Another hot-off-the-press image from the Parker/Carboni double-team. This time it is the beautiful nebulosity surrounding the central star in the constellation Cassiopeia.
A final 3-hours total exposure time using 30-minute subs completed the Autumn 2008 mega project – M33 the pinwheel galaxy in triangulum!
Here is the second marathon processing session by Noel. This time it’s the Belt region of Orion.
Noel has been very busy processing recently and the first to come back across the pond was this composite image of the North America and Pelican nebulae in Cygnus.
Noel has just completed some precision image processing on this latest Hyperstar III image taken over 3 nights.
More great news!! Today we got the Jellyfish nebula (IC443) and its companion IC444 published as an Earth Science Picture of the Day.
With under a couple of hours using 90-second subs I wasn’t expecting much from this one apart from the stars. I was amazed at how well the nebulosity stood out – power of the Hyperstar!!! Noel did a heroic job … Continue reading
This is a 2-frame Hyperstar III mosaic of the NGC7788 region in Cassiopeia. This region is famous for having 6 open clusters in a line. However, towards the top of the frame (not visible in this image) is a fascinating … Continue reading
On 10th October 2008 I managed to get 3 hours and 40-minutes worth of H-alpha data on the Heart nebula in Cassiopeia using 10-minute subs. The Moon was causing all sorts of trouble and the seeing was poor which led … Continue reading
I can report that the hardware changes made a couple of days ago produced the expected result – tracking is now back to the very high accuracy I had when using the Hyperstar 1. Unfortunately I also had to turn … Continue reading
