I shall be posting deep-sky images sent in by dedicated amateur imagers (Worldwide) early on a Monday morning. Well I won’t do it personally in real time, I’ll write it up beforehand and schedule it 🙂 The very first image … Continue reading
We’re now well into some decent long dark evenings 🙂 This month’s object is rarely imaged it seems – I am going to look at the open cluster Stock 2 in Perseus this month. This is a beautiful, colourful open … Continue reading
And here’s the “straight out of Photoshop” version with no added contrast enhancement or saturation courtesy of PaintShopPro.
The very quick “process” I did on the NGC7000 image below was no more than a DPP pass and bolt the two frames together – would have taken less than 10-minutes as I just wanted to see what the image … Continue reading
Another 1-hour image (only 6 x 10-minute subs) from the early hours of this morning. This is the North America nebula NGC7000 with the Pelican making a cameo appearance on the right. This time the mount was dithered so not … Continue reading
I’ve had my suspicions for quite a while now, but for some reason after just over 5 years it has finally jelled in my last two remaining neurons what the problem has been. From way back when I was imaging … Continue reading
Well here it is – one hour’s worth of data taken with the two M26C cameras on the New Forest Observatory mini-WASP array. Still lots to be done before it’s properly tuned in – but I’m pretty close now. As … Continue reading
This is the new Deep-Sky Image of the Week page and your opportunity to show the best of your work to a large audience. The New Forest Observatory site is rapidly approaching a quarter of a million visits and new … Continue reading
Sorry – but there’s a bit of a rant coming up – you have been warned. The last straw for me was today’s (29/09/2011) APOD of the Cocoon – I felt quite ill seeing that one first thing in the … Continue reading
It has been a glorious day all day with clear blue skies – and this time it didn’t fog over as soon as the Sun went down. So I started the final hard bash at getting the mini-WASP array commissioned … Continue reading
