Last week we showed Jupiter and Mercury taken from Whitemoor Pond. This week Jupiter, Venus and Mercury all feature in this week’s Picture of the Week. Image captured using a Canon 5D MkII DSLR with a 15mm Canon fisheye lens … Continue reading
As Spica is well-positioned for imaging this time of year, I thought I’d quickly check out previous data. The above image is a few hours of Sky90 data, and as I am not going to improve on this one too … Continue reading
As I have completed the Coma Cluster data to my satisfaction, I went back to look at all the Markarian Chain data I took in 2022 and reprocessed that. This is 48 x 4-minute subs on the Hyperstar 4, and … Continue reading
Did the Coma Cluster with the HS4 last night, 5 minute subs again, 24 subs in total out of which I chose 17. So together with the data from the 6th that totals 36 x 5-minute subs or 3-hours of … Continue reading
I took this data with the Hyperstar on the 6th. I was expecting to get more data last night (7th) but there was tons of thin high cloud. So I cropped the data I got and you can see it … Continue reading
A clear Moonless night tonight and I am imaging the Coma Cluster of galaxies (yes that’s the cluster that Zwicky used to infer the existence of Dark Matter way back in the 1930s). Hyperstar 4 on a C11 with an … Continue reading
Another astronomical image this week. This time we have Jupiter and beautiful red Mercury captured over at Whitemoor Pond, the New Forest.
Well the new 2600MC CMOS camera from First Light Optics arrived, it has been fired up, and all is well! Also the USB Canon lens focuser manufactured by Astromechanics and distributed by Ali Express also arrived. At first I didn’t … Continue reading
A high-speed image features this week. Here we have 3 separate images of a double waterdrop collision taking place underneath a bursting soap-bubble. I have used different coloured filters in front of the high-speed flash units. The HSF units are … Continue reading
I just combined the two M105 images recently taken with the Hyperstar using the brilliant software Registar. Registar makes image combination so easy!
