A “Little Planet” shot taken this afternoon with the Canon 5D MkII and a 15mm Canon fish-eye lens.
I feel in such a good mood having just completed the mega-WASP upgrade that I think I will resurrect the almost forgotten Image of the Month 🙂 Here is the very recent Polaris image taken with the mini-WASP array – … Continue reading
Nice way to start off a new month. After 4 days of drilling, cutting, taping and wiring – the upgrade converting the mini-WASP array to the mega-WASP array is now complete. Additions to the top plate are another Canon 200mm … Continue reading
After 3 days I have now finished all the metalwork, drilling and tapping, and reconfiguring the top plate of the mini-WASP array. The top plate will now accommodate 2 x Canon 200mm prime lenses, each with a Starlight Xpress M26C … Continue reading
I composited some 4-hours of Hyperstar III data and some 6-hours of Sky 90 data to give the following deep image of NGC281 – the Pac Man nebula.
Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with an image of Aldebaran and the Hyades (which coincidentally also makes an appearance in the May 2015 issue of Astronomy Now magazine). Taken with the Canon 200mm lens at f#4 … Continue reading
A clear Moonless night last night so I put the mini-WASP array on Polaris. A total of 36 x 5-minute subs gave the result below which I’m pretty pleased with.
Last night I got the left hand frame in this Canon 200mm/M26C Trius 2-framer. Bagged 13 Messier objects in one image with this one 🙂 The Virgo/Coma cluster of galaxies. If the weather allows – I will go back and … Continue reading
The first of 2-frames taken with the Canon 200mm lens and Starlight Xpress M26C Trius OSC CCD. Bit of a story to this one. Had some strange streaks across the image which I thought had wrecked the whole imaging session. … Continue reading
Has anybody imaged the Polaris region recently? Seems to have been a bit of mega-engineering going on out there courtesy of some highly advanced alien civilisation!
