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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Saiph in Orion
Saiph taken with the Hyperstar III on Friday 13th January 2012. 59 subs at 30 seconds per sub. Can even see little PGC147980 at 7 O’clock on one of the bright stars near the bottom – mag 30!
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The Monkey Head nebula – just a single hour using the Hyperstar III system
Taken on the evening of Friday 13th January 2012 (living up to its reputation just about EVERYTHING went wrong this night) we have the NGC2174 region in Gemini known as the Monkey Head nebula. I have North down in this … Continue reading
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Sirius!
Dimming every other star in the area is the brightest star in the sky at magnitude -1.46, the brilliant blue Sirius in the constellation Canis Major 🙂 Taken as an experiment immediately after 12 Victoria – 60 x 10-second subs.
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The asteroid 12 Victoria in the Hyades
Towards top left of this image you can see the elongated trail of asteroid 12 Victoria. Around 50 subs at 3-minutes per sub with the Hyperstar III – bright Moon and a lot of thin high cloud but the asteroid … Continue reading
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Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)
The December 21st 2011 pinhole camera image is today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day. Thank you Jim for continuing to publish my work 🙂
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A 3-frame Hyperstar III mosaic of the M87 region in B&W
Here is a 3-frame Hyperstar III mosaic of the M87 region taken in April 2010.
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Deep-Sky Image of the Week – Astrophotographer Anna Morris
Another fine Horsehead image from another PAIG lady – this time it’s the return of Anna Morris (who shared her amazing NGC7000 region mega-mosaic with us a few weeks ago). Very nicely processed image Anna – and what can I … Continue reading
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Hyperstar III 2-framer B&W galaxy scene
A Hyperstar III 2-framer of the Markarian Chain/M87 region in the Virgo galaxy cluster.
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M100 galaxy North West of the Markarian Chain
This is a single frame Hyperstar III image of the M100 region taken in April 2010. Again presented in colour and in B&W so you can see the numerous “faint fuzzies” in the background.
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Second frame of the Virgo/Coma galaxies mega-mosaic
The second of 7 frames of data processed in colour and B&W. This one is centred on M87.
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