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CCD Astrophotography Images

Hyperstar 4 Image of M31

I found some Hyperstar 4/M31 data from 2021-10-11 comprising 33 x 3-minute subs – so I added this to the 52 x 3-minute subs taken on 22-08-25 to get the result above. So now a total of 85 x 3-minute … Continue reading

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The Markarian Chain and IC3355

I made a composite image out of 2 lots of data of the Markarian Chain region taken using the Hyperstar 4 on a C11 with an ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS camera. This composite gives a total imaging time of 4.7 … Continue reading

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The Cygnus Wall

I dug out some very old (but very nice) data from a LONG time ago. This is an image of the Cygnus Wall taken with the original Hyperstar (no collimation or camera rotation adjusters) and a tiny little H9C OSC … Continue reading

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Composite M31 Using the C11/Hyperstar4/2600MC Pro camera

Here is a composite image of M31 using all the C11/Hyperstar4/2600MC pro camera data I could find. this is around 6-8 hours of 3-minute subs.

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M31 – First Image of the New Season

Got out for the first time last night for this new season – clear Moonless night – pretty much perfect conditions. I meant to image the Altair region with the 200mm lenses – BUT – one of the 2600MC Pro … Continue reading

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M31 – The Great Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda

Here is a composite image of M31 comprising 2 sets of Sky90/M26C OSC CCD data.

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The Cygnus Wall

A real blast from the past. Just came across this one and tarted it up a little on Paint Shop Pro. This is the Cygnus Wall region of the North America Nebula. I cannot remember the year this was taken … Continue reading

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Arcturus 2013

Now this is an odd one. I just got a request to purchase an image of Arcturus that someone had seen on the New Forest Observatory website. Looking at the image it looked better than more recent 2-framers I’d done … Continue reading

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NGC1817

From 18/01/2015 another Sky90 array image using the M26C OSC CCDs, this time open cluster NGC1817. 12 subs at 20-minutes per sub or 4-hours in total.

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Carbon Star SAO77516 – Y Tauri

Image taken 24/01/2015 on the Sky90 array using the M26C OSC CCDs. 30 subs at 10-minutes per sub.

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