Noel recently processed an image taken just a few days ago. This one is NGC281 also known as the Pacman nebula in Cassiopeia. Twelve subs at 15-minutes per sub gave this result, and 15-minutes at f#2 is equivalent to an … Continue reading
Noel has just processed the H-alpha data from Thursday 10th September 2009. This was the first target using the new 45nm bandwidth H-alpha filter (Baader) I purchased from Ian King Imaging Ltd. This is 10 subs at 10-minutes per sub, … Continue reading
Conventional narrowband filters (12nm or smaller bandwidth) do not work with the Hyperstar III system due to its very low f#. The cone angle of the rays passing through the filter are so far from normal incidence that the actual … Continue reading
Noel Carboni has been putting a considerable amount of effort into developing a new star spike plugin for Photoshop. He has been trying it out on a few of our images as a test and this is the result of … Continue reading
It was while putting together my top 10 that I realised there had been a serious omission! I have not put up the definitive Horsehead and Belt region of Orion on the NFO site, although it had appeared way back … Continue reading
It was extremely difficult to pick a top 5 and a number of images were very close runners up. In places 6 to 10 I put the following:
With something approaching 200 images in the Parker/Carboni portfolio I am often asked – “what are your top 5 favourite images?” Well, after quite a bit of thought on this one, and for reasons that go beyond the impact of … Continue reading
Noel continues to turn them out 🙂 This time he has collated all of our previous data and skilfully combined the lot to give this wide field panorama of the M78 region in Orion. Noel has combined original Hyperstar RGB data … Continue reading
Noel has just completed the digital image processing of this one taken on Friday 23rd January 2009 from the New Forest Observatory. This is the nice open cluster M38 in Auriga with close-by smaller open cluster NGC1907. Some red emission … Continue reading
