Last night I PEC trained the Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS (wedge mounted altazimuth) mount for the first time. The Celestron software made a 5-average learning run very easy to carry out. Since a worm-gear rotation is around 8-minutes this exercise … Continue reading
The Robofocus kit arrived beautifully packed first thing this morning!!! How’s that for a highly efficient company then!! To put it in perspective – the power adapter I ordered from Maplin at the same time – you’ve guessed it – … Continue reading
The constellation Cancer is quite well placed during March, and Cancer contains a couple of very nice open clusters that make excellent imaging objects, namely M44 the Beehive cluster or Praesepe or NGC2632, and M67 [NGC2682] which doesn’t seem to … Continue reading
I have just ordered a RoboFocus from Jerry Smith at Domepage [States] and believe it or not it has already been packed and shipped – same day! How efficient is that. The Robofocus is for automatically focusing the Sky 90 … Continue reading
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Noel is getting all the data prepared for the coffee-table book and is now mopping up stuff from last year. Here we have an updated image of M31. The basis of this image was actually first light for the M25C … Continue reading
You may not have seen an earlier piece of stunning imagery from Noel – concerning the Moon yet again 🙂 The attached image is a large, high-resolution mosaic of the Moon taken and processed by Noel. He has pushed up … Continue reading
And here’s one Noel took a little earlier in the evening. This is one of the most 3D-looking images of our Moon I’ve seen!
The New Forest Observatory was clouded out on the night of the total eclipse of the Moon, but Noel Carboni in Florida had better skies! He also had a more reasonable hour to work since he is 5 hours behind … Continue reading
There is a nice review of “Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images” by our very own Terry Platt [the CEO of Starlight Xpress] on Amazon – thank you Terry, glad you liked the book. For bigger, better (and more) deep-sky images you’ll have … Continue reading
