V1331 Cygni is a young star in Cygnus in the dark nebula LDN981. It is almost surrounded by an arc-like reflection nebula. I have just spent many hours re-stacking the 6-hours worth of 10 and 15-minute subs expecting to get … Continue reading
I like close pairings of red and blue stars for the striking colour contrast they give. Here’s a pair that don’t get much air-time, namely Tania Australis (red) and Tania Borealis (blue) which reside in Ursa Major. Just to the … Continue reading
The Crescent nebula and surrounding emission nebulosity in Cygnus. This is a single frame Sky90/M26C OSC CCD image taken on the MiniWASP array and comprises in excess of 12-hours of 15-minute subs.
This is the rig I use to take all photomicrographs. At the top, actually recording the images. is a Canon 5D MkII DSLR. The DSLR sits on the 3rd port of a stereo research-grade microscope. For additional lighting (when needed) … Continue reading
Another 10-microsecond open-flash image. This time a water-filled balloon had been shot by an air pistol. But instead of the usual images you see of a ball of water hanging in the air, this one was taken showing the pellet … Continue reading
This is an 8-frame focus-stacked photomicromosaic of a Fruit Fly (Drosophila).
This is another focus-stacked photomicromosaic, this time using 5-frames for the mosaic. This is Spirogyra in conjugation at a magnification of 115x.
Bees are a super test of your macrophotography skills due to all the fine hairs.
In these three HSF images you can see a water-filled glass with a soap bubble over the top – about to burst. Underneath the soap bubble there is a rising column of water from the first water drop, and the … Continue reading
This is a focus-stacked photomicromosaic of a Dragonfly’s eye. What does that mouthful mean? Well at the magnification used (20x) the whole Dragonfly eye will not fit into the FOV of the Canon 5D MkIII on a research trinocular microscope. … Continue reading
