Monthly Archives: November 2011

The yellow is there – just need to process properly!

Having sat here for an hour or so not believing I could possibly have bleached all the colour out of Capella in the imaging I decided to reprocess the image from scratch and got this result.  O.K. so that’s a … Continue reading

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A tad annoying!

I imaged Capella at f10 a few nights back with the C11 (still not collimated the camera to the scope properly, but will work on it) and got a nice bright yellow star with a pretty boring background.  O.K. so … Continue reading

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Deep-Sky Image of the Week – Astrophotographer Rogelio Bernal Andreo

This week the New Forest Observatory is honoured to present the masterful work of the man who is in my opinion, currently the best amateur deep-sky imager on the planet – may I introduce you to Rogelio Bernal Andreo who … Continue reading

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Blast from the past

Here is a wide-field composite image of M78 and its relation to Barnard’s Loop taken using both Sky90 and Hyperstar I data.

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Thank you Steve Collingwood :)

Steve Collingwood (Telescope House, Lingfield, Sussex) kindly spent a not inconsiderable amount of time collimating my 2 Sky 90 refractors.   Steve showed me the process as he worked away on his custom-built rig.  All very impressive and now I … Continue reading

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Aldebaran – correct orientation

Here’s Aldebaran in the correct orientation (North is now up) and a touch of extra processing.

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The eye of the Bull

Clear night last night and no obtrusive Moon – only one Sky 90 operational at the moment (I’m taking 2 x Sky 90s to Steve Collingwood tomorrow to see if he can collimate them for me).  Anyway – managed to … Continue reading

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Deep-Sky Image of the Week – Astrophotographer Alex Cherney

This week’s jaw-droppingly beautiful Image of the Week is from an accomplished imager based Down-Under, Alex Cherney. I met Alex at the Starmus Festival held last June in Tenerife where I was a judge of the deep-space image submissions.  Alex’s … Continue reading

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Deep-Sky Image of the Week – Astrophotographer Peter Shah

This week’s Deep-Sky Image is provided by fellow PAIG forumite Peter Shah who kindly sent in this beautiful capture – The Ghost nebula, vdb141, in the constellation Cepheus. Peter tell us that: Van den Berg 141, the Ghost nebula is … Continue reading

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Deep-Sky Imaging during November in the U.K.

Although it is the beginning of the long darks nights this month, and if only the weather played ball you could be imaging from about 5:30 p.m. on – November is a completely frustrating month as you never seem to … Continue reading

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