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
Well, we have just had the longest unbroken run of clear night skies that I can remember. Tonight is the full Moon and every imager knows that a full Moon always means clear skies – but not tonight! Why not? … Continue reading
The fourth image in the 6-night marathon is M78 and part of Barnard’s Loop in Orion. This is a work in progress as so far this is only 4 hours of RGB data using 15-minute subs – and with an … Continue reading
The third image from the 6-night session is the first single-star image I have taken with the Sky 90/SXVF-M25C combination. This is Procyon – and the image comprises 48 sub-exposures at 5-minutes per sub or exactly 4 hours total exposure … Continue reading
The second image from the 6-night marathon session this month is a nice pair of open clusters in Gemini – M35 and NGC2158. This image comprises 39 sub-exposures at 6-minutes per sub or just 6-minutes short of 4-hours in total.
We have just had six clear nights in a row – which for me personally is an all-time record! Got a few reasonable images during this period, unfortunately last couple of days had the Moon intruding, but we can’t have … Continue reading
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, Noel Carboni revisited the original data and reprocessed the Rosette from scratch. You can see from the attached image that he has squeezed the last ounce out of this one. I … Continue reading
Managed to get three hours worth of OIII data for the Rosette on Saturday 9th February – and Noel has just expertly added this into the earlier image. The OIII has brought out some more fine detail in the core … Continue reading
Had a very quick trip up to High Street Kensington today to check out Astrofest 2008. Met a few UKAI forumites, and had a chance to speak to some of the guys who have thinned my wallet over the years. … Continue reading
Faith Eckersall conducted an interview at the New Forest Observatory and this appeared in print in the Daily Echo on Monday February 4th 2008. Brian May also saw the article and has it on his site under “new deep-sky photography book”. … Continue reading
