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Tarazed and Barnard’s “E”

A reprocess of some old 200mm lens data using the Trius 26C OSC CCD camera. This is 22 x 10-minute subs on the Tarazed/Barnard’s “E” region. This year I will try to get a 2-framer of this region including Alshain … Continue reading

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More Mirror Magic

Quite some time ago I wrote up a piece on how a vertically oriented mirror laterally inverts an image (it doesn’t by the way). People quite often ask, if a mirror inverts laterally, then why doesn’t it invert vertically as … Continue reading

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M31 – The Great Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda

Here is a composite image of M31 comprising 2 sets of Sky90/M26C OSC CCD data.

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Arcturus 2013

Now this is an odd one. I just got a request to purchase an image of Arcturus that someone had seen on the New Forest Observatory website. Looking at the image it looked better than more recent 2-framers I’d done … Continue reading

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NGC1817

From 18/01/2015 another Sky90 array image using the M26C OSC CCDs, this time open cluster NGC1817. 12 subs at 20-minutes per sub or 4-hours in total.

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Carbon Star SAO77516 – Y Tauri

Image taken 24/01/2015 on the Sky90 array using the M26C OSC CCDs. 30 subs at 10-minutes per sub.

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Mu Cephei – the Garnet Star

Mu Cephei sitting at the top of the bright emission nebula IC1396. A Sky90 array image using the M26C OSC CCDs and 51 x 4-minute subs. Image taken on 04/12/2012.

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M44 the Beehive Cluster

From 09/02/2015 using the Sky90 array and M26C OSC CCDs this is M44 – the Beehive Cluster. 29 x 5-minute subs and the Akira Fujii effect has been applied to bring out the cluster.

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M106 and Friends

From 16/02/2015 using the Sky90 array and M26C OSC CCDs here is the M106 region with colourful stars and lots of other galaxies. 24 x 20-minute subs or 8-hours total exposure time.

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Solargraph from December 21st 2021 to June 21st 2022

This is a pinhole camera image (solargraph) of the Sun’s path in the sky from the Winter Solstice (lowest bright line) to the Summer Solstice (topmost bright line). For the first time I have left the image in colour as … Continue reading

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