IMAGING!!!!!Collimation was well out on the Hyperstar and I thought it was going to take all night to get good collimation. First tweak on the collimation adjuster and I hit perfect collimation – took all of 2 minutes. So I … Continue reading
It was clear last night with a thin crecent Moon about to set, so I fired up the Hyperstar 4 on the C11. Target the Leo Trio. 4-minute subs with a 1-minute dither so I was planning on getting 15 … Continue reading
A rare (for me) galaxy image features this week. A personal favourite of mine, the beautiful face-on spiral M100 and surroundings. This is a composite of original Hyperstar and H9C OSC CCD data together with Sky90 M26C OSC CCD data. … Continue reading
Here is this morning’s partial solar eclipse taken from the New Forest Observatory at the maximum at 11 a.m. GMT. Image shown using the projection method.
This one is a shaggy-dog story and a half. I will attempt to make sense of the whole episode. It was probably March 16th 2025 around 8:00 p.m. (I didn’t make a note) that I went outside to have a … Continue reading
This week we see a widefield view of the North America nebula together with the Pelican nebula. This is a single frame image captured using the 200mm lenses and the M26C OSC CCDs. This represents around 8-hours of RGB broadband … Continue reading
Spent a little time tonight having another look at the Kemble’s Cascade data.
This week we feature the very popular Horsehead nebula region of Orion. This is a 3-frame mosaic taken with the original Hyperstar and the little H9C OSC CCD, composited with Sky90 data using the M26C OSC CCD. There must be … Continue reading
Things at the New Forest Observatory have just gone plain stupid. About 2 years ago I wanted to make a 3D Sunflower seed pattern using Mathematica, so that I could visualise an object that could be based on the Golden … Continue reading
I decided to reprocess a whole lot of M31 data this morning and was pleasantly surprised when I zoomed right into the nucleus. So here’s just the core region of M31.
