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CCD Astrophotography Images

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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The Daily Mail (15th November 2006)

I hope you all managed to see the Daily Mail today?  Sorry for the late posting, other things got in the way today!  You can read the online version of the article by Michael Hanlon on the Daily Mail website.  … Continue reading →

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Curdridge Observatory Use Our Andromeda Galaxy Image

The guys over at Curdridge Observatory have done some interesting work with our mosaic image of M31.  We produced our mosaic with the SXV-H9C one-shot colour camera on the Hyperstar lens which has a reasonably large field of view (FOV) of one degree … Continue reading →

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Astronomy Now Magazine (October 2006 Issue)

This time we are on page 93.  You will find our latest image of M31 – The Great Andromeda Galaxy. This is a 4 frame Hyperstar mosaic.

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