Monthly Archives: January 2012

The Rosette nebula reloaded

Handled the old data slightly differently in this Registar composite reprocess.

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Playing with Registar to composite NFO data

Registar was used to align old Rosette and Monkey Head nebula data with that taken recently to form a composite image with even more data 🙂  Here are the results.

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Owning a print

I recently gave a talk in Lymington on photography in general (not just the deep-sky stuff).  A number of people asked about purchasing images – and the price.  Go to “Image Gallery” click on “owning” or “purchasing” and you will … Continue reading

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One of the reddest naked-eye stars in the night sky

One of the reddest naked eye stars in the sky this is 119 Tauri in the constellation Taurus – and it has a nice companion blue star for some dramatic colour contrast.  Taken on the clear Moonless evening of 16th … Continue reading

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The Hyperstar III does the Rosette nebula in Monoceros at the New Forest Observatory

A beautiful clear Moonless night last night – absolutely perfect for deep-sky imaging.  The Hyperstar III was on the case again, armed with PERFECT collimation!  Here we have the Rosette nebula in Monoceros, 27 subs at 500 seconds per sub.

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NGC2174 reprocessed and cropped to show the detail in the Monkey’s Head

A reprocess and crop of the previous image.

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The Monkey Head nebula reloaded

Said I would go back to this one with the Hyperstar on a Moonless night to do it justice – and last night was the night.  Managed to grab 32 subs at 5-minutes per sub before it clouded over around … Continue reading

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The Final Deep-Sky Image of the Week – Astrophotographer Harry Page

Fellow PAIG forumite Harry Page signs off the New Forest Observatory “Deep-Sky Image of the Week” series with this stunning presentation of M33.  You can see full image details on Harry’s web-site here.  Thank you for your support of the … Continue reading

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View to my south – tree lit up by the street lights.  Why Aldebaran is blue but Betelgeuse is the correct colour I have no idea.  

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Bellatrix in Orion

Bellatrix in Orion taken with the Hypserstar III on Friday 13th January 2012 using 32 subs at 45-seconds per sub.  

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