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O.K. so while I’m at it I might as well rant a bit about global warming too – at least it’s slightly less removed from deep-sky imaging than the topic below. Whilst the “experts” continue to debate whether climate change/global … Continue reading
Unfortunately the aging grey cells have been triggered into mild action having written about Prof. P. T. Landsberg and the University of Sussex. This is a long way from deep-sky imaging, but this is my blog and I can write … Continue reading
I have just heard some very sad news – Professor Peter T Landsberg has died over this weekend 🙁 Landsberg is a name you will be familiar with if you have studied Thermodynamics (Entropy), Quantum Mechanics, or Time to any … Continue reading
Several clear nights in a row recently and I concentrated on just one beautiful region – IC2169 and surroundings in Monoceros. This reflection nebula lies just to the right of the cone nebula, in fact the red emission nebulosity over … Continue reading
I still find it very strange that this large, bright reflection nebula does not have a “popular” name. To me it look like a cauldron of boiling liquid oxygen, so I shall call it “the Cauldron”. M78 is a beautiful … Continue reading
Managed to get today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day [APOD] with the wide field (sparkly colour) image of Kemble’s Cascade. I like this image so much it is one of the permanent “wallpapers” on my home computer. The little open … Continue reading
Another 4 hours of data was acquired on this object and Noel put the whole thing together which now totals some 9 hours of imaging time. Beautiful reflection nebula NGC1333 and the accompanying dust clouds lie in the constellation Perseus. … Continue reading
O.K. so this is getting quite a ways off deep-sky imaging, but I just clicked on a site that I thought was going to tell me about ultra-black materials and I was instead treated to a monologue of how the … Continue reading
Noel recently processed the Caldwell 10 dataset and managed to pull out that faint red cluster (IC116) over at the top left. There are in fact a total of 7 (yes – seven) open clusters in this frame.
