This is turning out to be quite an eventful day. The Carbon star image (below) will be on tonight’s late Meridian Weather forecast after the 10:00 p.m. news. As I left the observatory this morning after picking up last night’s … Continue reading
Moon blazing away overhead last night, but it was nice and clear up to around 11:00 p.m. So what to image? How about a nice Carbon star? This little beauty is UU Aurigae in the constellation Auriga (SAO 59280) and … Continue reading
I have discussed (in my Inaugural lecture and Matrix articles) why the Universe seems to be mathematically based, but Max Tegmark explains it all a little better. Definitely worth a long wander around his fascinating web site.
We are still in galaxy season 🙂 So I have chosen another galaxy for this month’s “Image of the Month”. This time, what I consider to be the most beautiful face-on spiral galaxy in the northern hemisphere – Messier 101 … Continue reading
Here is a colour and negative B&W version of the on-going Virgo/Coma galaxies mega-mosaic. Over 4 years in the making so far, this image stretches from M58 in the bottom left hand corner right up to M100 in the top … Continue reading
The Virgo/Coma galaxies mega-mosaic went together a lot easier than I was expecting. A few tiny bits of extra processing to be done on this one, but here is the negative B&W version so you can scroll around all those … Continue reading
I managed to get enough decent data last night, despite the sky being full of water vapour and a very intrusive Moon, to fill in the annoying “notch” on the Markarian Chain mega-mosaic. I have just bolted the last three … Continue reading
Here is the lower-left hand panel for the on-going Virgo/Coma galaxies mega-mosaic image. Want to hear some pain? The Siamese-Twins at the bottom of the image fall off the bottom of the rest of the mosaic by a fraction 🙁 … Continue reading
This is my second attempt at a comet Garradd animation – this time without dithering between subs 🙂 The “jumps” in comet motion are due to lost subs.
This is last night’s Sky-Watcher data (2-hours) composited with the earlier Sky 90 data (11 and a half hours) – so 13 and a half hours total into this one so far 🙂
