Beautiful clear Moonless night last night but we only get astronomical darkness starting around 11 p.m. so it’s a late start at this time of the year (and darkness ends around 3 p.m. so you don’t get many hours of … Continue reading
Got today’s EPOD with an image of Spica (Akira fujii effect added) which is timely as Spica is right now crossing our southern horizon on these mild spring evenings. Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work … Continue reading
12 frames using the Hyperstar III and M25C camera with 2-hours of 10-minute subs per frame. Also a 200mm lens with M26C camera 2-framer using 15-minute subs and 5 hours per frame. So total integration time is 34 hours 🙂
Could I please re-iterate: None of my images are available “free of charge”. Please take a moment to look at the “Image Agency and Copyright Notice” section. Thank you.
Here is the Epsilon Cassiopeiae region in Cassiopeia – and to the middle left you can see a very clear Lambda, together with a much smaller and fainter Lambda.
The 100th monkey effect, which may not be an effect at all, is about non-physical communication of data. The original 100th monkey effect supposedly started with a single monkey, in a group of monkeys on an isolated island, who discovered … Continue reading
Turned out rather noisy for 30 x 1,000 second subs with the Sky 90 array. Not sure why as there was no Moon about. Maybe I forget to turn the Peltiers on?? Need to redo this one with the Hyperstar … Continue reading
4 hours of 10-minute subs from last year with the Sky 90 array. Akira Fujii effect.
Here is a 4-frame mosaic of the Kemble’s Cascade region taken with the Sky 90 array and M26C OSC CCDs. I have used the Akira Fujii effect to enhance the brighter stars. This actually means deliberately bloating the brighter stars … Continue reading
9th April 2016 was not a happy night for me. Two passes of the ISS and the Dragon supply vessel predicted, one at 8:40 p.m. and the other at 10:15 p.m. Sky clear!! Moon setting at 10:39 p.m. and small … Continue reading
