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
Negative B&W images of deep-sky scenes are great for picking up all those background “faint fuzzies”.
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
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
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.
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.
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
I imaged Capella at f10 a few nights back with the C11 (still not collimated the camera to the scope properly, but will work on it) and got a nice bright yellow star with a pretty boring background. O.K. so … Continue reading
Here is a wide-field composite image of M78 and its relation to Barnard’s Loop taken using both Sky90 and Hyperstar I data.
Here’s Aldebaran in the correct orientation (North is now up) and a touch of extra processing.
