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
I’ve just noticed that for some reason the new Image of the Month hasn’t automatically popped up. Strange – absolutely no idea what went wrong there. Never mind – here it is – just a little late. The February 2013 … Continue reading
Here is a two-frame mini-WASP image of the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra.
I just reprocessed this earlier Camera 2 mini-WASP data from 2012 with a heavier crop and a little more careful processing.
Just a few weeks after I started to run the Paramount ME I hit trouble – the mount would not home in declination properly. When I hit “home”, the declination axis would move in a clockwise direction, go past the … Continue reading
Taken in early January 2013 using the mini-WASP array. 18 subs at 4-minutes per sub using all 3 cameras – so 216 imaging minutes in total – the mini-WASP array really grabs the maximum amount of data in the shortest … Continue reading
