Monthly Archives: July 2012

Meridian Weather picture 31/07/2012

Simon Parkin showed the recent Crescent nebula with Carbon star image on tonight’s Meridian Weather 🙂  

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Kappa Cassiopeia – Noel Carboni processing

And here’s that recent Kappa Cassiopeia data expertly processed by Noel Carboni.  

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Kappa Cassiopeia with NGC 146 and NGC 133

Whilst working on the mini-WASP array last night I took a quick image of a reasonably bright star with the one good scope and camera.  The central star is Kappa Cassiopeia and the two open clusters above it are NGC … Continue reading

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Further adventures with the mini-WASP array

Took a look outside around 11:00 p.m. to see that we had really nice clear skies – that was unexpected.  Can’t let a clear sky go to waste so I went out for an evening’s work tuning up the mini-WASP … Continue reading

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The Crescent nebula and Carbon star SAO 69636

The system was set up absolutely spot on last night, so rather than just go for a Carbon star, I went for a Carbon star (SAO 69636 – indicated by the yellow arrow) and a bit of interesting nebulosity 🙂 … Continue reading

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Carbon star U Cygni – SAO 49477 – Hyperstar III and M26C image

And yet again another beautiful clear Moonless night last night – that’s 5 in a row now, almost makes up for 6 weeks of cloud and rain.  Went for another Carbon star in Cygnus, this time it is U Cygni, … Continue reading

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Carbon star TT Cygni – SAO 68688 – Hyperstar III and M26C

Grabbed this one from the clear night last night.  Hyperstar III and M26C one-shot 10-megapixel camera.  22 subs at 200 seconds per sub with dither.  Carbon star TT Cygni.  If the clear skies continue I will add to the Carbon … Continue reading

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300,000 not out!

I was just about to post up last night’s imaging session when I saw the counter has just gone over the 300,000 mark 🙂  Thank you all for visiting, and keep the visits coming, the mini-WASP array will be imaging … Continue reading

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Teaser – a single sub image of NGC 6883 and NGC 6871 from last night

Stayed up until 2:00 a.m. last night taking a Hyperstar III/M26C 2-framer of the NGC 6883 and NGC 6871 regions in Cygnus.  This is just one sub from each region quickly stitched together with virtually no processing just to get … Continue reading

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First light for the Hyperstar III and M26C mega-combination

Last night was the third night of trying to set up the Hyperstar III and the M26C 10-megapixel one-shot colour CCD.  It’s been a bit of a battle and I still haven’t got very good chip flatness and collimation, but … Continue reading

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