Monthly Archives: October 2009
IOM November 2009 – the Gamma Cassiopeia region of Cassiopeia
Our long dark evenings now mean we can start early and easily get a good 6-hours on an object – weather of course permitting. This Month’s object will do well with 6 or more hours total imaging time on it … Continue reading
A brand new Paramount ME is on its way to the New Forest Observatory
Well it wasn’t a two week wait to see what happened – I crumbled just a few days after the last mini-WASP report and ordered up a Paramount ME from Kieron at SCS Astro – it is due to be … Continue reading
New Forest Observatory – 100,000 hits and rising!!
Great news! As you can see from the counter – New Forest Observatory now has in excess of 100,000 hits – that came around a lot faster than I ever imagined. Please keep visiting NFO to keep up with the latest … Continue reading
Stephenie Meyer
Who is Stephenie Meyer and what has she got to do with deep-sky imaging? Well Stephenie Meyer is an American author, and as far as I know she has nothing to do with deep-sky imaging. So what is she doing … Continue reading
Statrep on the mini-WASP deep-sky imaging array
It’s been about a year since my last report on this project, and that last article actually said very little 🙂 I am on the point of putting my hand in my wallet (you cannot begin to understand the amount … Continue reading
Meridian News weather picture October 10th 2009
The (evening) Meridian News weather picture for October 10th 2009 was the Double Cluster in Perseus taken from the New Forest Observatory. I shall put up a very short video clip of this in the next few days. The image … Continue reading
Photographic exposures from 9-millionths of a second to 3-months
I just spent the day at Tony Allen’s photographic studio in Oxford with my high speed flash units. We had another go at the water-filled balloons as they are so much fun. Here’s a result from today’s efforts. This exposure … Continue reading
Gamma Cassiopeia with new star spikes
Noel has just reprocessed an earlier image of Gamma Cassiopeia with the nebulae IC59 & IC63 lying close by – with the addition of some star spikes.
Modification to the basic Celestron wedge
I was recently asked about a problem in maintaining polar alignment due to a heavy scope being cantilevered all over the place on a wedge. The standard Celestron wedge (which I use) would also give you problems as the heavy … Continue reading