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Monthly Archives: March 2026
Picture of the Week
This week we feature another deep-sky image. This time it is the Gamma Cass region featuring the beautiful Gamma Cass nebulosity. This is a very deep image taken using the 200mm lenses, the 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras and UV/IR cut … Continue reading
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M105, M95, M96 Hyperstarred
Extremely lucky it was clear again last night – BUT – unfortunately there was thin high cloud so this isn’t as good an image as it could have been. Hyperstar4 and M2600MC Pro 23 subs at 4-minutes per sub, dithered … Continue reading
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You’d Better be Sitting Down
A clear Moonless night last night, so I fired up the Hyperstar. After focusing and running CCDCalc I found I had perfect collimation! I’m not arguing – I just went straight to the best looking bit of sky to give … Continue reading
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Picture of the Week
This week’s POW featured as an EPOD (Earth Science Picture of the Day). Here we see a macrophoto of a Sunflower seed-head on the left, and on the right we see a simulation of the seed-head produced using the Mathcad … Continue reading
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Picture of the Week
This week we feature a selection of 3D prints from the old (and now retired) ANET A6 which performed superbly for many years.
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Picture of the Week
Back to astronomy this week with an image of the Witch’s Broom nebula in Cygnus. This is not my data but data given to me by a lecturer at Brockenhurst College. He got professional narrowband data – Ha Hb and … Continue reading
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