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
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
