This month’s imaging object is M15 [NGC7078] the Great Pegasus Cluster, a very nice Globular Cluser in the constellation Pegasus. This is a large globular with a diameter of 18 arc minutes (M13 is 21 arc minutes) and lies at … Continue reading
Cassiopeia as you will know is open cluster central – but do you know that there is a region THICK with open clusters (6 of them) AND it has a fantastic supernova remnant as well? Use your scope’s GOTO to … Continue reading
Imaging conditions steadily improve as we proceed through August and once again reasonably dark skies can be had in the late evening – the only problem being if you have a day job to get up early for the next … Continue reading
With virtually no imaging for the last 6-8 weeks we enter July where at least the skies start to get a little darker in the late evening. It is still not great conditions for imaging though and you will note … Continue reading
It’s imaging dead time again as we enter the summer months and it never really gets dark at my latitude. Time once again to do all those chores which we don’t bother with when we’re getting on with the real … Continue reading
The imaging object for this month is actually a pair of objects lying in the constellation Ursa Major. M97 also known as the Owl nebula is a lovely little planetary nebula, so named as it has a pair of dark … Continue reading
April brings the Ursa Major/Canes Venatici objects into a good imaging position. Our Imaging Object of the Month this month is the interacting galaxy pair M51 known as the whirlpool galaxy. M51 lies 15 million light years away in the … Continue reading
This month’s imaging object is a single star shot – this time I’ve gone for Regulus in Leo. A nice bright star central to an image can make a spectacular picture, and Regulus is no exception. Taken using the Sky … Continue reading
I still find it very strange that this large, bright reflection nebula does not have a “popular” name. To me it look like a cauldron of boiling liquid oxygen, so I shall call it “the Cauldron”. M78 is a beautiful … Continue reading
First of all Happy New Year to you all! I won’t say let’s hope for better imaging weather this coming year as so far it hasn’t been anything to write home about. Moving on. This month’s Imaging Object of the … Continue reading
