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The answer is NOT 42!!
Noel has just processed this recent image taken in Orion. A nice little open cluster, which sits in the centre of this frame. Zoom in on the cluster and you will see that unlike the Douglas Adams prediction whe answer … Continue reading
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A Christmas holiday treat – the Ruchbah region of Cassiopeia
Noel has just worked his magic assembling this mosaic Star Vista of the Ruchbah region of Cassiopeia. This small image is unable to do the original 20 Megapixel monster justice, but as you can see the whole area is jam packed … Continue reading
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IC59 and IC63 with Gamma Cassiopeiae in Cassiopeia
Another hot-off-the-press image from the Parker/Carboni double-team. This time it is the beautiful nebulosity surrounding the central star in the constellation Cassiopeia.
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A definitive M33 image from the NFO
A final 3-hours total exposure time using 30-minute subs completed the Autumn 2008 mega project – M33 the pinwheel galaxy in triangulum!
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NGC7000 and the Pelican nebulae in Cygnus
Noel has been very busy processing recently and the first to come back across the pond was this composite image of the North America and Pelican nebulae in Cygnus.
M33 – the Pinwheel galaxy in Triangulum
Noel has just completed some precision image processing on this latest Hyperstar III image taken over 3 nights.
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Work in progress IC59 and IC63 Gamma Cassiopeia
With under a couple of hours using 90-second subs I wasn’t expecting much from this one apart from the stars. I was amazed at how well the nebulosity stood out – power of the Hyperstar!!! Noel did a heroic job … Continue reading
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Work in progress – the NGC7788 region in Cassiopeia
This is a 2-frame Hyperstar III mosaic of the NGC7788 region in Cassiopeia. This region is famous for having 6 open clusters in a line. However, towards the top of the frame (not visible in this image) is a fascinating … Continue reading
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Hyperstar III image of IC1805 in H-alpha
On 10th October 2008 I managed to get 3 hours and 40-minutes worth of H-alpha data on the Heart nebula in Cassiopeia using 10-minute subs. The Moon was causing all sorts of trouble and the seeing was poor which led … Continue reading
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Report on hardware changes
I can report that the hardware changes made a couple of days ago produced the expected result – tracking is now back to the very high accuracy I had when using the Hyperstar 1. Unfortunately I also had to turn … Continue reading
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