This image of Quasar APM 08279+5255 in Lynx will make an appearance in a future Picture of the Week – but as I like this reprocess I am going to post it now.
This image was captured with the original Hyperstar (no rotation adjustament, no collimation adjusters) and a tiny little H9C OSC CCD from Starlight Xpress. If you have one of these fantastic cameras, hang on to it, I bitterly regret selling mine.
This week’s Zoom In/Zoom Out image features the M106 region.
This week’s Zoom In/Zoom Out image features the Markarian Chain region.
A composite of 3 datasets taken of the Markarian Chain region.
For the next few weeks all the images will be astronomical Zoom In/Zoom Out images, where both Zoom In and Zoom Out are both high resolution as they were taken either at different focal lengths, or the Zoom Out is a mosaic.
This week we feature a Zoom In and Zoom out on the Rosette Nebula.
This week we feature a composite Arcturus image taken with the 200mm lenses and the 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras in April 2025 and April 2026.
The 2 datasets are 24 x 5-minute subs (2025) and 18 x 250-second subs (19/04/2026).
The background is glassy smooth with 42 subs.
I reprocessed all the recent 200mm lens data on this one and then cropped down to centre Arcturus whilst including Napoleon’s Hat (below-right of Arcturus).
We are in for a few weeks of astronomy images. This is a zoom in/zoom out image of NGC6914, a reflection nebula in Cygnus and the only bit of blue in a sea of red as I call it.
The zoomed-in image was taken by a tiny little H9C OSC CCD on an original Hyperstar on the C11, and the zoomed-out image was taken using the Sky90 array with the M26C OSC CCDs.
Imaging the M44 (Beehive Cluster) with the 200mm lenses I came across this arachnid that had spun it’s web across the innermost stars of Cancer, perhaps hoping to catch some Bees.
I used all the Sky90 data and added to it the core data I took on the original Hyperstar with the little H9C OSC CCD. There was a noticeable improvement.
