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Author Archives: Greg Parker
The Current Status of the Mini-WASP Array at the New Forest Observatory
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M45 – Noel Carboni process
And here’s what can be done with my data when Noel Carboni (Florida, U.S.A.) gets his hands on it. Sure hasn’t lost his touch!!
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Composited M45
I composited last night’s deeeep M45 data with some older shallower data with good colour and ended up with this result:
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Deeeeeep M45
Yet another beautiful clear Moonless night last night – and best positioned for some deeeeep imaging was M45, the Pleiades. Managed to grab 18 x 40-minute (yes that IS 40-minute!!) subs and very quickly processed (leaving in the plane trails) … Continue reading
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Hind’s Variable nebula
Hind’s Variable nebula, Struve’s Lost nebula, Burnham’s nebula, NGC1555 – they’re all the same thing and it is the orange thing in the centre of this image. A beautiful clear night last night allowed me to grab 41 x 20-minutes … Continue reading
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6th January 2017 Earth Science Picture of the Day
Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with “Contrasting Star Pair in Auriga”. Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.
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Taurus molecular cloud 2-framer
And here is a 2-frame mosaic combining the IC2087 and SAO76573 frames taken with the Canon 200mm prime lenses and M26C OSC CCDs.
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Taurus molecular clouds
Taken a couple of nights back, this is 10-hour’s worth of 20-minute subs centred on SAO67573 one frame to the right of IC2087 also taken with the Canon 200mm lenses and M26C OSC CCDs. At the top/centre there is … Continue reading
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9th December 2016 Earth Science Picture of the Day
Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with the 200mm lens 2-framer of Castor & Pollux. Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.
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Aldebaran and the Hyades
A rather “quick and dirty” image of the region. I need to get a lot more, deeper, subs of this region if I can this winter.
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