So it was completely clear ALL DAY and I therefore had both observatories powered up and ready to go before dark. Soon as it gets dark we have wall-to-wall cloud. This is now well beyond any sort of joke. Anticipating … Continue reading
Although I cannot use the Altair finder as a guidescope as intended, I can still bolt it onto the top of the array with the video camera. I can then use this for the occasional polar alignment check, or to … Continue reading
Well although I was clouded out last night I still managed to image asteroid 2012 DA14 through the thinnest part of the cloud 🙂 A single solitary one-minute exposure as the asteroid was moving through Draco at 22:51. The planetarium … Continue reading
There is a large circular emission nebula in the head of Orion centred on Meissa. This huge H-alpha region lies just above Betelgeuse and Bellatrix and actually spans the region between those two stars – so this is a huge … Continue reading
This is the Carbon star 4-Omicron 1 Orionis which lies close to Aldebaran in the constellation Orion. SAO94176 has a magnitude of 4.71 and so is naked eye from a reasonably dark site. This is a mini-WASP array image using … Continue reading
I fitted an Orion finder/guider scope to the top plate of the mini-WASP array today. Well it was raining and I had nothing better to do. However there is a purpose in the madness. I will simply swap the guide … Continue reading
All I wanted to do was drill and tap 4 holes in the top plate of the mini-WASP array to take a dovetail fitting that will hold an Orion finder/guider scope. 4 holes drilled, three tapped when the tap broke … Continue reading
Got a few clear hours a couple of nights ago and set up the mini-WASP array on the Meissa nebulosity – all 3 cameras/scopes up and running for this one 🙂 Got 8 x 20-minutes of RGB on each camera, … Continue reading
Time travel into the future has always been possible, Einstein’s equations of Special Relativity have shown us that for well over a hundred years. We have also seen it practically here on Earth where some short-lived cosmic ray particles traveling … Continue reading
