Noel & I have an image today on the International Year of Astronomy’s website as “Astropic of the Week”. It is our image of NGC6914 – a reflection nebula in the huge Gamma Cygni nebulosity IC1318. Excellent!!!
For us deep-sky images I’m afraid the Moon is simply a nuisance, especially as it approaches full. Well tonight I wanted to do some imaging – so there’s only one choice really, and that’s the Moon. This image was taken … Continue reading
Now that the Hyperstar III is going to be the main imager for some time to come, I have just made some system hardware changes. The (relatively) heavy Sky 90 has been removed as the guide scope and replaced with … Continue reading
Here is an aerial view of the NFO. The house on the end where the road bends round is home to the NFO, and you can see the dome as a white circle at the bottom of the garden.
I now realise that the initial case I considered – a page of text facing a mirror with the page parallel to the mirror – was a very special, and very restrictive case – so it wasn’t really the best … Continue reading
A while back I wrote how you get lateral inversion (“mirror writing”) in a mirror. I worked out the solution independently of the (same) one given by Martin Gardner in his book “The Ambidextrous Universe”.
Not everything on this site is deep-sky stuff, occasionally I publish something interesting that’s associated with the photographic process.
Well I managed to get out and try the kit even though earlier in the day I had a 4 and a half hour traffic nightmare coming back from the West Country – managed to hit the Bank Holiday traffic. … Continue reading
Coming back from a short break in Devon I was pleased to find the tripod and accessories for the Astrotrac had arrived. It was also good to find that all the threads were compatible with fixing the Astrotrac to the … Continue reading
You can see the Coathanger Cluster image, along with several other Parker/Carboni deep-sky creations on the Bang! website. Enjoy 🙂
