Author Archives: Greg Parker

The Summer Triangle Annotated

From 05/08/2016 Canon 15mm fisheye lens and Canon 5D MkII DSLR.

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ISS pass 30/07/2016

Most of the 6-minute pass at 11:11 p.m. last night.

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2nd Edition of “Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images” – completed!

I have recently finished the Second Edition of the Springer publication “Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images” and it has been sent off to them to make bookworthy.  Springer then sends me back the draft (with all the page numbers) and I … Continue reading

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Noel Carboni process of the California nebula data

Noel Carboni recently processed the 22-hours of data from the Sky 90 mini-WASP array.  This data comprised 15 and 20-minute sub-exposures.

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Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)

It the recent Winter Solstice 2015 to Summer Solstice 2016 Solargraph.  I think I had the tilt angle towards the Zenith a little too large for this one 🙁  Never mind, you still get the general overall picture 🙂 Thank … Continue reading

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EPOD ENCORE – Six Months of Tracking the Sun Across the Sky

Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day is a pinhole camera Solargraph of the Sun’s path across my southern horizon from Summer Solstice (June 21st) until Winter Solstice (December 21st) 2010.  An EPOD Encore is showing an earlier EPOD that … Continue reading

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The California nebula

I have only just stacked ALL the data on this one from late 2014.  This is 69 subs using 15.20-minute exposures for a total of 22-hours on this one. The Sky 90 array on the mini-WASP. f#4.5 3 x Sky … Continue reading

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Beehive Cluster in Perspective

Got today’s Earth Science Picture of Today with that recent wide field of M44, the Beehive Cluster, taken with the Canon 200mm lenses on the mini-WASP rig. I am particularly fond of this image as it is something I have … Continue reading

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ISS pass 29/05/2016 10:30 p.m. 6-minute pass

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Transit of Mercury

Also available on YouTube

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