Author Archives: Greg Parker

Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) for today

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 🙂  

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Aldebaran 2-framer

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.

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Blatant attempt at extortion!!!

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

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Check out today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)

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.

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Image of the Month November 2015

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

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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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