I am collecting anecdotes for a forthcoming Autobiography (which will be years in the making) and like the fishing story from Devonport wharf, this is another incident I will never forget. I left home at age 19 in September 1973 … Continue reading
The IC2087 region and the Taurus molecular cloud feature in this 2-framer taken with the 200mm Canon lenses and M26C OSC CCDs.
A wide-field view of the Cave nebula region.
An odd thing for an astro site maybe, but this old story just entered my head and so I thought I’d better write it down before it was completely forgotten. As an East End kid who had just gone out … Continue reading
The famous, and beautiful, double-star Albireo in Cygnus.
The bright star Bellatrix in the constellation Orion.
A reprocess of very deep Sky90 data taken of M45 (the Pleiades).
38 x 40-minute subs using the Sky90s and M26C OSC CCDs on the Pleiades.
This week we feature a highly red-shifted Quasar in the constellation Lynx. It is no surprise that before it was formally identified it was thought that this was a Carbon star.
Jellyfish nebula zoom in/out.
