I recently discovered that Takahashi have discontinued making the Sky 90 – mad decision IMO. And this comes at a time when I was looking to replace the TS80 with a Sky 90 giving me a mini-WASP array with 3 … Continue reading
Managed to capture a few 5-minute subs of comet Jacques when it was close to Epsilon Cassiopeiae on the evening of 22nd August 2014.
Managed to get 15 x 4-minute subs using the Hyperstar III on the new supernova in M82 last night. Although the sky looked crystal clear, and was Moonless as a bonus, the seeing was terrible. Never mind – I do … Continue reading
So what’s the excuse for such a grubby image then? Half the sky (towards the East) was clear at 6:00 p.m. but half the sky running north to south and covering the whole of the West was black and overcast. … Continue reading
As it has been non-stop rain for days on end now, I have resorted to taking a look at old data. Just put together all the datasets I could find of the Cygnus Wall region taken with the Hyperstar III … Continue reading
The Canon 200mm prime lens and the Canon 5D MkII DSLR were put to good use a few days back grabbing a massive (10 x 6.8 degree) wide-field around the Cocoon nebula in Cygnus. Using ISO 400 and f#4.5 with … Continue reading
This is a composite image combining the recent 8 x 20-minute subs from the Hyperstar III with earlier Sky 90/M25C which incorporated H-alpha and OIII narrowband data.
Taken with the HSIII on 04/07/2013 this is an S-type star, SAO 69360 in Cygnus.
There was a fair bit of thin high cloud wandering over last night (as it turned out it didn’t get in the way of Cygnus) and so I only set up the Hyperstar III and didn’t run the mini-WASP array. … Continue reading
So I’m spending a couple of hours imaging in Cygnus with both the mini-WASP array and the Hyperstar III 🙂
