I started of a conversation with ChatGPT with some fairly bog-standard stuff to see if it came back with the correct answers, and then I went completely off the rails. The ensuing discussion impressed and fascinated me at the same … Continue reading
My winter projects this year seem to be based around the brilliant ANET A6 3D printer – especially as we’re not getting any clear nights. Here you can see three recent prints all using Amazon Basics pearly white 1.75mm PLA … Continue reading
Yesterday was Winter Solstice and I went out after dark to collect the Solargraph which has been exposing the photopaper since Summer Solstice in June. Felt more than a bit sick when I saw a hole had been punched in … Continue reading
Last night I got 11 x 20-minute subs using the 200mm lenses and the 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras with the Optolong L-Enhance filters – under a blazing Moon!!! I added the narrowband data to the 20 x 15-minute subs of … Continue reading
Using Registar I combined all the Double Cluster images I could lay my hands on. Unfortunately I didn’t go back to the proper base file in a couple of cases so the final composite is not as good as it … Continue reading
Clear Moonless night last night and I put the 200mm lenses onto the Crescent region in Cygnus. Made the same old mistake in doing this, I should’ve put the Optolong L-Enhance filters on for this one. Never mind, I’ll do … Continue reading
An unexpected clear night last night left me unprepared for a new object. So I went for the Coathanger cluster, but centralised on the 200mm lenses. A total of 30 x 10-minute subs.
It was a clear night last night (after a day of rain!) albeit with an intrusive Moon, but that doesn’t prevent me from getting on with star shots. I managed to get the 3rd frame (the far right hand frame) … Continue reading
The above 6 images of the Double Cluster show this region at different scales and with the images taken on several different pieces of kit. The first image is a 4-frame mosaic taken with a Sky90 and M25C OSC CCD. … Continue reading
It really is hard to get a perspective on just how many stars there are in the Milky Way region of the Sagitta image. So I took a BIG crop out of the bottom of the image and magnified it … Continue reading
