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Astronomical Images on Flickr

Just a reminder that you can see most of my Astronomical images on Flickr.

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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 🙂

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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:  

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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.

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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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