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Summer Clean at the NFO

Bit late this year cleaning off all the dirt, grime and pollen from the domes. Usually complete this job April/May. Here, sparkling in this blazing heat are the north dome (Micro-Dragonfly Array) with the side pods, and the south dome … Continue reading

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Latest Solargraph

Winter Solstice 2025 until Summer Solstice 2026 solargraph. You can just make out the two white fibreglass domes in the foreground.

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A New Markarian Chain Composite

A composite of 3 datasets taken of the Markarian Chain region.

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Interstellar Arachnid

Imaging the M44 (Beehive Cluster) with the 200mm lenses I came across this arachnid that had spun it’s web across the innermost stars of Cancer, perhaps hoping to catch some Bees.

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M31 – The Andromeda Galaxy Reprocessed

I used all the Sky90 data and added to it the core data I took on the original Hyperstar with the little H9C OSC CCD. There was a noticeable improvement.

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A Completely Unexpected Turnup for the Books

I’ve just been moaning to a good friend about how this hobby is becoming a pointless exercise – especially with the weather – and what do I do? I start a major re-configuration of the MiniWASP array. Why? Because a … Continue reading

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Indistinguishable from Magic

My Dad was out in the Northwest Frontier in WWI doing plate photography! I have just a few surviving images that were transferred to photographic paper as the hundreds of plates he had were all destroyed when my parents were … Continue reading

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Controlled Nuclear Fusion

If you look on YouTube you will see a lot of recent hype on the progress in controlled nuclear fusion reactors. Without seeing progress I guess the funding would soon dry up, call me cynical. The first nuclear fusion experiment … Continue reading

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High-Resolution A1 Print of the Sombrero Galaxy Courtesy of Hubble

I just saw an image of the Sombrero galaxy taken by Hubble on X. Prompted me to download the highest resolution image I could find and print it out at A1 size on the HP Designjet T230. Here is the … Continue reading

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236 hours and 30 minutes later

And here’s the result of very nearly TEN DAYS continous, uniterrupted, flawless printing on the incredible ELEGOO Neptune 4 plus 3D printer. An incredible feat for such a low-priced large-volume printer. I don’t know how they do it – BUT … Continue reading

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