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CCD Astrophotography Images

Astronomy Now Magazine (May 2007 Issue)

Our picture of M51 appears on page 48 under the article heading “Beginner’s Challenge: The spiral arms of M51.  Our image of M13 and M101 also appear on the Messier Challenge Poster – these are all single frame Hyperstar/SXV-H9C images.

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Sky at Night (May 2007 Issue)

We have won photo of the month in the Sky at Night magazine with this Sky 90/SXVF-M25C image of the Rosette nebula.  The Rosette nebula in Monoceros features as photo of the month on page 26.  You’ll also find it … Continue reading

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Astronomy Now Magazine (April 2007 Issue)

Astronomy Now are printing one of our images of M31 in “the night sky” on page 51.  It is certainly a dramatic image and one of our favourites.  This is just the central core region of M31 taken with the … Continue reading

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Sky at Night (March 2007 Issue)

We are very pleased that Sky at Night have chosen two of our images for the March 2007 issue – both are Sky 90/SXVF-M25C images: An image of M42 in landscape mode with no H-Alpha data (page 27) The Horsehead Nebula wide field … Continue reading

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Hampshire Society Magazine (March 2007 Issue)

Faith Eckersall has written an article titled “Shining Example” for the March issue of the Hampshire Society Magazine.  A lot of the article is about Greg’s background which you also can read on this site.  The article has been published … Continue reading

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Astronomy Now Magazine (March 2007 Issue)

The accompanying image made Picture of the Month in the March 2007 issue of Astronomy Now!  You can find this one on page 92.  The image taken with the Sky 90/M25C combination and shows the Cone Nebula, Christmas Tree cluster region in … Continue reading

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Curdridge Observatory Use Our Bode Nebula Image

Tom How over at Curdridge Observatory dropped me a note to say that he has just finished some interesting work with our image of M81 [Bode’s Nebula].  We produced our single frame Hyperstar image with the SXV-H9C one-shot colour cmaera which gave us a … Continue reading

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EPOD: Pleiades Open Star Cluster

Fantastic! Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) have chosen our extremely deep image of the Pleiades open star cluster taken on the Sky 90/SXVF-M25C as today’s picture. This is the famous Pleiades open star cluster in the constellation Taurus, also … Continue reading

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M25C Horsehead Area

Managed to get a few good images these last couple of months (despite the terrible weather).  However, this one was above expectations. A total of over a dozen hours exposure using 15 minute and 5 minute RGB subs as well … Continue reading

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Sword of Orion and NGC1999

I Haven’t posted any images recently even though there have been a couple of nice ones (due to laziness), but this one prompted me to get writing. It’s that time of the year again when Orion is up there waiting … Continue reading

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