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The eye of the Bull
Clear night last night and no obtrusive Moon – only one Sky 90 operational at the moment (I’m taking 2 x Sky 90s to Steve Collingwood tomorrow to see if he can collimate them for me). Anyway – managed to … Continue reading
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The Cave nebula in Cepheus – blast from the past
Another deep-sky image from the NFO archives, and another original Hyperstar/H9C composition. This time the Cave nebula in Cepheus. I recall the tracking was so good on this one that I actually got some vertical banding where the tracking error … Continue reading
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M78 blast from the past
Another old image from the New Forest Observatory taken with the original Hyperstar and a little SXV H9C one-shot colour camera (1.4 megapixels only!). The camera was highly sensitive and I regret selling it when I bought the APS-sized chip … Continue reading
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Blast from the past II
Another image using the original Hyperstar and the little H9C one-shot colour camera. Pretty deep for just 2.5 hours total exposure time – shows the speed of the Hyperstar lens 🙂
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Blast from the past
I just came across a load of very old imaging files taken using the original Hyperstar (no collimation screws) and a tiny little H9C one-shot colour CCD (1.4 Megapixels from memory). Did a pretty good job all told, and this … Continue reading
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Nice clear Moonless evening on 26/09/2011
Until the fog rolled in at 1:30 a.m. But gave me enough time with the Hyperstar III to get a better image of the supernova in M101 and also a quick look at the Double Cluster in Perseus. Also managed … Continue reading
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The Hyperstar III is go again :)
We had an extremely rare clear and Moonless night last night – the stars were superb. Hard decision time – what do I do? Do I spend a great viewing evening on getting the Hyperstar III back up and running, … Continue reading
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NGC7380
A darker background and the edge has been cropped 🙂
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NGC752 or Caldwell 28 – a 2-billion year old open cluster in Andromeda
The 2-billion year old open cluster NGC752 in the constellation Andromeda – together with a whole bunch of faint fuzzies (galaxies) in the background. North is up in this image.
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NGC7380 emission nebula in Cepheus – narrowband H-alpha image from 2008
An H-alpha narrowband image of NGC7380 in Cepheus taken way back on October 11th 2008 – just found unprocessed on the HDD this morning 🙂
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