The system was set up absolutely spot on last night, so rather than just go for a Carbon star, I went for a Carbon star (SAO 69636 – indicated by the yellow arrow) and a bit of interesting nebulosity 🙂 … Continue reading
And yet again another beautiful clear Moonless night last night – that’s 5 in a row now, almost makes up for 6 weeks of cloud and rain. Went for another Carbon star in Cygnus, this time it is U Cygni, … Continue reading
Grabbed this one from the clear night last night. Hyperstar III and M26C one-shot 10-megapixel camera. 22 subs at 200 seconds per sub with dither. Carbon star TT Cygni. If the clear skies continue I will add to the Carbon … Continue reading
I was just about to post up last night’s imaging session when I saw the counter has just gone over the 300,000 mark 🙂 Thank you all for visiting, and keep the visits coming, the mini-WASP array will be imaging … Continue reading
Stayed up until 2:00 a.m. last night taking a Hyperstar III/M26C 2-framer of the NGC 6883 and NGC 6871 regions in Cygnus. This is just one sub from each region quickly stitched together with virtually no processing just to get … Continue reading
Last night was the third night of trying to set up the Hyperstar III and the M26C 10-megapixel one-shot colour CCD. It’s been a bit of a battle and I still haven’t got very good chip flatness and collimation, but … Continue reading
Unbelievably there were a couple of hours of clear sky (and no Moon) last night 🙂 As both the mini-WASP and the new Hyperstar III setup need tuning it was a hard choice of which one to work on. Expecting … Continue reading
If you’re into Science Fiction I can highly recommend “Slabscape: Reset” – the best thing I’ve picked (well Kindled anyway) since William Gibson’s Neuromancer – and that’s going back a LONG time 🙂
Spica Star name: Spica Other names: Alpha Virginis, Azimech, Alaraph, Dana Constellation: Virgo Other ID: 67 Virginis, HR5056, HD116658, SAO157923, HIP65474 Magnitude: +1.04 Absolute magnitude: -3.55 Luminosity, Sun = 1: 12,100 R.A. 2000: 13hr 25min 11.5793sec … Continue reading
Well I don’t think there is going to be much let up in the rain for a good few months now – I have just received a new camera for the Hyperstar III. For quite a while now I have … Continue reading
