We’ve obviously convinced Astronomy Now that our pictures are worth seeing – they are publishing our latest image of The Double Cluster in Perseus (central region) in the November issue on page 101. This image was taken as a single Hyperstar … Continue reading
It gets better, Astronomy Now magazine have published our images of Messier 13 in colour and black&white on page 93 of the September issue. These were entered for their Messier Challenge. The images are a single Hyperstar frame using the SXV-H9C camera.
This is a great magazine and they have picked our image of Messier 51. You’ll find our picture in issue 3, page 82. The image was taken at f#6.3 on the Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS reflector as a single frame using … Continue reading
Starizona image of the Month – Awesome! They picked our image of NGC7000 and the Pelican nebula which is a 5-frame Hyperstar mosaic. Out of interest: Starizona manufacture and sell the Hyperstar lens assemblies for the Celestron Nexstar Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes.
Finally! I have managed to eradicate the one minus point of having the Nexstar and motor drives in the dome! I upgraded the motor drives from version 30.30 to version 40.40 (download available from the Celestron site). Amongst the many … Continue reading
