Monthly Archives: April 2016

The Virgo/Coma galaxy supercluster

12 frames using the Hyperstar III and M25C camera with 2-hours of 10-minute subs per frame.  Also a 200mm lens with M26C camera 2-framer using 15-minute subs and 5 hours per frame.  So total integration time is 34 hours 🙂

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Use of my images

Could I please re-iterate:  None of my images are available “free of charge”.  Please take a moment to look at the “Image Agency and Copyright Notice” section. Thank you.  

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Greg’s Lambda/Lambda

Here is the Epsilon Cassiopeiae region in Cassiopeia – and to the middle left you can see a very clear Lambda, together with a much smaller and fainter Lambda.

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The 100th Monkey Effect – and Science

The 100th monkey effect, which may not be an effect at all, is about non-physical communication of data.  The original 100th monkey effect supposedly started with a single monkey, in a group of monkeys on an isolated island, who discovered … Continue reading

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Pazmino’s Cluster

Turned out rather noisy for 30 x 1,000 second subs with the Sky 90 array.  Not sure why as there was no Moon about.  Maybe I forget to turn the Peltiers on??  Need to redo this one with the Hyperstar … Continue reading

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La Superba

4 hours of 10-minute subs from last year with the Sky 90 array.  Akira Fujii effect.

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Kemble’s Cascade – Akira Fujii-effect version

Here is a 4-frame mosaic of the Kemble’s Cascade region taken with the Sky 90 array and M26C OSC CCDs. I have used the Akira Fujii effect to enhance the brighter stars.  This actually means deliberately bloating the brighter stars … Continue reading

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ISS on its own – not a night to remember

9th April 2016 was not a happy night for me.  Two passes of the ISS and the Dragon supply vessel predicted, one at 8:40 p.m. and the other at 10:15 p.m.  Sky clear!!  Moon setting at 10:39 p.m. and small … Continue reading

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NGC3842 region in Leo

The Sky 90 array was set on this object to see if I could pick up the 3 quasars near this galaxy.  No sign!! A day later I put the Hyperstar III on the same region but only got 4 … Continue reading

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April 1st Earth Science Picture of the Day

Got today’s EPOD with a groundbreaking image of a Dyson sphere construction around Polaris imaged in the early hours of this morning. Thank you Jim for continuing to publish my work 🙂 http://epod.usra.edu/blog/  

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