In order to keep my hand in the HSF world, I will be making a batch of high-speed flash units that will be available early 2016. Talking to a number of professional users I have decided that the specification for … Continue reading
A very rare beautiful clear Moonless night last night so I put the 2 x Canon 200mm lenses on a favourite star region of mine – Kemble’s Cascade in Camelopardalis. Managed 2-hours worth of 10-minute subs with the array and … Continue reading
Please look under the “Courses” heading for a brand new course available from today. This is the “I have been given a telescope for Christmas and I don’t know what to do with it” course. Get up to speed with … Continue reading
Managed to get 8 x 30-minute subs last night with the 2 x 200mm Canons and the M26Cs, and I added this to earlier 19 x 15-minute data from the same rig using Registar. This is the result. I think … Continue reading
Another nice long 6-minute ISS pass tonight at 10:04 p.m. As you can see, there was thin high cloud about which thickened considerably – so no imaging for me tonight 🙁
Another 6-minute long ISS pass from last night. The earlier 21:41 pass was completely clouded out.
On the night of the blue supermoon (31st July) I looked out of the window to see the ISS passing over the Moon (so I missed a great photo-opportunity) around 10:00 p.m. I hadn’t been keeping an eye on the … Continue reading
Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) is the large DSS2 data mosaic I put together of the Tulip nebula region in Cygnus. DSS2 data was downloaded (red and blue channels) and Noel Carboni’s actions were used to create … Continue reading
Taken at 8:25 p.m. on 26/07/2015 this image shows a double rainbow over the New Forest Observatories – and more. This morning I pushed up the contrast and saturation of the image to take a better, closer look at the … Continue reading
Last night, for the first time since I put it together, I have been able to use the 2 x Canon 200mm lenses (and M26C Trius cameras) as intended. The whole idea with this rig was to get two horizontal … Continue reading
