Nick Hudson (True Technology) visited the New Forest Observatory yesterday and brought with him an essential piece of kit for tuning up the mini-WASP array. Yes – the thing that has been halting any further progress on mini-WASP commissioning has … Continue reading
This was the “Close Encounters” scene over the New Forest Observatories at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday 12th April 2012. By 10:00 p.m. it had cleared to a perfect dark sky with no interfering Moon!
We are still in galaxy season 🙂 So I have chosen another galaxy for this month’s “Image of the Month”. This time, what I consider to be the most beautiful face-on spiral galaxy in the northern hemisphere – Messier 101 … Continue reading
This is last night’s Sky-Watcher data (2-hours) composited with the earlier Sky 90 data (11 and a half hours) – so 13 and a half hours total into this one so far 🙂
I managed to get 2-hours on the Flaming Star nebula in Auriga with the Sky-Watcher Esprit ED-100 quintuplet refractor last night. Once again, not long enough for a pretty picture, but long enough to check out its performance. This image … Continue reading
Very lucky to have some clear skies again last night 🙂 Managed to get some imaging done on the Merak region with the new Esprit ED-100 quintuplet refractor. Two frames here, only half an hour per frame using 3-minute subs, … Continue reading
The utterly superb Sky-Watcher Esprit ED-100 quintuplet refractor is now mounted on the Paramount with the Megrez 80 guide scope piggy-backed above. I have a Robofocus connected to the ED-100 fine focus knob via a tiny timing belt and actually … Continue reading
Yipppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee – it’s Galaxy season once again – I love Galaxy season. Although I am working on a mega-sized mosaic of the Virgo/Coma region, the image I have chosen for this month is the well-known Leo Trio of Galaxies in … Continue reading
Taken last night (2nd Feb 2012) in -3C temperatures with a blazing Moon overhead. Camera 1 on the mini-WASP, Dubhe, one of the two “pointer stars” in Ursa Major. A nice orange coloured star and another one for the “single … Continue reading
I have gone for one of my “single bright star” images for this Month’s “Image of the Month”. This Month’s object is the star Procyon or 10-Alpha Canis Minoris in the constellation Canis Minor. Procyon shines brightly in this region … Continue reading
