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Image of the Month November 2015

Going back to 28th September we had the most amazing total Lunar eclipse, this image captured using a Canon 5D MkII on a TS80 triplet at f#6 all sitting on a tripod, shows pre-totality, totality, and post totality.  And yes … Continue reading

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Deep-Sky Image of the Month October 2015

As it is the first of the month today – it is a good day to resurrect the Deep-Sky Image of the Month 🙂 Just taken recently, I have chosen the Sky 90/M26C 4-framer of Kemble’s Cascade taken just a … Continue reading

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Deep-sky Image of the Month – IOM for May 2015

I feel in such a good mood having just completed the mega-WASP upgrade that I think I will resurrect the almost forgotten Image of the Month 🙂 Here is the very recent Polaris image taken with the mini-WASP array – … Continue reading

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Image of the Month – October 2013

This month’s image is a wide-field taken using the amazing Canon EF200 f#2.8 prime lens and a Canon 5D MkII DSLR.  Piggy-back mounted on the C11 I took 10 x 5-minute subs at ISO 400 and f#4 with an IDAS … Continue reading

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Image of the Month – September 2013

I see the Image of the Month didn’t pop up a couple of days back.  Either I didn’t do one or it’s lost in cyberspace.  Never mind, here’s one a couple of days late.  This is the recent M11 in … Continue reading

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Image of the Month – August 2013

For this DSS2 image of the Tulip nebula region in Cygnus I just kept adding frames until the computer gave up 🙂    

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Image of the Month – July 2013

This is a 5-frame mosaic put together using Noel Carboni’s Astronomy Tools for Photoshop and DSS2 red and blue channel data.  I seriously question why I bother to image when such high quality data is readily available to download and … Continue reading

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Image of the Month – June 2013

Yes – another single star picture for this month’s Image of the Month.  Polaris, the Pole star, the North star, Alpha Ursa Minor – the Navigator’s friend.  I like this region of space because 1)  It is rarely imaged and … Continue reading

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Image of the Month – May 2013

The Image of the Month for May 2013 is the recent reprocess of the Coathanger Cluster (Al Sufi’s cluster, Collinder 399) in the constellation Vulpecula.  This reprocess by Noel Carboni included data from the mini-WASP array plus deep data from … Continue reading

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Image of the Month – April 2013

The image of the month for April 2013 is the stunning red star Mu Cephei.  As you know, I really like the impact the bright single star images have, especially when the single star is something very special. Mu Cephei … Continue reading

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