Monthly Archives: November 2014

Carbon star VX Andromedae

I only managed to get 4 x 15-minute subs before the cloud rolled in (one of the 3 scopes was out of focus) – but hey, at least it’s another one off the list.

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The mini-WASP does the business on 23/11/2014

Last night, 23/11/2014 was the first clear night in a month – and it was Moonless too 🙂 🙂 Gave the mini-WASP a good run, but packed up at midnight, which was actually a stupid thing to do – I … Continue reading

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Mirach and “Ghost” in Andromeda from the mini-WASP array

Here is the bright star Mirach and the nearby galaxy named the “Ghost”.  A zoomed-in view of Mirach and the Ghost is shown in the insert top-left.

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The latest incarnation of the mini-WASP array 2014

This is what the latest incarnation of the mini-WASP array looks like – and it will look like this for some time to come. There are 4 imaging systems on the array and one guider: 1)  Sky 90, filter-wheel with … Continue reading

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The Fermi Paradox

The solution to the Fermi Paradox is that there is no other intelligent life in the Universe. Better start taking a little more care of this planet and the creatures we share it with people!

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Destroying the Earth with our super high-energy colliders

You will have seen the headlines about the possibility of destroying the Earth now that we are able to provide such extremely high energies in our super-colliders.  Grief – the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is to be upgraded to … Continue reading

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And today?

And so far today it has been raining since before I even got up – it is now 2:30 p.m. Great.

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The Great British weather

It’s not looking good is it?  Last winter I didn’t get a single image in 6 months due to the never-ending rain and cloud.  Looks like we are getting a repeat again this year.  If it is ANOTHER 6-months with … Continue reading

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You have got to love “them”

O.K. so the day has finally arrived and “they” are now replacing the Sodium street lights around here with white light LED lamps. Isn’t it absolutely marvelous how “they” can get their act together AND spend a huge pile of … Continue reading

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CCDInspector results of Hyperstar III collimation

A few posts below I gave a procedure on collimating your imaging camera to a Hyperstar III.  On reflection I thought that this could be considered as so much “hot air” without results to prove the procedure actually works.  So … Continue reading

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