Noel has just reprocessed an earlier image of Gamma Cassiopeia with the nebulae IC59 & IC63 lying close by – with the addition of some star spikes.
The third clear Moonless evening in a row had me out to capture this beautiful little open cluster in Cassiopeia called the Owl or ET cluster – NGC457. As I mentioned before, Noel’s real speciality is stars – which you … Continue reading
We’re on a roll 🙂 The weather has not only been unusually good these last few nights, but they have been Moonless nights too! Excellent!!! Managed to capture the Double Cluster a couple of nights ago and Noel worked his … Continue reading
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:
