Monthly Archives: June 2017

M11 – the Wild Duck Cluster

A Noel Carboni reprocess of old Sky 90 array data using AstroFlat.

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NGC 1555

Struve’s Lost Nebula, Burnham’s Nebula, Hind’s Variable Nebula, NGC 1555 – they are all the same object and it is in the centre of this image. 65 x 20-minute subs (almost 22 hours) went into this one using the Sky … Continue reading

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Mighty Merak

A rather oddly-framed 4-framer using the Sky 90 array of the Merak region.

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The Double Cluster in Perseus – the Full Monty

Sometimes it is good when someone else has a look at one of your images as they can immediately point out stuff which you miss (because you’ve been looking at the thing too long). Bud Guinn immediately saw some errors … Continue reading

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Last two 200mm lens images to reprocess in AstroFlat

Here we have 2-framers of the Cocoon nebula region and the Double Cluster region. Hopefully these are the last two images I need to reprocess from the 200mm lenses.

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Ruchbah and Caph with the 200mm lenses

Each image is a 2-frame wide-field mosaic. Ruchbah and Caph – main stars in Cassiopeia.

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“The Stargate” containing M44 – the Beehive cluster

Another reprocess – note the two Carbon stars to the left hand edge.

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IC2087 Taurus Molecular Cloud Region

Noel Carboni’s new AstroFlat tool makes it very easy to bring lots of different datasets together (something that was a huge pain before the tool). So this is the first image showing all 11.5 hours of 20-minute subs for IC2087 … Continue reading

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Some more AstroFlat reprocesses

Aldebaran, the Hyades and NGC1647 (200mm lens 2-framer) Tarazed and Barnard’s “E” (200mm lens single-framer)  

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The Whole of Central Lyra Reprocessed

And the last one for today is the 4-framer taken using the Canon 200mm lenses and Trius M26C OSC CCDs. This is the whole of central Lyra.  

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