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
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.
