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…)

Work the next day, so of course Sunday 27th July was perhaps the best summer’s night I’ve ever seen from this location for imaging.  O.K. so it’s headache day for Monday!  Started imaging this one at around 11.00 p.m. and finished around 2.00 a.m.  The Scutum star cloud stood out brightly against an already bright Milky Way - unbelievable!  And as I finished imaging the Moon just started to pop up over my NE horizon - a perfect night’s imaging (very unusual!).

Noel has just finished processing this little beauty so up it goes straight onto the NFO site!  Globular cluster M71 with an accompanying little open cluster [OCL116, Harvard20] and Gamma Sagitta in the top left hand corner.  Throughout the whole field of view is a Milky Way backdrop.  Enjoy the trip!

Well I did manage to get out on the evening of the 20th, even though it was work the next day, and I spent a couple of hours imaging the beautiful open cluster M39 in Cygnus. (more…)

I had a two-hour, cloud-free slot last night between 11.00 p.m. and 1.00 a.m.  Bound to be clear with a blazing (full?) Moon trundling along the southern horizon.  O.K. so not a good night for imaging, but it did give me my first chance at firing up the Starizona autofocusing setup for the FeatherTouch focuser.  Learn from my experience. (more…)

A higher resolution version of the first light NGC7000 image taken on the version III Hyperstar can now be viewed on Starizona’s Hyperstar Imaging Site.