Category Archives: CCD Images

Noel recently processed this Chara data taken at the New Forest Observatory.  Chara, or Beta Canum Venaticorum goes with Cor Coroli or Alpha Canum Venaticorum as the pair of stars that make the constellation Canes Venatici – the hunting dogs.  … Continue reading →

How many stars can you see when you look in the region under the handle of The Plough/Big Dipper?  Chances are only one shows up – this one – Cor Caroli in the constellation Canes Venatici.  In this image North … Continue reading →

Noel Carboni has just finished processing this wide-field deep-sky image from a few days back.  This is the Whale & Hockey stick region in Coma Berenices and you can also see “The Mice” lower far left.  Shows that I don’t … Continue reading →

Noel has just finished processing the recent Leo Trio data and added in some very old Hyperstar 1 data (taken on an H9C!) from way back.  Needless to say, Noel’s process is far better than my feeble effort and you … Continue reading →

Unexpectedly clear night last night so I managed to grab 3 and a half hours worth of 200 second subs on the M53 region with the Sky 90/M25C.  There’s a pile of faint fuzzies in the background of this average … Continue reading →

Managed to grab 4-hours of data last night on the Leo Trio region with the bright star Chertan (Theta Leonis) in the field of view.  This is a very quick and nasty process by yours truly – Noel will do … Continue reading →

I imaged this object last night and Noel Carboni processed it today.  Three and a half hours exposure time using 10-minute subs on the M105 region in Leo.  Apart from the 3 Messier objects, there are quite a lot of … Continue reading →

Noel has recently processed just about the only image I’ve taken since the beginning of November 2010 – astronomy-wise, this is the worst spell of weather we’ve had since I started imaging in the Winter of 2004!!  I was hoping that … Continue reading →

As you will know we had a rare beautifully clear Moonless night last night – time for some serious imaging!  I had planned to grab IC1831, a ball of stars very close to the Heart nebula, quite some while back.  … Continue reading →