I just processed this data from September 2nd 2010 to keep my hand in 🙂 This colourful cluster (which is rarely imaged) is Stock2 and it lies in the constellation Perseus – right next door to the Double Cluster – … Continue reading
Here is a view inside the dome on this sunny Sunday 🙂 The cables are all attached (both ends) and virtually every socket of the two Belkin extension leads is taken up. Now need a clear night for Polar Alignment … Continue reading
Tom spent another full action-packed day at the New Forest Observatory helping out with the monumental IT problems and getting all the bits together for a computer-controlled stepper-motor-powered dome rotator. All very impressive stuff and mostly well beyond me – … Continue reading
This is data from 10th November 2010 and this time I have used all the 54 sub-exposures (4-minutes per sub) by treating the raw data slightly differently. If I simply colour convert the 16-bit FITS files, then some come out … Continue reading
Some more old data off the hard drive – this time from 3rd March 2011 – 47 sub-exposures at 5-minutes per sub using the Sky90 and M25C combo. NGC7788 and NGC7790 a pair of open clusters in Cassiopeia – North … Continue reading
Rainy day so I looked up an old piece of data to process – this one from March 2011 just came to hand. O.K. fairly boring star field – why on Earth did he bother with this one? It’s only … Continue reading
Put a Gigabit LAN card in the old white computer (the one on the right in the bay) and fitted an Aluminium bracket loaded with cable ties to take (most of) the cables from the Paramount to the computers, off … Continue reading
Here is the current state of play with the mini-WASP array project. Kieron of SCS Astro came to my rescue yet again with a third Paramount counterweight that I desperately needed before firing up the Paramount with the Sky 6. … Continue reading
This man was walking on the Moon! And so was the guy on the left in this shot:
Just a reminder that non-astronomical piccies that I used to post on this site can now be seen on my Scientific Artist web site. So those high-speed flash, mega-panoramas, macromosaics and micromosaics can now be seen over there 🙂
