I have a new all-Aluminium connector designed and built for connecting an SXM26C (or H18 mono) CCD at the correct metal-back distance to the focal reducer on the Sky 90 refractor. I am just getting a further 3 of these … Continue reading
So what does it look like in the NFO Control Room with the 3-screen system running a high-resolution Hubble image screensaver?
The extremely fast – but ultimately finite velocity of light in vacuo, strikes me as very odd. Why does it have this particular value? Wouldn’t it be very interesting if the finite velocity of light in vacuo is actually telling us … Continue reading
Here is a fish eye view of my three-screen system up and running. Three superb Iiyama 24″ letterbox screens driven by an ATI Radeon 5770 card and one screen with a Sapphire (active) display port adapter from Overclockers U.K. I … Continue reading
This month’s imaging object is a single star shot – this time I’ve gone for Regulus in Leo. A nice bright star central to an image can make a spectacular picture, and Regulus is no exception. Taken using the Sky … Continue reading
I still find it very strange that this large, bright reflection nebula does not have a “popular” name. To me it look like a cauldron of boiling liquid oxygen, so I shall call it “the Cauldron”. M78 is a beautiful … Continue reading
O.K. so this is getting quite a ways off deep-sky imaging, but I just clicked on a site that I thought was going to tell me about ultra-black materials and I was instead treated to a monologue of how the … Continue reading
I have asked some friends to put up the Golden Solid angle on their sites to try and find where this might occur in Nature. Some people in trying to help with a reply have gone astray with both the … Continue reading
First of all Happy New Year to you all! I won’t say let’s hope for better imaging weather this coming year as so far it hasn’t been anything to write home about. Moving on. This month’s Imaging Object of the … Continue reading
