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Carbon star SAO 77516 in Taurus
A Sky90 array image, 5 hours of 30-minute subs.
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Arcturus and Napoleon’s Hat
A slightly better Arcturus reprocess. Arcturus is the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere.
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M11 – the Wild Duck Cluster
A Noel Carboni reprocess of old Sky 90 array data using AstroFlat.
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NGC 1555
Struve’s Lost Nebula, Burnham’s Nebula, Hind’s Variable Nebula, NGC 1555 – they are all the same object and it is in the centre of this image. 65 x 20-minute subs (almost 22 hours) went into this one using the Sky … Continue reading
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Mighty Merak
A rather oddly-framed 4-framer using the Sky 90 array of the Merak region.
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The Double Cluster in Perseus – the Full Monty
Sometimes it is good when someone else has a look at one of your images as they can immediately point out stuff which you miss (because you’ve been looking at the thing too long). Bud Guinn immediately saw some errors … Continue reading
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Last two 200mm lens images to reprocess in AstroFlat
Here we have 2-framers of the Cocoon nebula region and the Double Cluster region. Hopefully these are the last two images I need to reprocess from the 200mm lenses.
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Ruchbah and Caph with the 200mm lenses
Each image is a 2-frame wide-field mosaic. Ruchbah and Caph – main stars in Cassiopeia.
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“The Stargate” containing M44 – the Beehive cluster
Another reprocess – note the two Carbon stars to the left hand edge.
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IC2087 Taurus Molecular Cloud Region
Noel Carboni’s new AstroFlat tool makes it very easy to bring lots of different datasets together (something that was a huge pain before the tool). So this is the first image showing all 11.5 hours of 20-minute subs for IC2087 … Continue reading
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