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CCD Astrophotography Images

EPOD for today – NGC1333 and dust clouds in Perseus

Pulled up EPOD (Earth Science Picture of the Day) a couple of minutes ago and unexpectedly found the NFO image of NGC1333 looking back at me.  It really is a stunning region of space and the eerie-looking dust clouds gives … Continue reading

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Marooned off Vesta February 19th 2010

Lovely clear night last night, and perfect for trying to capture the asteroid Vesta now leaving the head of Leo.  46 subs at 200-seconds per sub with the C11 and Hyperstar III – image captured and processed by Greg Parker at … Continue reading

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Vesta in Leo

If it stays clear for long enough, and I’m imaging in the right place – then tomorrow sometime I should be posting up an image of the asteroid Vesta which is passing the star Algieba in the constellation Leo right … Continue reading

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IC2169 reflection nebula in Monoceros

Several clear nights in a row recently and I concentrated on just one beautiful region – IC2169 and surroundings in Monoceros.  This reflection nebula lies just to the right of the cone nebula, in fact the red emission nebulosity over … Continue reading

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NGC1333 and dust clouds in Perseus

Another 4 hours of data was acquired on this object and Noel put the whole thing together which now totals some 9 hours of imaging time.  Beautiful reflection nebula NGC1333 and the accompanying dust clouds lie in the constellation Perseus.  … Continue reading

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Caldwell 10 – Noel Carboni process

Noel recently processed the Caldwell 10 dataset and managed to pull out that faint red cluster (IC116) over at the top left.  There are in fact a total of 7 (yes – seven) open clusters in this frame.

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M15 in Pegasus

Another recent capture from the New Forest Observatory processed by Noel Carboni (I don’t “do” globulars 🙂  Here is a nice wide field view of globular cluster M15 in the constellation Pegasus caught using the Hyperstar III and SXVF-M25C one-shot … Continue reading

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Caldwell 10 in Cassiopeia

Managed to get some good data on this open cluster in Cassiopeia – and please sit down – actually processed this one myself 🙂  A very nice region in Cassiopeia with two other open clusters also in the field of … Continue reading

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The Iris nebula in Cepheus – reloaded

Noel has just added some more data I recently took of the Iris nebula to our original image.  Second data set added 15 x 15-minute subs to the original 3 hours and 45 minutes worth of 200 second subs – … Continue reading

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Messier object number 1 – the Crab Nebula in Taurus – a supernova remnant

This data was collected on January 8th 2010 (I have not imaged since then due to bad weather) and I went for this region not to get the Crab nebula (which I knew would be very small in the field … Continue reading

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