Well here it is – one hour’s worth of data taken with the two M26C cameras on the New Forest Observatory mini-WASP array. Still lots to be done before it’s properly tuned in – but I’m pretty close now. As … Continue reading
It has been a glorious day all day with clear blue skies – and this time it didn’t fog over as soon as the Sun went down. So I started the final hard bash at getting the mini-WASP array commissioned … Continue reading
A number of people have asked me how many stars appear in the Cocoon nebula 3-frame mosaic. I use a program called Registar to link separate frames together so I can see how they all fit – and Registar will … Continue reading
As it continues to pour with rain here in the New Forest – thoughts go back to the hot, dry days at the Starmus Festival in Tenerife June this year 🙂
As I sit here with a gale roaring outside and the rain pelting down I wonder if I will ever see a clear sky again – and this got me thinking about how I will run the mini-WASP array. It … Continue reading
Hooray – September – and some decent long evenings after what has been a very long wait. So what can we spend our time on this month to make all the effort of maintaining an interest in this hobby worthwhile? … Continue reading
Tom How spent a night over the Bank Holiday weekend at the NFO where he had a good play with the mini-WASP array – I was attempting (half satisfactorily) to polar align the Hyperstar III in the south dome. Meanwhile … Continue reading
Here are a few pictures from the day – I still can’t believe how lucky we were with the weather. Had a few drops of rain first thing in the morning just to put the scarers on us – then … Continue reading
As summer definitely starts retreating and autumn approaches a bit too rapidly – thoughts go back to a warmer time at the Starmus Festival on Tenerife – June 2011. This is the sumptuous Abama Hotel where most of the Festival … Continue reading
As you probably know, the Celestron “Heavy Duty” wedge has a fundamental design fault – a large open ended box section which flexes all over the place with a heavy scope like the C11 being cantilevered all over the sky. … Continue reading
