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Monthly Archives: November 2013
EPOD number 55 today
Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with “Fibonacci Spirals in the Garden” – http://epod.usra.edu/ Thank you Jim for continuing to publish my work 🙂
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200mm lens and the M25C (partially) does the California nebula
Got out on 23/11/2013 with the Canon 200mm prime lens and the 6-Megapixel M25C one-shot colour camera to do some imaging on the California nebula. Managed 12 x 5-minute subs before the cloud came in. Very pleased with the result … Continue reading
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Banks wrecking businesses – surely not
Another non-astro post, so if you’re not interested please stop reading here. A certain Bank has been accused of wrecking small businesses, as if this is some kind of new behaviour – sorry, it is not. In a past life … Continue reading
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I am in love with the Canon 200mm prime f#2.8 lens
I recently fitted the M25C 6-Megapixel one shot colour CCD to the Canon 200mm prime lens. Took around an hour to flatten the chip to the lens using CCDInspector, but the time was worth it as I managed to end … Continue reading
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Of course I had an image of the Lambda-Lambda asterism!!
You would have thought that with a whole Cassiopeia mosaic I would have caught the Lambda-Lambda asterism – and of course I did. It is in this image top left of the main star Epsilon. Reason it wasn’t immediately obvious … Continue reading
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A new asterism in Cassiopeia – Greg’s Lambda
Not managed to image this one myself yet (non-stop rain) but I found a new asterism in Cassiopeia that bears a strong resemblance to the Greek letter Lambda. Will grab this with the mini-WASP array at the first opportunity 🙂 … Continue reading
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Brian May’s latest book of 3-D images – Diableries
Arrived today 🙂 This is clearly a labour of love. Beautifully presented, oozing quality, and very fine attention paid to the detail throughout. I had the honour of going through Brian’s Ph.D. thesis on “A Survey of Radial Velocities in … Continue reading
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Go nuclear 2!
Just over one year ago I wrote the piece below: I guess I have reached that age where I feel I can do much better than the dimwits who are running this country. I feel highly underwhelmed at their complete … Continue reading
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What about a deep-sky image of the whole of Cassiopeia?
Two nights ago I got the last of four frames for a whole of Cassiopeia mosaic using the Canon 5D MkII and a 200mm lens. You can see the result here
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