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
We are still blessed with the magnificent sight of Orion moving across the Southern horizon during February. Orion’s Belt consists of three very bright stars, Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka, with Alnitak being the east most (left) star of the three. … Continue reading
The accompanying image is the Jellyfish nebula [IC443] and associated emission nebulosity [IC444] on the Gemini/Orion border.
First Light Systems Ltd. [FLS] are right on target to have the initial 200 Joule, 40 microsecond flash duration [Pro] systems on the market by the end of February 2008.
Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any better, Noel Carboni has now added the recently taken R72 data for M42 to our earlier H-alpha/RGB image.
As you know I have recently started terrestrial imaging [photography] with a Canon 40D. Whilst looking at all the accessories for the new camera I came across some interesting filters called R72 filters. These filters only allow light of wavelength … Continue reading
It is currently believed that the primary source of the element Gold is supernova explosions. It also seems that the Gold on planet Earth is around the same age as the Earth itself at some 4.6 billion years. Therefore one … Continue reading
