The recent 200mm/M26C data composited reasonably well with earlier 200mm/M25C data. Unfortunately one camera was in portrait mode and the other in landscape mode – so I only got the overlapping square bit in the middle 🙁
Clear Moonless night last night and good seeing – BUT – only 3 days before the summer solstice meant that the sky never really got dark and it was perhaps a bit stupid to image a nebula rather than a … Continue reading
Here is a CCDInspector result from one of the 200mm lenses with an M26C Trius OSC CCD from last night:
Last night I used the two Canon 200mm lenses and M26C Trius OSC CCDs to image the left hand half of Corona Borealis – the idea eventually to make a 2-frame mosaic showing the whole of the constellation. When I … Continue reading
Last night I managed to finish off setting up the 2 x Canon 200mm prime lenses and their M26C Trius OSC CCDs. The new Trius just needed a tiny tweak to get it perfectly flat to the imaging train. That … Continue reading
It was a beautiful clear Moonless night last night (we don’t get very many of those in a year) and instead of imaging I was setting up 🙁 These things unfortunately need to be done, shame it was under almost … 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
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
