Managed to polar align the mini-WASP array last night, while in parallel I was taking some LONG subs with the HSIII on M13 going for the faint stuff. Now it really is just a few odds and ends to fine … Continue reading
Testing out the re-collimated Sky 90s I took an image of the Vega region using both scopes and cameras. This is a Registar combine of both sets of data. There is some field rotation in all 4 corners of the … Continue reading
You don’t often see images of this month’s “Image of the Month” and I’m really not quite sure why this is. The mini-coathanger cluster is a small asterism lying in the constellation Ursa Minor, so it can be imaged all … Continue reading
Eric Kennedy of NTE Poole Ltd. brought over the all-Aluminium pier extender for the mini-WASP on Sunday. Today (Tuesday) I have just spent all day completely disassembling the mini-WASP to fit the pier extender and then rebuilding the whole thing … Continue reading
And to finish off today’s photo marathon here’s a double rainbow over the New Forest Observatory. It’s tipping it down so hard right now I’m seriously considering using the decking for an ark.
A second go at a New Forest Observatories “Little Planet” scene – taken today.
I was sitting at the computer yesterday (Saturday) typing out some rubbish or the other when for some unknown reason I suddenly twigged how those “Little Planet” images are taken. So I grabbed the Canon 5D MkII and a fish … Continue reading
There will be a reincarnation of the “Image of the Week” staring in June 2012, but it is likely to start off being an “Image of the Month”. I will stop posting an imaging target at the beginning of each … Continue reading
Clear night last night so could see if my collimation efforts had any effect. The scope that always had reasonable collimation was still o.k. the scope that had poor collimation was still poor. Now seeing how they looked pretty much … Continue reading
I spent a couple of hours yesterday taking the imaging Sky 90s off the mini-WASP frame, collimating them with the Takahashi collimator, and then putting the whole thing back together again. Well – as far as the collimator goes, both … Continue reading
