I started of a conversation with ChatGPT with some fairly bog-standard stuff to see if it came back with the correct answers, and then I went completely off the rails. The ensuing discussion impressed and fascinated me at the same … Continue reading
This week we feature bright star Deneb – one of the main stars in Cygnus. This image was captured over several nights by one Sky90 and M26C OSC CCD as the MiniWASP array was starting to be configured. This is … Continue reading
Last night was the 8th clear night in a row – a new record. Previously I managed to blow all the power MOSFETs in the dome rotator, so I spent all Monday morning replacing same (8 MOSFETs to de-solder, remove … Continue reading
I am not able to keep up with the images I have taken this week as I am so unused to having several clear nights in a row. Having just changed over to UV/IR cut filters on the 200mm lenses … Continue reading
Yet another clear night last night – almost unbelievable. So as I had just removed the narrowband filters from the 200mm lenses and replaced them with the UV/IR cut filters, I had rather creased myself and wasn’t sure what … Continue reading
This week the New Forest Observatory features a rare image (for the NFO) – that’s one of very few images taken with the Canon 200mm prime lens on a Canon 5D MkII DSLR. This was during the phase when I … Continue reading
A couple of nights back I managed to get some 10-minute subs on the Rosette using the Hyperstar 4 and the ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS camera with UV/IR cut filter. I added this new data to a lot of previously … Continue reading
