The name says it all! Noel has just processed this Sky 90/M25C image of the bright red carbon star “La Superba” which can be found in Canes Venatici at a distance of 711 light-years:
Panic over. It is not an alien race trying to get our attention (shame) – but an extremely variable, variable star! This little beauty is WY Cas lying just below the open cluster NGC7789 in Cassiopeia, and Noel created the … Continue reading
Noel has just processed a Sky 90/M25C image of an open cluster. We had already imaged the same cluster a couple of years earlier with the Hyperstar 1 and SXV-H9C. One very faint very red star of around magnitude 13 … Continue reading
You can see the Coathanger Cluster image, along with several other Parker/Carboni deep-sky creations on the Bang! website. Enjoy 🙂
Well it has rained and/or been cloudy every day since the Coathanger image was taken. You can almost believe there is a higher order deliberately out to frustrate the fun I can have with the new Hyperstar III. Never mind, … Continue reading
Woke up to a very pleasant surprise this morning 🙂 The Parker/Carboni definitive M31 image made today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day [EPOD]!! Thank you Jim for taking an interest in our work.
I have very recently had my butt kicked into action by an amazing wide field image taken by Kerry. Taken with a Canon 40D dSLR and without any tracking, this is a very nice piece of work by any standards.
It’s still not great imaging during August due to the continuing light evenings and early mornings, and I see from my notes that it is still getting on for 11.00 p.m. before it is worth setting up for an imaging … Continue reading
You can now see the current status of the Star Vistas project on the new Star Vistas website.
Work the next day, so of course Sunday 27th July was perhaps the best summer’s night I’ve ever seen from this location for imaging. O.K. so it’s headache day for Monday! Started imaging this one at around 11.00 p.m. and … Continue reading
