Noel reprocessed the Veil nebula data making the stars less obtrusive and sharpening up the nebulosity a little to emphasize the filaments. It’s a personal choice as to which version you prefer – I like the down-played stars myself.
Today is a landmark day for the New Forest Observatory. After a marathon processing session involving a lot of blood, sweat, tears, and a hallucination-inducing lack of sleep – Noel Carboni has just finished processing the Summer 2007 mega-project, the … Continue reading
Sir Patrick Moore threw a party at Farthings yesterday – St. Patrick’s day! We even saw a few moments of clear sky after a week of being totally overcast – I think Selsey is famous for being able to see … Continue reading
The last few days Noel has been working right through the night to get the images sorted for Star Vistas. As I write this, Noel is working on the mammoth Veil Nebula data set. In a previous post you can … Continue reading
The constellation Cancer is quite well placed during March, and Cancer contains a couple of very nice open clusters that make excellent imaging objects, namely M44 the Beehive cluster or Praesepe or NGC2632, and M67 [NGC2682] which doesn’t seem to … Continue reading
Well, we have just had the longest unbroken run of clear night skies that I can remember. Tonight is the full Moon and every imager knows that a full Moon always means clear skies – but not tonight! Why not? … Continue reading
We are still blessed with the magnificent sight of Orion moving across the Southern horizon during February. Orion’s Belt consists of three very bright stars, Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka, with Alnitak being the east most (left) star of the three. … Continue reading
It is currently believed that the primary source of the element Gold is supernova explosions. It also seems that the Gold on planet Earth is around the same age as the Earth itself at some 4.6 billion years. Therefore one … Continue reading
I mentioned a little while back how I was using the Canon 40D to take mosaics of the local New Forest area. The reasons for creating mosaics with a 10 megapixel camera include:
Well, we are still in the depths of winter in January, so all the winter constellations are still very well-placed for imaging. The Horsehead nebula (Barnard 33) in Orion is very well placed this month for imaging. The dark horse’s … Continue reading
