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Author Archives: Greg Parker
Two Carbon stars in Sagitta
Lovely clear evening last night, but there was an annoying Moon hanging around for most of the imaging session. Never mind, the Moon isn’t too much of a problem when you’re taking star shots. The one frame has caught two … Continue reading
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Science and God
Science and God Oh dear, that old Chestnut again, can anything new be said on the subject? Probably not, but then again, as we are now in the 21st Century, perhaps it is a good time to re-assess the situation. … Continue reading
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Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) – Imaging Diatoms
Got today’s EPOD with a focus-stacked photomicromosaic of a Diatom Exhibition slide. Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work 🙂
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Witch’s Broom region in Cygnus – an M25C composite image
This is a composite image combining the recent 8 x 20-minute subs from the Hyperstar III with earlier Sky 90/M25C which incorporated H-alpha and OIII narrowband data.
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Arcturus from 10/07/2013
Grabbed this one with this mini-WASP array last night 🙂
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Really done in now!!
So last night was the SEVENTH clear Moonless night in a row – up until 2:30 a.m. – and now I’m really done in 🙂 Still – managed 9 x 20-minute subs with the Hyperstar III on the Witch’s Broom, … Continue reading
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M11 in the Scutum star cloud all 3 data sets
All three data sets added together using Registar.
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The mini-WASP arrays grabs Carbon star V Aquilae
Another dense Milky Way shot, this time with a Carbon star in the centre of the FOV, V Aquilae, in the constellation Aquila. How many clear Moonless nights in a row are we going to get??
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Hyperstar III deep 2-framer of the Tulip nebula region in Cygnus
I recently took a very deep Hyperstar III 2-framer of the Tulip nebula region in Cygnus and Noel Carboni processed the two frame together to give this image 🙂
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The mini-WASP array grabs M11 in the Scutum star cloud
Yet ANOTHER clear Moonless night last night – and although feeling really sick with sleep deprivation – I went outside and fired up the beast. Really glad I did as the target was the open cluster M11 which sits in … Continue reading
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