Further to the Image of the Month below, I did in fact manage to get nearly 5 hours of 750-second subs on that third frame (to the left) for the Markarian Chain mosaic, just a couple of nights ago. The … Continue reading
You will probably know that Leibniz and Newton, working independently, came up with that torment for schoolchildren and an invaluable aid for engineers, the infinitesimal Calculus. However, did you realise that the formulation of the Calculus, at least that … Continue reading
Sir Patrick Moore threw a party at Farthings yesterday – St. Patrick’s day! We even saw a few moments of clear sky after a week of being totally overcast – I think Selsey is famous for being able to see … Continue reading
Well, we have just had the longest unbroken run of clear night skies that I can remember. Tonight is the full Moon and every imager knows that a full Moon always means clear skies – but not tonight! Why not? … Continue reading
It is currently believed that the primary source of the element Gold is supernova explosions. It also seems that the Gold on planet Earth is around the same age as the Earth itself at some 4.6 billion years. Therefore one … Continue reading
I mentioned a little while back how I was using the Canon 40D to take mosaics of the local New Forest area. The reasons for creating mosaics with a 10 megapixel camera include:
HAPPY 90th BIRTHDAY SIR ARTHUR C CLARKE!!!!!!! Have a great day, and a great year to come 🙂 Greg and Noel.
Two weeks ago I bought a Canon 40D DSLR camera for terrestrial work. While playing with this beast it struck me that by using the same mosaic techniques that we use in creating big deep-sky panoramas – we could actually … Continue reading
At 8.00 a.m. this morning an upgrade to Photoshop CS3 arrived. Within half an hour I was creating mosaics from frames that Photoshop CS2 simply couldn’t handle. The image below is a 15-framer, stitched together perfectly by CS3. This upgrade … Continue reading
When I originally bought the Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector way back in April-May 2002, I did so because it could use the highly innovative Hyperstar lens, and at that time there was no Meade equivalent. The Hyperstar is … Continue reading
