Well tonight will be the second clear Moonless night in a row – almost completely unknown! I am imaging M78 with the Hyperstar 4 with good collimation – but I don’t have long before it disappears behind the trees.
This is a very quick (and dirty) process of last night’s Gamma Cassiopeia data taken on the 200mm lens rig. It was final setting up time so I managed to get both cameras in portrait mode, aligned both cameras very … Continue reading
Last night was First Light for the new 200mm lens rig. I chose the Gamma Cass region as there’s plenty going on there. Two changes to make, need to rotate the cameras 90 degrees anticlockwise to get them in portrait … Continue reading
I have just completed a major upgrade to the MiniWASP array, specifically the 2 Canon 200mm f#2.8 prime lenses. You can now see there are a pair of red cameras on the back instead of the usual black ones. These … Continue reading
A reprocess of some old Sky90 data.
Only managed to get 8 x 5-minute subs of M78 with the Hyperstar 4 through thin high cloud before the heavy cloud rolled in. Noel Carboni was still able to pull out some nice detail even though there is only … Continue reading
And here is a professional process of the Rosette data by my friend and astro-colleague, Noel Carboni.
I managed to get 10 x 4-minute subs on the Rosette nebula last night before the cloud rolled in (I think it all cleared again a couple of hours later). But I really can’t complain about this image when you … Continue reading
Here’s just the Hyperstar 4 data for the recent M31 image – only 16 subs at 3-minutes per sub. Now if only I can get the skies for 100 x 3-minute subs, this will start to look stonking. This version … Continue reading
I said I wouldn’t divulge the secret if the result was good. As the result wasn’t particularly good, I’ll tell you how it was done. The ultra-fast Hyperstar 4 at f#2 will blow the core of M42 (the Trapezium region) … Continue reading
