Author Archives: Greg Parker

R Coronae Borealis

As there has only been one imaging night for the whole of October 2015 I have had to look for other things to get on with. I took a Sky 90 image of the R Coronae Borealis (RCrB) region in … Continue reading

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Definitive Kemble’s Cascade

I used Registar to put together all the best images I had of Kemble’s Cascade – and this is the result 🙂

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Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)

Got today’s EPOD with “Primary, Secondary and Supernumerary Rainbows”. Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work 🙂

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Sulafat & Sheliak in Lyra

This is a 2-frame mosaic using the Canon 200mm lenses and M26C OSC CCDs of the two brightest stars in lower central Lyra.  Just got to get the two upper frames for a complete central Lyra mosaic.

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V1331 Cygni region second dataset

Once again, before the Moon came up I went for the V1331 Cygni region with the Sky 90 array, this time using 15-minute subs.  Got a total of 14 x 15-minute subs which were added to the earlier 15 x … Continue reading

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Deep-Sky Image of the Month October 2015

As it is the first of the month today – it is a good day to resurrect the Deep-Sky Image of the Month 🙂 Just taken recently, I have chosen the Sky 90/M26C 4-framer of Kemble’s Cascade taken just a … Continue reading

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V1331 Cygni region

Managed to get 50-minutes of imaging done on this region before a blazing Moon came up using the 3 x Sky 90s, so 150-minutes total using 10-minute subs.  Needs a lot more on this region, including I think the frames … Continue reading

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The MegaWASP array does a Kemble’s Cascade 4-framer

Beautiful clear evening last night and I put the Sky 90 array onto the Kemble’s Cascade region.  For around 8 years I have wanted to get a 4-framer of this one but didn’t have the time to allocate to it. … Continue reading

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New high-speed flash units for early 2016 – light pulse duration 25-microseconds, light pulse energy 100 Joules.

Further to my earlier post below, I have upgraded the spec as I will be using a different capacitor for these custom units. The spec now reads:  Light output power 100 Joules. Light pulse duration 25-microseconds (1/40,000th of a second). … Continue reading

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The Sky 90 array does the M57 region

This was a test shot having removed camera 2 for re-flattening on the laser pen rig.  Short gap in the clouds gave me half an hour’s imaging time on the M57 region in Lyra.  But only half an hour means … Continue reading

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