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Category Archives: News
Courses & Image Purchases
If you would like to discuss courses, either existing or one tailor made for you, or you would like to discuss image purchasing, then please contact me on: … Continue reading
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Lunar Halo
A 22-degree lunar halo taken last night (09/03/2017) at 8:20 p.m. Lovely view of Orion too. Red flashing light photobombing the image was a military helicopter which was tailing another military helicopter that had NO LIGHTS showing!!
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The DELL PowerEdge C6100 MegaNode machine
As a month has now gone past, I have just this minute ordered another 4 x Xeon 2.93GHz hex-core CPUs for the DELL PowerEdge C6100 quad node server. So when they arrive and are put in I will have 4 … Continue reading
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Another adopter of the light box for flats
Peter Rusling has also used one of the Amazon supplied light panels for taking flats. He says: “I’ve bought one of these excellent panels and thought I’d share that the light USB L4S version will mount safely on a £15 … Continue reading
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Perseids evening 11/08/2016 – morning 12/08/2016
It was a spectacular display of the Perseids last night – and unbelievably the persistent thin high cloud disappeared shortly after 11 p.m. leaving completely clear skies – and after 12:30 a.m. they were Moonless skies as well! Out of … Continue reading
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Test shot on the Sky 90 array
Having swapped out the Master Computer and mucked around a bit with Sky 90(1) I had some clear sky last night to take some test shots to see what needs fine tuning. This image is just 12 x 5-minute subs … Continue reading
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The Summer Triangle Annotated
From 05/08/2016 Canon 15mm fisheye lens and Canon 5D MkII DSLR.
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2nd Edition of “Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images” – completed!
I have recently finished the Second Edition of the Springer publication “Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images” and it has been sent off to them to make bookworthy. Springer then sends me back the draft (with all the page numbers) and I … Continue reading
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