Picture of the Week this week is not one of my own, but is a composite of both Webb and Hubble space telescope images. This features the well-known “Pillars of Creation” image which is presented to you sans stars.
This week we feature V509 Cassiopeiae, a yellow hypergiant star (one of 2) in Cassiopeia. This is 3-hours of 4-minute subs taken on the Sky90 array with the M26C OSC CCDs. I appear to have been very remiss in not … Continue reading
Our Picture of the Week features the beautifully spherically-symmetric (and beautifully coloured) planetary nebula Abell 39 in the constellation Hercules. Abell 39 lies about 3,800 light years from Earth and the radius of the sphere is around 1.4 light years. … Continue reading
Our Picture of the Week is this explosive galaxy, NGC6946 also known as the Fireworks galaxy, due to the large number of supernovae that have been found in it. This image was taken using the original Hyperstar with a tiny … Continue reading
The Picture of the Week this week features a supernova!! The image shows before and after FOVs of the supernova SN2022 hrs in the galaxy NGC 4647 in the Virgo cluster. The before image was taken with the Sky90 array … Continue reading
This week we feature what at first sight appears to be a pretty uninspiring star field with no stars standing out as being anything special. However this rather bland image takes on a completely different perspective when you are informed … Continue reading
The relativistic jet in M87 features as this Picture of the Week.
The Double Cluster hanging like a charm off Greg’s Charm Bracelet is this week’s image. This is a 2-frame Sky90 array mosaic using the M26C OSC CCDs.
This week features the stretch of Cygnus running from the Crescent nebula right down to the Tulip nebula. This is a 200mm lens/2600MC Pro CMOS camera image taken using the L-Enhance filters. Russ Croman’s star removal filter has been used … Continue reading
This week we feature the Coathanger Cluster using only the 200mm lenses with the ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras. The wide field really puts the cluster into perspective. This cluster has a very special place in my memory. I first … Continue reading
