Managed to get the left frame of the Sagitta mosaic last night with anothe 5-hours of 10-minute subs using the 200mm lenses and the 2600MC Pro OSC CMOS cameras. So that is the whole of Sagitta covered. Apart from the … Continue reading
A clear beautiful Moonless night last night, one of the best I’ve seen in a long while. Target – the constellation Sagitta. This is planned to be a 3-frame mosaic with the 200mm lenses and the 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras. … Continue reading
This morning I built up a switch box with 12V display meter to bolt onto the 12V 20A PSU for the dome rotator. All wired up – taken out to the observatory – connected up to the dome rotator black … Continue reading
A few weeks back the MiniWASP dome rotator decided to give up on me. My electronics was not up to the job of sorting the problem out, so I brought in the software and hardware experts who originally put the … Continue reading
Earlier I showed that not only can I offer astro-prints but also macros, micros, high-speed photography, landscape & Nature photography, and I completely forgot mathematical and fractal objects. I can offer prints of any mathematical object (that can be described … Continue reading
V1331 Cygni is a young star in Cygnus in the dark nebula LDN981. It is almost surrounded by an arc-like reflection nebula. I have just spent many hours re-stacking the 6-hours worth of 10 and 15-minute subs expecting to get … Continue reading
I like close pairings of red and blue stars for the striking colour contrast they give. Here’s a pair that don’t get much air-time, namely Tania Australis (red) and Tania Borealis (blue) which reside in Ursa Major. Just to the … Continue reading
With the acquisition of the new HP T230 4-colour printer, I am once again able to offer prints of ANY image you see on the NFO site. Print sizes available are A4, A3, A2 with a maximum of A1. Prints … Continue reading
I have suffered deep-sky large-format printing withdrawal symptoms for far too long now, and gave in yesterday to purchase a new large-format printer. So yesterday I ordered up an HP T230 A1 printer with a ton of accessories from Graphic … Continue reading
A reprocess of a Sky90/M26C OSC CCD composite image of the Garnet star in the IC1396 nebula.
