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CCD Astrophotography Images

V1331 Cygni region

Managed to get 50-minutes of imaging done on this region before a blazing Moon came up using the 3 x Sky 90s, so 150-minutes total using 10-minute subs.  Needs a lot more on this region, including I think the frames … Continue reading

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The MegaWASP array does a Kemble’s Cascade 4-framer

Beautiful clear evening last night and I put the Sky 90 array onto the Kemble’s Cascade region.  For around 8 years I have wanted to get a 4-framer of this one but didn’t have the time to allocate to it. … Continue reading

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The Sky 90 array does the M57 region

This was a test shot having removed camera 2 for re-flattening on the laser pen rig.  Short gap in the clouds gave me half an hour’s imaging time on the M57 region in Lyra.  But only half an hour means … Continue reading

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Deep-Sky Image of the Month for September 2015

I just found a folder full of Carbon stars that I had not loaded up to Flickr or the NFO site.  Liked this one the best, and decided to make it the Image of the Month for September 2015 🙂 … Continue reading

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Carbon star W Cassiopeiae

Only 9 x 10-minute subs from the Sky 90s and M26Cs went into this one – but as that is clearly enough – it has got me re-thinking how best to use the Mega-WASP array for my work.

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Epsilon Cassiopeiae region

Used the 3 x Sky 90s and M26Cs on the Mega-WASP array to image the Epsilon Cassiopeiae region together with Greg’s Lambda.  Clear Moonless evening 🙂

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The megaWASP array does Arcturus

A couple of nights ago with a full Moon I took some Arcturus data with the 3 x Sky 90s. I combined the recent data with some taken a while back and came up with this result 🙂

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X Cancri – Carbon star

Looking through this year’s captures I found one I hadn’t put up for viewing.  This is Carbon star X Cancri taken on 15th February 2015.

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Pac Man nebula reloaded

I composited some 4-hours of Hyperstar III data and some 6-hours of Sky 90 data to give the following deep image of NGC281 – the Pac Man nebula.

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Polaris with the mini-WASP array

A clear Moonless night last night so I put the mini-WASP array on Polaris. A total of 36 x 5-minute subs gave the result below which I’m pretty pleased with.

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