Author Archives: Greg Parker

20 Years of Imaging the Double Cluster

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Greg Parker

The above 6 images of the Double Cluster show this region at different scales and with the images taken on several different pieces of kit. The first image is a 4-frame mosaic taken with a Sky90 and M25C OSC CCD. … Continue reading →

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Late Picture of the Week

Posted on October 13, 2024 by Greg Parker

Sorry the Picture of the Week appeared late today. I just logged on to find it hadn’t been posted. A quick check showed I had chosen 8 p.m. instead of 8 a.m. as the time to post. Rectified at 13:30 … Continue reading →

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Picture of the Week

Posted on October 13, 2024 by Greg Parker

This week we feature Aldebaran – the Eye of the Bull in Taurus. This is only 6 x 10-minute subs using the 200mm lenses and the M26C OSC CCDs. I can do a lot better than this, bringing out some … Continue reading →

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The Stars Like Dust

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Greg Parker

It really is hard to get a perspective on just how many stars there are in the Milky Way region of the Sagitta image. So I took a BIG crop out of the bottom of the image and magnified it … Continue reading →

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Picture of the Week

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Greg Parker

This week we feature 119 Tauri – the Ruby Star – second reddest naked-eye star in the sky after the Garnet Star (Mu Cephei). Neither 119 Tauri nor Mu Cephei are Carbon stars. Image comprises 22 x 3-minute subs taken … Continue reading →

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Sagitta

Posted on October 4, 2024 by Greg Parker

Managed to get the left frame of the Sagitta mosaic last night with anothe 5-hours of 10-minute subs using the 200mm lenses and the 2600MC Pro OSC CMOS cameras. So that is the whole of Sagitta covered. Apart from the … Continue reading →

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Sub-Exposure Time AND the Number of Sub-Exposures

Posted on October 2, 2024 by Greg Parker

I have just seen a bunch of YouTube videos on this subject, and they are all pretty confusing and worse still, contradictory. The issue of sub-exposure time (and the number of subs) is something I have worked on with Noel … Continue reading →

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Picture of the Week

Posted on September 29, 2024 by Greg Parker

This week we highlight the whole of the constellation Delphinus. This image was taken using the 200mm lenses on the MiniWASP array, and is a single framer. The image comprises 28 x 10-minute subs. I’m not sure a lot more … Continue reading →

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Sagitta Central

Posted on September 28, 2024 by Greg Parker

A clear beautiful Moonless night last night, one of the best I’ve seen in a long while. Target – the constellation Sagitta. This is planned to be a 3-frame mosaic with the 200mm lenses and the 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras. … Continue reading →

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Picture of the Week

Posted on September 22, 2024 by Greg Parker

Here we have the beautiful contrasting pair of stars Albireo in Cygnus. This is a crop to Albireo of an image taken with the original Hyperstar on a C11 with a tiny little H9C OSC CCD. This is around 62 … Continue reading →

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