Beautiful clear Moonless sky last night – hard to know where to point the telescopes. Decided on the Bubble nebula region and the 2 x Canon 200mm prime lenses together with the 2 x Trius M26C OSC CCDs. “Claws” is not coming out as well as I’d expected with 14 x 30-minute subs and I think this is all down to my rapidly deteriorating skyglow. I guess a move might be on the cards after all.
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A couple of nights back we had an extremely rare clear, Moonless night. Gremlins were at work as I have hardly used the kit in almost a year – never mind. Managed to get 4 x 30-minute subs on the Belt of Orion using the 200mm lenses and the Trius M26C OSC CCDs.
As there were only 4 subs the image is very noisy and the stacker doesn’t get rid of plane trails when 2 of the 4 subs have plane trails on them. However, what this image does show is that the framing of the Belt is just about perfect with the 200mm lenses and if I ever see another clear, Moonless night, I am going to have to return to this and get a load more subs.
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This is a two-framer using the Canon 200mm lenses on the miniWASP array.
Left hand frame is centred on IC2087.
Image flattened using Noel Carboni’s new flattening tool.
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A two-framer of the Arcturus region using the Canon 200mm lenses on the miniWASP array.
Image flattened using Noel Carboni’s new flattening tool – soon to be released.
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As well as capturing asteroid JO25 2014 on the single Sky 90/M26C – I also managed to grab 16 subs on the two 200mm lenses with the Trius M26Cs.
Sub number 12 (counting down from the top) is missing as I had cloud over the region during that 5-minutes.
As I couldn’t properly process this data myself, I sent it over to Noel Carboni in Florida USA who did the most superb job as you can see below. Thank you Noel!!
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Processed to show the dark tendrils that permeate all dense star regions:
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A 200mm lens 2-framer taken over 2 nights this week – Procyon & Gomeisa in Canis Minor.
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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 down to fit with some earlier Procyon data taken with the Sky 90. Here is the Registar bolt-together of the 2 datasets.
11 x 9-minute subs with the 200mm lenses and M26C cameras from last night.
Around 3-hours of 10-minutes subs from the Sky 90 and M25C from earlier.
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And here is a 2-frame mosaic combining the IC2087 and SAO76573 frames taken with the Canon 200mm prime lenses and M26C OSC CCDs.
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Taken a couple of nights back, this is 10-hour’s worth of 20-minute subs centred on SAO67573 one frame to the right of IC2087 also taken with the Canon 200mm lenses and M26C OSC CCDs.
At the top/centre there is a very interesting nebula Vdb 27. The whole region of course is full of dust and dark nebulosity all part of the Taurus giant molecular cloud.
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