I can report that the hardware changes made a couple of days ago produced the expected result - tracking is now back to the very high accuracy I had when using the Hyperstar 1.  Unfortunately I also had to turn of the dither function in Maxim DL as it was taking the system far too long to come back into accurate tracking again, even after movements as small as half a pixel.  This unfortunately feeds through to Noel who now has the annoying hot pixels to deal with at the final processing stage.

Taken over several years this image is a composite of Hyperstar I, Sky 90 and Hyperstar III data. (more…)

The latest Parker/Carboni offering is the beautiful Iris nebula in the constellation Cepheus. (more…)

Acquired by Greg Parker at the New Forest Observatory and expertly processed by Noel Carboni in Florida U.S.A. the NFO proudly presents the whole of the North America nebula in high resolution and true colour. (more…)

As you are all aware - we didn’t have a summer this year, so the “summer” mega-project for 2008 has been making incredibly slow progress.  I managed to get out on the evening of 19th September to grab 3 more hours of RGB on the central North America [NGC7000] region, and last night [20th September 2008] I got another 3 hours of RGB on the Gulf of Mexico area. (more…)

Noel has just put the finishing touches on the latest acquisition from the New Forest Observatory.  This time it is the Crescent nebula region in Cygnus, and this represents just under 4-hours worth of H-alpha data, together with 2 and a half hours of one-shot (RGB) colour. (more…)

Noel has just processed the latest data taken using the Hyperstar III.  This time we have just under 3-hours total exposure time on the Cocoon nebula. (more…)

Noel has just processed this one taken a while ago at the NFO.  This is the open cluster M52 and lying nearby is the well-known emission nebula - the Bubble nebula.  You can see that the Bubble nebula sits within a vast region of emission nebulosity. (more…)

The Parker/Carboni deep-sky imaging machine has just produced another starry work of art for your enjoyment.  This time it is the famous Kemble’s Cascade asterism in that well-known constellation Camelopardalis. (more…)

The name says it all!  Noel has just processed this Sky 90/M25C image of the bright red carbon star “La Superba” which can be found in Canes Venatici at a distance of 711 light-years: (more…)