Noel has just worked his magic assembling this mosaic Star Vista of the Ruchbah region of Cassiopeia.

This small image is unable to do the original 20 Megapixel monster justice, but as you can see the whole area is jam packed with stars and open clusters.  This is part of an on-going giga-project which is a sky panorama of the whole of Cassiopeia at high resolution!  Last night I managed a 4-framer of the Gamma Cassiopeia region and tonight I hope to make a start on Shedir.  I guesstimate that this will be at least a 7 x 7 frame mosaic, and possibly an 8 x 8 mosaic which would translate to a 320 Megapixel deep-sky image

Another hot-off-the-press image from the Parker/Carboni double-team.  This time it is the beautiful nebulosity surrounding the central star in the constellation Cassiopeia. (more…)

A final 3-hours total exposure time using 30-minute subs completed the Autumn 2008 mega project - M33 the pinwheel galaxy in triangulum! (more…)

Here is the second marathon processing session by Noel.  This time it’s the Belt region of Orion. (more…)

Noel has been very busy processing recently and the first to come back across the pond was this composite image of the North America and Pelican nebulae in Cygnus. (more…)

Noel has just completed some precision image processing on this latest Hyperstar III image taken over 3 nights. (more…)

More great news!!  Today we got the Jellyfish nebula (IC443) and its companion IC444 published as an Earth Science Picture of the Day.  (more…)

With under a couple of hours using 90-second subs I wasn’t expecting much from this one apart from the stars.  I was amazed at how well the nebulosity stood out - power of the Hyperstar!!!  Noel did a heroic job of processing out the huge lens flare around Gamma Cassiopeia.  I shall be definitely going back to this one to get a LOT more data for Noel to work with.

This is a 2-frame Hyperstar III mosaic of the NGC7788 region in Cassiopeia. This region is famous for having 6 open clusters in a line. However, towards the top of the frame (not visible in this image) is a fascinating supernova remnant CTB1 that I want to get. This will need to wait for dark skies and an attempt using very long sub-exposures.

On 10th October 2008 I managed to get 3 hours and 40-minutes worth of H-alpha data on the Heart nebula in Cassiopeia using 10-minute subs.  The Moon was causing all sorts of trouble and the seeing was poor which led to pretty mediocre data for Noel to work with.  However, Noel eventually managed to work his magic even with this one to give this very nice high-contrast result: