It was a beautiful clear Moonless night last night (we don’t get very many of those in a year) and instead of imaging I was setting up 🙁 These things unfortunately need to be done, shame it was under almost … Continue reading
Here is the latest state of play on the array now known as the “megawasp” array 🙂
I was looking at the pinhole camera image taken Winter Solstice 2013 – Summer Solstice 2014, and I realised there was an image I could take using the same kit that would be extremely interesting, and as far as I … Continue reading
Looking through this year’s captures I found one I hadn’t put up for viewing. This is Carbon star X Cancri taken on 15th February 2015.
A “Little Planet” shot taken this afternoon with the Canon 5D MkII and a 15mm Canon fish-eye lens.
I feel in such a good mood having just completed the mega-WASP upgrade that I think I will resurrect the almost forgotten Image of the Month 🙂 Here is the very recent Polaris image taken with the mini-WASP array – … Continue reading
Nice way to start off a new month. After 4 days of drilling, cutting, taping and wiring – the upgrade converting the mini-WASP array to the mega-WASP array is now complete. Additions to the top plate are another Canon 200mm … Continue reading
After 3 days I have now finished all the metalwork, drilling and tapping, and reconfiguring the top plate of the mini-WASP array. The top plate will now accommodate 2 x Canon 200mm prime lenses, each with a Starlight Xpress M26C … Continue reading
I composited some 4-hours of Hyperstar III data and some 6-hours of Sky 90 data to give the following deep image of NGC281 – the Pac Man nebula.
A clear Moonless night last night so I put the mini-WASP array on Polaris. A total of 36 x 5-minute subs gave the result below which I’m pretty pleased with.
