Here is a colour and negative B&W version of the on-going Virgo/Coma galaxies mega-mosaic. Over 4 years in the making so far, this image stretches from M58 in the bottom left hand corner right up to M100 in the top … Continue reading
The Virgo/Coma galaxies mega-mosaic went together a lot easier than I was expecting. A few tiny bits of extra processing to be done on this one, but here is the negative B&W version so you can scroll around all those … Continue reading
I managed to get enough decent data last night, despite the sky being full of water vapour and a very intrusive Moon, to fill in the annoying “notch” on the Markarian Chain mega-mosaic. I have just bolted the last three … Continue reading
Here is the lower-left hand panel for the on-going Virgo/Coma galaxies mega-mosaic image. Want to hear some pain? The Siamese-Twins at the bottom of the image fall off the bottom of the rest of the mosaic by a fraction 🙁 … Continue reading
This is my second attempt at a comet Garradd animation – this time without dithering between subs 🙂 The “jumps” in comet motion are due to lost subs.
This is last night’s Sky-Watcher data (2-hours) composited with the earlier Sky 90 data (11 and a half hours) – so 13 and a half hours total into this one so far 🙂
I managed to get 2-hours on the Flaming Star nebula in Auriga with the Sky-Watcher Esprit ED-100 quintuplet refractor last night. Once again, not long enough for a pretty picture, but long enough to check out its performance. This image … Continue reading
Very lucky to have some clear skies again last night 🙂 Managed to get some imaging done on the Merak region with the new Esprit ED-100 quintuplet refractor. Two frames here, only half an hour per frame using 3-minute subs, … Continue reading
The utterly superb Sky-Watcher Esprit ED-100 quintuplet refractor is now mounted on the Paramount with the Megrez 80 guide scope piggy-backed above. I have a Robofocus connected to the ED-100 fine focus knob via a tiny timing belt and actually … Continue reading
When I take a set of sub-exposures of something moving or changing in time I think of creating an animation. When Dr. Brian May (yes the Queen guitarist) sees a set of sub-exposures with a moving comet and a stationary … Continue reading
