I have just been looking at the equipment section of Steve Cannistra’s web site. This section has proven so useful to me over the years (thank you very much Steve!!) that I thought I would give a “running commentary” on … Continue reading
This month’s imaging object is M15 [NGC7078] the Great Pegasus Cluster, a very nice Globular Cluser in the constellation Pegasus. This is a large globular with a diameter of 18 arc minutes (M13 is 21 arc minutes) and lies at … Continue reading
Here you can find a short Video clip of the triple screen system at the NFO control centre. This video was taken on the Canon 5D MkII DSLR camera using a 14mm fish eye lens. The movie clip was uploaded on … Continue reading
Sir Patrick had a Whisky tasting event he hosted at Farthings on 17th September 2010 and we were educated in all things distilled by Dr. Andrew M. Forrester who is the Balvenie Ambassador U.K. Some rather fine Whiskies were sampled … Continue reading
Well with the Sky 90 doing the imaging and the poor C11 just acting as a guide scope we are rapidly coming to the point where I go the whole hog and move over to mini-WASP imaging. Doesn’t look like … Continue reading
Cassiopeia as you will know is open cluster central – but do you know that there is a region THICK with open clusters (6 of them) AND it has a fantastic supernova remnant as well? Use your scope’s GOTO to … Continue reading
With the current weather I have not been able to set up the repaired M25C for any imaging and I am aware of the days ticking past with nothing new to add 🙁 Still, this gives me a little time … Continue reading
I went over to what I thought was going to be a “dark” bit of the forest around 10:00 p.m. last night and got worse sky glow on the horizon (from Southampton) than I get in my back garden. So … Continue reading
After a completely overcast day the cloud began to break up around 5:00 p.m. and now (9:00 p.m.) it looks like we might actually have a reasonably clear night. Whooppeeeeeeeeee – I’m off over the forest with the AstroTrac Canon … Continue reading
Today it was brought home to me just how dangerous it is to work on your own in this imaging business. Tom How is a local guy and an imaging expert, and we only recently realised that we hadn’t met up … Continue reading
