Monthly Archives: July 2013

Arcturus from 10/07/2013

Grabbed this one with this mini-WASP array last night 🙂  

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Really done in now!!

So last night was the SEVENTH clear Moonless night in a row – up until 2:30 a.m. – and now I’m really done in 🙂 Still – managed 9 x 20-minute subs with the Hyperstar III on the Witch’s Broom, … Continue reading

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M11 in the Scutum star cloud all 3 data sets

All three data sets added together using Registar.    

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The mini-WASP arrays grabs Carbon star V Aquilae

Another dense Milky Way shot, this time with a Carbon star in the centre of the FOV, V Aquilae, in the constellation Aquila. How many clear Moonless nights in a row are we going to get??

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Hyperstar III deep 2-framer of the Tulip nebula region in Cygnus

I recently took a very deep Hyperstar III 2-framer of the Tulip nebula region in Cygnus and Noel Carboni processed the two frame together to give this image 🙂

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The mini-WASP array grabs M11 in the Scutum star cloud

Yet ANOTHER clear Moonless night last night – and although feeling really sick with sleep deprivation – I went outside and fired up the beast. Really glad I did as the target was the open cluster M11 which sits in … Continue reading

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The Stars Like Dust

Isaac Asimov had it right with this dense Milky Way region in Cygnus.  Captured last night with the mini-WASP array, 7 x 15-minute subs on all 3 scopes and M26C OSC cameras.

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SAO 69360 S-type star in Cygnus

Taken with the HSIII on 04/07/2013 this is an S-type star, SAO 69360 in Cygnus.

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The NGC 6871 region of Cygnus with the Sky 90 and M26C

Just the Sky 90 data on this one (I also have 2 datasets from the 2 TS 80s) showing the open cluster region around NGC 6871 and NGC 6883 in Cygnus.

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Oops – tired and didn’t set up properly

There was a fair bit of thin high cloud wandering over last night (as it turned out it didn’t get in the way of Cygnus) and so I only set up the Hyperstar III and didn’t run the mini-WASP array. … Continue reading

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