Beautiful clear Moonless sky last night until just after midnight. Started imaging at 5:55 p.m. one of my earliest starts, so ended up with 7 hours of total imaging time on the mini-WASP array (which equates to 21 hours of … Continue reading
Noel applied his talents to last night’s Mu Cephei data taken using 3 scopes + cameras on the mini-WASP array. Unfortunately, as I hadn’t taken any flats Noel was not able to properly flatten this data, but even so, he … Continue reading
Managed to grab a quick hour and a half between the clouds tonight on the mini-WASP array using all 3 imagers. Got the Garnet star in Cepheus which lies on the edge of the huge emission nebula IC1396. If you … Continue reading
There was a programme the other night, I think on Channel 4 about possible alien creatures being found on Earth. I love this stuff so I watched the programme. Highly disappointing right from the off. These “alien” creatures weren’t very … Continue reading
One of my favourite regions of sky, I have to return time and time again to all that bright Cygnus nebulosity, I find it amazing. This image of the North America/Pelican region is a composite using both Sky 90/M25C and … Continue reading
Last night (29/11/2012) I managed to get all 3 scopes and cameras working as one system on the mini-WASP array for the first time 🙂 Up until last night there was always (at least) one scope and camera not playing … Continue reading
The Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) image for today is the recent shot of the Double Cluster and Greg’s Charm Bracelet taken at the New Forest Observatory on the mini-WASP array and processed by Noel Carboni in Florida … Continue reading
While I was tuning one of the scope/cameras on the mini-WASP array I used the other 2 scopes/cameras to do a quick capture of the Coathanger cluster in Vulpecula. 24 subs at 5-minutes per sub gave this nice result.
Well in Cairns Australia anyway. Sunrise is 5:30 a.m. their time which is 7:30 p.m. our time and the action starts shortly afterwards. Log into a webstream showing you all the action – just wish I was there in person, … Continue reading
I added the recent Double Cluster data to older Stock 2 data using the magic program Registar 🙂
