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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Framed Cocoon mega wide field in the dining room
I have just hung the 5-foot wide framed image of the Cocoon nebula region in the dining room. It looks awesome 🙂
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Living in the New Forest
Does have its advantages 🙂 This is the best time of the year for me with all the new foals, and the garden full of newly fledged birds.
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mini-WASP array project – the deck build
I have finally found someone that will build the 12 foot diameter octagonal wooden deck for the mini-WASP array at a price that doesn’t require me to take out a second mortgage. Clearly the economic climate isn’t so bad that … Continue reading
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EPOD for today – the Leo Trio and Chertan from the New Forest Observatory
As always it is a very pleasant surprise to open up the Earth Science Picture of the Day page and find a Parker/Carboni image on the screen 🙂 Today it is the large widefield version of the Leo Trio taken … Continue reading
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Mizar and Alcor in Ursa Major
Noel Carboni has just processed this data from a few days back. Almost perfect imaging conditions that night and Noel had requested a Sky 90 image of Mizar and Alcor in Ursa Major – so that’s what I did 🙂
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Turritopsis nutricula
Why would immortality be granted to jellyfish of all things?
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The Hyperstar III is once again back on the C11 :)
Today I removed the Sky 90 from the C11 and replaced it with a little Celestron refractor that I use as a guide scope. The Hyperstar III has once again been fitted to the C11 for some phenomenally fast (f#2) … Continue reading
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Starlight Xpress Ltd sponsors the mini-WASP array
Huge thanks go to Terry Platt and Michael Hattey of Starlight Xpress Ltd who made me a deal I simply could not refuse on imaging cameras, a guide camera, and filter wheels. Thank you for sponsoring the mini-WASP project guys … Continue reading
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IOM May 2011 – Spiral galaxy M106 (NGC4258) in Canes Venatici
The imaging object of the month for May 2011 is a Messier object, Spiral Galaxy M106 in Canes Venatici. I particularly like this galaxy and have imaged it several times – it looks to me like a piece of celestial … Continue reading
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