Moon blazing away overhead last night, but it was nice and clear up to around 11:00 p.m. So what to image? How about a nice Carbon star? This little beauty is UU Aurigae in the constellation Auriga (SAO 59280) and … Continue reading
Here is a colour and negative B&W version of the on-going Virgo/Coma galaxies mega-mosaic. Over 4 years in the making so far, this image stretches from M58 in the bottom left hand corner right up to M100 in the top … Continue reading
The Virgo/Coma galaxies mega-mosaic went together a lot easier than I was expecting. A few tiny bits of extra processing to be done on this one, but here is the negative B&W version so you can scroll around all those … Continue reading
I managed to get enough decent data last night, despite the sky being full of water vapour and a very intrusive Moon, to fill in the annoying “notch” on the Markarian Chain mega-mosaic. I have just bolted the last three … Continue reading
Here is the lower-left hand panel for the on-going Virgo/Coma galaxies mega-mosaic image. Want to hear some pain? The Siamese-Twins at the bottom of the image fall off the bottom of the rest of the mosaic by a fraction 🙁 … Continue reading
This is my second attempt at a comet Garradd animation – this time without dithering between subs 🙂 The “jumps” in comet motion are due to lost subs.
This is last night’s Sky-Watcher data (2-hours) composited with the earlier Sky 90 data (11 and a half hours) – so 13 and a half hours total into this one so far 🙂
I learnt a number of new tricks putting together the recent comet Garradd animation so I applied them to the old comet Lulin data – big improvement! http://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/6794918782/ The reason the comet’s tail disappears after the satellite crosses the screen … Continue reading
One thing you should note – it is not the World’s greatest idea to dither your “stills” if you later want to use the data to create an animation. I will try to do better next time 🙂 You can … Continue reading
Beautiful clear evening all night last night but I packed up at 2:30 in the morning after starting at 7:45 p.m. the evening before. This time the target was comet Garradd moving below Ursa Major and above Draco. I wasted … Continue reading
