Category Archives: Hyperstar and SXVF-M25C

Images taken with the new Hyperstar lens and the SXVF-M25C camera.

M5 globular cluster in Serpens

This is Hyperstar III data from 23rd May 2009 and consists of 64 subs at 80-seconds per sub.  

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The Virgo/Coma galaxy cluster including Markarian’s Chain

I found a couple more frames lurking in the archive, as well as realising that I’d lost a few with M89, M90, M91 🙁  I will have to retake those again.  This massive field of view is precisely what I … Continue reading

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Hyperstar III image of the Perseus Double Cluster

Data from 21st September 2009 just processed.  57 subs at 2-minutes per sub.

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Schedar and the Pac Man nebula in Cassiopeia

This is a 4-framer mosaic from the Hyperstar III taken on 31st December 2008.  Each frame was 1 hour exposure time using 40 x 90-second subs at f#2 on an 11″ Celestron SCT.

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The dust clouds of Caph

This is a Hyperstar III 4-framer of the Caph region in Cassiopeia.  Each frame is a 1-hour exposure (40 x 90-seconds) at f#2.  I had no idea there was so much dust in the region, this area is in the … Continue reading

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The Pelican nebula and the Cygnus Wall get the Registar treatment

Once again several different datasets have been combined using Registar and slightly processed to give these rather deep results.

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Comet Lulin animation

I took 78 x 4-minute subs of comet Lulin on 28th February 2009 and created a deep-sky image of the object back then.  But it has taken me until 10th February 2012 to edit all the individual subs into a … Continue reading

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The Fireworks galaxy NGC6946 and open cluster NGC6939 in Cepheus

Here we have the Fireworks galaxy, Arp29, Caldwell 12, NGC6946 – and the open cluster NGC6939 lying close by (in the image, not by distance) in the constellation Cepheus.  This is recently processed data from 20th August 2009 taken with … Continue reading

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The Running Man nebula – the full Monty

Managed to process the full width of this image which I didn’t think I’d manage to do when I started on this one earlier today.

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Running Man – bigger crop

Managed to squeeze out a bigger crop which brought in the top of M42 at the bottom of the image.

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