I have very recently had my butt kicked into action by an amazing wide field image taken by Kerry. Taken with a Canon 40D dSLR and without any tracking, this is a very nice piece of work by any standards.
It’s still not great imaging during August due to the continuing light evenings and early mornings, and I see from my notes that it is still getting on for 11.00 p.m. before it is worth setting up for an imaging … Continue reading
You can now see the current status of the Star Vistas project on the new Star Vistas website.
Dean of Starizona is very much on the ball. He just informed me that the problem I had last night was probably due to me putting the cog on the FeatherTouch the wrong way round. I just went out to … Continue reading
I had a two-hour, cloud-free slot last night between 11.00 p.m. and 1.00 a.m. Bound to be clear with a blazing (full?) Moon trundling along the southern horizon. O.K. so not a good night for imaging, but it did give … Continue reading
It’s still not good with regards to dark skies or sociable hours to image during July. I see from my notes that it is not worth starting imaging much before 11.00 p.m. but after no imaging for the whole of … Continue reading
I took a look at one of the old computers and rediscovered a couple of lost and forgotten websites. Please check out some images of the 2003 transit of Mercury and the 2004 transit of Venus. The images on these … Continue reading
There is no imaging object of the month for June! Looking back over the years I see that it is not only far too late before it is dark enough to start imaging, but also that it gets light far … Continue reading
The Robofocus guys are getting a new website together and asked for photos of the Robofocus on customers’ systems. This is how the Robofocus looks on my Tak Sky 90 which is piggy-backed on the Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS. The … Continue reading
It is clear the way my time is going that I am never going to complete my book “Game Over” which describes the end of our computer generated “reality”.
