I took this data with the Hyperstar on the 6th. I was expecting to get more data last night (7th) but there was tons of thin high cloud. So I cropped the data I got and you can see it … Continue reading
A clear Moonless night tonight and I am imaging the Coma Cluster of galaxies (yes that’s the cluster that Zwicky used to infer the existence of Dark Matter way back in the 1930s). Hyperstar 4 on a C11 with an … Continue reading
Extremely lucky it was clear again last night – BUT – unfortunately there was thin high cloud so this isn’t as good an image as it could have been. Hyperstar4 and M2600MC Pro 23 subs at 4-minutes per sub, dithered … Continue reading
A clear Moonless night last night, so I fired up the Hyperstar. After focusing and running CCDCalc I found I had perfect collimation! I’m not arguing – I just went straight to the best looking bit of sky to give … Continue reading
Got out a couple of nights back to fire up the 200mm lenses and the 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras. If you remember in the last outing it looked like there might be water vapour in the optical system. So in … Continue reading
I fired up the Hyperstar 4 last night fully expecting the ASI 2600 MC Pro would have water vapour in the sensor chamber – only to find – it was fine!! So I have only got to sort out the … Continue reading
This isn’t my deepest image of the Pleiades, but this dataset was taken over a couple of consecutive nights using the Sky90 array and the M26C OSC CCDs. This is 24-hours of total exposure time using 40-minute subs!
I just combined last night’s 24 x 5-minute subs 200mm lens single framer with an older 40 x 5-minute subs 2-framer also using the 200mm lenses. This is the resulting Arcturus composite.
Managed to get some imaging done last night. Arcturus with the 200mm lenses and 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras. 24 x 5-minute subs. Note the “Napoleon’s Hat” asterism at the bottom of the lower spike slightly to the right.
The collimation was quite a way out when I imaged the Leo Trio 2 nights ago, so last night I was expecting to spend the whole evening trying to get good collimation. In preparation for this I had taken off … Continue reading
