Monthly Archives: February 2022

M78 and the edge of Barnard’s Loop

Here is a composite image of M78 and the edge of Barnard’s Loop (off to the left). This is old Sky90 data combined with very recent Hyperstar4 data.

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What is this?

What do you make of this? 3 x 3-minute subs taken on the Hyperstar last night – the light is moving from bottom left to top right. The first sub was taken at 23:21. The gap between subs is a … Continue reading

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A blast from the past.

The familiar “W” shape of the constellation Cassiopeia is seen in this 5-frame mosaic taken using an unmodified Canon 5D MkII DSLR, and a Canon 200mm prime lens. From the background  you can see that Cassiopeia sits in the Milky … Continue reading

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What is going on?

Well tonight will be the second clear Moonless night in a row – almost completely unknown! I am imaging M78 with the Hyperstar 4 with good collimation – but I don’t have long before it disappears behind the trees.

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Second Light for the Canon 200mm lenses and ASI 2600MC-Pro CMOS cameras.

This is a very quick (and dirty) process of last night’s Gamma Cassiopeia data taken on the 200mm lens rig. It was final setting up time so I managed to get both cameras in portrait mode, aligned both cameras very … Continue reading

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First light for the ASI 2600MC-Pro cameras on the Canon 200mm lenses.

Last night was First Light for the new 200mm lens rig. I chose the Gamma Cass region as there’s plenty going on there. Two changes to make, need to rotate the cameras 90 degrees anticlockwise to get them in portrait … Continue reading

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MiniWASP major upgrade 17/02/2022

I have just completed a major upgrade to the MiniWASP array, specifically the 2 Canon 200mm f#2.8 prime lenses. You can now see there are a pair of red cameras on the back instead of the usual black ones. These … Continue reading

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Aldebaran – The Eye of the Bull

A reprocess of some old Sky90 data.

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An Even Bigger Gamma Cassiopeiae

As there’s not been much imaging going on lately (weather), I’ve been browsing through old data. Just came across another 20 x 15-minute subs taken with the 200mm lenses which I’ve put together with 20 x 15-minute subs of the … Continue reading

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M78 with the Hyperstar 4

Only managed to get 8 x 5-minute subs of M78 with the Hyperstar 4 through thin high cloud before the heavy cloud rolled in. Noel Carboni was still able to pull out some nice detail even though there is only … Continue reading

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