Picture of the Week is gorgeous M13 – the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. Again, many hours have gone into this one using several different cameras, several different versions of the Hyperstar, and also the Sky90 refractor at f#4.5. Another … Continue reading
Picture of the Week is my many total imaging hours M31 – the Andromeda galaxy. Lost count on the total number of Sky90/M26C OSC CCD hours that have gone into this one. Probably 15 or more and certainly well within … Continue reading
Picture of the Week is the Flaming Star and Tadpoles nebulae (IC405/IC410) region of Auriga. The Flaming Star nebula has that very nice patch of reflection nebulosity (blue) at the top. This is the accumulation of many hours (certainly more … Continue reading
Picture of the Week this time is a Sky90 MiniWASP array composite of the Cygnus Wall, Weasel, and Pelican’s Head region. I seem to get drawn to this area every year as the new imaging season starts. Well over 8-hours … Continue reading
Picture of the Week this time is Messier 45, the Pleiades star cluster in Taurus with the associated (blue) reflection nebulosity, and the (brown) Taurus molecular cloud. This is 18-hours worth of 40-minute subs taken with the 3 x Sky90s … Continue reading
Well I have on my calendar that Picture of the Week for today was Altair and Barnard’s “E”. So it was a bit of a surprise to come to the site today and find nothing has been updated. No idea … Continue reading
Our Picture of the Week is the famous Perseus Double-Cluster which hangs like a pair of charms from the ring of stars I call “Greg’s Charm Bracelet”. At the top is beautiful open cluster Stock 2 which looks like a … Continue reading
Picture of the Week for this week is the Crescent nebula region. The Crescent nebula (NGC6888) region hosts a bunch of very interesting stars as well as the (odd?) Messier object M29 (also called the Cooling Tower), which I have … Continue reading
Picture of the Week this time is the whole of the Veil nebula in Cygnus. Why is this one a landmark image for the New Forest Observatory? Well this is a composite of ALL the data I have collected on … Continue reading
The Picture of the Week this time is the very busy Sadr region of Cygnus. This image was captured with the Canon 200mm prime lenses and the ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras. I had originally taken something like 3 and … Continue reading
