Clear night last night and no obtrusive Moon – only one Sky 90 operational at the moment (I’m taking 2 x Sky 90s to Steve Collingwood tomorrow to see if he can collimate them for me). Anyway – managed to … Continue reading
This week’s jaw-droppingly beautiful Image of the Week is from an accomplished imager based Down-Under, Alex Cherney. I met Alex at the Starmus Festival held last June in Tenerife where I was a judge of the deep-space image submissions. Alex’s … Continue reading
This week’s Deep-Sky Image is provided by fellow PAIG forumite Peter Shah who kindly sent in this beautiful capture – The Ghost nebula, vdb141, in the constellation Cepheus. Peter tell us that: Van den Berg 141, the Ghost nebula is … Continue reading
Although it is the beginning of the long darks nights this month, and if only the weather played ball you could be imaging from about 5:30 p.m. on – November is a completely frustrating month as you never seem to … Continue reading
I so thoroughly enjoyed the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson that I bought his biography of Einstein. I have already read “Einstein Lived Here” by Pais, and “Albert Einstein Philosopher-Scientist” by Schilpp. Isaacson’s biography (so far, only 100 pages … Continue reading
Steve Cannistra needs no introduction as one of the very best amateur deep-sky imagers on the planet – and he holds down a responsible day job too 🙂 When I first started imaging it was Steve’s name and web site … Continue reading
I have started the long and arduous process of putting together another astronomy book today. For the first time since setting the system up I actually needed to use all four screens to get this particular job done. Up until … Continue reading
Another deep-sky image from the NFO archives, and another original Hyperstar/H9C composition. This time the Cave nebula in Cepheus. I recall the tracking was so good on this one that I actually got some vertical banding where the tracking error … Continue reading
This month’s composition is a little different from the form I normally follow. I wanted to get a nice bright single star image, but I also wanted something else of interest in the field of view apart from other stars. … Continue reading
Another old image from the New Forest Observatory taken with the original Hyperstar and a little SXV H9C one-shot colour camera (1.4 megapixels only!). The camera was highly sensitive and I regret selling it when I bought the APS-sized chip … Continue reading
