After a long imaging session on IC410/IC405 I didn’t want to leave the clear skies unused, so I shot across to the Rosette nebula and took just 4 x 20-minute test subs. Seeing the result I know what the next … Continue reading
Half a Moon up and very poor seeing means this one is a lot noisier than it should be. 24 x 20-minute subs on the mini-WASP array centred on the T Tauri region.
A few nights ago I put the 3 x Sky 90s back on the California nebula for a total of 21 x 20-minute subs. I had already captured 33 x 20-minute subs, so I had a grand total of 18 … Continue reading
The 200mm lens was set to f#4.5 with a 72mm UV/IR cut filter on the front and let loose on the Hyades region. Only 12 x 5-minute subs as a test, so very surprised to see all the dust in … Continue reading
Tom How showed me a modified calibration routine to use with the M26C OSC CCD which I implemented on this image of the Northern region of the Cone nebula. This is ONLY 8 x 20-minute subs, must go back to … Continue reading
On the night of 13/12/2014 – and it was Moonless too! Being the array it meant I actually grabbed 15-hours worth of data!! Two targets, the first was the California nebula where I managed to get 11 effective hours of … Continue reading
I only managed to get 4 x 15-minute subs before the cloud rolled in (one of the 3 scopes was out of focus) – but hey, at least it’s another one off the list.
Last night, 23/11/2014 was the first clear night in a month – and it was Moonless too 🙂 🙂 Gave the mini-WASP a good run, but packed up at midnight, which was actually a stupid thing to do – I … Continue reading
Here is the bright star Mirach and the nearby galaxy named the “Ghost”. A zoomed-in view of Mirach and the Ghost is shown in the insert top-left.
This is what the latest incarnation of the mini-WASP array looks like – and it will look like this for some time to come. There are 4 imaging systems on the array and one guider: 1) Sky 90, filter-wheel with … Continue reading
