Mu Cephei Name: The Garnet star Other names: Herschel’s Garnet star Constellation: Cepheus Other ID: Erakis, HD206936, HR8316, SAO33693, HIP107259 Magnitude: 4.08 (variable) Absolute magnitude: -7.63 Luminosity, Sun = 1: 370,000 (possibly as much as 600,000, uncertain figure) … Continue reading
119 Tauri/CE Tauri Star name: CE Tauri Constellation: Taurus Other ID: 119 Tauri, SAO 94628, HIP25945, HD36389, B+18 875, HR1845, GC 6841 Magnitude: 4.32 Absolute magnitude: -4.38+/-0.31 Luminosity, Sun = 1: 44,000 (variable) R.A. 2000: 05hr … Continue reading
Today being the summer Solstice for 2012, and seeing as it has rained all day, I opened up the two Tea caddy pinhole cameras that I put up last winter Solstice. So here we have 6-months worth of Sun trails … Continue reading
I managed to get runner-up in the “Split Second” category of the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards 2012 with my “eggsplosion” high-speed flash image. Hoping to do just that bit better in 2013 🙂
I have just downloaded the 60-day trial version of PEMPro from CCDWare (I already use their brilliant CCDInspector software) for evalutaion. PEMPro allows you to polar align and train the PEC for your mount. As I want to be able … Continue reading
Below I published images of the beginning and the end of the transit (downloaded live from the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite) – but for some reason I did not include an image from near the middle of the transit. Rectified … Continue reading
I used all the individual frames of the animation to put together this montage of the 2012 Transit of Venus. In the very last image of the Sun, Venus has just passed the edge of the Sun and we will … Continue reading
Some single stills images of the 2012 transit of Venus from last night/early this morning.
This was the view of the 4-monitors in the New Forest Observatory Control Centre last night/this morning during the Transit of Venus. Screen top left was Norway – this was the first to show ingress, a good few minutes ahead … Continue reading
I pulled an all-nighter downloading the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory solar images during the period of the Venus transit and put this animation together 🙂
