It was a clear night last night (after a day of rain!) albeit with an intrusive Moon, but that doesn’t prevent me from getting on with star shots. I managed to get the 3rd frame (the far right hand frame) … Continue reading
The above 6 images of the Double Cluster show this region at different scales and with the images taken on several different pieces of kit. The first image is a 4-frame mosaic taken with a Sky90 and M25C OSC CCD. … Continue reading
It really is hard to get a perspective on just how many stars there are in the Milky Way region of the Sagitta image. So I took a BIG crop out of the bottom of the image and magnified it … Continue reading
Managed to get the left frame of the Sagitta mosaic last night with anothe 5-hours of 10-minute subs using the 200mm lenses and the 2600MC Pro OSC CMOS cameras. So that is the whole of Sagitta covered. Apart from the … Continue reading
A clear beautiful Moonless night last night, one of the best I’ve seen in a long while. Target – the constellation Sagitta. This is planned to be a 3-frame mosaic with the 200mm lenses and the 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras. … Continue reading
V1331 Cygni is a young star in Cygnus in the dark nebula LDN981. It is almost surrounded by an arc-like reflection nebula. I have just spent many hours re-stacking the 6-hours worth of 10 and 15-minute subs expecting to get … Continue reading
I like close pairings of red and blue stars for the striking colour contrast they give. Here’s a pair that don’t get much air-time, namely Tania Australis (red) and Tania Borealis (blue) which reside in Ursa Major. Just to the … Continue reading
A reprocess of a Sky90/M26C OSC CCD composite image of the Garnet star in the IC1396 nebula.
Last night (staying up until 3 a.m.) I was able to get the 3rd and final frame of this 3-frame mosaic of the whole of Corona Borealis. I first had the idea to capture this one a decade ago, but … Continue reading
This is a 2-frame mosaic using the Sky90 array and M26C OSC CCDs. Centre-bottom is the bright star Epsilon Cassiopei, and above left is the asterism Greg’s Lambda.
