Clear Moonless night last night and I imaged a Carbon star near Caph in Cassiopeia. Mini-WASP array, all 3 cameras, 19 subs at 4-minutes per sub. Couldn’t believe when I loaded up this image that I’d done it last month … Continue reading
Ended up in getting 15 subs per camera at 10-minutes per sub on the Bubble nebula region in Cepheus last night. Needs about the same amount of data again to bring out the faint stuff, or maybe some H-alpha narrowband … Continue reading
And I’m imaging M52, the bubble nebula, NGC 7538 and NGC 7510 with a single mini-WASP frame.
I see the Image of the Month didn’t pop up a couple of days back. Either I didn’t do one or it’s lost in cyberspace. Never mind, here’s one a couple of days late. This is the recent M11 in … Continue reading
200mm Canon EF lens with Canon 5D MkII on a Paramount – no overkill there then 🙂
Here are the ones you missed from earlier on – the First and Second Light images from the amazing Canon EF 200mm prime lens. Initially I went for the Double Cluster and Stock 2 region: And then I spent a … Continue reading
I have not been able to post images to this site for a while as an “upgrade” completely screwed things up for me. Fortunately Dave Parker was able to unravel the damage caused by me upgrading one of the plug-ins … Continue reading
I recently bought a Canon 200mm prime lens to go onto the 5D MkII for some very wide field work. Last night was completely clear so that was first light, and second light, for the lens. Firstly I went for … Continue reading
Still no Moon and still plenty of cloud – you just can’t win. Got a nice shot of the 4-minute ISS pass around 11:06 p.m. which you can see here. Also managed to get 4 meteors, but the images are … Continue reading
Well this year was unusual in that we are not annoyed by a blazing Moon upsetting our view of the Perseids – so what else can be thrown at us? Clouds of course. Pretty heavy cloud for most of last … Continue reading
