Another clear night last night – and with the success of capturing a couple of asteroids the night before (1079 Mimosa and 2833 Radishchev I think, courtesy the Sky 6) – I went back to M44 and asteroid central once again. This time I went for 10-minute subs with the Hyperstar III (equivalent to 1-hour subs with the Sky 90) in order to go that bit deeper and see if I could pull out some more asteroids. A total of 20 subs later, I’ve yet to process the data but will get back later today with the results of this exercise.
Archive for the “Sky 90 and SXVF-M25C” Category
Jan
04
2010
IC405 the Flaming Star nebula – reloadedPosted by Greg Parker in Sky 90 and SXVF-M25C, Star VistasNoel Carboni has just re-processed an earlier image of ours – IC405 & IC410, the Flaming Star nebula and companion in the constellation Auriga. Auriga is sitting overhead right now during our crisp winter evenings and it is in a perfect position for imaging the many clusters & nebulae that lie within. This image features in our Springer publication “Star Vistas” published Spring 2009.
Aug
20
2009
Regulus also gets the star spike treatmentPosted by Greg Parker in Sky 90 and SXVF-M25CNoel Carboni has been putting a considerable amount of effort into developing a new star spike plugin for Photoshop. He has been trying it out on a few of our images as a test and this is the result of working on the deep-sky image of Procyon.
Artificial star spikes are either something you like, or something you pretty much dislike – personally I think they add to an image about 90% of the time with only very few images not benefitting from adding spikes.
Jun
06
2009
An omission! Definitive Horsehead and Belt region of OrionPosted by Greg Parker in CCD Images, Sky 90 and SXVF-M25CIt was while putting together my top 10 that I realised there had been a serious omission! I have not put up the definitive Horsehead and Belt region of Orion on the NFO site, although it had appeared way back in January 2009 as a 2-page spread article in Astronomy Now magazine. This is a massive 2-framer taken with the Sky 90 and SXVF-M25C. Not only that, each frame comprises, RGB, H-alpha and H-beta data as well. Many, many hours of data acquisition (around 40!) and many, many hours of Noel’s processing time (at least another 40!) bring you ……………
Enjoy!!!
Nov
13
2008
The Belt region of Orion as never seen by the naked eyePosted by Greg Parker in Hyperstar and SXV-H9C, Sky 90 and SXVF-M25CHere is the second marathon processing session by Noel. This time it’s the Belt region of Orion. Read the rest of this entry » Tags: Hyperstar, Sky 90, SXV-H9C, SXVF-M25C
Nov
13
2008
NGC7000 and the Pelican nebulae in CygnusPosted by Greg Parker in Hyperstar and SXVF-M25C, Sky 90 and SXVF-M25CNoel 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. Read the rest of this entry » Tags: Sky 90, SXVF-M25C
Nov
01
2008
EPOD 1st November 2008 the Jellyfish nebulaPosted by Greg Parker in EPOD, Sky 90 and SXVF-M25CMore great news!! Today we got the Jellyfish nebula (IC443) and its companion IC444 published as an Earth Science Picture of the Day. Read the rest of this entry » Tags: EPOD, Sky 90, SXVF-M25C
Oct
02
2008
Definitive wide field image of the Cave nebula in CepheusPosted by Greg Parker in Hyperstar and SXV-H9C, Hyperstar and SXVF-M25C, Sky 90 and SXVF-M25CTaken over several years this image is a composite of Hyperstar I, Sky 90 and Hyperstar III data. Read the rest of this entry » Tags: Hyperstar, Sky 90, SXV-H9C, SXVF-M25C |
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