From one extreme to the other 🙂 Some of my longest total exposure times in astrophotography exceed 60 hours!! At the other end of the scale I also carry out high-speed photography using flash equipment that kicks out 9 microsecond … Continue reading
This Month’s imaging object is a rather beautiful globular cluster in the constellation Sagitta – M71. The nice bright star towards the top left in the image below is Gamma Sagitta, and M71 lies mid way between Gamma and Delta … Continue reading
Although I am still imaging in inner space, at least the latest venture has an astro-imaging application. I have just purchased Noel Carboni’s Fractal Sharpening tool which works with Genuine Fractals (also purchased at the same time) and Adobe Photoshop. … Continue reading
I have been playing around again with the microscope and Helicon Focus. Now although this is not deep-sky imaging, a lot of the data collection and data processing is very similar to deep-sky work. First of all you need to … Continue reading
As per usual – I do not image during June as not only are the nights too short, but also it never really gets dark enough to be able to take good quality images. However, having said that, I might … Continue reading
The Great Globular Cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules is pretty well known to all who scan the Northern Hemisphere skies. It is probably the most beautiful globular cluster in the Northern Hemisphere both visually, and for imaging. This is … Continue reading
Sir Patrick Moore hosted one of his legendary St. George’s Day parties from his Selsey home. The camera-shake was real as he wielded his Sword of St. George with a little too much enthusiasm 🙂
This month’s imaging object is a star – but a rather special star of course – it is La Superba, one of the redest stars in the sky and it resides in the constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs). La … Continue reading
I purchased a good quality microscope for those (many) evenings that are unsuitable for deep-space imaging. The idea is to fit the Canon 40D to the microscope’s third eyepiece (it is a trinocular microscope) and take some photomicrographs – using … Continue reading
This Month’s special image is the open cluster M67 in the constellation Cancer. This beautiful open cluster is very often overlooked in favour of its close neighbour – the Beehive Cluster. So overlooked in fact that this image made Astronomy … Continue reading
