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The Veil nebula in Cygnus

This is a composite image comprising 8-hours of 20-minute subs taken last night on the Canon 200mm prime lenses, together with a 32-hour 2-framer taken on a single Sky90 including Ha and OIII narrowband data. It still needs a LOT … Continue reading

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GAIA

Re the deluge in Libya – following the deluge in Greece which followed the wildfires in Greece. Gaia is pretty pissed off you know. She’s making it clear for everyone to see, but nobody seems to be taking any notice.

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Astronomy Image of the Day

The IC2087 region of Taurus showing the Taurus molecular cloud. 10-hours of 20-minute subs using the 200mm lenses and M26C OSC CCDs.

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Got today’s EPOD

Managed to get today’s EPOD with a Macro-Mosaic of an Owl Butterfly. Thank you Jim for continuing to publish my work.  

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YOU REALLY DO NEED TO READ THIS!

https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/were-never-getting-back-to-normal?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=492821&post_id=97362644&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

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20th Anniversary of EPOD

Got today’s (20th Anniversary) EPOD with “First High-Quality Real Stereo Image of Pluto” with Brian May (who did all the work on this one).

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A tale of the Supernatural – or something else?

In 1968 we were living at the top of the Sir John Soane’s museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Holborn, London having just returned from 2 years in New Zealand.  Believe me, the museum was the spookiest of places at the … Continue reading

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Turing – pardon?

I believe that recently Alan Turing has been pardoned.  Pardoned for what exactly? Shouldn’t the Government of the day actually be asking for forgiveness of the Government of Turing’s day for the vicious chemical assault of Turing? Let this be … Continue reading

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Arcturus from 10/07/2013

Grabbed this one with this mini-WASP array last night 🙂  

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Open clusters M46 & M47 in Puppis

Two very nice open clusters, quite low down in the sky for me, in the constellation Puppis.  These are M46 (on the left) and M47 (on the right).  There are also two other open clusters as well as two planetary … Continue reading

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