Author Archives: Greg Parker

The Ruchbah region with the Canon 200mm lenses

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

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IC2087 region

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

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Twin Domes at the New Forest Observatory

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Aldebaran, the Hyades & NGC1647

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

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Unknown object near Aldebaran

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

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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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