Monthly Archives: January 2017

The Current Status of the Mini-WASP Array at the New Forest Observatory

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M45 – Noel Carboni process

And here’s what can be done with my data when Noel Carboni (Florida, U.S.A.) gets his hands on it. Sure hasn’t lost his touch!!

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Composited M45

I composited last night’s deeeep M45 data with some older shallower data with good colour and ended up with this result:

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Deeeeeep M45

Yet another beautiful clear Moonless night last night – and best positioned for some deeeeep imaging was M45, the Pleiades. Managed to grab 18 x 40-minute (yes that IS 40-minute!!) subs and very quickly processed (leaving in the plane trails) … Continue reading

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Hind’s Variable nebula

Hind’s Variable nebula, Struve’s Lost nebula, Burnham’s nebula, NGC1555 – they’re all the same thing and it is the orange thing in the centre of this image. A beautiful clear night last night allowed me to grab 41 x 20-minutes … Continue reading

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6th January 2017 Earth Science Picture of the Day

Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with “Contrasting Star Pair in Auriga”. Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.

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