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CCD Astrophotography Images

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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Practical Astronomer (February 2007 vol 2 issue 2)

Another first for us! Practical Astronomer are publishing our wide field image of the Pleiades on page 62 of the February 2007 issue (volume 2, issue 2).

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Astronomy Now 2007 Yearbook

We have three images in the 2007 yearbook 🙂 : Page 38 is the 4 frame Hyperstar image of M31 as one of the top 10 images of 2006 Page 72 is a Hyperstar image of M13 as a summer … Continue reading

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Astronomy Picture of the Day [APOD]

It took over a year of posting images before it finally happened!  Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD) have chosen our picture of the nebulosity around the supergiant star Gamma Cygni as picture of the day – today!

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Sky at Night (December 2006 Issue)

On the “Best Hotshots of 2006” CD-ROM you’ll find our Heart of the Rose image 🙂

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