Taken on the evening of Friday 13th January 2012 (living up to its reputation just about EVERYTHING went wrong this night) we have the NGC2174 region in Gemini known as the Monkey Head nebula. I have North down in this … Continue reading
Dimming every other star in the area is the brightest star in the sky at magnitude -1.46, the brilliant blue Sirius in the constellation Canis Major 🙂 Taken as an experiment immediately after 12 Victoria – 60 x 10-second subs.
Towards top left of this image you can see the elongated trail of asteroid 12 Victoria. Around 50 subs at 3-minutes per sub with the Hyperstar III – bright Moon and a lot of thin high cloud but the asteroid … Continue reading
Here is a 3-frame Hyperstar III mosaic of the M87 region taken in April 2010.
A Hyperstar III 2-framer of the Markarian Chain/M87 region in the Virgo galaxy cluster.
This is a single frame Hyperstar III image of the M100 region taken in April 2010. Again presented in colour and in B&W so you can see the numerous “faint fuzzies” in the background.
The second of 7 frames of data processed in colour and B&W. This one is centred on M87.
Frame 1 of 7 taken with the Hyperstar III processed and ready to be made into a mega-mosaic of the Virgo/Coma galaxy region. Over 16 hours of Hyperstar III data taken between 7th April 2010 and 17th April 2010 found … Continue reading
I just found some old unprocessed Hyperstar III data from 17th April 2010 and got on and processed it this afternoon 🙂 This is the Markarian Chain of galaxies in Virgo, and everything that is not obviously a star is … Continue reading
Negative B&W images of deep-sky scenes are great for picking up all those background “faint fuzzies”.
