Author Archives: Greg Parker

Properly Processed Deep Pleiades

I stacked each individual sub of this 38 subs x 40-minute stack of subs instead of stacking 4 blocks of subs together. This has given a far better SNR than my previous efforts. So this image is 25-hours and 20-minutes … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

This week’s Zoom In/Zoom Out image features the M46 region.

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Quasar APM 08279+5255 in Lynx

This image of Quasar APM 08279+5255 in Lynx will make an appearance in a future Picture of the Week – but as I like this reprocess I am going to post it now. This image was captured with the original … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

This week’s Zoom In/Zoom Out image features the M106 region.

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Picture of the Week

This week’s Zoom In/Zoom Out image features the Markarian Chain region.

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A New Markarian Chain Composite

A composite of 3 datasets taken of the Markarian Chain region.

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Picture of the Week

For the next few weeks all the images will be astronomical Zoom In/Zoom Out images, where both Zoom In and Zoom Out are both high resolution as they were taken either at different focal lengths, or the Zoom Out is … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

This week we feature a composite Arcturus image taken with the 200mm lenses and the 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras in April 2025 and April 2026. The 2 datasets are 24 x 5-minute subs (2025) and 18 x 250-second subs (19/04/2026). … Continue reading

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Arcturus and Napoleon’s Hat

I reprocessed all the recent 200mm lens data on this one and then cropped down to centre Arcturus whilst including Napoleon’s Hat (below-right of Arcturus).

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Picture of the Week

We are in for a few weeks of astronomy images. This is a zoom in/zoom out image of NGC6914, a reflection nebula in Cygnus and the only bit of blue in a sea of red as I call it. The … Continue reading

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