Category Archives: Picture of the Week

A new Picture of the Week category to keep the site up to date starting with 18/02/2024

Picture of the Week

The Crescent nebula and surrounding emission nebulosity in Cygnus. This is a single frame Sky90/M26C OSC CCD image taken on the MiniWASP array and comprises in excess of 12-hours of 15-minute subs.

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Picture of the Week

This week we feature the Cone nebula region, a 3-frame (horizontal) mosaic taken with the Hyperstar III on the C11 with an M25C OSC CCD. On the left we have the Cone nebula, the central beautiful golden open cluster is … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

As promised on 24th June 2024 – here is an image that took me 10-years in the making. This is the whole of Corona Borealis, with the inverse-nova Carbon star R Coronae Borealis putting in a VERY bright appearance. Imaging … Continue reading

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This week it is one of my “single star” images, where the main subject is a bright star in the centre of the frame. This is a recently taken image, but I like it so much it is Picture of … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

The Belt Stars of Orion is this week’s Picture of the Week. Untold hours (in excess of 8 for sure) went into this one using a single Sky90 refractor and M25C OSC CCD. Alnitak (bottom left), Alnilam (centre) and Mintaka … Continue reading

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This week we feature the beautiful star Tarazed and the accompanying dark nebula known as Barnard’s “E”. This is MANY hours of 10 and 15-minute subs taken with the Sky90 array and M26C OSC CCDs on the MiniWASP array. This … Continue reading

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The Jellyfish nebula region, with Tejat (Mu-Geminorum) on the left and Propus on the right, is this week’s Picture of the Week. This was quite a long project with just a single Sky90 and an M25C OSC CCD. Why was … Continue reading

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The full extent of the California Nebula is this week’s “Picture of the Week”. This is a combination of both data from the 200mm lenses with M26C OSC CCDs, and the Sky90 array with M26C OSC CCDs. I think I … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week is M33 – the Triangulum Galaxy. At the risk of becoming boringly repetitive, this is yet another object with very many total imaging hours, probably well over 15 in total. This has been imaged using all … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

Picture of the Week is gorgeous M13 – the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. Again, many hours have gone into this one using several different cameras, several different versions of the Hyperstar, and also the Sky90 refractor at f#4.5. Another … Continue reading

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