Clear last night 19/01/2016 but with a blazing Moon, so this didn’t turn out too badly considering. A 2-frame mosaic using the Canon 200mm lenses and M26C OSC CCDs. Around 130-minutes of 10-minute subs per frame. Lots of open clusters, … Continue reading
Due to a series of mishaps I only managed to get 15 x 20-minute subs on this one last night using the Sky 90s (should have got 27 x 20-mins). This is the IC2087 region in Taurus – and is … Continue reading
A couple of clear hours after a day of rain allowed me to grab a quick 2-framer of the Aldebaran & Hyades region with the 200mm lens. 5-minute subs and an hour on each frame. Pleased just to be able … Continue reading
About a year ago a German amateur imager contacted me about a faint object lying near Aldebaran. It was visible (just) in an old image of mine which only had an hour of total exposure time. Just woke up this … Continue reading
Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day is my 2-frame narrowband + RGB image of the Veil nebula in Cygnus. Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work 🙂
First clear night in 2 months last night – so I quickly grabbed this 2-framer of Aldebaran with the Sky 90 array. 2-minute subs and 1-hour per frame.
How extraordinary!! I just got an e-mail from a book publisher friend who had just received a nasty e-mail from a Photo Library wanting payment for an image of the Pleiades shown on the cover of one of his books. … Continue reading
Got today’s EPOD with the inverse nova R Coronae Borealis 🙂 See the animation here. Many thanks Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.
Going back to 28th September we had the most amazing total Lunar eclipse, this image captured using a Canon 5D MkII on a TS80 triplet at f#6 all sitting on a tripod, shows pre-totality, totality, and post totality. And yes … Continue reading
