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CCD Astrophotography Images

Vega From Last Night

Managed to get 14 x 3-minute subs with the 200mm lenses on Vega last night after a LONG and weary battle setting up. Realised that the head amplifier has probably given up in M26(1) camera and that led to all … Continue reading →

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Complete Pleiades Reprocess

I wanted to make sure I had stacked the 38 x 40-minute subs of Pleiades data properly, so I went right back to the RAW FITS files and did it all again. I think I did stack the data properly, … Continue reading →

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Composite Altair Region

I combined an earlier 2-frame mosaic of the Altair region with the recent single-framer, both taken using the 200mm lenses and ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras, and this is the result. Probably no more to be done here.

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Pleiades Test Shot

Got 2/3rds of the way through setting up the 200mm lenses last night, and this is just 9 x 5-minute subs on cameras 3 & 4 on the Pleiades. For such a short exposure time I am pretty pleased with … Continue reading →

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First One of the Season

A bit late this year for the first outing of the season, but managed it in the end. This is the first image from the Canon 200mm prime lens array to use all 3 lenses at the same time. So … Continue reading →

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Cygnus Wall Reprocess

A reprocess of a large amount of Cygnus Wall data taken on the Sky90 array.

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Reprocess

A reprocess of very deep Sky90 data taken of M45 (the Pleiades).

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Properly Processed Deep Pleiades

I stacked each individual sub of this 38 subs x 40-minute stack of subs instead of stacking 4 blocks of subs together. This has given a far better SNR than my previous efforts. So this image is 25-hours and 20-minutes … Continue reading →

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Quasar APM 08279+5255 in Lynx

This image of Quasar APM 08279+5255 in Lynx will make an appearance in a future Picture of the Week – but as I like this reprocess I am going to post it now. This image was captured with the original … Continue reading →

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Arcturus and Napoleon’s Hat

I reprocessed all the recent 200mm lens data on this one and then cropped down to centre Arcturus whilst including Napoleon’s Hat (below-right of Arcturus).

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