I revisited and reprocessed this data to see if I could find any of the nebulosity reported in the Sky 6. There is some, but it is pretty faint throughout the region – you can see the very edge of … Continue reading
As you probably know, the Celestron “Heavy Duty” wedge has a fundamental design fault – a large open ended box section which flexes all over the place with a heavy scope like the C11 being cantilevered all over the sky. … Continue reading
Have I gone a bit too far with the new warm room for the mini-WASP?
The beginning of this ISS pass is missing (the bit on the left) – why? Because I was pointing in the wrong part of the sky when the action kicked off and it was only when my son said “it’s … Continue reading
The fireworks galaxy NGC6946 and open cluster NGC6939 in the constellation Cepheus. 23 sub-exposures at 5-minutes per sub using the Hyperstar III and M25C one-shot colour camera.
This pair of open clusters has a Milky Way backdrop and they are surrounded by faint emission nebulosity. They can be found in the constellation Cygnus lying just underneath the Crescent nebula region. Image taken 19th August 2009 using the … Continue reading
Well – although it has been pouring with rain ALL day it looks like (on the satellite) there is a clear patch coming over for later tonight. As there is a 6-minute pass (that’s long!) of the ISS at 9:28 … Continue reading
As it was cloudy AND a bright Moon last night it was no good for deep-sky imaging – but as it wasn’t actually raining – and I could see a FEW stars, it was an opportunity to take the AstroTrac … Continue reading
I have no idea why I took this image of a galaxy group in Bootes on January 29th 2011. I also have no record of it in the logbook. I ran an astrometry check on it to find where it … Continue reading
My Algol and Rho Persei image is “Picture of the Week” on the My Astro Space web site – thanks guys 🙂
