Well – although it has been pouring with rain ALL day it looks like (on the satellite) there is a clear patch coming over for later tonight. As there is a 6-minute pass (that’s long!) of the ISS at 9:28 … Continue reading
As it was cloudy AND a bright Moon last night it was no good for deep-sky imaging – but as it wasn’t actually raining – and I could see a FEW stars, it was an opportunity to take the AstroTrac … Continue reading
I have no idea why I took this image of a galaxy group in Bootes on January 29th 2011. I also have no record of it in the logbook. I ran an astrometry check on it to find where it … Continue reading
My Algol and Rho Persei image is “Picture of the Week” on the My Astro Space web site – thanks guys 🙂
A double dataset was processed for this one. From 7th March 2011 27 subs at 10-minutes per sub, and from 13th March 36 subs at 5-minutes per sub. The odd shaped resulting image shows the overlap wasn’t too good between … Continue reading
Well – here’s that Starlight Xpress super customer service for you! Michael Hattey of Starlight Xpress drove my tested M26C camera down to the New Forest Observatory today – thank you Michael. Both M26C cameras are now back on the … Continue reading
Camera already at SX headquarters and Terry is giving it a good soak-testing. Can’t find any fault with it, but I know it does run (a lot) hotter than the other M26C – so Terry will be returning it with … Continue reading
I hadn’t realised that the First Light image I took with the mini-WASP was also this month’s IOM and was also my first APOD. Let’s hope this lot is a good omen for the future of the mini-WASP array 🙂
Just a single 2,000 second sub from one M26C camera – no processing other than brightening up so here’s the hot pixels, the polar rotation – the lot – in all its glory. But it’s my First Light 🙂
We unexpectedly got a clear patch of sky last night – and no Moon – but of course such luck has to be tempered 🙂 Started up the mini-WASP array around 10:30 p.m. and decided to start with some Polar … Continue reading
