to the mega Markarian Chain mosaic and I converted it to a negative black and white image so you can clearly see all the faint fuzzies. I didn’t place M87 in the correct place in … Continue reading

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The 3rd frame in the Markarian Chain mosaic

Noel has just completed processing the 3rd frame in the Markarian Chain mosaic. This frame will be added to the previous 2-frames to give a panoramic view of the region containing not only the whole of Markarian’s Chain, but also … Continue reading

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Widefield image of the Cave nebula region in Cepheus

Noel is plugging away at old data in every spare minute he has whilst working on a big software project.  He has created this superb image of the Cave nebula in Cepheus taken with the Sky 90/M25C combination.  This image … Continue reading

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The Hyperstar is good to go!

After a minor glitch that was quickly sorted out by Dean of Starizona (thank you Dean!  and moral of the story – DO NOT attempt anything even remotely complicated if you’re suffering from jet-lag!!!) the Hyperstar, M25C and 2″ Hutech … Continue reading

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The Rosette nebula makes EPOD 26th June 2008

Good news!  Our OIII-enhanced version of the Rosette nebula [RGB, OIII, H-alpha] image made today’s EPOD 🙂

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The mighty Hyperstar – reloaded!

I have just returned from a business trip to Arizona, and Arizona can only mean one thing for astro-imagers – Starizona!!  Whilst staying in Phoenix, Dean of Starizona shipped me the latest (adjustable!) Hyperstar for the C11 and an electonic … Continue reading

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The Veil Nebula summer 2007 mega project published in Astronomy Now magazine

On pages 72-73 of the July issue of Astronomy Now you can read all the gory details of how the whole of the Veil Nebula was captured in a 32-hour imaging (and processing) marathon.

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The transits of Mercury and Venus – 2003/2004

I took a look at one of the old computers and rediscovered a couple of lost and forgotten websites.  Please check out some images of the 2003 transit of Mercury and the 2004 transit of Venus.  The images on these … Continue reading

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Widefield image of the Lynx quasar complete with background galaxies:

Noel has just completed processing a widefield image of the region in which the quasar APM08279+5255 resides.  The image is composed of 28 sub-exposures using an exposure time of 6-minutes per sub.  This object used to hold the record as … Continue reading

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IOM June 2008: Summer cleaning and updating

There is no imaging object of the month for June! Looking back over the years I see that it is not only far too late before it is dark enough to start imaging, but also that it gets light far … Continue reading

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