Dean of Starizona is very much on the ball. He just informed me that the problem I had last night was probably due to me putting the cog on the FeatherTouch the wrong way round. I just went out to … Continue reading
I had a two-hour, cloud-free slot last night between 11.00 p.m. and 1.00 a.m. Bound to be clear with a blazing (full?) Moon trundling along the southern horizon. O.K. so not a good night for imaging, but it did give … Continue reading
Taken earlier this year, Noel has just finished processing one of the few single star images taken using the Sky 90/SXVF-M25C combination. This time it is the bright star Regulus. If you invert the image colours (to pick up the … Continue reading
Great news again! The Parker/Carboni double-team got their rendition of the Jellyfish Nebula region in this month’s Astronomy Now as Picture of the Month!! Thank you once again to Nik Szymanek for a very nice accompanying description.
A higher resolution version of the first light NGC7000 image taken on the version III Hyperstar can now be viewed on Starizona’s Hyperstar Imaging Site.
The evening of thursday 3rd July was clear and Moonless – and was also first light for the new Hyperstar lens for the C11 telescope 🙂
Noel added the 3rd frame to the mega Markarian Chain mosaic and I converted it to a negative black and white image so you can clearly see all the faint fuzzies. I didn’t place M87 in the correct place in … Continue reading
Noel has just completed processing the 3rd frame in the Markarian Chain mosaic. This frame will be added to the previous 2-frames to give a panoramic view of the region containing not only the whole of Markarian’s Chain, but also … Continue reading
Noel is plugging away at old data in every spare minute he has whilst working on a big software project. He has created this superb image of the Cave nebula in Cepheus taken with the Sky 90/M25C combination. This image … Continue reading
After a minor glitch that was quickly sorted out by Dean of Starizona (thank you Dean! and moral of the story – DO NOT attempt anything even remotely complicated if you’re suffering from jet-lag!!!) the Hyperstar, M25C and 2″ Hutech … Continue reading
