Happy New Year! And the first “Deep-Sky Image of the Week” for the New Year is another belter from Rogelio!!!!! O.K. for your average Joe Public this may look pretty grey and unimpressive – where are all the pretty colours? … Continue reading
First off, a very Happy New Year to you all. Well – 2011 can’t be said to have been the best imaging year on record, in fact I think it is fair to say that it is the worst imaging … Continue reading
Happy New Year to you all 🙂 My log book confirms that 2011 was the worst year, weather-wise, for imaging since I started this lark. Not too surprising I guess with the groundbreaking mini-WASP array being this year’s mega-project. I … Continue reading
This image is a single frame from the mini-WASP and comprises 12 subs at 10-minutes per sub, so a 2-hour total exposure time (again well short of the 8 hours needed). The reason for only one frame is that due … Continue reading
It was a clear night last night (although the seeing was very poor) and it allowed me to iron out the last few bugs that were plaguing me with the mini-WASP array. Only got some short exposure times, but now … Continue reading
As it has not been imaging weather recently I have had a lot of time to both look over old images in more detail and to process a few old images that never got looked at in the first place. … Continue reading
I saw the “hits” counter was approaching the 250,000 mark a couple of days ago – and there, this morning it had just surpassed the magic quarter of a million 🙂 Please keep regularly visiting the New Forest Observatory site … Continue reading
Fellow PAIG forumite Carole Pope provided our first “Deep-Sky Image of the Week” back on October 3rd 2011 – and she see’s out 2011 with another fine image taken from Bromley (which is no mean achivement in itself 🙂 Carole captured this … Continue reading
Found some old data from 3rd October 2008 that had not been processed and just processed it on Christmas Day 🙂 59 subs at 110 seconds per sub using the M25C and HyperstarIII.
