I put together a little montage of the 3 brightest stars for those living in Northern latitudes. You can see the image here. Sirius, Arcturus and Vega to similar scales and total exposure times, so this is relatively how they … Continue reading
This month’s image is a wide-field taken using the amazing Canon EF200 f#2.8 prime lens and a Canon 5D MkII DSLR. Piggy-back mounted on the C11 I took 10 x 5-minute subs at ISO 400 and f#4 with an IDAS … Continue reading
Clear Moonless night last night and I imaged a Carbon star near Caph in Cassiopeia. Mini-WASP array, all 3 cameras, 19 subs at 4-minutes per sub. Couldn’t believe when I loaded up this image that I’d done it last month … Continue reading
Ended up in getting 15 subs per camera at 10-minutes per sub on the Bubble nebula region in Cepheus last night. Needs about the same amount of data again to bring out the faint stuff, or maybe some H-alpha narrowband … Continue reading
And I’m imaging M52, the bubble nebula, NGC 7538 and NGC 7510 with a single mini-WASP frame.
I see the Image of the Month didn’t pop up a couple of days back. Either I didn’t do one or it’s lost in cyberspace. Never mind, here’s one a couple of days late. This is the recent M11 in … Continue reading
Flitting through a planetarium program I stumbled upon a nice bright Carbon star in Corona Borealis. Designated SAO 84015 at magnitude 6 this should look really great! So a couple of nights ago I fired up the mini-WASP to grab … Continue reading
For this DSS2 image of the Tulip nebula region in Cygnus I just kept adding frames until the computer gave up 🙂
Another object bagged by the mini-WASP array during the recent period of clear Moonless nights. This time it is the Globular Cluster M10 in the constellation Ophiucus. 7 x 10-minute sub-exposures on all 3 cameras.
Lovely clear night again last night, but with a blazing Moon in the south it meant imaging towards the north. Decided on a cluster rich region close to Ruchbah in Cassiopeia as the target. Mini-WASP array, all 3 cameras firing, … Continue reading
