La Superba Star name: La Superba Other names: Y Canum Venaticorum Constellation: Canes Venatici Other ID: SAO 44317, HIP 62223, HD110914, HR4846, GC17342 Magnitude: 4.8 to 6.3 (variable over 160 days) Absolute magnitude: -7.63 Luminosity, Sun = … Continue reading
Mu Cephei Name: The Garnet star Other names: Herschel’s Garnet star Constellation: Cepheus Other ID: Erakis, HD206936, HR8316, SAO33693, HIP107259 Magnitude: 4.08 (variable) Absolute magnitude: -7.63 Luminosity, Sun = 1: 370,000 (possibly as much as 600,000, uncertain figure) … Continue reading
119 Tauri/CE Tauri Star name: CE Tauri Constellation: Taurus Other ID: 119 Tauri, SAO 94628, HIP25945, HD36389, B+18 875, HR1845, GC 6841 Magnitude: 4.32 Absolute magnitude: -4.38+/-0.31 Luminosity, Sun = 1: 44,000 (variable) R.A. 2000: 05hr … Continue reading
Rogelio Bernal Andreo is completely redefining amateur deep-sky imaging. I have shown Rogelio’s work before in the NFO prequel “Image of the Week” and I continue to be completely blown away by the beauty and extreme high quality of his work. Here … Continue reading
While I have been trying to tune up scope 1 and camera 1 on the mini-WASP array, I have not wasted good imaging time 🙂 During the tuning periods I was imaging the same region with the well-tuned scope 2 and camera … Continue reading
Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with the recent M13 image captured at the New Forest Observatory and expertly processed by Noel Carboni in Florida U.S.A. Looks very nice on the site Jim – thank you for … Continue reading
Today being the summer Solstice for 2012, and seeing as it has rained all day, I opened up the two Tea caddy pinhole cameras that I put up last winter Solstice. So here we have 6-months worth of Sun trails … Continue reading
I managed to get runner-up in the “Split Second” category of the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards 2012 with my “eggsplosion” high-speed flash image. Hoping to do just that bit better in 2013 🙂
I have just downloaded the 60-day trial version of PEMPro from CCDWare (I already use their brilliant CCDInspector software) for evalutaion. PEMPro allows you to polar align and train the PEC for your mount. As I want to be able … Continue reading
Below I published images of the beginning and the end of the transit (downloaded live from the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite) – but for some reason I did not include an image from near the middle of the transit. Rectified … Continue reading
