Noel Carboni has been putting a considerable amount of effort into developing a new star spike plugin for Photoshop. He has been trying it out on a few of our images as a test and this is the result of … Continue reading
After a considerable amount of pain and anguish – I’m back in business computer-wise 🙂 Now have a quad-core 2.33GHz running with 4Gig of RAM and a pair of 24″ “letterbox” LCD monitors. Also added a 2Tb external hard drive … Continue reading
Took the 40D out for a couple of hours last night as it was clear – clear but very moist air, so moist I packed up at midnight as it was almost fog. Used the 17-55mm zoom at 55mm with … Continue reading
Unfortunately last night (12th) we were completely clouded out, so I didn’t get a chance to put into practice what I’d learned about meteor imaging (the first time I’ve attempted this) from the night before. Never mind, we still have … Continue reading
Noel Carboni worked his Photoshop magic to bring a great image out of very suspect data! This was only 45-seconds of exposure time at ISO1600 using the Canon 40D and the 17-55mm zoom lens at 17mm. In this image you … Continue reading
Norman Lockyer observatory – what a great place! Even without the Astronomy Fair, you really should pay it a visit if you’re ever passing that part of the country. David Strange – thank you for sorting out accommodation (and Car … Continue reading
Don’t forget that the Astronomy fair at the Norman Lockyer observatory is this Saturday 8th August 2009 all day including 4 lectures, two in the morning and two in the afternoon. I shall be giving a lecture from 4:00 – … Continue reading
It’s still late starts for imaging during most of August, but beginning to get reasonable again for those of us that have to go along to the day job next morning. This Month’s object is a beautiful region of (blue) … Continue reading
Against all expectations it was sufficiently clear last night (a few banks of cloud passed over) to get some imaging done and see whether the “object” was real – or an artefact. Result – a very comet-like lens flare 🙁 … Continue reading
I was doing some ultra wide field imaging last night in the region of Deneb and picked up a bright diffuse object mid way between the Pelican’s head and Deneb. Has anybody seen any reference to this mentioned anywhere?? I … Continue reading
