A complete reprocess of the data incorporating Noel Carboni’s AstroFlat plugin.

51 x 20-minute subs using the 3 x Sky 90s and M26C OSC CCDs on the MiniWASP array at the New Forest Observatory.

Only been able to recently process this one properly thanks to Noel Carboni’s new AstroFlat plugin.

This is a 2-framer using the 200mm lenses and Trius M26C OSC CCDs with each frame a total of 12-hours integration time using 20-minute subs.

Here is an image of last night’s (27/05/2018) 6-minute ISS pass at 10:27 p.m.  As you can see it is still pretty light, and this is not helped at all by a nearly full Moon blazing away at the bottom of the image.

Clear night but half a Moon blazing away.  Never mind there’s a nice long 6-minute pass of the Space Station due at 22:35.  In fact for the next week there are 6-minute passes due every night!

I didn’t notice a bad stitch in the original data.  This is a 4-pane mosaic using the Canon 200mm prime lenses and Trius M26C OSC CCDs.

An unusual grouping had me out last night with the Canon 5D MkII and 15mm Canon fisheye lens.  It was 10:30 p.m. and still fairly light outside (darkness doesn’t start until Midnight!).  Vega, Arcturus, Spica and Jupiter provided the Quartet, and as Ursa Major was directly overhead – I grabbed that one as well.  10-second (bulb) exposure at f#4.0 and ISO 400.

This is last  night’s data taken between 11 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. on the Sky 90 array.  18 x 10-minute subs, and a star has been labelled for reference.  One bright asteroid in the FOV only clear in the averaged data.

Thank you Tom How of the Curdridge observatory for identifying the mystery asteroid at far right-centre as 729 Watsonia.

Clear until 9:00 p.m. last night with a very intrusive Moon.  Saw that Ceres was well-placed in Cancer so put the Sky 90 array on the region.

Ended up with 18 x 15-minute subs.  Can even see Ceres in the SDMask stacked colour image as it is moving so slowly and is so bright (when I first saw it on the subs I thought it was a star as it was actually brighter than all the surrounding stars).  For orientation that is SAO61102 in the centre (guide star).

In the B&W image you can see there is another asteroid below Ceres (that isn’t on the Sky 6).  And it is also worth noting that Ceres is shown in the wrong position on the Sky 6 – call up the live Ephemeris on Ceres to get its actual position if you want to image it.

From last night, 21 x 10-minute subs on the Sky 90 array.  Blazing half Moon causing trouble but as it was a beautiful clear (bitterly cold) night I imaged anyway.  Couldn’t be bothered to process out the plane trail.