Category Archives: CCD Images

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 →

The Hyperstar III only data from last weekend without the lower resolution Sky 90 (Cone nebula) data added.  I now really want to get some frames off the top to see more of that fascinating dark nebulosity 🙂

We had two perfect imaging evenings on Sat 18th Feb and Sunday 19th Feb – utterly superb.  I took M101 data on both nights, 3 hours of 5-minute subs the first night and 2 hours of 10-minute subs the second … Continue reading →

This is the full frame of Hyperstar III data taken last night (the 2010 dataset is not included).

A most fantastic evening’s imaging last night – 5 and a half hours of data on two objects.  The first was in Monoceros (next door to Orion) where I captured this fascinating, and very busy region around IC 2169.  We … Continue reading →

Very nice globular cluster M3 in the constellation Canes Venatici.  Taken with the Hyperstar III data from 22nd April 2009, 61 subs at 60-seconds per sub.  I see that I left out a processing step in the cluster below so … Continue reading →

I like clusters (open or globular) with a Milky Way background – and here’s one in the constellation Lyra – Messier 56.  O.K. so it’s not much of a globular to look at, but the Milky Way background certainly brightens … Continue reading →