On pages 72-73 of the July issue of Astronomy Now you can read all the gory details of how the whole of the Veil Nebula was captured in a 32-hour imaging (and processing) marathon.
I took a look at one of the old computers and rediscovered a couple of lost and forgotten websites. Please check out some images of the 2003 transit of Mercury and the 2004 transit of Venus. The images on these … Continue reading
Noel has just completed processing a widefield image of the region in which the quasar APM08279+5255 resides. The image is composed of 28 sub-exposures using an exposure time of 6-minutes per sub. This object used to hold the record as … Continue reading
There is no imaging object of the month for June! Looking back over the years I see that it is not only far too late before it is dark enough to start imaging, but also that it gets light far … Continue reading
I was very disappointed to note that Noel Carboni was not credited with all the digital image processing in the text accompanying the Rosette nebula image in the June 2008 issue of Practical Astronomer. I have asked Eddie to rectify … Continue reading
Great news! Our definitive Rosette nebula image incorporating RGB, H-alpha and OIII data features on the cover, and centre-page spread of Eddie’s superb Practical Astronomer magazine. Nice print job there Eddie 🙂
The Robofocus guys are getting a new website together and asked for photos of the Robofocus on customers’ systems. This is how the Robofocus looks on my Tak Sky 90 which is piggy-backed on the Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS. The … Continue reading
The high-resolution draft version of “Star Vistas” has now been electronically delivered to Springer. Some suggestions for improvements in the text have been made, and Noel and I are working on these presently. There is a review of my “How … Continue reading
Noel completed Star Vistas late last night, and this was the final image to be prepared for publication. This is IC443 the Jellyfish nebula, and IC444 is the large emission nebula (which also contains a reflection nebula and a very … Continue reading
Noel Carboni has literally just completed the last fine adjustments on the new deep-sky coffee-table book – Star Vistas. He is now assembling the high-resolution version ready to send off to Springer. We are hoping for publication early 2009. I … Continue reading
