Noel added the 3rd frame to the mega Markarian Chain mosaic and I converted it to a negative black and white image so you can clearly see all the faint fuzzies. I didn’t place M87 in the correct place in … Continue reading
Noel has just completed processing the 3rd frame in the Markarian Chain mosaic. This frame will be added to the previous 2-frames to give a panoramic view of the region containing not only the whole of Markarian’s Chain, but also … Continue reading
Noel is plugging away at old data in every spare minute he has whilst working on a big software project. He has created this superb image of the Cave nebula in Cepheus taken with the Sky 90/M25C combination. This image … Continue reading
After a minor glitch that was quickly sorted out by Dean of Starizona (thank you Dean! and moral of the story – DO NOT attempt anything even remotely complicated if you’re suffering from jet-lag!!!) the Hyperstar, M25C and 2″ Hutech … Continue reading
Good news! Our OIII-enhanced version of the Rosette nebula [RGB, OIII, H-alpha] image made today’s EPOD 🙂
I have just returned from a business trip to Arizona, and Arizona can only mean one thing for astro-imagers – Starizona!! Whilst staying in Phoenix, Dean of Starizona shipped me the latest (adjustable!) Hyperstar for the C11 and an electonic … Continue reading
On pages 72-73 of the July issue of Astronomy Now you can read all the gory details of how the whole of the Veil Nebula was captured in a 32-hour imaging (and processing) marathon.
I took a look at one of the old computers and rediscovered a couple of lost and forgotten websites. Please check out some images of the 2003 transit of Mercury and the 2004 transit of Venus. The images on these … Continue reading
Noel has just completed processing a widefield image of the region in which the quasar APM08279+5255 resides. The image is composed of 28 sub-exposures using an exposure time of 6-minutes per sub. This object used to hold the record as … Continue reading
There is no imaging object of the month for June! Looking back over the years I see that it is not only far too late before it is dark enough to start imaging, but also that it gets light far … Continue reading
