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Monthly Archives: March 2024
Picture of the Week
Picture of the Week this time is the whole of the Veil nebula in Cygnus. Why is this one a landmark image for the New Forest Observatory? Well this is a composite of ALL the data I have collected on … Continue reading
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Picture of the Week
The Picture of the Week this time is the very busy Sadr region of Cygnus. This image was captured with the Canon 200mm prime lenses and the ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras. I had originally taken something like 3 and … Continue reading
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Picture of the Week
I added Sky90 data of M44 to the 2-frame 200mm data of the “Stargate” containing M44 to create this composite image. The nearby Carbon stars X Cancri and T Cancri have been annotated. Cameras used M26C OSC CCDs.
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Picture of the Week
This week we feature Polaris, the North star, together with the surrounding Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN). This is really seat of the pants imaging to get this one. Why? Because as we are imaging so close to the Pole we … Continue reading
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Got Today’s EPOD (number 130)
Got today’s EPOD with Carbon star C W Leonis. Thank you Jim for continuing to publish my work 🙂
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Is it Really Worth it?
Clear last night so I started setting up early so I could get some good imaging time in. The last tweak I needed to do was to get the two Canon 200mm lenses aligned to one another (perfectly) and then … Continue reading
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Aldebaran
Only 6 x 10-minute subs from last night, so pretty noisy, but at least it’s the first image since November 14th 2023, so a major landmark. 200mm lenses and the ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras. Need to take some new … Continue reading
First Clear Night in Weeks.
A couple of nights back we had the first clear night in many weeks. This is such a rare event it deserves an entry all of its own. So, starting at 7 p.m. I began work on setting up the … Continue reading
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The Perseus Double-Cluster and Stock 2
I just did a quick reprocess on this one and it looked nice enough to re-post. This is the famous Double-Cluster in Perseus, with the less famous Stock 2 (the stick-man lying on his side at top right). A 2-frame … Continue reading
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Picture of the Week
Picture of the Week is Greg’s 3 asterism in Leo seen almost dead centre in this image. The image comprises 14 x 12-minute subs taken with the 200mm lenses and M26C OSC CCDs. I first discovered this asterism whilst scanning … Continue reading
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