Sir Patrick Moore threw a party at Farthings yesterday – St. Patrick’s day! We even saw a few moments of clear sky after a week of being totally overcast – I think Selsey is famous for being able to see … Continue reading
The last few days Noel has been working right through the night to get the images sorted for Star Vistas. As I write this, Noel is working on the mammoth Veil Nebula data set. In a previous post you can … Continue reading
The accompanying image shows the Rosette nebula in the infrared (720nm – 1,000nm) part of the spectrum. The image is composed of 7 subs at 1600 seconds per sub, just over 3-hours total exposure time – and – there’s virtually nothing … Continue reading
The first image where I carried out multiple re-focuses during the imaging session was with this image of Abell 1367, a galaxy cluster in Leo. This image was taken on the night of Tuesday 4th March 2008 using the IDAS … Continue reading
I used the Robofocus for the first time last night. Beautiful clear Moonless night, not what you usually get when you are trying out a new piece of astro gear. There is an auto Wizard jobby that comes with FocusMax … Continue reading
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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