A Sky90 image of the Rho Leonis region. Rho Leonis is a very blue star.
Here is a Sky 90 4-framer of the Merak region in Ursa Major. You can see the “broken engagement ring” the Owl nebula (M97) and M108 in this image.
As we are not creating scientific images here, but just “pretty pictures” we can do much as we want with the stars to give us what we think is the “prettiest” picture 🙂
Taken last night – 18 x 10-minute subs with the 3 x Sky 90s and 3 x M26C OSC CCDs. Carbon star T Cancri.
Here is an uncropped version of the earlier La Superba image, north is to the left. Akira Fujii effect only – no spikes. Canon 200mm lenses and Trius M26C OSC CCDs.
Learnt quite a bit with this image from last night. Don’t start taking images too low in the NE Southampton glow – it’s pointless. Wait until the object is nearer the Zenith. If you are going to image in the … Continue reading
Beautiful clear night last night (08/03/2016) although there was a LOT of water vapour in the air. Main thing – it was dark & Moonless 🙂 I got both frames on M44 with the Canon 200mm lenses and the M26C … Continue reading
Noel Carboni put together a bunch of Polaris subs we had and I overdid the curves to pull out the very faint Integrated Flux Nebula (Galactic Cirrus) lurking in the background. Very surprised at the amount of Cirrus that came … Continue reading
If you have played with the square root function on an electronic calculator you may have noticed something odd. It looks like if you take the square root of ANY number that is not actually a perfect square, then you … Continue reading
