The Image of the Month for March 2013 is the recent mini-WASP array capture of M46 & M47, a lovely pair of open clusters in Puppis. I have wanted to grab this one since the winter constellations first started appearing … Continue reading
Simon Parkin and the Meridian Weather film team – together with satellite transmission van – did a live broadcast from the New Forest Observatory on 15/02/2013, the evening of the near miss flyby of the asteroid. Here are a couple … Continue reading
Using half-hour subs on the mini-WASP array this is the result of imaging the Abell 1377 region of Ursa Major – together with some advanced processing techniques courtesy of Noel Carboni. A negative B&W image is shown in order to … Continue reading
Too much water vapour in the air tonight for any serious imaging – but you can still see the stars – so I took out the DSLR. Here are the two New Forest Observatories with an Orion background and plenty … Continue reading
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
