One way of taking a high resolution zoom-in zoom-out of a deep-space image is to take the region concerned at 2 different focal lengths, or to take a single frame and then a mosaic of frames of the region. This … Continue reading
The system was set up absolutely spot on last night, so rather than just go for a Carbon star, I went for a Carbon star (SAO 69636 – indicated by the yellow arrow) and a bit of interesting nebulosity 🙂 … Continue reading
And yet again another beautiful clear Moonless night last night – that’s 5 in a row now, almost makes up for 6 weeks of cloud and rain. Went for another Carbon star in Cygnus, this time it is U Cygni, … Continue reading
Grabbed this one from the clear night last night. Hyperstar III and M26C one-shot 10-megapixel camera. 22 subs at 200 seconds per sub with dither. Carbon star TT Cygni. If the clear skies continue I will add to the Carbon … Continue reading
Stayed up until 2:00 a.m. last night taking a Hyperstar III/M26C 2-framer of the NGC 6883 and NGC 6871 regions in Cygnus. This is just one sub from each region quickly stitched together with virtually no processing just to get … Continue reading
Last night was the third night of trying to set up the Hyperstar III and the M26C 10-megapixel one-shot colour CCD. It’s been a bit of a battle and I still haven’t got very good chip flatness and collimation, but … Continue reading
Unbelievably there were a couple of hours of clear sky (and no Moon) last night 🙂 As both the mini-WASP and the new Hyperstar III setup need tuning it was a hard choice of which one to work on. Expecting … Continue reading
