Author Archives: Greg Parker

Definitive 200mm Lens Image of the California Nebula Processed by Noel Carboni

Noel worked his magic on this superb California nebula process which shows the extent of the “nose” on the front end of the nebula which is often missing in smaller field-of-view images.

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Composite Rosette nebula

This image is a composite of Sky90 and Hyperstar 4 data only.

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The Heart of the Rose

This is the central region of the Rosette nebula. This is a composite image created using RegiStar and comprises original Hyperstar, Sky90 and Hyperstar 4 data exceeding 15-hours of total exposure time.

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The Golden Solid Angle – Yet Again!!!

Another hobby of mine is “experimental mathematics” – I think I may have mentioned (ages ago) my Prime number hunting server. Well way back in June 2007 (just before actually) I discovered something that seems to have been overlooked for … Continue reading

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The Original Heart Nebula After Star Reduction

This is the original Parker/Carboni Heart nebula taken with a single Sky90 and M25C OSC CCD after star reduction has been applied.

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The Original M31 with Star Reduction

Well this is very interesting! Applying star reduction to the original Parker/Carboni M31 image, taken with a single Sky90 and M25C OSC CCD – brings out all the blue (hot young stars) which was not visible with all the stars … Continue reading

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Climate Change

Climate change? What climate change? Where’s your proof??? You aren’t going to believe this one. So I suffer from Hayfever – big deal – why are you talking about Hayfever at the end of December?? I know Hayfever symptoms (I’ve … Continue reading

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The Sadr Region in Cygnus

Nice clear night last night and I managed to grab 20 x 10-minute subs with the Canon 200mm prime lenses and the ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras on the Sadr region. A bit perverse imaging Cygnus at the end of … Continue reading

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Star Reduced Sadr Region With the 200mm Lenses

A bit of star reduction on the wide field Sadr region works wonders.

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Altair Region with Star Reduction

Surprisingly, even a region which is predominantly stars can benefit from a little star reduction.

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