Monthly Archives: March 2017

Asteroids in Leo from last night

I saw on the Sky 6 that there were 3 bright asteroids in Leo, namely 16 Psyche, 29 Amphitrite and 62 Erato.  So when I processed the data this morning and only saw 2 I wondered what was wrong.  Checked … Continue reading

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Widefield Gomeisa region with the 200mm lenses

Processed to show the dark tendrils that permeate all dense star regions:  

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Procyon & Gomeisa

A 200mm lens 2-framer taken over 2 nights this week – Procyon & Gomeisa in Canis Minor.

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Gomeisa from 23rd February 2017

Found I had this one on the hard drive while processing last night’s Procyon data. This is the bright star just above Procyon – Gomeisa. 15 subs of 15-minutes taken with the Sky 90 array and M26C OSC CCDs.

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Procyon region from 22/03/2017

No Moon and some clear sky between 8:15 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Set up the 2 x 200mm lenses on the Procyon region for the first of 2 frames containing Procyon and Gomeisa.  Got the Procyon frame and cropped it … Continue reading

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Lunar Halo

A 22-degree lunar halo taken last night (09/03/2017) at 8:20 p.m. Lovely view of Orion too. Red flashing light photobombing the image was a military helicopter which was tailing another military helicopter that had NO LIGHTS showing!!

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Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)

Got today’s EPOD with the recent deep Pleiades image. Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.

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The DELL PowerEdge C6100 MegaNode machine

As a month has now gone past, I have just this minute ordered another 4 x Xeon 2.93GHz hex-core CPUs for the DELL PowerEdge C6100 quad node server.  So when they arrive and are put in I will have 4 … Continue reading

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