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Astronomical Images on Flickr
Just a reminder that you can see most of my Astronomical images on Flickr.
Posted in Deep Space Objects, mini-WASP Array, News
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The megaWASP array does Arcturus
A couple of nights ago with a full Moon I took some Arcturus data with the 3 x Sky 90s. I combined the recent data with some taken a while back and came up with this result 🙂
Posted in mini-WASP Array, Sky 90 and SXVF-M26C
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CCDInspector result
Here is a CCDInspector result from one of the 200mm lenses with an M26C Trius OSC CCD from last night:
Posted in Canon 200mm prime lens, mini-WASP Array
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R Coronae Borealis
Last night I used the two Canon 200mm lenses and M26C Trius OSC CCDs to image the left hand half of Corona Borealis – the idea eventually to make a 2-frame mosaic showing the whole of the constellation. When I … Continue reading
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Almost set up
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
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The latest incarnation of “The Beast”
Here is the latest state of play on the array now known as the “megawasp” array 🙂
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The BIG pinhole camera will be resurrected this Summer Solstice
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
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X Cancri – Carbon star
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.
Posted in mini-WASP Array, Sky 90 and SXVF-M26C
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The New Forest Observatory 05/05/2015 at 2:00 p.m.
A “Little Planet” shot taken this afternoon with the Canon 5D MkII and a 15mm Canon fish-eye lens.
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Deep-sky Image of the Month – IOM for May 2015
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
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