And so far today it has been raining since before I even got up – it is now 2:30 p.m. Great.
It’s not looking good is it? Last winter I didn’t get a single image in 6 months due to the never-ending rain and cloud. Looks like we are getting a repeat again this year. If it is ANOTHER 6-months with … Continue reading
O.K. so the day has finally arrived and “they” are now replacing the Sodium street lights around here with white light LED lamps. Isn’t it absolutely marvelous how “they” can get their act together AND spend a huge pile of … Continue reading
A few posts below I gave a procedure on collimating your imaging camera to a Hyperstar III. On reflection I thought that this could be considered as so much “hot air” without results to prove the procedure actually works. So … Continue reading
Here is second light for the 3 x Sky 90 mini-WASP parallel imaging array. This is open cluster NGC7789 near Caph in Cassiopeia. The image is 18 x 15-minute subs or a total data time of 4 and a half … Continue reading
On the evening of the 27th October 2014 I spent the first two hours of darkness aligning the 3 Sky 90s to look at the same region of sky, and then focus training Sky 90(2) and Sky 90(3). After the … Continue reading
The missus kindly held up a piece of A4 paper this lunch time outside in a howling gale so I could project an image of the Sun onto it. An 80mm refractor with a 5X Barlow was used. Yes the … Continue reading
On the evening of the 19th October I got a couple of clear hours before it clouded over. Enough time to set up the Hyperstar and get an hour (4 x 15-minute subs) on the California nebula. I had forgotten … Continue reading
Got today’s EPOD http://epod.usra.edu/ with the huge wide field of Altair and Barnard’s “E”. Thank you Jim for continuing to publish our work 🙂
You have GOT to laugh at our present pathetic Tory government here in the UK – well either laugh or cry buckets – it’s up to you. I have just this minute seen on the TV a promise of putting … Continue reading
