Some single stills images of the 2012 transit of Venus from last night/early this morning.
This was the view of the 4-monitors in the New Forest Observatory Control Centre last night/this morning during the Transit of Venus. Screen top left was Norway – this was the first to show ingress, a good few minutes ahead … Continue reading
A couple of nights ago I had an hour to continue setting up the mini-WASP array before in came the cloud. I was working on collimating camera 1 to scope 1 (camera 2 is well-collimated to scope 2 and giving … Continue reading
Here is the first in the new series of Images for the Month 🙂 I will not be showing an Imaging Object for the Month but will replace that post with an amateur’s deep-sky image. The first Image of the … Continue reading
While I was collimating camera 1 to scope 1 I took some 3-minute subs of Vega using the well-tuned camera 2 and scope 2. This is literally a 2-second process of the data just to see what I had taken … Continue reading
Much to my great relief my attempt to re-collimate the second Sky 90 (which had somehow lost its good collimation) was successful. And on top of that we had clear skies last night for me to test the imaging results … Continue reading
Only 3 half-hour subs but I am extremely pleased with the result!! No dither so full of hot pixels, but good quality stars corner to corner on an APS sized chip – the Sky 90 CAN deliver the goods, but … Continue reading
You will have seen the recent M57 image from one of the mini-WASP cameras and last night I took 3 x 30-minute subs of the Deneb region with the same camera just to check I could manage 30-minute subs with … Continue reading
This is the result of 7 x 20-minute subs with camera 2 on the mini-WASP array, camera 1 needs some fine collimation/chip flatness tweaking, camera 2 on the other hand is almost spot on!! Reason for 20-minute subs was to … Continue reading
Last night was the most amazing beautiful clear night – and the Moon wasn’t too intrusive either (which is unusual on a clear night). After a little extra “tuning” I set the two mini-WASP cameras off imaging a region around … Continue reading
