Author Archives: Greg Parker

M31 the Great Andromeda galaxy definitive image

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

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Noel Carboni’s hypersaturated Moon image

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

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Lunar eclipse II

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!

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Total lunar eclipse 20th February 2008 – Florida

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

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Books Statrep

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

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Total lunar eclipse

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

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M78 and Barnard’s Loop

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

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Procyon

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

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M35 and NGC2158 a pair of open clusters in Gemini

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.

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The Owl nebula and M108 in Ursa Major

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

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