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Author Archives: Greg Parker
Vega (Alpha Lyrae) – brightest star in Lyra
Here is a two-frame mini-WASP image of the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra.
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Diamonds on Black Velvet
The famous Double Cluster in Perseus.
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A Ring between two Diamonds
I just reprocessed this earlier Camera 2 mini-WASP data from 2012 with a heavier crop and a little more careful processing.
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Globular cluster M56 lost in a Milky Way background
Noel Carboni just processed this earlier Hyperstar III data of the globular cluster M56 almost lost in a rich Milky Way background star field.
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Purchase of non deep-sky images
If you wish to purchase High-Speed Flash, “Little Planet”, Photomicroscopy or Macro images, then please check out what is available on the Scientific Artist web site.
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This afternoon I fixed a fault with the Paramount ME myself.
Just a few weeks after I started to run the Paramount ME I hit trouble – the mount would not home in declination properly. When I hit “home”, the declination axis would move in a clockwise direction, go past the … Continue reading
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Hind’s Crimson Star
Taken in early January 2013 using the mini-WASP array. 18 subs at 4-minutes per sub using all 3 cameras – so 216 imaging minutes in total – the mini-WASP array really grabs the maximum amount of data in the shortest … Continue reading
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New Forest Observatory this morning
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Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) is the recent Sirius image
Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with the recent Sirius image. Thank you Jim for continuing to publish our work 🙂
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Robofocus units fitted to the TS 80mm triplet APOs
I just realised when explaining to someone how I fitted the two Robofocus units to the TS 80mm triplet APOs that I had not published an image of the setup here on the NFO site. So here it is 🙂
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