Have I gone a bit too far with the new warm room for the mini-WASP?
The beginning of this ISS pass is missing (the bit on the left) – why? Because I was pointing in the wrong part of the sky when the action kicked off and it was only when my son said “it’s … Continue reading
This pair of open clusters has a Milky Way backdrop and they are surrounded by faint emission nebulosity. They can be found in the constellation Cygnus lying just underneath the Crescent nebula region. Image taken 19th August 2009 using the … Continue reading
Well – although it has been pouring with rain ALL day it looks like (on the satellite) there is a clear patch coming over for later tonight. As there is a 6-minute pass (that’s long!) of the ISS at 9:28 … Continue reading
As it was cloudy AND a bright Moon last night it was no good for deep-sky imaging – but as it wasn’t actually raining – and I could see a FEW stars, it was an opportunity to take the AstroTrac … Continue reading
I have no idea why I took this image of a galaxy group in Bootes on January 29th 2011. I also have no record of it in the logbook. I ran an astrometry check on it to find where it … Continue reading
Well – here’s that Starlight Xpress super customer service for you! Michael Hattey of Starlight Xpress drove my tested M26C camera down to the New Forest Observatory today – thank you Michael. Both M26C cameras are now back on the … Continue reading
Camera already at SX headquarters and Terry is giving it a good soak-testing. Can’t find any fault with it, but I know it does run (a lot) hotter than the other M26C – so Terry will be returning it with … Continue reading
Just a single 2,000 second sub from one M26C camera – no processing other than brightening up so here’s the hot pixels, the polar rotation – the lot – in all its glory. But it’s my First Light 🙂
We unexpectedly got a clear patch of sky last night – and no Moon – but of course such luck has to be tempered 🙂 Started up the mini-WASP array around 10:30 p.m. and decided to start with some Polar … Continue reading
