Monthly Archives: October 2024

The Stars Like Dust

It really is hard to get a perspective on just how many stars there are in the Milky Way region of the Sagitta image. So I took a BIG crop out of the bottom of the image and magnified it … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

This week we feature 119 Tauri – the Ruby Star – second reddest naked-eye star in the sky after the Garnet Star (Mu Cephei). Neither 119 Tauri nor Mu Cephei are Carbon stars. Image comprises 22 x 3-minute subs taken … Continue reading

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Sagitta

Managed to get the left frame of the Sagitta mosaic last night with anothe 5-hours of 10-minute subs using the 200mm lenses and the 2600MC Pro OSC CMOS cameras. So that is the whole of Sagitta covered. Apart from the … Continue reading

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Sub-Exposure Time AND the Number of Sub-Exposures

I have just seen a bunch of YouTube videos on this subject, and they are all pretty confusing and worse still, contradictory. The issue of sub-exposure time (and the number of subs) is something I have worked on with Noel … Continue reading

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Print of the Month

Print of the Month – so what’s that all about? On the first of every month I shall be posting an image which you can purchase in either A1, A2 or A3 size. The pricing for each image will be … Continue reading

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