Category Archives: mini-WASP Array

The creation and use of the New Forest Observatory mini-WASP array

The CTB1 region in Cassiopeia

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Greg Parker

The supernova remnant is barely visible dead-centre in this highly stretched image of the CTB1 region in Cassiopeia.

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The Caph region in Cassiopeia

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Greg Parker

The Caph region of Cassiopeia taken with the Canon 200mm prime lenses. 14 x 15-minute subs taken on 3rd October 2018.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day APOD

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Greg Parker

November 30th 2018 – Struve’s Lost nebula https://epod.usra.edu/blog/2018/11/struves-lost-nebula.html

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The Veil nebula in wide-field

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Greg Parker

30-minute subs with the 2 x 200mm lenses for a total of 4.5 hours. 12th September 2018. Clear Moonless night, started imaging at 11:00 p.m.

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NGC 7209 in Lacerta

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Greg Parker

A Sky90 array image of open cluster NGC7209 in Lacerta. 18 x 10-minute subs taken on 1st September 2018. 

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MiniWASP article

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Greg Parker

https://astronomytechnologytoday.com/2018/06/28/multi-imager-systems-development-of-the-miniwasp-parallel-imaging-telescope-array-at-the-new-forest-observatories/  

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Cocoon nebula region

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Greg Parker

I added some extra data to the top (north) of this one and reprocessed the lot again.  Canon 200mm prime lenses with the Trius M26C OSC CCDs – a horizontal 2-frame mosaic with each frame in portrait mode.

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The NGC6914 reflection nebula region in Cygnus

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Greg Parker

A complete reprocess of the data incorporating Noel Carboni’s AstroFlat plugin. 51 x 20-minute subs using the 3 x Sky 90s and M26C OSC CCDs on the MiniWASP array at the New Forest Observatory.

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The IC2087 region in Taurus showing the Taurus molecular clouds

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Greg Parker

Only been able to recently process this one properly thanks to Noel Carboni’s new AstroFlat plugin. This is a 2-framer using the 200mm lenses and Trius M26C OSC CCDs with each frame a total of 12-hours integration time using 20-minute … Continue reading →

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A dense galaxy cluster just south east of Arcturus

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Greg Parker

This is last  night’s data taken between 11 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. on the Sky 90 array.  18 x 10-minute subs, and a star has been labelled for reference.  One bright asteroid in the FOV only clear in the averaged … Continue reading →

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