A double dataset was processed for this one. From 7th March 2011 27 subs at 10-minutes per sub, and from 13th March 36 subs at 5-minutes per sub. The odd shaped resulting image shows the overlap wasn’t too good between … Continue reading
Well – here’s that Starlight Xpress super customer service for you! Michael Hattey of Starlight Xpress drove my tested M26C camera down to the New Forest Observatory today – thank you Michael. Both M26C cameras are now back on the … Continue reading
Camera already at SX headquarters and Terry is giving it a good soak-testing. Can’t find any fault with it, but I know it does run (a lot) hotter than the other M26C – so Terry will be returning it with … Continue reading
I hadn’t realised that the First Light image I took with the mini-WASP was also this month’s IOM and was also my first APOD. Let’s hope this lot is a good omen for the future of the mini-WASP array 🙂
Just a single 2,000 second sub from one M26C camera – no processing other than brightening up so here’s the hot pixels, the polar rotation – the lot – in all its glory. But it’s my First Light 🙂
We unexpectedly got a clear patch of sky last night – and no Moon – but of course such luck has to be tempered 🙂 Started up the mini-WASP array around 10:30 p.m. and decided to start with some Polar … Continue reading
Today Tom How fitted and ran a fully automated dome rotation system to the Pulsar Observatories mini-WASP dome. You can see a video of the system in operation HERE. You will see the telescope array deliberately slewed using the joystick … Continue reading
This is the view from my study on this blistering hot Wednesday – it’s now coming up to 5:00 p.m. and it’s still too hot to do anything sensible indoors or outdoors. Managed to fit a solid-state magnetic compass in … Continue reading
We are just about to enter the longer evenings where we can once again return to getting some decent quality deep-sky images. To be frank, it never really gets dark enough to do good work for all of June, and … Continue reading
I just processed this data from September 2nd 2010 to keep my hand in 🙂 This colourful cluster (which is rarely imaged) is Stock2 and it lies in the constellation Perseus – right next door to the Double Cluster – … Continue reading
