Bright star Denebola taken with the Hyperstar 4, 30-subs at 150-seconds per sub.
So what’s he doing now, and why is he mucking around changing things already? Well I am unhappy with the mounting arrangement of the third 200mm lens in the old Sky90(3) slot. So what’s the problem? The geometry restriction of … Continue reading
I wanted to make sure I had stacked the 38 x 40-minute subs of Pleiades data properly, so I went right back to the RAW FITS files and did it all again. I think I did stack the data properly, … Continue reading
I combined an earlier 2-frame mosaic of the Altair region with the recent single-framer, both taken using the 200mm lenses and ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras, and this is the result. Probably no more to be done here.
Got 2/3rds of the way through setting up the 200mm lenses last night, and this is just 9 x 5-minute subs on cameras 3 & 4 on the Pleiades. For such a short exposure time I am pretty pleased with … Continue reading
A bit late this year for the first outing of the season, but managed it in the end. This is the first image from the Canon 200mm prime lens array to use all 3 lenses at the same time. So … Continue reading
You will see in the post below, in an encounter with ChatGPT that was very much like pulling teeth, that I finally got the AI to admit that I was the discoverer of the Golden Solid Angle. That in itself … Continue reading
GREG: what can you tell me about the golden solid angle The golden solid angle is a three-dimensional extension of the traditional golden angle that partitions the total surface area of a sphere in the golden ratio. New Forest Observatory … Continue reading
The recent partial solar eclipse taken over the New Forest by Whitemoor Pond by my son using a hand-held Canon DSLR and hand-held aluminised Mylar film. His image came out far better than any of mine.
A reprocess of a large amount of Cygnus Wall data taken on the Sky90 array.
