The new Robofocus mounts were completed and tested today, all looks fine. Now I’m just waiting for a good friend to bring me his Sky 90 as the second imaging scope and I’ll be able to get on with the … Continue reading
Just making a couple of new Aluminium brackets to hold the Robofocus units to the Sky 90s. At present I mount the motors on a plate off the rack and pinion screws which on reflection is probably not the best … Continue reading
The image for this week comes from fellow PAIG forumite Harry Page – with yet another superb deep-sky offering – this time it’s the beautiful Iris nebula with its surrounding brown dusty clouds. This region of Cepheus is another one … Continue reading
I thought I’d take a break from the usual Orion object this month and instead present just a single star image. This month’s object is the star Aldebaran, the eye of the Bull in Taurus. If you had a much … Continue reading
Having sat here for an hour or so not believing I could possibly have bleached all the colour out of Capella in the imaging I decided to reprocess the image from scratch and got this result. O.K. so that’s a … Continue reading
I imaged Capella at f10 a few nights back with the C11 (still not collimated the camera to the scope properly, but will work on it) and got a nice bright yellow star with a pretty boring background. O.K. so … Continue reading
This week the New Forest Observatory is honoured to present the masterful work of the man who is in my opinion, currently the best amateur deep-sky imager on the planet – may I introduce you to Rogelio Bernal Andreo who … Continue reading
Here is a wide-field composite image of M78 and its relation to Barnard’s Loop taken using both Sky90 and Hyperstar I data.
Steve Collingwood (Telescope House, Lingfield, Sussex) kindly spent a not inconsiderable amount of time collimating my 2 Sky 90 refractors. Steve showed me the process as he worked away on his custom-built rig. All very impressive and now I … Continue reading
Here’s Aldebaran in the correct orientation (North is now up) and a touch of extra processing.
