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CCD Astrophotography Images

M100 galaxy North West of the Markarian Chain

This is a single frame Hyperstar III image of the M100 region taken in April 2010.  Again presented in colour and in B&W so you can see the numerous “faint fuzzies” in the background.

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Second frame of the Virgo/Coma galaxies mega-mosaic

The second of 7 frames of data processed in colour and B&W.  This one is centred on M87.

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Serendipitous data archive – the Virgo/Coma galaxies

Frame 1 of 7 taken with the Hyperstar III processed and ready to be made into a mega-mosaic  of the Virgo/Coma galaxy region.  Over 16 hours of Hyperstar III data taken between 7th April 2010 and 17th April 2010 found … Continue reading

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Galaxy central

I just found some old unprocessed Hyperstar III data from 17th April 2010 and got on and processed it this afternoon 🙂  This is the Markarian Chain of galaxies in Virgo, and everything that is not obviously a star is … Continue reading

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Phecda & M109 Hyperstar image in negative B&W

Negative B&W images of deep-sky scenes are great for picking up all those background “faint fuzzies”.

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First Hyperstar III image of 2012

As mentioned below, last night I focus trained and collimated the rebuilt Hyperstar III system on the C11.  This image is the result of 10 x 5-minute subs taken with a bright Moon playing havoc as well as thin high wall-to-wall … Continue reading

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Hyperstar imaging once again!

There is a bright Moon overhead and tons of thin high cloud – no good for imaging but perfect for getting the Hyperstar tuned up again 🙂  Managed to focus train and collimate the Hyperstar to better than ever before … Continue reading

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NGC7788 and NGC7790 in Cassiopeia

Found some old data from 3rd October 2008 that had not been processed and just processed it on Christmas Day 🙂  59 subs at 110 seconds per sub using the M25C and HyperstarIII.

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Blast from the past

Here is a 4-frame mosaic of the Pleiades taken with the original Hyperstar lens assembly (on a C11) with a tiny little H9C one-shot colour camera.  Also happens to be one of my all-time favourite images.

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The yellow is there – just need to process properly!

Having sat here for an hour or so not believing I could possibly have bleached all the colour out of Capella in the imaging I decided to reprocess the image from scratch and got this result.  O.K. so that’s a … Continue reading

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