Mu Cephei Name: The Garnet star Other names: Herschel’s Garnet star Constellation: Cepheus Other ID: Erakis, HD206936, HR8316, SAO33693, HIP107259 Magnitude: 4.08 (variable) Absolute magnitude: -7.63 Luminosity, Sun = 1: 370,000 (possibly as much as 600,000, uncertain figure) … Continue reading
119 Tauri/CE Tauri Star name: CE Tauri Constellation: Taurus Other ID: 119 Tauri, SAO 94628, HIP25945, HD36389, B+18 875, HR1845, GC 6841 Magnitude: 4.32 Absolute magnitude: -4.38+/-0.31 Luminosity, Sun = 1: 44,000 (variable) R.A. 2000: 05hr … Continue reading
While I have been trying to tune up scope 1 and camera 1 on the mini-WASP array, I have not wasted good imaging time 🙂 During the tuning periods I was imaging the same region with the well-tuned scope 2 and camera … Continue reading
To see if the polar alignment was up to it I took 3 x half hour subs of the Deneb region with mini-WASP camera 2 – looks like the polar alignment is good enough (but I need to tweak it … Continue reading
Now that the mini-WASP array is beginning to turn out some images (even if it is only one scope/camera at a time) I have created a new section under CCD images – namely Sky 90 and M26C. Hopefully, before too … Continue reading
Taken in parallel with the M57 data, here is an image of the globular cluster M92 in Hercules, less well known than its M13 neighbour, but every bit as impressive. 11 sub-exposures at 10-minutes per sub in order to get … Continue reading
Last night was the most amazing beautiful clear night – and the Moon wasn’t too intrusive either (which is unusual on a clear night). After a little extra “tuning” I set the two mini-WASP cameras off imaging a region around … Continue reading
Noel Carboni has just processed all the recent Hyperstar III data to create this groundbreaking image of the region 🙂 Three hours of 10-minute subs, 1-hour of 1-minute subs and 1-hour of 50-second subs went into the creation of this … Continue reading
I just used Registar to add two earlier original Hyperstar M13 datasets to the very recent (2) datasets taken using the Hyperstar III. This is the result 🙂
I have wanted to image this object for years ever since I saw it in a picture. However, being a planetary nebula I always thought it would be far too small on the Hyperstar III rig to be interesting. As … Continue reading
