This month’s Image of the Month is this incredible capture of M51 by American deep-sky imager Bud Guinn taken from his New Mexico remote observatory. Beautiful image Bud 🙂
Whilst working on the mini-WASP array last night I took a quick image of a reasonably bright star with the one good scope and camera. The central star is Kappa Cassiopeia and the two open clusters above it are NGC … Continue reading
Took a look outside around 11:00 p.m. to see that we had really nice clear skies – that was unexpected. Can’t let a clear sky go to waste so I went out for an evening’s work tuning up the mini-WASP … Continue reading
Well I don’t think there is going to be much let up in the rain for a good few months now – I have just received a new camera for the Hyperstar III. For quite a while now I have … Continue reading
Rogelio Bernal Andreo is completely redefining amateur deep-sky imaging. I have shown Rogelio’s work before in the NFO prequel “Image of the Week” and I continue to be completely blown away by the beauty and extreme high quality of his work. Here … Continue reading
Today being the summer Solstice for 2012, and seeing as it has rained all day, I opened up the two Tea caddy pinhole cameras that I put up last winter Solstice. So here we have 6-months worth of Sun trails … Continue reading
I managed to get runner-up in the “Split Second” category of the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards 2012 with my “eggsplosion” high-speed flash image. Hoping to do just that bit better in 2013 🙂
I have just downloaded the 60-day trial version of PEMPro from CCDWare (I already use their brilliant CCDInspector software) for evalutaion. PEMPro allows you to polar align and train the PEC for your mount. As I want to be able … Continue reading
Below I published images of the beginning and the end of the transit (downloaded live from the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite) – but for some reason I did not include an image from near the middle of the transit. Rectified … Continue reading
I used all the individual frames of the animation to put together this montage of the 2012 Transit of Venus. In the very last image of the Sun, Venus has just passed the edge of the Sun and we will … Continue reading
